Pictures and detailed specs of the Symbian Series 60-powered Nokia E65 are now floating around the Internets. According to the super accurate machine translations, the big news seems to be that the cellphone will support VoIP, activated by one of the buttons on the side. The slider also has some sort of Wi-Fi support, making it a lot like those Skype phones that we've taken a look at.

In the world of PCs, there's one major OS--Windows and a couple of smaller operating systems including the Apple Macintosh OS X and Linux. In the server world, there's about an equal mix between Windows and various versions of Linux.

A commercial Linux bootloader and open source Linux distribution will be offered for Microsoft's Zune multimedia player, according to forum posts at Zuneboards.com by a "Mys Videl" user. The posts generated considerable discussion, much of it questioning whether the port might be a hoax.

IM+ is the most popular IM solution for mobile devices today. It runs on a variety of platforms and it's offering support for the 6 most used IM protocols.

HTC P3300 is another new HTC-branded device. Its highlights include extensive communication capabilities, (cell phone, WiFi, Bluetooth), integrated GPS receiver for satellite navigation, an FM tuner, excellent display and unique controls combining a trackball and a scroll ring (called Trackwheel), which is unique among Windows Mobile devices. In this review, PDAGold is examining the device’s real capabilities.

Our friends over at MobileBurn posted an in-depth review of the Linux-based Rokr E2. This is the first phone Motorola released that doesn't use their touchscreen-based EZX Linux platform, but a very modified softkey version of it instead. A few months ago OSNews also reviewed the Rokr E2. In related news, a few weeks ago Motorola also released in Asia the new, Linux-based Rokr E6, based on the touchscreen-based EZX version of their Linux platform. Native SDKs are not available.

When it comes to Samsung’s La Fleur collection, Samsung E570’s positioning is somewhat out of place – following the widely spread stereotype that for more features the maker charges more, the E570 should be inferior to Samsung E500 functionality-wise. At the same time, being a lucky owner of a higher index, the E570 proves to be a wholly different story, on top of that it is positioned as the women-range flagship by the Samsung. So as a matter of fact this handset is a successor to Samsung E530, whose prototype was known as Aqua, while the updated edition goes by the name of “Aqua Slim”.

Devices running off S60 3dEditionFeaturePack 1 utilize OSS-browser ver. 2.0, which retains a whole lot of differences from the first edition, so this is why we are now extending the article with some new chapters. If this is the first time you read this review, then you should start with the very beginning, in case you have already looked through it or have a good idea what the first version was, then move on straight to the close-up of the second version.

Truthfully, we've lost count the number of times the Pocket PC community has expressed frustration over the sluggish Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrade for the Axim X50/X50v series. Obviously, there were enough complaints for Dell to take action - perhaps a little too late for everyone's liking, but as they say, better late than never.

Access's open-source "application framework" for Linux devices, released under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), is now available for download. The Hiker Application Framework -- a set of libraries and utilities for GTK+ application installation, management, security, and inter-communication -- aims to enable the commercialization of applications targeting mobile Linux devices.