The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the first release in the Asterisk 1.4 series, Asterisk 1.4.0, the VoIP SIP server.

Sasken Communication Technologies says its multimedia application/codec stack was licensed by Wistron NeWeb Corp. (WNC) for several Linux mobile phones due in early 2007. The phones will run Sasken's "Multimedia Subsystem Solution" (MSS) stack on a MontaVista Linux kernel and TI OMAP application processor.

A Polish site dedicated to PDAs showed a few pictures of the new HTC Athena Pocket PC Phone – an interesting device with additional QWERTY keyboard that can be attached for more real computer-based experience.

Trolltech has enhanced its dual-licensed software stack for mobile device UIs (user interfaces), and has moved more of it to GPLv2. Qtopia 4.2.0 features new VoIP (voice-over-IP) and WiFi capabilities, while the Open Source Edition now includes everything in the commercial version except DRM (digital rights management) and telephony components, the company says.

The LG VX9900 "enV", the subject of this review, is based heavily on the LG VX9800, later referred to as the "V" when marketers started realizing the strength of names such as those used by Motorola for its RAZR and SLVR lines. The enV shares the same basic communicator style form factor as the original V, but has received far reaching upgrades that turn what was merely an unusual and interesting handset into a downright killer device. Not only has LG improved the usage of the landscape mode interior display and its QWERTY keyboard, but it has also seen fit to add an auto-focus 2 megapixel camera as well.

Get ready folks, there's two new Philips WiFi video VoIP SIP handsets comin' down the pike. We just caught wind of this white hotness on the FCC site, and they do look mighty swanky. The Linux/Qtopia-based VP 6500 and VP 6000 are similar in many ways, as they sport a 2.2-inch screen with 65,000 colors and a QCIF+ 176 x 220 display, and a rotating 240-degree VGA cam.

Belkin is shipping a WiFi phone based on Linux and Skype's proprietary VoIP (voice-over-IP) client. The Belkin WiFi Phone for Skype can use open or encrypted WiFi networks, and connects seamlessly at commercial hotspots and hot zones operated by Boingo, Belkin says.

Early in 2006 HTC Prophet (Qtek S200) was launched – the last communicator the company released before getting to have an own HTC brand. The same platform is made use of by a navigation communicator HTC P3300 (Artemis) and a QWERTY-slider HTC P4350 (Herald). The latter offering is actually being stared upon in this review. And finally, the company has come up with a pair of 3G-enabled models: HTC TyTN (Hermes) and HTC P3600 (Trinity). So, we have five products in sum, running on only two stand-alone platforms.

A mobile web page that let's you access the best J2ME phone applications created so far. The page will prove helpful to users who just got a new cellphone or reseted their existing one and are in need of re-installing their Java applications as quickly as possible.

Geeks.com sent us in for a review this BUSlink Bluetooth Car Kit w/Caller ID and LCD screen. Read on for more.