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While Palm Pre CDMA is available soon by May or June, a new Palm WebOS is leaked, which will be released for AT&T network in US. Unlike the Palm Pre, the GSM Palm EOS is like the traditional Treo design. It has a QWERTY keyboard below the touch screen but is much slimmer than the Treo smartphone series. According to the source from Engadget, the Palm EOS has a codename Castlen and is actually the successor of the Palm Centro.

The rumor did not mention the availability date. At just 10.6 mm thickness, it will be one of the thinnest smartphone. Check out the prelimary leaked specifications of the Palm EOS below:

• 4GB storage
• 2 megapixel fixed focus camera with flash
• Bluetooth 2.1
• micro USB
• 1150 mAh battery
• SMS, MMS (picture and video only), integrated IM client
• A-GPS

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A few T-Mobile G1 users from Android Community forum has reported to have received the latest cupcake updates from T-Mobile UK. The over-the-air updates is about 44MB in filesize and will updates the Android to version 1.5. There are also many others in UK did not receive the updates notifications yet but should be getting it by end May.

The new Android 1.5 is adding a soft QWERTY keyboard to allow text input via the touch screen. It will also add the ability to upload photo / video directly to Picasa and YouTube from the G1.

Korean manufacturers took centre stage during April 2009 with some interesting devices, in an otherwise pretty quiet month for new handset releases.

The FCC has recently approved the Sony Ericsson W518a, a clamshell Walkman phone similar in most respects to the W508a bound for AT&T's network. Confirmed specs include quad-band GSM/EDGE, dual-band 850/1900 HSDPA, GPS and Bluetooth radios. It also has ...

Nokia has confirmed that a beta version of its Maps product will now work with Apple computers via the Safari browser. It can be used to plan routes that are later synced to Nokia phones.