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“Bubble Ship Boy is a genre-forming, Bite-Size Epic mobile arcade game with daringly original gameplay, and an entertaining story.Buy it now for your Treo 650 smartphone or high-resolution Palm PDA!In Bubble Ship Boy, you play the role of n-droo, a lovable alien from the planet Velition who unwittingly finds himself in an unarmed scout ship and on the trail of Deek Furple, a mischievous purple alien boy. Bubble Ship Boy is an original Palm game with simple, 80’s inspired arcade gameplay, full screen cut scene stills woven throughout, and modern graphics. Once the required playing skills have been attained, an entire action quest can be played to completion in about 6 minutes! It is designed for play on mobile devices, such as the PalmOne Treo 650 smartphone or Tungsten line of Palm PDAs.” Check it here:

“If you’re tired of being like everyone else and strolling down the street playing a rehashed PS2 title on your black Sony PlayStation Portable, you’ll be happy to hear that the iPod white-like version is now available to you, the North American consumer. Don’t start running to your closest Wal-Mart or Best Buy just yet, however, because you’ll still need to import the little white devil.While the street price for the White PSP-1000 CW in Japan is a mere $175, because you live here in the not-so-privileged continent of North America, you’ll have to fork over $210 to the good people at Play-Asia to get your hands on one. It’s just the core unit, so you won’t get any of the special accessories and whatnot that come bundled in some value packs on the market.It’s still not that bad of a deal, considering the standard issue black Sony PSP Core goes for $200 at most retailers, so you are only putting up a $10 premium to stand out from the crowd. In related news, the Nintendo DS Lite is available in all three colors through Lik-Sang.” via mobilemag.com

“Just 1 week after the announcement of Microsoft Direct Push Technology for Treo 700w Smartphone, Palm has just released the updater today for Treo 700w.From the summary site, the Palm Treo 700w Updater 1.10 for Verizon Wireless includes the following enhancements for your smartphone: Includes Microsoft’s Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) with Direct Push Technology for automatic wireless synchronization of email, calendar, contacts and, now, tasks Enhances email capabilities for more support of push email solutions, such as WirelessSync and GoodLink, and of synchronization capabilities, such as the ability to maintain an “always on” data connection after POP or IMAP email synchronization and the ability to auto-synchronize all email accounts based on user setting. Updated memory management Pictures and Videos enhancements New Wireless Manager provides an updated interface for turning wireless radios on and off on your 700w smartphone For Sprite Backup users, they told you not to perform a full restore from backups you made prior to installing the Treo 700w Updater. If you use the Advanced restore features, do not restore the registry from pre-update backups.” via slashphone.com Check the update here:

“It’s great that the application installs easily, but Pocket Express is a content service, largely a paid one at that. Thankfully, the content is largely fantastic, only bested by a simple interface that works amazingly well with one hand, something that’s becoming more critical by the day.Launching Pocket Express takes you to PageOne, the main launching area for the program. From PageOne you can see a list of nine core channels, in addition to extras and the button bar which includes: update, share, settings, and exit options. All of these are easily navigable with the D-pad and, on a device like the 700w, the two action buttons. ” Read this review at brighthand.com

“The South Korean company LG Electronics releases its new mobile phone in the slider form-factor with various multimedia functions.The SC300 in closed mode looks more like an MP3-player than a phone. There is the support of MP3, AAC and AAC+. Besides there is MOD function (Music On Demand), external memory on T-Flash cards and Text-To-Speech function. In its compact shell is a 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture opportunity.The short specs:
Dimensions: 89×40.5×19.6 mm
Weight: 80 g
LCD: TFT, 260K colors, 128×160 pixels
Camera: 1.3-megapixel
IrDA
MP3-player ” via mobile-review.com

“Episodic Media Inc. announces that they will bring the new Korean viliv P2 portable media player to the United States and Europe on August 15th. The viliv P2 was spotted at the CeBit back in March. Now most of the specification has been released. The viliv P2 runs Window CE 5.0 on an AMD 400Mhz CPU (Alchemy) and comes in 30GB and 60GB hard-drive configurations. The 4.3 inch touch screen features WQVGA (480x272px) resolution. An optional GPS module will be available for the viliv P2.The viliv P2 supported formats include H.264, Divx, MPEG1, 2, 4, Xvid, WMV for video play back and MP3, OGG, AC-3, WAV for audio files play back. Other features include USB 2.0, OTG, Audio-out and CVBS Video-out ports. Pricing is still open. August is still several month away. Episodic Media Inc. will continue to sell the viliv P1. The P2 does not replace the P1. More portable video player. ” via i4u.com

“The camera software is well implemented. One of the softmenu keys allows you to choose the image resolution (120×120, 240×320, 480×640, 768×1024 or 1,024×1,280 pixels), set up to 8x zoom, switch between burst, timer and normal modes, and change the brightness of the captured image. The White Balance settings are automatic. Other changes, such as image quality and a setting to run a slide show when the A701 is connected to a PC, require a little more effort to configure.The A701’s left edge houses a volume rocker, while the bottom edge is home to the mini-USB mains power and docking connector. On the back is the lens for the built-in camera, a self-portrait mirror and a speaker. To access the mobile phone’s SIM slot, you need to open the case and remove the battery. The 69mm (2.7-inch) 240×320-pixel screen is sharp and bright, and Mio’s own-brand Today screen, which uses white text on a black background, lends things a distinctive look. This screen has large icons, four of which you can set as application shortcuts by choosing from a list; the fifth icon takes you to the Mio Menu, a graphical application chooser. If you use the Today screen to view upcoming appointments or tasks, you’ll almost certainly need to use the vertical scrollbar that appears when information extends off the screen. ” Read this review here:

“Samsung Electronics has announced its another record achievement – the company says it developed the first 2GB MMCmicro card for mobile phones. The new MMCmicro card consists of 4 NAND-flash parts 4 Gbit each.The card has small dimensions – 14x12x1.1 mm. A 2GB card can store about 12 hours of mobile video, 3 hours of video can be downloaded for 2 minutes.Three months ago the company introduced its 1GB MMCmicro card. Samsung said the 1GB card would be available during 2006, but didn’t unveil the release date of the 2GB model.” via mobile-review.com

“Images of an unidentified Palm Treo smartphone have been posted on the TreoCentral Forums. This new Treo is being labeled as the likely code-named Hollywood Treo that was previously leaked by an investment report. The device pictured runs Windows Mobile and has similar hardware specs as the 700w.Treo HollywoodTwo cameraphone images of the possible Treo Hollywood can be found on page #3 of the TreoCentral forum thread. The poster claims that he was given a demo test unit under a non disclosure agreement.The images show a antenna-less treo running Windows Mobile. Other noticeable differences from the 700w include a darker casing color, inverted keyboard colors and different icons on the phone buttons. The poster claims the device runs on the Cingular GSM UMTS 1900 network.The claimed specs are said to be very similar to the Treo 700w hardware, however as with all message board based rumors, nothing here can be confirmed or considered true final specifications. ” via palminfocenter.com

“Good news: the G500’s SiRF Star III GPS is excellent. The bad news is that you’ll need to buy GPS software, just as with the US version of the HP iPAQ 6515. Out of the box, there’s nothing you can do with the GPS, so get that software pronto or use software from your old PPC GPS. The G500 uses the latest SiRF III GPS chipset which offers significant improvements over last generation chipsets. The major features that this chipset provides are high sensitivity, lower power consumption and fast time to fix. In fact, the SiRF III chipset has been re-architected to have the equivalent to more than 200K correlators as opposed to the old sequential search process that contains only a few hundred to a few thousand correlators. The result is your GPS receiver becomes much more sensitive and can get a good signal even under dense foliage, downtown high-rise buildings and indoors in many cases which was not achievable with past generations of GPS receivers. With SiRF III your GPS has a faster time to fix, especially time to first fix (TTFF) speed. The GPS also has SBA support that includes both WAAS stations in the US and EGNOS stations in Europe. ” Read this great review here: