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Good news Cricket subscribers, it’s now time for you to get some touchscreen action of your very own. The Motorola Evoke QA4 is finally available from the young carrier. Specs of note are;

1. CDMA 800/1900/1700/2100, 1900MHz and 2100MHz EVDO Rev. A
2. 2.8-inch WQVGA 240×400 touchscreen display
3. 2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom
4. 256MB Internal storage, microSD expansion
5. GPS
6. Bluetooth
7. Widget-Based, customizable home screen
8. MySpace, YouTube and Picasa integration
9. Full HTML browser

10.  Centralized & conversational style SMS and email (POP3/IMAP4)

11.  108mm x 50.5mm x 17.5mm dimensions

The Evoke QA4 will cost you $299 on retail and is up on mycricket.com for grabs. If you must read the press release, here you go;

Cricket Debuts Feature-Packed, Full Touch-Screen Motorola Evoke™ QA4

Advanced Multimedia Features Include Integrated Home Screen Widgets, Real Web Browsing and IM-Style Messaging over Cricket’s 3G EVDO Network

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider of unlimited wireless services and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP), today announced the immediate availability of the Motorola Evoke™ QA4 to Cricket customers. The feature-packed 2.8 inch full touch-screen device keeps users constantly connected to friends and family via texting with both a full touch-screen keyboard and slide out traditional numeric keypad. Web info is displayed on the home screen, which can be customized using integrated widget and personalized RSS feeds. Evoke also features a full HTML browser – all over Cricket’s 3G EVDO network.

“When our customers ask us for a “smartphone” what they really want is access to personal email, fast Web browsing, great multimedia features and a cool phone form factor. Cricket has worked closely with Motorola to deliver the Evoke and the recently launched Motorola Hint QA30 devices that fit the desires of our customers but at a much more affordable price and no expensive service contract,” said Jeff Toig, vice president of product marketing for Cricket. “In addition, Cricket’s 3G EVDO network allows our customers to take full advantage of Evoke’s many capabilities and features.”

“We designed the Motorola Evoke to give consumers multiple ways to stay in touch, whether they prefer IM-style texting, mobile blogging or simply a phone call to keep up with friends and family,” said Dan Papalia, vice president, Motorola Mobile Devices. “With Cricket’s 3G network, customers can get instant gratification with real Web browsing, RSS feeds, one-click social networking and more.”

Evoke is highly customizable with widgets to provide real-time access to the information that is most important to users, such as Google Web Search™, MySpace, YouTube™, Picasa™, weather forecasts and customizable RSS feeds. With a 2.0 megapixel camera/camcorder, Cricket customers can quickly and easily upload their pictures and videos directly to their MySpace page, blog or photo sharing sites such as Picasa™, straight from the device over Cricket’s 3G EVDO network. Additional features include an integrated music player and microSD card slot with removable memory for music, stereo Bluetooth®, preloaded BREW games, voice activated dialing and more.

Motorola Evoke is available now at www.mycricket.com for $299.99 and will soon be available at Cricket retail stores and Cricket dealers. For more information, please visit www.mycricket.com/evoke or www.motorola.com.

Palm Pre, great phone syncs really nice with iTunes, not o much with Macs. But for all such issues, we have Mark/Space, the company has delivered on its promise of issuing a public beta version of Missing Sync for the Palm Pre. The utility is currently at version 1.0 beta, but according to all reports, it’s fully functional and free for you to take for a spin. You get to sync Contacts, Music, photos, ringtones, files, calendar items, videos and podcasts. Soon to be included are Safari bookmarks, though the forthcoming MyBookmarks app is a prerequisite so not quite there yet. Also, Missing Sync for the Pre does include proximity sync, which will sync up your Pre when it is detected on the same network as your Mac. Cool. Requirements include Pre OS 1.0.2+, OS X 10.5.6+, iTunes 7.4+ and a few other notes depending on what you want to sync. How much will it cost you if you’re planning on a buy? $40, you get the full version the minute it comes out.

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Among the more interesting handsets to land on Alltel this month would be the LG Tritan. The handset features a 3-inch QVGA touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard, full HTML browser, music player, G sensor, Bluetooth, a 3 megapixel camera all topped up with an ‘advanced UI’. Now for pricing, according to Alltel’s press release, the Tritan would be available for $99.99 online and in stores after a $100 rebate but if you look at the website, you’ll see a retail price of $449.99, an online discount of $270 and a $100 mail-in rebate, do the math and you get a sweet price tag of $79.99. So what the heck are you waiting for? This one has a BOGO (Buy One Get One free) offer running with it, so all you family-plan people can get to sharing.

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So everyone’s excited about the upcoming Samsung Louvre, but the now we have another speculation on the air waves; is the Samsung Louvre really the Omnia Pro? Let’s look at what we have, for one thing, Samsung accidently let slip pictures of the Louvre to its press gallery and referred to it as the Omnia Pro. Now the Omnia Pro has been in the news in past months, but nothing current supports the idea that we may soon be seeing it. Of course if you match specs, the Louvre may very well be the Omnia Pro;

1. 3.5-inch AMOLED resistive touchscreen display w/ WVGA resolution
2. 800MHz processor
3. 5.1 megapixel camera with auto-focus and LED flash
4. Sliding QWERTY keypad
5. 2 UIs (Pro & Media w/ dedicated button to switch between them)
6. TV-OUT
7. 3.5mm headphone jack
8. MicroUSB
9. Divx/WMV/H.264 accelerations

10.  GPS/WIFI/HSDPA/HSUPA/Bluetooth

11.  FM Radio

12.  DNLA support

13.  1GB internal memory with microSDHC up to 32GB

14.  1500mAh battery

The Louvre/Omnia Pro is still in the September/October time slot, but there’s also word that the handset is facing ROM troubles. Of course we believe in being optimistic.

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Major changes have taken place at Palm, and no I don’t mean just the launch of the Pre or even WebOS itself, no, it’s a corporate strategic level change.  Palm has just announced recently that Ed Colligan will step down as CEO and Jon Rubinstein will assume charge. This is one change many will agree was long overdue, and while Colligan does have to his credit the Pre and WebOS, its been felt for a long time that Palm needed someone new to steer its ship. Rubinstein has his work cut out for him, for Palm has still has a long way to go, despite the uber-success that Pre is. As for Colligan, he will join Roger McNamee at Elevation Partners, a major financial backer of Palm, nice end to a sixteen year stretch. Good luck Palm.

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Among the most touted features of the next generation iPhone is the ability to make video calls and video chat. Caught in the wild are these shots that claim to showcase these new features. One of the images shows the camera being used to take a self-portrait, while the second image shows video chat full on. Of course, regardless of the fact that video conferencing is the most outdated thing, it seems that it’s one of the ‘improvements’ in the new iPhone. So will people really care? Enjoy the images.

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Ok so this is definitely an old video, but it’s living proof of existence nevertheless. During a purported presentation last October from Axel Meyer, head of Nseries design at Nokia, the upcoming Nokia N900 Internet Tablet was given center stage for a little while in a promotional video. Now considering how much time has passed between this video and now, probably the Internet Tablet has changed its looks to more refinement. In any case, the specs are pretty decent; a 59.7mm x 111mm x 18.2mm body, 3.5-inch 800×480 (WVGA) touchscreen, OMAP3430 500/600 Mhz processor, 5.0 MP Carl Zeiss camera with dual-LED flash and auto-focus, 1GB total virtual runtime memory, Wi-Fi, HSPA, GPS and an accelerometer. Enjoy the video.

More good news for Virgin Mobile subscribers who are patiently waiting for their broadband services to arrive; a hardworking Virgin Mobile user dug up some images of a broadband USB sitting neatly on Best Buy’s image server. Hence the wait draws to a close and you may see both postpaid as well as pre-paid broadband packages from Virgin Mobile sooner than later. The USB modem will cost $150.

Here’s something you’re sure to love; live images of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 have just surfaced on the Esato forums. The X2 dons a full silver coat and looks pretty decent with those PC-like keys on its full QWERTY keypad. You’ll also notice that the handset is rocking Windows Mobile 6.5. Other specs include;

• 8.1mpx auto focus, VGA @ 30fps (MP4 HQ)
• 3.5-inch WVGA OLED (increased from 3.0 from X1)
• GPS, aGPS
• 3.5 mm headphone jack
• Accelerometer
• Faster processor
• 512 RAM
• Custom Windows Mobile 6.5 (SE engineers customized Win6.5 which runs very. very speedy. in par with iPhone and better in some cases)
• XPERIA Panels are modified with plenty of innovative features (PS3 remote play being one of them)
• Upgrading to Windows Mobile 7 is supported by Xperia panels

Now let’s hope we get to play with handset instead of our grandkids. Enjoy the imagery.

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The Garmin-ASUS Nuvifone is pretty much the topic that hits a nerve with all navigation phone enthusiasts. If you’ve been living under a rock, the reason is the absolute absence of the handset. Even the merger of the companies couldn’t make the handset happen for all its fans. Well, it seems that the unthinkable may just happen, according to a report by TWICE Garmin is “getting very close” to a carrier launch here in the US. And the reason for the delay given by Garmin president and COO Cliff Pemble is;

“Originally we thought we’d launch the phone into the open market, but because of the strong interest we had from carriers, we chose to focus on a carrier-centric launch and meeting carrier requirements is a lot of work.”

So we dare again hope for the Nuvifone.

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