Video of the new HTC Touch Dual with slide-out keypad, 3G HSDPA support and a forward facing camera for video calls. Coming to the US, running WM6.1

Negatives: no WiFi. Smaller display. Slightly larger than original Touch.

Nice write up of Windows Mobile 6, aka Crossbow---the release I've been working on at Microsoft since I started. It's finally coming out and will be officially announced on Monday. Yay!

Quoted: I've had the pleasure of testing out a beta version of Windows Mobile 6 for a few weeks and I couldn't be happier with it. We'll have a full review coming soon, but since the embargo was just lifted I figured I'd give you some quick highlights of what's found in the new OS as well as some of my first impressions of the operating system itself.

Quoted: Just two years after Google launched its SMS search service, Microsoft has launched a beta version of its own SMS service that lets you perform Windows Live searches from a cell phone. The service is available to Cingular, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, and Alltel customers in the uS.

Quoted: Privately held Orb Networks plans to offer Web videos from YouTube.com on mobile phones with a new software launch this week, well before the wildly popular Web site makes its own cell phone service available.

Quoted: Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information pile up inside our cell phones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think.

Quoted: The 700wx looks to be trickling into Sprint retail locations as we speak, and it seems everything we've been told about the device so far has been spot-on: it really is bound for Sprint, the addition of the "x" to the name is legit, and it rocks double the RAM (much to the chagrin of plain ol' 700w users everywhere), though we weren't necessarily expecting the big, scary floating head on the box. Still no solid word on an official availability date, but stores who've received them have apparently been instructed to keep them under lock and key until Sprint proper starts offering them, meaning the previously-reported August 27 date for business customers still seems perfectly plausible.

Quoted: Winston Huang has written a pair of great extensions for Firefox that help you keep tabs on how many minutes you have left on your mobile phone. They're the Verizon Minutes Used Extension and the TMobile MInutes Used Extension. Each of them shows you right in your status bar how many minutes you've used and how many you have left, and hovering over it will give you more information like a projection of how many minutes you'll use this month. Brilliant!

Palm and MS have joined together for an offer that lasts March 21-31: if you buy a Treo 700w from palm.com today, you'll receive a free bluetooth headset and a free copy of Microsoft Pocket Streets.

Phonescoop has a pretty in-depth review of one of my cell phones, the Samsung A900, which is often compared to the RAZR.