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Even though we’ve seen a couple of US e-tailers offering HTC’s latest Advantage, the X7510, up for pre-order, it seems that the handheld won’t actually be sold here for at least awhile. According to jkOnTheRun, the X7510 possesses one of those hotly-debated Qualcomm chipsets that cannot be sold on American soil — presumably due to all those legal issues the firm is currently wading through. Of course, folks that just can’t fathom living another quarter without one can cough up the requisite dough to snag one from an importer, but otherwise, it looks like you USers are clean out of luck (at least for the moment).

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– ACN has launched its revolutionary VoIP Phone Service with Video Phone in Puerto Rico, marking the company?s expansion into the Latin America market. VoIP phone service is the newest advancement in telecommunication tools. It uses the customer?s

NOKIA Oyj may get approval from European Union regulators for its US$8.1 billion acquisition of Navteq Corp, the world’s largest digital map maker, sources said yesterday.

Filed under: Handhelds, Tablet PCs

While yesterday’s minuscule shot of this Atom-based UMPC explained the form factor quite well, this here picture shows the unit in a much better light. Otherwise there’s little new info on this U2010 from Fujitsu, but that $1,300 pricepoint isn’t a great start. Was this whole “Atom is cheaper” thing just a cruel, cruel myth?

[Via Pocketables]

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(photo credit: image courtesy MacRumors) Did Apple really think it could get away with making a commercial in the middle of the New York City without anyone noticing? The blogosphere is buzzing with rumors that Apple was filming an ad for the 3G iPhone