Following the first launch of Celio's REDFLY Mobile Companion, the company unveiled yesterday two new models: the REDFLY C7 and REDFLY C8N. The REDFLY series of products are smartphone terminals designed to offer the mobile workforce a larger keyboard and screen for easy use of E-Mail, web, business applications, remote access and cloud computing resources. The REDFLY C7 is a new, more affordable model with a power-saving 7" display, light-weight five-hour battery, and feather-light design under 1.5 lbs. The REDFLY C8N is the next evolution of the original REDFLY design, enhanced to allow the use of the eight-inch screen by an iPod, iPhone , Zune, or digital camera. These new Celio products continue to support the smartphone, the most successful mobile computing platform available today, and enable the smartphone's Internet-based and cloud-computing applications.

While mobile Internet flats are pretty common these days, not every carrier offers an affordable flat yet, not to talk about International Roaming. Therefore, the mobile Internet is still often charged on transferred volumes. Here comes Spb Software House's new Spb Wireless Monitor 3.0 into the game, Spb Software, the Windows Mobile specialist, launched today. Spb Wireless Monitor 3.0 (previously known as Spb GPRS Monitor) is a powerful software solution that offers full control over all types of smartphone data connections by monitoring them in accordance with configurable tariffs and data plans and providing per application data traffic reports. First brought to market in 2002, Spb Wireless Monitor accounts for the lack of a built-in data tracking tool in Windows Mobile devices.

ASUS, which is also expected to make Eee mobile phones anytime in the future, last week introduced another Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone - the ASUS P565 that boasts an 800 MHz processor, which makes - at the time of this announcement - the device the fastest smartphone in the world. Sporting triband GSM/GPRS/EDGE at 900/1800/1900 MHz and singleband HSDPA (3.6 Mbps) at 2100 MHz, the P565 also features WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. Rounding off its impressive feature-set the device features a 2.8" VGA touchscreen and a 3 megapixel autofocus main camera, delivering an unprecedented degree of clarity that does wonders for both personal photographs and spreadsheets.

Adobe Systems Incorporated and ARM today announced a technology collaboration to optimize and enable Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR for ARM Powered devices, ranging from mobile phones to set-top boxes, mobile Internet devices, televisions, automotive platforms, personal media players and other mobile computing devices. The collaboration is expected to accelerate mobile graphics and video capabilities on ARM platforms to bring rich Internet applications and Web services to mobile devices and consumer electronics worldwide. The joint technology optimization is targeted for the ARMv6 and ARMv7 architectures as used for Windows Mobile in the ARM11 family and the Cortex-A series of processors and is expected to be available in the second half of 2009.

While its existence was already leaked by Motorola and later confirmed by Microsoft, nearly nothing is yet known about Microsoft's next Windows Mobile version which is currently called "Windows Mobile 6.5". Nevertheless, SmartphoneFrance.info recently published two screenshots the website calls legit Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots.
According to these shots and SmartphoneFrance.info, Microsoft will "completely" (?) revamp the user interface using Windows Mobile's "Confetti" engine (which is already used in Windows Mobile 6.1). However, since the two screenshots only show the Today screen, it's not yet clear if it is another facelift only or if the underlying menu structures will be revamped as well: