Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced the European wide market availability of the Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia. According to the European Mobile Life Survey, revealed today by Samsung, approximately 70 % of phones used for business do not have full multimedia capabilities, with 40 % of European business users owning two or more mobile phones. Nearly two thirds (58 %) of Europeans consider multimedia functions to be absolutely critical features in their mobile phones, with 1 in 5 business users wishing their business phone had a camera, an MP3 player and a radio for personal use.

Following last weeks hardware hands-on videoview of the E-Ten Glofiish V900 DVB-T Windows Mobile smartphone, this videoview is about the software and GUI integration of E-Ten's upcoming smartphone which runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.
While the V900 sports a, for today's Windows Mobile phones, typical flat touchscreen it doesn't features pan and drag which means you still need the stylus quite often if you want to navigate through the program menus and functions. And while most Windows Mobile smartphone manufactures try to differentiate from competitors using self-developed Today screen UI's, E-Ten decided to license Spb Mobile Shell 2.0 (see our previous review here) instead, which isn't a bad choice anyway.

In an interview with German newspaper "Welt Online", Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony speaks about the future of Sony but also about a possible future of Sony Ericsson and this future might not be as bright as the past was. When Sony and Ericsson merged as Sony Ericsson, Sony brought its design and media competence into the new venture while Ericsson brought is technical know-how and both together created some exciting phones, except the not so successful Symbian-based UIQ smartphone line. Anyway, it looks like Howard Strigner isn't happy with the current situation of Sony Ericsson and while he hasn't mentioned to either leave the joint venture or to take it over, the interview shows that he's thinking about Sony Ericsson's future:

Earlier this week we reported about the dispute between SiRF and Broadcom and SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. responds tonight to earlier speculations, that its products might be banned from the U.S. According to this information, SiRF and the ITC staff have independently filed appeals with the International Trade Commission (ITC) for review of the ITC Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) initial ruling that certain SiRF products infringed upon patents held by Global Locate, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Broadcom. In addition, SiRF has taken measures to reassure its customers of multiple alternatives to address this initial ruling to enable SiRF customers to continue shipping their innovative products into the US market.

DataViz today announced the availability of its flagship mobile office suite Documents To Go Premium Edition 3.0 for devices running Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.x Professional and 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition. Already available for Windows Mobile Standard, BlackBerry, Symbian and Palm OS, Documents To Go, will now allow users of Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices to view, edit and create Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as well as view PDF files on their devices and in their native formats. DataViz has also enhanced the PDF viewer included with their mobile office suite with this release of Documents To Go for Pocket PC.