TECH BUZZ – Palm finally officially releases it’s next smartphone, a thin, unlocked handset aimed at Blackberry, not Apple.It’s refreshing to see a mobile phone not attempt to position itself as an iPhone killer. The Treo Pro is for the professional set, will be sold unlocked in the U.S. for $549.

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The Best Links:

1. Officially Official, The Treo Pro
2. Palm Treo Pro Thinnest Palm Smartphone Yet
3. Available in the Fall, Fully Unlocked
4. Palm Releases Treo Pro — NOT an iPhone Killer

TECH BUZZ – Samsung’s new smartphone (for Sprint) is flying off the shelves.Tech sites hail it as the first true iPhone competitor — plus it comes with live TV service built-in.

The Best Links:

1. Samsung’s Instinct is Selling Out
2. The Instinct is the Only Reasonable iPhone Competition Out There
3. Instinct Review: Samsung’s Best Phone
4. Samsung Giving the IPhone a Run, But No Wi Fi
5. Very Handy Video Review Comparing the Samsung Instinct, iPhone and LG Vu

TECH BUZZ – New trio of Verizon LG phones (the Dare, Chocolate 3, and the Decoy) will go on sale as soon as June 16th.For those of us who can’t get excited about the iPhone because we’re chained to Verizon for the rest of our lives (I say this as I look at my co-editor’s iPhone wistfully), LG is offering a new touch-screen phone that’s like the Prada phone, only better.

The Best Links:

1. Verizon’s Most Daring, Wildest Phone (Which Isn’t Saying Much)
2. See Live Shots of the LG Dare at the PhoneArena
3. The Dare Has Friends!
4. Get Pricing and Specs on New LG Phones
5. The Verizon Press Release

TECH BUZZ – Photos of the first RIM clamshell flip phone have been unveiled. It will be out by the end of 2008.A novel flip phone seems kind of oxymoronic, but that’s what this phone is being touted as.

The Best Links:

1. The Clamshell Flip Phone Unveiled for the First Time
2. The Photo Gallery
3. New Shots with T-mobile Branding
4. Get the Specs Here
5. Comes with Accessories like “Anodized Urban Nomad Tool”

TECH BUZZ – Google’s new software platform for mobile phones is called ‘Android’ and will debut this week in its prototype form at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.It’s going to take a lot of work to make a phone as pretty as the iPhone, but the open source nature of the Android platform has got the geek sector pretty amped.

The Best Links:

1. “Open Source” Android Means Crazy New Things for Mobile Communications
2. Open Source Technology Allows Programmers Much More Flexibility
3. This Is of Equal Importance to the iPhone!
4. View the Android Photo Gallery
5. Android ‘will outsell iPhones’
6. Read a News Article, Look at the Slideshow
7. Android Debuts with Prototype Handsets
8. T-Mobile to have 3G by Summer, Android handset by end of 2008
9. People Are Pretty Excited, Even Though These Phones are Fugly
10. Android Not Ready for Prime Time

TECH BUZZ – Garmin, a company that makes GPS devices, enters the smartphone ring with the Nuvi.The one thing this touch-screen celly holds over the iPhone is that it’s not an iPhone.

The Best Links:

1. Ballsy Move on Garmin’s Part
2. Official Website of the Garmin Nuvifone
3. GPS-Maker Also Makes Cell Phones?
4. I Love Garmin, But What Does This Have that My Blackberry Doesn’t?
5. Garmin unveils Nuvi Phone
6. Garmin Nuvifone is the Phone of My Dreams
7. SURPRISE! We’re Making a Phone!
8. No Buddytracking?

CELEBRITY BUZZ – Celebs like Lindsay Lohan have been spotted with the ever-elusive iPhone.We won’t be jumping on this iPhone bandwagon until Kate Moss officially starts carrying one.

The Best Links:

1. Even David Blaine has an iPhone
2. Where’s the hip annoying guy spouting one-sided propaganda for the iPhone?
3. Katherine Heigl latest celeb iPhone siting
4. Looks Like Someone Got a New Birthday/Out-of-Rehab Present!
5. iPhone Mania Hits Hollywood
6. Goldberg Joined Queue for Iphone
7. Pics: Spike Lee and Whoopie Goldberg Get Their iPhones
8. Freudian iPhone Decoder