Just last month Nokia and Intel announced their intention to join their efforts and unite Moblin and Maemo operating systems into one single project called MeeGo. But today Valtteri Halla, director Technology Strategy of Maemo devices, promised that source code of MeeGo will be released by the end of the March. On this basis developers are going to collect operating system for Nokia N900 smartphone and Intel Atom based netbooks and tablet computers. There is no much information about coming operating system but it is known that it will use Qt, OBS and RPM technologies. Besides a number vendors have already informed of their intention to support new OS.

Today during CeBIT 2010 exhibition Asus announced some new mobile devices including its first ebook reader. Asus DR-900 features 9 inch screen with 1024×768 px resolution, 4 Gb built-in storage, Wi-Fi, and 3.5 mm headphones jack. There is also optional 3G module. It is also said that the battery of this e-reader provides viewing of 10,000 pages of text on a single charge. Supported files extensions are PDF, TXT, MP3 and ePUB. Unfortunately there is no any official information about release date and price.

Columbian Haleron company announced its new device. iLet Mini HAL is tablet computer running on Google Android operating system. The main feature of this device is its price – $200. Haleron iLet Mini HAL has 600 MHz VIA processor, 7 inch touchscreen display with 800×480 px resolution, 128 Mb DDR2 RAM, 2 Gb built-in flash storage, SDHC memory card slot, two USB 2.0 ports, stereo loud speacker, 3.5 mm audio jack, . Connectivity includes Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, LAN, and Bluetooth. The battery provides up to 16 hours of work time. Unfortunately there is no information about release date.

During Mobile World Congress 2010 Samsung showed its new flagship device. Samsung S8500 Wave is the world’s first mobile device running on Bada platform. Other remarkable features of this device are its 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and 3.3 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with 800×480 px resolution and 16 million colors. Samsung Wave also features unique user interface that resembles TouchWiz and combines best solutions of competing mobile platforms. For example there is sliding panel that allows you to manage wireless connections. As for other characteristics this high-end device has 5 Mp camera with autofocus and HD video (1280х720px, 30 fps) recording support, 2 or 8 Gb built-in storage, microSD/HC memory card slot, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, GPS module and 3.5 headphones jack, The dimensions are 118x56x11 mm. The battery has 1500 mAh capacity and provides 100 hours of music playback. Samsung S8500 Wave will become available in May and will cost about $550.

Ericsson has just announced its own application store for mobile phones. In contrast to analogue Ericsson eStore is targeted not at end users but at mobile operators. It allows them to set-up their own apps store to their consumers. At present moment Ericsson eStore includes more than 30 thousand apps both paid and free. It is expected that new online store will also attracts developers – now they their one app will be published via multiple carriers. It is also said that eStore will include applications  both for smartphones (WinMo, Android, Symbian) and usual phones with Java support.

Not only Microsoft announced its new operating system for mobile devices. Symbian Foundation also announced new Symbian^3 OS. It will be released in March and first devices running on this platform will become available by the end of the third quarter of this year. The list of key features includes multiply home screens, improved widgets management, hardware acceleration of visual effects, HDMI, multi-touch and fourth generation networks support. It is also notable that Symbian^3 will be completely open source.

Together with Nuvifone A50 Garmin-Asus announced one more smartphone. Nuvifone M10 will become available in Europe and Asia by the end of the second quarter of this year. But it will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. This smartphone runs on Windows Mobile 6.5.3 operating system with pre-installed UI. This list of technical characteristics is usual for devices of such class and includes 3.5 inch touchscreen display with 800×480 px resolution, 5 Mp camera with flash and autofocus, 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor, 512 Mb RAM, 512 Mb ROM, 4 Gb internal storage, microSDHC memory card slot, A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, Wi-Fi b/g, 1500 mAh battery and 3.5 mm audio jack. Nuvifone M10 measures 116 x 58 x 14.3 mm and weights 138 g.

Today Singaporean Fusion Garage started mass production of its new device. JooJoo is tablet computer running on UNIX family operating system. Together with this tablet Fusion Garage will release online app store that will be open for third-party developers. The producer also noted that in conterst to Apple iPad this device supports Flash and even HD Flash. As for technical characteristics JooJoo tablet has 12.1 inch touch screen with 1366×768 px resolution and multi-touch technology support, 4 Gb built-in storage, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, and 3.5 mm audio jack. The battery provides about 5 hours of work time. The dimensions are 325x199x19 mm, the weight is 1.1 kg. JooJoo is already has been already available for preorder here. The price is $499.

According to some sources the prototype of Dell Mini 5 Internet Tablet has been already available to buy in Chinese Shenzhen city. This device has not been officially announced yet but enthusiasts report that Mini 5 is equipped with 5 inch touch screen with 800×480 px resolution, 1 GHz CPU, microSD memory card slot, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, 5 Mp camera with dual LED flash, SIM card slot, 0.3 Mp camera for video calls and 1530 mAh battery that provides about 6 hours of work time. The operating system is Google Android 1.6.

According to pocketnow.com Microsoft is going to introduce Windows Mobile 7 on Mobile World Congress 2010 exhibition that will take place in February. The first device running on new operating system will be LG Apollo. This communicator will feature 10 Mp camera with HD video (1280х720) recording support and 3.8 inch touch AMOLED screen with multi-touch technology support (WM7 will support multi-touch). It is also said LG Apollo will have 1.3 GHz Qualcomm QSD8650 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB ROM, microSD memory card slot (up to 32GB), Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth modules.