While it remains to be seen if consumers will think the Palm (PALM) Pre is the equal of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone, there is evidence fees paid to Sprint (S) for the Pre will in some cases be lower than what iPhone users pay AT&T (T).

Here’s a comparison of the costs, as compiled by BillShrink.com.

UPDATE: :Looks like the BillShrink guys got some of this wrong. Updated data below from AT&T’s web site.
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Spotify, the streaming music service which is gradually gathering a large fan-base in Europe, has been plotting a mobile version. It recently hired a head of mobile and the speculation was that it would come out with an iPhone app first after releasing a teaser video. But today it’s released video of an Android app it’s being demoing to people at Google I/O.

The Android app is still very much a work in progress and subject to minor changes, but it gives a pretty good overview of their thinking. The demo highlights a number of features including playback, playlists, offline synch and music search.
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Skyfire, the server-compressed mobile browser that promises “the full web,” i.e. Flash support, on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones, has graduated from its excruciatingly long testing period. In a word, it’s great.

The release notes point to a few major changes from earlier versions of the browser, emphasizing better text rendering, faster startup, easier controls and improved compatibility with complex AJAX-driven pages like Facebook and Gmail. To be honest, the changes aren’t massive, but a few of them make noticeable differences.
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It seems as if almost every time there is an Apple announcement coming up, more rumors of a Mac tablet show up. This time around, TechCrunch is reporting that they have heard from OEMs and people who have held prototypes that a 10 inch Mac Tablet and/or large iPhone is on the way.

According to them, the price point for this product will be anywhere from $500 to $1,000 and “the project is very real.” Currently, they don’t really have any information about the specs of the machine other than those already mentioned, just that it exists. If you ask me, these rumors are getting somewhat redundant. That said, I wouldn’t mind at all if Apple were to release a tablet touch screen device if they do it right.
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Currently, Sony Ericsson have confirmed that they’re working on an Android handset that will run version 2.0 of the Google platform. The company’s Asia-Pacific VP of marketing, Peter Ang, told reporters at a Taiwan launch this week that Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone would arrive in the “near future”.
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Sprint has announced today that the Palm Pre will be available on June 6. Sprint announced that it will be available nationwide in Sprint stores, as well as at Best Buy, Radio Shack, and select Wal-Mart stores. The webOS-based phone will retail for $199.99 (after rebate and service agreement).
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Currently, Samsung has announced shipment of its latest 32 Gigabyte (GB) moviNAND, the highest density embedded memory card using 30-nm class process technology.

It improves the performance of high-end phones and other mobile consumer electronics when processing and storing large amounts of multimedia content.
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After announcing quite a bunch of Windows Mobile and Android devices, Acer finally launches two smartphones, DX900 and X960.

The first is a Windows Mobile 6.1 dual SIM handset with support for triband HSDPA connectivity plus quadband EDGE.
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Why is Apple up in arms over BitTorrent? Okay, perhaps officially they are not, but to sit there and say that nothing legitimate comes in over BitTorrent is absurd. And to make matters even weirder, the Apple App Store for the iPhone did allow the app known as Trackr, to pass.

One can speculate that this might be due to the emphasis on RSS with BitTorrent as a close second within the app itself. But one thing needs to be pointed out early on here. None of these applications even download content over BitTorrent specifically. Rather, they only allow for the user to control a set Torrent
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The University will begin offering Kindle editions of its textbooks starting in the fall semester, several media outlets are reporting. An official announcement is expected Wednesday morning in New York.

Amazon.com, creator of The Kindle and run by Jeff Bezos ’86, is expected to announce a new version of its device with a larger screen and other features specifically geared toward academic textbooks as well as newspapers and magazines.
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