Taiwan’s Gigabyte is a bit of a darkhorse in the Windows Mobile game around these parts, but it’s been in the game for a while now and its latest round of devices — getting passed around this week at 3GSM — shows some R&D savvy. First up, the q60 looks sorta like a Nokia E61 on performance-enhancing substances, bringing tri-band GSM / EDGE plus HSDPA 2100, GPS, WiFi, and a DAB receiver atop a 520MHz XScale core. Next, the t600 tops out with GPRS data, but rocks DVB-H and a gorgeous (well, we can only imagine it’s gorgeous) VGA display in addition to the usual spoils like WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0. Expect both to be very hard to come by stateside, but we’re sure it’s nothing a determined importer can’t overcome. See a big shot of the t600 after the break.

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Funny thing how NAS disk capacity and DRM hacks possess a near linear relationship, eh? Meet Buffalo’s new 3TB (yeah, 3,000GB) TeraStation PRO storage solution for your home network. It’s still the same ol’ box — RAID 1/5/10 (across 4x disks), 38MB/s transfer rate (Raid 5), gigabit Ethernet, Active Directory integration, integrated UPS and 2x USB 2.0 jacks to swing even more disk from. And with 1TB drives ready to pop, a 4TB model is just around the corner. The TS-H3.0TGL/R5 is already up for pre-order in Japan for Â¥277,305 or about $2,312 of the green after you hunt the beast down. NASty indeed.

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Motorola just busted out their new SLVR L9 handset in Barcelona. The latest SLVR ditches the laser etched keypad and brings a focus on multimedia with an integrated FM radio with RDS support, A2DP stereo Bluetooth, and support for MP3/AAC/AAC+/AAC+ enhanced/ AMR/ WAV ringtones and music. It also comes packin’ a 2 megapixel camera with MPEG-4 video capture and Moto’s CrystalTalk technology said to enhance conversations in noisy environments. No word on whether this is a tri-band or quad-band SLVR, only that it sports GPRS/EDGE class 10 data. It also features microSD and MegaSIM expansion and up to 400 minutes of talk time and 350 hours of standby time. Ready sometime in Q2… somewhere in the world. More images after the break.

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We knew they were coming and now, finally, Nokia went and blessed their quad-band GSM / UMTS / WiFi totin’ E61i and E65 official. The E65 is the first slider to drop as an E-series business device. Although the styling is a bit flash for an E, this slider is designed with suits in mind so it’ll integrate just fine with your corporate telephony system. The E61i (pictured) also integrates with your corporate email system — as you’d expect from QWERTY-based E — and adds a 2 megpapixel camera to the mix as well as an enhanced keyboard which includes new NAVI and “One Touch” keys. Both the E65 and E61i feature Nokia’s new Intellisync Mobile Suite 8.0 platform which, according to Nokia, allows businesses to “achieve new levels of productivity and competitive advantage.” We’ll just have to wait and see about that. The E65 is already available in select markets while the E61i won’t pop until Q2 — both S60 devices will demand an unsubsidized price of about €400. You can peep the E65 after the break.

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It’s not just raining N and E-series devices today in Espoo Barcelona. Nokia also unveiled their Nokia 6110 navigator, their second device of the day — after the E90 — to flaunt both GPS and HSDPA data. The S60-based 6110 combines GPS and AGPS (assisted GPS) with quad-band GSM/EDGE and UMTS 2100 for up to 3.6Mbps of hot HSDPA data. This beast brings a 2.2-inch QVGA display throwin’ 16 million colors, a 2 megapixel camera with sliding lens cover and flash, and MicroSD expansion to augment the onboard 40MB. The handset touts a 3.5-hour (GSM) and 2.5-hours (3G) talk-time or up to 11 days (GSM and 3G) of standby. The 6110 is expected to ship in Q2 for an estimated pre-tax, pre-carrier-subsidy price of €450/$583. A few more pics after the break.

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What better way to kick off 3GSM than with a shotgun blast of second generation Samsung Ultra Editions. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt… much, these are Ultra IIs which means they’re ultra slim. All the phones start with tri-band GSM, Bluetooth, and that new 3 megapixel shooter we’ve been expecting. The thinster of the bunch is of course the “world’s thinnest” 5.9-mm U100 candybar we’ve already seen. Next up is 9.6-mm U300 clamshell which packs a 2.2-inch, 240 x 320 TFT internal display (98 x 16 OLED external) and 70MB of on-board storage. Bumping things up by a millimeter comes what Samsung calls the “crown jewel” of the pack, the 10.9-mm U600 slider (pictured second from the left). It ships in sapphire blue, garnet red, platinum metal and copper gold. Get it, “crown jewel!” Uh hem. The U600 comes brandishing a fourth band, a 3.1 megapixel camera, 2.2-inch 240 x 320 TFT display, Bluetooth 2.0, and 60MB of on-board storage with microSD expansion. Last up is the 12.1-mm U700 3G slider (far right) whose biggest claim to fame is 3.6Mbps HSDPA data and microSD expansion. All are expected to hit Europe before March with some hope of that quad-band U600 coming Stateside.

Gallery: Samsung’s Ultra Edition II series loosed at 3GSM: U300, U600, U100, and U700

    

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Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to GRETA, your anachronistic device (with the anachronistic name) for today. As anyone who’s ever actually done business in today’s world knows, fax just hasn’t freaking gone away. So why not do a little to bring it up to date, hm? GRETA’s got a 50-foot roll of fax machine paper and an illuminated keyboard to make on the go paper-to-paper transmissions easy as possible. Faxes are sent via tri-band GSM in a 35 ounce, 11.4 x 5.9 x 2-inch housing that has its own independent, internal NiMH battery power supply. No word yet when she’ll be hitting the streets or for how much.

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