Yet another affordable Nokia music phone unveiled, the X2

Nokia can't help but keep us busy this week. Not that we mind it. Keep the new devices coming! The company has just announced their latest music-centric feature phone, the cheap Nokia X2.
The X2 will be based on the S40 platform and will come with dedicated music keys, stereo speakers and an FM radio with RDS and a built-in antenna. On top of that you get support for stereo Bluetooth and a 3.5mm audio output jack. Of course, there is also a hot-swappable microSDHC card slot.

Nokia X2
The 13-mm thin Nokia X2 weighs only 81 g and packs a 2.2" screen of QVGA resolution and social network integration allowing its owners quick access to Facebook's services. The Nokia Messaging app will be preloaded as well.
On the aluminum back you'll find a 5-megapixel fixed-focus camera with video recording. That sure doesn't impress but, considering the low price tag, we're not surprised to hear that there is no autofocus.
Nokia X2 is expected to become available by the end of June at an estimated price of 85 euro before taxes and subsidies. There are two known color versions so far - Blue on Silver and Red on Black.
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Vodafone drops an Android 2.1 phone, plus seven cheap ones

Vodafone announced a boatload of new phones. The Vodafone 845 is an affordable Android 2.1 handset, the Vodafone 547 and 543 are two other touch phones and there's also a long list of entry-level offerings.
The Vodafone 845 runs the latest Android OS and offers a 2.8" QVGA touchscreen, GPS, a 3.2MP camera, and good connectivity options - 3G with HSDPA as weel as Wi-Fi. It will be available in black and white starting next month.
The Vodafone 543 and 547 are the other two touch-driven phones in the litter, though they are feature phones. The Vodafone 547 has a 2.8" WQVGA touchscreen and comes out this month in black, white and red, while the Vodafone 543 has exchangeable covers and a smaller 2.4" QVGA touchscreen and will be available next month.

Vodafone 845 • 543 • 546 • 547
The Vodafone 546 is a candy bar with portrait 2.2" QVGA screen and full QWERTY keyboard and it's slated for an April release. Later, the Vodafone 345 and 350 are coming in July and August respectively, and they have 1.8" (they are marked as "ultra low cost handsets - ULCH") screens but retain the QWERTY keyboards.

Vodafone 246 • 247 • 248
The last of the bunch are "ULCH" phones too - starting with the Vodafone 246 in April, followed by 247 in June, which adds a solar panel to the 246 specs, and in May - the Vodafone 248 slider.
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HP acquires Palm, declares commitment to webOS

Surprise, surprise! Palm have been sold. It's not like we didn't see it coming but it just happened so quickly. Quite unexpectedly the highest bidder turned out to be HP. The quoted acquisition price stands at 1.2 billion US dollars.
There have been speculations on Palm's future for a long time now (involving names like HTC, Lenovo, etc.) but the mystery has just been solved. HP decided to acquire Palm's shares and paid 5.70 US dollars per share.
Now, they are good 1.2 billion US dollars behind and one still fresh and very promising OS ahead. The webOS (which we tried on the Palm Pre) still has plenty of unrevealed potential and HP have understandably declared their commitment to it.
Jon Rubinstein, the man who brought Palm back to life (then back to the counter and finally sold them), started his career at HP. He is still the CEO of Palm and is said to remain part of the company even after the acquisition.
And this is the letter to his team, the Palm employees, in which he shares with them the news and his excitement about it.
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