Gizmodo reports that Bill Gates and his associate had flashed the crowd of E3 2006 with a quick glimpse of the Motorola Q Windows Mobile Pocket 5.0 handheld. Motorola is also preparing for the release of the Q with an updated Coming Soon page which can be found here.

Voice, data and multimedia in Motorola’s thinnest full-function smartphone. While the new Motorola Q is 50% thinner than other smartphones, don’t let its sleek styling and incredible thinness fool you. The Motorola Q is a full-function smartphone with superior voice quality, data and multimedia capabilities.

The Motorola Q was originally set to release in late April of 2006 for Verizon Wireless customers, but had been delayed for unknown reasons.

Handango announced today it is the first to offer direct purchase and download capabilities to Microsoft’s Mobile Application Catalog. The Mobile Application Catalog utilizes Handango’s mobile content delivery platform, Handango AMPP, which has been chosen by more than 200 mobile industry leaders worldwide.

Supporting Microsoft’s mobile operating system since 1999, we are thrilled to further extend our relationship and be the first to power the Mobile Application Catalog. Over the years, our collection of Designed for Windows Mobile downloads has proved to be one of our most popular catalogs. Through Handango AMPP’s robust back-end commerce solution, we ensure Mobile Application Catalog customers can easily download content and have a positive shopping experience.

Offering more than 1,600 Designed for Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone titles, the Mobile Application Catalog can be accessed directly from www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/catalog or through the Windows Mobile Web site at www.windowsmobile.com

Alltel announced today new roaming agreements with Sprint and Cingular Wireless. Alltel and Sprint had signed in a 10 year roaming agreement that includes voice and data services allowing customers for both companies to roam on each other’s network. The agreement is effective July 1, 2006 and covers CDMA voice services along with 1X and EV-DO data services.

The new agreement expands our current voice and data roaming relationship while providing customers greater access to services in more places. Our technology alignment ensures an improved seamless roaming experience for text messaging, call/messaging notification and mobile broadband services.

Alltel’s current agreement with Cingular wireless has been extended until 2012, allowing customers for both companies to roam on each other’s network. The agreement covers GSM voice and data services and allows for expansion of GSM into heritage Alltel markets.

Sierra Wireless today introduced the MC8775 PCI Express Mini Card embedded module. With tri-band HSDPA functionality for worldwide roaming on 3G networks, the MC8775 supports peak data rates of up to 3.6 Mbps, and is ready for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) testing and integration into notebook computers and other devices.

Sierra Wireless is committed to providing our OEM customers with the best available wireless technology for integration as quickly as possible, to support their product development cycles and provide a time-to-market advantage. The increased data speed and worldwide roaming capabilities of the MC8775 embedded module offer significant benefits that we believe OEMs will want to deliver to their customers, and allows them to ship a single platform worldwide.

The MC8775 PCI Express Mini Card embedded module offers connectivity to all three HSDPA/UMTS frequency bands (850, 1900, and 2100 MHz) and all four EDGE/GPRS bands (850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz) used worldwide, allowing for seamless global roaming.

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HTC launched its greatly anticipated STRTrk handset. Available in black or pink; it is the first music-focused clamshell smart phone to pack great entertainment features into an ultra slim, design-led shell as well as offering the option of syncing into the office to update emails and documents.

Our mission has always been to drive mass adoption of Smartphone technology and we knew we needed something special to do that, the STRTrk will give Smartphone enthusiasts the chance to turn heads; it’s not only packed with power and functionality, but it looks great and that’s what will drive the market. The style-ID is spot on and we’ve achieved the right balance between entertainment and business capability to give it the all important wide appeal that the next generation of Smartphones need to deliver.

Weighing 99 grams and just 16mm thin, the STRTrk (Qtek 8500) combines model looks with a business brain. The main body of the handset is matte black whilst the coloured metal outer shell has dedicated play, fast forward and rewind buttons as well as a backlit 1.2″ TFT LCD for viewing and controlling music play-lists. A MicroSD memory slot offers the choice of storing additional tracks in ACC, WAV, WMA and MP3 codec formats using Windows Media Player or direct over air downloads.

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The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA), the largest photo and imaging press association in Europe, voted the Nokia N80 as the Best Mobile Imaging Device. The award is an endorsement of the Nokia N80′s industry-leading feature set, which makes it one of the most high performance devices currently available in the marketplace.

The Nokia N80 is a multimedia device with a host of superb functions. It combines a 3 megapixel camera, integrated flash, 20x digital zoom, video and MP3 player into one stylish package. As soon as you switch on, the N80 is ready to shoot. Using a 2GB miniSD card you can store nearly 1000 images at up to 2048×1536 (JPEG up to 16.7 million/24-bit color). Printing your images is easy, too. You can take the images off the miniSD card or connect the N80 to your printer via PictBridge or Bluetooth. The WiFi feature also allows you to send your images to any compatible TV or PC, plus you can edit your images, add text and some special effects.

The Nokia N80 is part of the Nokia Nseries, a range of high performance multimedia computers that incorporate multiple functionalities in one beautifully designed device. With Nokia Nseries products, people can use a single device to do everything from snapping print-quality images, reading email, listening to music, browsing the Web, watching TV on the move, and much more. Moreover, multimedia computers can effortlessly be connected to the Internet, enabling people to communicate, create and share experiences, participate in Internet communities and access digital content using available mobile broadband connections such as WLAN and 3G.

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