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Both Motorola and Nokia have announced some interesting new devices at CTIA this week.

A small sample from the cellcam category alone:

• Motorola A845 (fact sheet), a 3G/UMTS phone with video and still camera support, Bluetooth, an MP3 player, and 64MB of memory built-in, to be deployed by AT&T Wireless in H2 2004.
• Nokia 6255 (Forum Nokia data sheet), a CDMA2000 1X clamshell handset with dual color screens, a VGA camera with flash (imagine that, a flash!), MP3/AAC and stereo FM radio support, GPS support for E911, Bluetooth, and J2ME MIDP 2.0. All in all, Nokia’s most advanced and feature rich CDMA handset, available Q4 2004.

Is the US finally starting to catch up with the rest of the wireless world’s handset options?

Also, Nokia made some Series 60 news including the reiteration of the availability of Series60.com, a one stop shop for Series 60 device and development information from all licensees, and the announcement that LG Electronics has licensed Series 60 for use in upcoming LG Symbian based smart phones.

XML.com article on “Googling for XML” (and applications thereof including RSS, RDF, FOAF, etc.).

Sun is demonstrating its game server prototype at this week’s GDC.

Sun also announced the 2004 Java Technology Game Development Contest running from now through June 2004. Click here for details or learn more via the java.net Games community.

More from CTIA: Information on Qualcomm’s plans to use ATI 3D graphics tech in its next gen mobile phone chipsets.