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By the end of Q1, 2007, OQO will launch a tiny, fully powered PC that runs Windows Vista. It’s not an iPhone, but it comes with EVDO wireless, plays music and videos, runs standard desktop applications, has 30Gb or 60Gb of space, a tablet interface, an inbuilt keyboard and runs for 3 or 6 hours depending on which battery you choose. It’s thrice the price of the iPhone, but very compelling in its own right, and much better than the S-XGen that was also launched at CES.

Nokia has updated its popular internet tablet PC with a range of improvements, including the ability to make Skype calls.

Fond of calling their smartphones ‘multimedia computers’ instead of mere cell phones, Nokia are still the market leader despite competitors’ success with slim flip phone and candy car models. Now Nokia is striking back with thinner new models that take the fight back to the competition to try and ensure that Nokia continues to rule the roost.

Bill Gates presented what could well have been his second last CES keynote earlier today. Among the offerings were previously undisclosed Vista and Vista Ultimate features, the latest PC, Tablet, UMPC and smartphone designs, Xbox 360 advances in games and IPTV, a new Windows Home Server, some details on the Ford and Microsoft Sync collaboration and a glimpse into the connected home of the future. Bill Gates’ dream of the connected home and the connected life is slowly coming true through Microsoft software and hardware.