Nokia has just announced the 9300 Communicator, a new high-end cellular-wireless handheld. Brighthand’s Ed Hardy takes a look at Nokia’s attempt at an all-in-one device.

VITO Technology announced a major update of VITO SoundExplorer, their MP3 player and recorder for Pocket PC. New version 4.0 looks exactly like the previous version, but stability has been enhanced, along with the addition of a multi-language interface, and skin support.

PocketSensei announced the release of version 1.0 of the Nexus English Super Dictionary for Palm Powered handhelds and smartphones. Nexus comes standard with integrated thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, crossword search and custom study lists. Nexus also supports the ability to attach JPEG illustrations to word definitions.

Nokia said that it plans to enhance its Series 80 line so that the mobile devices come preloaded with BlackBerry software from Research In Motion. The Series 80 family are designed for use by professionals and include devices like the Nokia 9500 Communicator, which combines PDA-like organizational features with phone capabilities.

apps for phones announced a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for creating applications for phones and other wireless devices that support J2ME. The apps for phones RAD tool enables software developers, whatever their skills to build applications for phones using a visual designer that allows for a “drag and drop” development process.

Ballshooter Games announced the release of Brain Gym 2 for Pocket PC. Players will be able to push their intellectual skills to the limit with four puzzle games that include Total Blackout, Burgerama, Chukchi Kerling and Fast Swapper.

Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files, the floppy is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car: it’ll hang around but never hold the same relevance in everyday life. Dell Computer stopped including a floppy drive in new computers in spring 2003, and Gateway has followed suit on some models.

PhatWare and Web Information Solutions (WebIS) announced that PhatWare’s PhatNotes Lite Edition is available as a free download with Pocket Informant 5.2, the latest version of WebIS’ Personal Information Manager (PIM) for Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs. with the inclusion of PhatNotes Lite, Pocket Informant users can also instantly add, store, or retrieve text-based notes without leaving the application.

Riverwalkmobile.com has relaunched the WiFi Hotspot Directory, a database covering public wireless internet access locations throughout the United States and Canada. The WiFi HotSpot Directory has been greatly enhanced in version 2.0 launch including over one thousand new hotspots as well as including support for not only PCs and Laptops but also, Palm OS, PocketPC, Symbian OS and even iPod devices.

Infuzer has announced the launch of a service to allow users of Outlook, Palm Desktop and Lotus Notes to receive a free schedule download for the 2004 Professional Football Season on their PC or PDA calendar. Visitors to the site can select any team schedule and it will be imported to their PC or PDA calendar in a single click.