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ZDNet editor Andrew Nusca went hands-on with the webOS-powered Palm Pixi at the Pepcom’s Holiday Spectacular event in New York City. Here’s a look at the Sprint device.

Motorola recently announced the CLIQ smartphone, powered by Google Android, modified with Motoblur and set to land on T-Mobile this fall. Here’s a hands-on look at this QWERTY touchscreen smartphone.

Samsung’s Go is a well-rounded contender in the netbook category. While it’s got unique styling and satisfying fit and finish, the price tag is a bit hard to swallow. Here’s a look at what $479 gets you.

Motorola’s new CLIQ, a Google Android-based smartphone for T-Mobile, will offer 3G/HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, a full HTML Web browser, 6 hours of active battery use, POP3/IMAP and Microsoft Exchange support.

Microsoft has unveiled official photos of its Zune HD portable media player. The player is rumored to support streaming music, offer a ‘Zune Marketplace,’ cost around $249 for a base 16GB model (in addition to a 32GB model and a rumored 64GB model), boast full support for 720p video though its HDMI out port and perhaps arrive in September.

Research in Motion has announced that it will make its BlackBerry Desktop Manager available for Mac. The manager will provide capabilities including the ability to sync to iTunes (playlists, calendars, contacts, notes, tasks), add and remove applications, perform firmware updates, create backups (and restore from them), automatically schedule backups with optional encryption, and manage multiple BlackBerry devices at the same time. Here’s a sneak peek.

Dell has announced its Vostro all-in-one PC, the company’s first all-in-one “designed exclusively for small business.” According to a Dell poll of small businesses, “cramped spaces and overcrowded desks are a headache for business owners.”

LaCie has upgraded its LaCinema Rugged external hard drive/multimedia player with 1080p output, thus claiming a new “HD” in its product name. It’s intended for users to access and play multimedia files on any HDTV — television shows, movies, music and photo slideshows.

Sony finally dives head-first into the netbook market with its W series netbook, a 10.1-inch system that offers a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 160GB hard drive, 1GB memory and more for $499.

Lenovo’ new ThinkPad T400s laptop is a thin-and-light notebook for business users that features solid state drive storage and falls between the featherweight ThinkPad X300 and its T400 predecessor. It sports a super-slim profile, just 0.83-in. thick at its thinnest point, and starts under 4 lbs.

Motorola has announced its Rival mobile messaging phone, which packs a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen elements and visual voicemail. The Moto folks were kind enough to let me play with the new device, which I believe is a nice solution for someone who wants a smartphone but doesn’t want to pony up the dough for a data plan. Here’s how it stacks up.

Motorola’s new Rival messaging phone bridges the gap between smartphone and dumb phone and offers QWERTY, touch “keys” and visual voicemail.