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Here's yet another way to hit up your Facebook friends from your phone. This time, it's FacebookIM.

As the name implies, it takes advantage of Facebook's chat services. It also takes advantage of Facebook's mobile site and also lets you upload photo and video directly.

This one comes to us from XDA Developers member blutz. Hit that up for more info, and check out the developers' site here.

Via Pocketnow

Here's a look at what Sprint supposedly has on deck for the next two quarters of the year, thanks to the ninjas over at the Boy Genius Report.

You'll note the Palm Treo Pro, which was just released. Slated for the second quarter is the HTC Willow, which we expect from those monster leak sheets to be a front-facing QWERTY messanger phone. Probably not as up to snuff as the Maple, but we'll see.

In Q3 is the Samsung Ace II. Dieter took a look at the original Ace about a year ago and was plesantly surprised.

Finally is the HTC Rhodium, which we expect to be the replacement for the Touch Pro.

What's it all mean? The rumors, conjecture and rampant speculation that we may see some of the new HTC phones on Sprint in the next couple of months is looking better. Or, ya know, we could all have egg on our face.

Spec sheets after the break, including for the Cedar, which we don't even see on this roadmap.

Just when you were ready to hear the end of life rumors concerning the Motorola Q Series come true, someone throws you a curve ball. Verizon Wireless has announced that it will be re-releasing the Motorola Q9c. [via EverythingQ] The re-release brings the company's TALKS feature to the phone. Everything else appears unchanged.

TALKS for Verizon is designed to assist blind and visually impaired customers.  It is a screen reader that adds speech to the standard user interface by using Windows Mobile to convert text displayed on the handset to highly intelligible speech. Additionally, TALKS will allow users to dial contacts, add/edit contact entries, compose email, write documents in Mobile Office, and use Mobile Explorer through voice commands. 

Does this mean that we may actually see the Q line continue with the Q11? Or maybe even the Napolean? Or is the Motorola Q9c simply a convenient test model for the TALKS application? Regardless of what all of this means, it's nice to see the Motorola Q line still hanging around.

We've seen Samsung Propel Pro via the leaked shot (above) and the FCC docs, and now we've got a possible launch date, and it's real soon.

Phone Arena says we should see the Propel Pro on AT&T on March 19 — that's this Wednesday. Pretty standard stuff here: A QWERTY vertical slider with Windows Mobile Standard. No word on price, be we can't imagine it'd be too high.

Welcome to Around SPE, where we highlight the big news of the week from around the network in a format that's more than just a list-o-bullets. This week we're putting the spotlight on Android Central, which saw a fairly hefty redesign on Wednesday night. Search, registration, commenting, navigation, the whole shootin' match is all much improved.

We're also proud to announce that Android Central made a donation to Olin College to help students there develop mobile applications (with a special focus on Android, naturally). You can find out more information about the class here, or better yet -- go check out the applications already in development this early in the semester!

In Android news, we caught word that Amazon was selling the Black G1 for a measly $97.99. Then it got even better with Costco offering the G1 for $79.99, a whole $100 off! Why the discounts? Recession? Pressure from the HTC Magic? Finally, the long awaited Cupcake update is supposed to come to Android by April. Paid apps came to the UK Android Market. And we wondered whether the T-Mobile G2 (aka HTC Magic) was going to show up at CTIA.

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If you're looking for a cheaper (and contractless) plan and live in an AT&T coverage area with a solid 3G signal, this may be for you.

MVNO — that's Mobile Virtual Network Operator — Zer01 is piggybacking on AT&T's network and is using, get this, all Windows Mobile phones. That's because instead of doing true voice calls, all your talking on Zer01 will be done via VOIP — Voice Over Internet Protocol — al la Skype, Vonage and the like. So, like we said, you're going to need to be in a good AT&T 3G area for this to work. But the best part? No long-term service commitments. You can bring your own phone, or purchase one.

The unlimited voice and data plan costs $69.95, and you can pre-order now at Zero01Mobile.com.

Via Engadget

Finally, after several delays, the Sprint Treo Pro officially is on sale. You'll be dropping $199.99 after contract and rebates for Palm's latest Windows Mobile phone.

Still on the fence? Check out Dieter's video hands-on over at Treocentral, and Malatesta's early hands-on, before the Treo Pro went back for some ROM surgery. Then go and getcha one here.