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Back in May we caught a little guff for shrieking with glee when we saw the Treo 800w show up on DSL Reports. Still, though, we added the site to our arsenal of places to poke around when we're thinking about new devices. We've been checking it periodically this week (you hush) and, well, we just spotted the proverbial Sasquatch. You can head over to DSL Reports to see if you can catch the elusive beast yourself. We grabbed what we saw in the screenshot above.

That, friends, is a “Sprint Treo850e” pulling down 1060 kbps with .229s of latency on the spcsdns.net network, running MSIEMobile 6.0. The Treo 850 that we know and love is the Treo Pro. The 'e' is new to us, as is the fact that it's running on Sprint. This means one of two things is happening: Somebody is messing with your pals at WMExperts or the Treo Pro is coming to Sprint.

So, how are you Treo 800w owners feeling just now?

We all like to customize things to match our personality and tastes. From our computer

As a few sites around the web have predicted, Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta got itself a shiny new update this morning. They've added widgets to the browser (or is it a platform now?) and also updated their SDK for development of mobile widgets, not to mention Dragonfly, a set of on-device developer tools. All that looks pretty good to us, we're just glad they've updated wishing they would update their text wrapping to match the on-device version of Opera on the Diamond series, because the current setup is really harshing our mellow. Other notables:

• Custom software keyboards are still a little wacky
• No Flash (yet)
• English Only
• You have to keep Opera running when the widgets manager is running

You can head on over to http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/ to grab the download. Ball's now in your court, er, courts Microsoft, SkyFire, Mozilla, et al.

Thanks to Jeremy for the tip!

Update: I just installed and noticed a few things. One -- my Treo Pro is pretty hacked up, so it might just be me, but it didn't seem to install over the previous Beta, which led me running out of storage memory. You might want to consider uninstalling the previous version first. Two -- Under Settings -> Advanced, there's a new slider to allow you to set your cache size. (We'd still recommend the hack that moves your cache over to the storage card if you're worried about storage memory, but it doesn't seem to be working for me just yet). Three -- the widgets are kind of fun, but we're not seeing anything that's killer yet.

We explained a little while ago a few of the reasons why we're looking forward to seeing Firefox Mobile, aka Fennec. Now, it's time to start playing.

Mozilla has posted "an early developer release of the mobile version of Firefox, for testing purposes only." [via Gizmodo]

And test, we shall.

Fennec still is only actually running on a Nokia 810. But you can get a taste of it now on your desktop or laptop computer. The full version of WMExperts.com loaded without a hitch (minus Flash, of course), and I got 90 out of 100 on the Acid3 test, which is in line with those early shots we saw. Yeah, it's a release candidate on a desktop PC, but we're still starting to get goosebumps.

Check out Mozilla's alpha release page here, then get your download on, be you a Windows, Mac or Linux OS.

Edit: Wait a minute. ... Flash is (kind of) implemented? They're expecting full-on add-on support? This is looking better by the minute. Unless you're running a non-touchscreen device.

We still have a couple of weeks before we learn when the Xperia X1 will be released in the U.S. — but you can at least figure out how to use it in the interim.

Engadget Mobile spied the user guide (pdf link) to the long-awaited (and awaited ... and awaited) Sony Ericsson device. We'd previously seen a couple shots from the manual, but it's good to finally see the whole thing.

A couple of interesting notes:

• Instructions for video calling. Dieter recently gave us the good news that the North American version (X1a) of the phone will keep the front-facing camera, but don't expect to actually make a two-way video call on AT&T.
• Instructions for the built-in RSS reader. A nice touch.
• aGPS and QuickGPS. We've discussed aGPS before (and AT&T recently flipped the switch on it). QuickGPS downloads the positions of the satellites from a server and uses that knowledge to lock in more quickly.

So, yeah, we're still tapping our fingers waiting on an official release date and price.

Here's a thought: We've been expecting this thing to come out on AT&T, given the radio bands it uses. But with the number of customizations built into software side of the device, is it possible Sony Ericsson will just release it unlocked and keep meddling hands off its ROM? Probably not, seeing as how it's carrier-wed in Europe. But a boy can dream.

Sprint has the Press Release directing you to head over to http://www.samsungmobileusa.com/i325/upgrade/ to get yourself the Windows Mobile 6.1 update for your Samsung Ace. You'll also get yourself some cool GPS action too, though we don't know yet if it's tied to Sprint Navigation or open to the rest of the OS.

As always with Samsung updates, follow the instructions to a T, backup, and settle in for a half hour long process at best.

Here's what we're wondering: now that the Motorola Q9c is back on Sprint, is the Samsung Ace really a good option? We know that Sprint was pushing users to the Ace when the Q9c was in limbo, too. Sure, the Ace does offer that World Phone bit, but overall the Q9c has a better keyboard and more power. Any Ace users out there loving their phone?