We don’t see many handsets coming out with native price-tags in Rubles, but here’s a little gem from RoverPC. The Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional-powered RoverPC P6 is fairly slim (15.1 mm, to be exact), pretty slick, and definitely likable. It’s not the greatest WinMo offering, but it ain’t that bad, either. As the Professional moniker suggests, the RoverPC P6 rocks a 2.4-inch touchscreen. This little guy only sports a tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900Mhz) radio, which will keep it from hitting the US-mainstream. But, if you like the sound of a 2 megapixel camera (with video recording), Bluetooth 1.2, miniUSB, microSD card slot, 128MB ROM/64MB RAM, and Windows Mobile 6.0 - all powered by a Samsung 2442B CPU clocked at 300Mhz - then grab the RoverPC P6 for 7990 Rubles ($323) at your nearest Russian mobile retailer. [Via: MobileWhack ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:HTC Kii - new HTC smartphone gets outed by Bluetooth SIGInventec K871 - Windows Mobile 6.0 phone revealed at ComputexLive pics of the E-ten Glofish X800Verizon launches Motorola Q9m music smartphone onlineOpera Mobile named 'Best Windows Mobile Browser'

Welcome to the age of the CrackBerry, Russia. We’re glad to hear that you’re finally getting with the times and letting RIM bring their heralded BlackBerry lineup within your borders, starting in 2008. Hey, you’ve caught up to Communist China ! With the Russian security agency’s (FSB) approval to let Russian wireless operators MTS and Vimpelcom carry the BlackBerry phones from RIM, carrier-branded BlackBerry handsets should be making their way into email-addicted Russian hands in Q1 2008. BlackBerries have been in use on MTS’s Ukraine network since October, but those handsets used foreign SIM cards as roaming handsets. This announcement marks the first legitimate entry of the BlackBerry into Russian wireless networks.  Vimpelcom has been greenlighted to sell 1,050 BlackBerry 8700 smartphones as soon as the handsets pass certification tests. MTS and Vimpelcom have a one-year sales window, so Russian could go back to the pre-BlackBerry dark ages in 2009 - although, we’re going to put our money on a long-lived Russian BlackBerry market. [Via: Reuters ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:RIM planning BlackBerry 8110 Pearl with GPS?Another RIM BlackBerry outage?RIM secures BlackBerry 9100 and 9300 domainsRIM to open BlackBerry APIs; Partners with GameloftRIM to launch iPhone-fighting BlackBerry 9000/9xxx early next year

With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Russia’s counter to the US’s U-2 spy plane was doomed to live the rest of its days in obscurity. The Myasishchev M-55 spy plane was initially designed as a high-altitude spy plane, but was modified as a scientific research platform - the Myasishchev M-55 Geophysica. Only a handful were produced and most people have probably never heard of the Russian spy plane. Well, the Myasishchev M-55 Geophysica is about to get a new lease on life. The high-flying plane is perfectly suited to carry telecom equipment and will be used in Malaysia as a mobile cellphone tower, of sorts. The plane’s manufacturer, Myasishchev, has said that the Myasishchev M-55 Geophysica will be re-purposed to bring a range of telecom services to areas of Malaysia with unreliable satellite coverage and in the case of a natural disaster that knocks cell towers offline. The technology demonstration is slated for a February launch, so we’ll be keeping an eye on the outcome of the trial. It’s a pretty interesting idea - especially as a post-disaster communication platform. Does FEMA have something like this in mind for the US? Given their propensity for bumbling leadership and utter stupidity, our guess would be… no. [Via: Cellular News ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Russian spy plane Myasishchev M-55 to act as telecoms carrierMobiles don't make you sick, it's all in your headOceanside, California plans to turn cell tower into "work of art"Polytechnic students fly airplane with a mobile phoneIn-Flight Cell Coverage Gets Grounded