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As I said on our sister site, there’s not a ton coming our way in terms of cell phone news today. No one wants to make an announcement that will be drowned by the iPhone craze. So we’re going with a very abbreviated version of mobile notes. There’s only one note on the iPhone, though you can find plenty of information here and here. Now, onto today’s link list.

We’ll start with the iPhone itself. According to Boy Genius Report, which provides usually-accurate information, each Apple Store should have two shipments of the iPhone 3G in stock. They’re also scheduled to get another shipment today. You’d think that would sate most of the demand, but alas, it might not. See, today’s shipment is under orders to not be sold until tomorrow. And when each Apple store gets a shipment tomorrow, yeah, they won’t be able to sell it until Sunday. Is this a good idea, in order to serve those who can’t wait in line this morning? Or is it an insult to the uber-geeks who skipped work, at risk of losing their job, to get the device?

Think you can text? A kid from Cleveland State University thinks he can. Or, rather, he knows he can. He just won $50,000 in a national texting competition. So, uh, where do I sign up for this? And is using my BlackBerry considered a performance enhancing drug?

Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 was one of the golden children of CTIA, and as we near its release it’s generating a bit more hype. Not in America, of course, where we won’t see the device for a while. But the XPERIA, and many future Sony Ericsson smartphones, will come shipped with Handango’s InHand, allowing users to browse Handango’s library right from their phone. Sounds like a win-win partnership right there.

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