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"The portable devices are being designed to allow census workers to immediately record information they gather when going door-to-door to American households, said Monty Wood, a spokesman for the Census Bureau.

The devices are part of a five-year, nearly $600 million contract that Melbourne, Fla.-based Harris Corp. won to obtain field census data. Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp. will make the devices, which will run a version of Redmond-based Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile operating system."

Looks like HTC is going to be making a ton of Windows Mobile devices for the Census Bureau. The article states that they will not be replacing the Blackberrys, but only used as data collection devices.

Source : Yahoo via Engadget

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