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Taking aim at the low-end and middle market, Motorola has shipped three ROKR handsets, the EM30, EM28 and EM25, the company said. At the top of the line is the EM30, which carries a candy-bar design with technology that flashes different colors to help users change modes with a single click, while the clamshell EM28’s front display houses a touch-sensitive key for media control. The EM25 is aimed at music lovers. Telecomtiger.com (8/6) , Pocket-lint.co.uk (8/5)

A breakdown of Apple’s first 1 million iPhone sales shows strong pent-up demand for the device, with 600,000 sold in the U.S. and 70,000 in Japan, where Apple did not release the original iPhone, according to a Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research report on the Medialets Web site. T-Mobile and Orange have recorded the most customers behind AT&T and ahead of Japan’s Softbank as both carriers have contracts in multiple European countries. The Washington Post/TechCrunch.com (8/5)

With a strong lift from early-year results, mobile-phone sales will rise 11% this year to 1.28 billion, according to a report from research firm Gartner, which predicts that new products will provide a solid boost in the fourth quarter even if sales tail off in the next few months. Gartner tagged second-quarter sales at 300 million to 305 million units, a 15% increase from a year earlier. mocoNews.net (8/5) , Computerworld (8/5)