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and to think we still have the Mini N97 announcement next week
NOKIA realy are flogging S60v5 in the mid-range,all that Eldar said in an earlier article as well as in the N900 review is happening.
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Posted: 2009-08-25 18:27:07
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Im so sick of all this NOKIA talk.lol
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Posted: 2009-08-25 18:53:44
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LOL Hobbster. Oh well, a deviation then
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'Taken from GSMArena:
LG Arena hits the million mark in sales worldwide
25 August, 2009
Today LG proudly announced that their multimedia handset LG KM900 Arena exceeded one million units sold around the world, following the steps of the 5 million Cookies and 5 million Viewties spread around the globe.
LG Arena was announced back in February during the MWC 2009 and was released in late April this year. It targeted the multimedia class and its pre-orders and first week sales were very promising (actually LG were touting one million pre-orders and subsequently orders even back then). However it seems that now, four months later, they've finally hit the millionth milestone for real.
While LG gives the credit of Arena's success to the attractive S-Class interface, the Dolby and DivX technologies and the "outstanding" audio and visual experience, it's more likely good marketing more than anything else, if you ask us.
We admit we are fans of the S-class UI and the LG Arena as a whole, but as user reports have it, it's been plagued by several issues concerning poor implementation of features or just plain limitations.
The Dolby sound enhancement may be nice, but the DivX playback capabilities are pretty limited (video resolution and bitrate wise). There are also numerous issues with the integrated GPS receiver and there is hardly an adequate Java SatNav software available.
And finally, the available third-party applications are not quite optimized for the LG Arena high-res touchscreen display and most of the times you get low resolution output and unwieldy on-screen controls that offer average user-friendliness.
LG Arena sold in one million units in 53 countries across the globe and we bet its success is far from ending. If LG continue their good marketing strategy and put their foot down to the metal with their upcoming AppStore, we are sure that the KM900 Arena will join the LG Cookie and LG Viewty on the 5-million podium.'
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Posted: 2009-08-25 19:11:41
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its such a shame how those other two athletic medal holders were sidelined at the press conference this morning overshadowed by the 'is it a gir or is it a boy' medal holder.can it already.
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Posted: 2009-08-25 19:13:07
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we've had enough Apple
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Posted: 2009-08-25 19:14:27
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German hackers crack GSM encryption (Snooping, anyone? LOL):
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/25/gsm_cracked/
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Posted: 2009-08-25 19:19:57
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Eish LG are gaining ground quickly. Are they 3rd in marketshare?
Hobbs
Ye, im sick of all the dam contraversy over her gender,they should have kept it confidential until the tests and results had been done.
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Posted: 2009-08-25 19:22:18
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@ Gucci:
Ya, LG took over third spot (from Motorola) at the end of 2008, if memory serves me correctly.
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Posted: 2009-08-25 19:30:47
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Saw bits of the arrival by the South African athletes on the box and I was disgusted how it had been hijacked by politicians. What annoyed me most was the victim-card that was being played...if we are to move on as a nation, we should stop perpetuate the stereotype of black people being passive victims to some other evil white forces, all conspiring to oppress us. Was the IAAF really racist in calling for Mokgadi's gender to be verified.
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Posted: 2009-08-25 20:51:00
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SA's piloting Microsoft's OneApp:
From The Register:
Microsoft gets smart with dumb phones
Offloads processing and storage
Microsoft wants folks in emerging markets using inexpensive mobile phones to social-network away their free time just like fancy smartphone users do.
The company on Monday announced plans for a light-weight mobile application platform called OneApp, aimed at developing countries where cheaper phones and pre-paid services are the norm.
Despite wildfire growth of mobile devices in such markets, it's been a tough spot for developers to crack - in part due to the prevalence of phones with low processing power and memory.
Microsoft intends to solve this particular problem with the OneApp platform, which can serve up the majority of an application's processing and storage through a cell network rather than locally.
The software is debuting in the next few weeks in South Africa, where Blue Label Telecoms will ship a mobile services package powered by OneApp with about a dozen mobile apps such as the usual gang of social networking tat like Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live Messenger as well as a mobile wallet program. Additional apps will come later focusing on areas such as healthcare.
OneApp itself takes up a scant 150 kilobytes of memory and individual programs can be as compact as 10 to 15 kilobytes, according to Microsoft. The company also describes OneApp as being able to launch "just the parts of a mobile app that a person wants to use, eliminating additional installation time and the need for a person to store all the mobile apps on the phone."
Redmond intends to start offering a OneApp software developer kit before the end of this year. Programs for OneApp can be written using common tools like JavaScript and XML. The OneApp platform itself will be launched in more countries sometime in 2010.'
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Posted: 2009-08-25 22:02:28
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