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Vodafone UK and Telmap introduced Vodafone Sat Nav, an operator branded mobile navigation solution available for the UK consumer market. The launch of Vodafone Sat Nav for consumers, powered by Telmap, is the first operator-branded mobile navigation service aimed at consumers in the UK. The solution has already been successfully launched into the enterprise market, where it is available on a number of devices. Vodafone Sat Nav provides users with a complete mobile navigation experience, including both in-car and pedestrian navigation.

Featuring 3D maps that enhance the navigation experience, up-to-date maps and directions it also gives the customer instant access to live traffic alerts and millions of points-of-interest such as hotels, restaurants, shopping and attractions.“Following the success of Vodafone Sat Nav with our business customers, we know that consumers too want Sat Nav on their mobile phones,” says Ian Shepherd, consumer business director, of Vodafone UK. “By partnering with Telmap, Vodafone UK customers can now benefit from advanced Satellite Navigation on a range of handsets.

We will continue to deliver location, navigation and mapping solutions that will appeal to all customers regardless of the type of mobile device they use.”“This consumer launch further strengthens the partnership between Telmap and Vodafone UK and allows us to build on the success we have achieved with Vodafone Sat Nav in the enterprise market,” says Oren Nissim, CEO, Telmap. “As the first operator-branded mobile navigation service for UK consumers, this launch marks a significant milestone for both Telmap and the industry in bringing a fully featured Sat Nav experience to the mass-market mobile phone.”Vodafone Sat Nav is available on a variety of consumer mobile devices; launching initially on three of Vodafone UK’s GPS embedded handsets – Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB and Nokia 6110 as well as the new BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8110 smartphone.

The subscription to the service costs £5 per month with the first month free. When using the service data charges apply. Customers can purchase the service from any Vodafone retail stores, through telesales or directly from Vodafone live! Customers who purchase the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 will get 12 months Sat Nav included.

LG’s 5 megapixel camera phone the KU990, called the Viewty, has made an appearance at this year’s GSMA Mobile Asia Congress 2007 held in Macau. The KU990 follows in the footsteps of the popular iPhone-like LG Prada. This candy bar styled phone has a large 3-inch LCD touch screen with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels and sports 256K colors. The Viewty has a Flash UI (user interface).The LG KU990 has an inbuilt memory of 100MB and also supports external memory through microSD cards. It’s also 3G enabled with HSDPA for faster connectivity. Speaking of connectivity it’s also Bluetooth v1.2 enabled with A2DP compatibility and USB v2.0. The main feature of course is the 5 megapixel, auto-focus camera with a Xenon flash.

The KU990’s camera is also equipped with anti-shake image stabilizer and face-tracking software and even manual focus should you wish to get a bit more ‘professional’ with it. What the Viewty also incorporates is an application that allows users to upload videos to the net to sites like YouTube and there’s another photo editor application for making changes to images shot through the camera. The best part about the camera is its ability to capture 120 frames per second. There’s also a VGA camera located in the front for video calling.

LG Electronics unveiled some new products and future technologies at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It officially launched the LG-KF700, a new handset with an optimized user interface that makes use of touch technology. Other handsets from LG featuring touch technology included the convenience oriented LG-KF600, the slim and stylish interactive touch-lighting LG-KF510, and the professional level camera phone-equipped LG Viewty.

Combining three separate input methods, the LG-KF700 provides easy access to multimedia features, which includes a full web browser, digital audio and video players, and handy widgets. The high-res 3-inch full touchscreen LCD provides an optimized interface for watching video content. A shortcut dial on the rear of this 3G, HSDPA-enabled handset offers an easy and intuitive way to switch among applications. There’s a sliding alphanumeric keypad for calls. Other features include a 3 megapixel auto-focus camera, support for microSD cards, Bluetooth and USB connectivity.

Those of you who are also into audio will have surely heard of a big name in the biz – Mark Levinson. This audio equipment manufacturing company has teamed with LG mobiles and developed what they call the LG: the Rhapsody in Music. So it’s a long and odd name for a mobile phone, but according to the company it should speak for itself.

The most obvious fact about this device is that it of course should have a Kick-Ass music player. Other specs include Bluetooth (possible with A2DP) 1GB of internal memory and external memory support and a 2 megapixel camera. This LG slider also has a navigation wheel under its screen, so following in the footsteps of the and yes, the ever popular Apple iPod.

Sony Ericsson has launched the 8 GB touch screen W960i Walkman phone. With room for up to 8,000 songs and finger-touch navigation around playlists, the phone also has a 2.6″ display and a 3.2 megapixel camera. It can be hooked up to the Web using the 3G network or via a Wi-Fi access point. The W960i Walkman phone features a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus within its 16mm frame, and allows picture messaging, email or picture blogging.

It incorporates Sony Ericsson’s TrackID music recognition software, that lets users record a clip of a song on their phone and find out instantly the name of the artist, track and album. The W960i Walkman phone comes bundled with a stereo portable handsfree, is UMTS 2100-GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900 and will be available in Vinyl Black for Rs. 28995

On Sunday, the world’s fourth mobile phone maker, Sony Ericsson, revealed a new smart cell phone, which uses motion control technology. Z555 can be silenced by a single wave of hand. And this is only one of the new mobile phone’s cool capabilities! For example, the motion control technology also allows users to activate the snooze function of their phone by waving across the device. Sony Ericsson launched Z555 and two other impressive cell phones with the occasion of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show’s news conference from Las Vegas. Excepting the tri-band Z555 model, which features also a music player, FM radio and a 1.3-megapixel camera, Sony Ericsson unveiled two new models for its Walkman music phone handset line-up, including the Walkman W760 model. The W760 mobile phone features satellite positioning technology, as well as mapping software from Google, which allows people to follow step by step directions to their different destinations.

Sony Ericsson announced that the Z555 flip cover mobile phone will be available in the first quarter of 2008; for the Walkman W760 model people will have to wait a little longer, until the second quarter of the year. Sony Ericsson’s Walkman branded music phones have been quite successful in the recent period. However, despite this fact, Sony Ericsson still trails Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Motorola in the global market for cell phones.

Samsung Electronics showcases its stylish line of high-fashion mobile phones at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show. These phones combine chic, sophisticated design with Samsung’s innovative mobile phone engineering to suit consumers who desire a phone that offers both style and the latest in advanced technology.

The Giorgio Armani-Samsung phone meets the needs of those who aspire to own technologically advanced device with which to communicate, as well as complete their lifestyle. Samsung, a market leader in consumer electronics, and Giorgio Armani, one of the world’s leading fashion and lifestyle companies, have come together to develop a mobile device that provides both elegant design and cutting edge technology. The size of a credit card and a mere 10.5 mm in thickness, the Giorgio Armani-Samsung phone is available in selected mobile phone stores and Giorgio Armani boutiques in major European countries, with plans for expansion to other markets in 2008.Giorgio Armani-Samsung Mobile Specifications Standard GPRS/Camera 3 Megapixel Camera Display 2.6″ QVGA TFT LCD (262K Colors) Multimedia H.263, AAC+/MP3/WMA, MPEG4, AAC, e-AAC+ Features Bluetooth(R) 2.0 / USB 2.0 high-speed/ MTP 2.0 Mobile Printing (BPP, PictBridge) micro SD(TM) external memory slot Bluetooth(R) Headset (A2DP) Full Touch Screen & Touch UI Size 87.5 x 54.5 x 10.5 mm.

Tis’ the season to imagine driving home or to the office without sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic! One local television station here is doing its part to make that dream come true by introducing the KHCW Traffic Jam Cell Cams — a free mobile traffic service helping local drivers to spot and avoid highway tie-ups. KHCW-TV channel 39, the local CW network affiliate in Houston, is launching the new advertising-supported service targeting the more than 2,000,000 daily commuters in the region. Commuters will now be able to view traffic tie-ups on their mobile devices before leaving their home, office or school, to help them plan the quickest and safest route.”This is something that isn’t dependent on having a morning news show to offer traffic to commuters,” said Roger Bare, vice president and general manager of KHCW-TV, Tribune Broadcasting Company, Houston. “This service gives people real-time traffic information anytime, anywhere and should prove to be popular with local commuters.”The service relies on more than 600 traffic cameras operated by Houston TranStar.

Houston TranStar is collaboration between four government agencies responsible for providing transportation management and emergency management services to the greater Houston area. Cameras are mounted along freeways, tollways and some major county arterials in the region, which includes Harris, Galveston, Montgomery Fort Bend, Brazoria and Waller counties. This area, with an estimated population of 5.16 million inhabitants and 4.3 million registered vehicles, encompasses 5,948 square miles. Each day, local vehicles travel more than 83.3 million miles within the area.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “China Mobile Phone Game Market Report, 2007” to their offering. The conception of Mobile Phone Game is defined to distinguish from the traditional computer game. Generally speaking, mobile phone game refers to game applications in mobile phones. Nokia installed the earliest mobile phone game Snake in its handset. With the development of handset terminal and mobile communication network, mobile phone game is becoming increasingly complicated.

As charging system of Mobile Java formally started in Sep, domestic mobile phone game was started up too. Several months later, mobile phone game users increased to 2 million. The number of users developed even faster after this, in it hit 15 million. The amount of the cell phone users in China had exceeded 500 million up to Oct 2007, and it is forecasted that China mobile phone game users would exceed 20 million in 2007, amounting to 24.43 million. With the rapid growth of the cell phone users and mobile communication industry, the mobile phone game has gone through from the simple pre-installed games, the download games to the color-screen Java game, large-scale network game and multi-player network game currently, and it would continue developing towards the trans-platform network game in the future. It can be forecasted that the mobile network game would be the future development trend for mobile phone game.

With Ericsson as EDGE supplier and telecom services partner, T-Mobile Germany has completed the first part of its GSM network modernization in record time - a major step towards the operator’s goal of being the first operator in Germany to offer mobile broadband nationwide. Consuming about 30 percent less power, the new EDGE-compliant GSM radio network allows for the seamless use of mobile broadband applications.
The new network provides particular benefits for consumers and enterprise customers in sparsely populated areas, where neither DSL nor WCDMA/HSPA are yet available, by providing fast mobile-internet access with bandwidth four times that of ISDN.

Users also benefit from EDGE data capabilities and improved network quality.Over the past 24 months, Ericsson has upgraded more than half of T-Mobile’s radio network, replacing more than 10,000 base stations in seven federal states with the network operating commercially and without subscribers noticing any deterioration in service. Günther Ottendorfer, Chief Technology Officer at T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH, says: “A system swap during commercial operations is like open-heart surgery.

We appreciate the fact that, together with our partner Ericsson, we were able to finish the project three months ahead of the original schedule. For us this was uncharted territory. There has not been a similar project of this size before.”