We’ve got two announcements coming from Nokia today, regarding Ovi Maps and Ovi Contacts. First, Nokia has released the final version of Ovi Maps 3.0 for mobile.
We don’t know what’s new in Ovi Maps 3.0 – other than the fact that it’s not a Beta application anymore. But you can download it from this address [...]

Nokia scores maximum points for its comprehensive voluntary take-back programme, which spans 84 countries providing almost 5000 collection points for end-of-life mobile phones.
It now also scores top marks for the information it provides to customers on what to do with their discarded products. However, its recycling rate of 3-5% is very poor and more information [...]

Well, it’s a stopwatch and there’s not much to say about this cute freeware application except it is optimized for touch user interface and is very easy to handle with a big ‘Count Up’, ‘Count Down’, ‘Stop’, ‘Reset’ and the ‘Exit’ button.
Time Machine lets you count the remaining or passed time for what ever purpose [...]

While we’re still waiting for a 4G / LTE network to be commercially launched anywhere in the world, LG has recently showcased the first-ever LTE USB modem.
Presented in Singapore, during CommunicAsia 2009, the new LG modem is capable of providing data transfers of up to 100 Mbps over a mobile network – thus being much [...]

LG will enter the Chinese 3G market with two phones destined for China Mobile and China Telecom: LG KT878 and LG KV920.
China Mobile’s KT878 is a TD-SCDMA smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and features stuff like a 3 inch WVGA touchscreen display, a 5MP camera, Bluetooth, music player, FM radio and microSD card [...]

LG might soon ship more 3G handsets worldwide than Samsung, helped by the fast-growing Chinese mobile market.
Currently the world’s third largest phone maker (behind Nokia and Samsung), LG is the only international manufacturer that was selected to provide 3G phones for all of China’s carriers: China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, which together have [...]

LG has made some pretty impressive strides in a cellphone market during these last few years. With the demise of Motorola and the problems ailing Sony Ericsson last year, they’ve even managed to become #3 cellphone maker in the world.
And LG does not plan to stop here. In an interview to Yonhap News Agency, Ahn [...]

The world’s first smartphone to use Nvidia’s Tegra chip could be launched as early as the fourth quarter of 2009, believes Mike Rayfield, general manager of Nvidia’s mobile unit.
The Street reports that Samsung and Motorola are likely to manufacture the Tegra-based smartphone, and that this might have Android on board.
Designed for MIDs and smartphones, the [...]