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AT&T and LG Electronics announced the availability of the new Shine™ by LG, a stylish new multimedia device for mobile phone users who want to stand out in a crowd. The Shine by LG arrived in stores Nov. 23, the day after Thanksgiving — “Black Friday.” The Shine by LG is a sliding form-factor device, offered exclusively through AT&T, that features a silver exterior and comes with video, music and camera features and a 2.2-inch mirror LCD screen.

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Sony Ericsson announced the launch of its inaugural Sony Ericsson Content Awards. Designed to recognize the outstanding achievements of its existing content development partners, the 2007 Awards underscore the company’s commitment to forge and strengthen its relationships with the global, third-party mobile content creation community. Winners of the 2007 Content Awards will be announced in an official online ceremony on December 18, 2007.

“Sony Ericsson enables consumers to download third-party content without any limitations or restrictions,” said Ulf Wretling, Head of Sony Ericsson Developer World and Communications. “Our global development partners have done and continue to do outstanding work in advancing the experiences that consumers have on their phones. The creation of the content awards is an excellent platform to celebrate these innovators.”

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There’s no doubt that mobile phones have a continuously increasing role in people’s everyday life, providing from various multimedia features or business functionalities to payment options. Leveraging on the fact that almost everyone has a mobile phone, Transport For London (TFL) wants to create a handset to be used for Tube payments.

According to The Guardian, the famous English tabloid, officials from Transport For London have confirmed a partnership with Nokia and O2 to create a mobile phone that will come with a built-in Oyster card and will enable users to pay with it for the Tube journeys. All a traveler has to do is to approach the mobile phone to the ticket-reading machine, just like it would do with a simple Oyster card.

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Style guru Stacy London, of TLC’s “What Not to Wear” and “Fashionably Late with Stacy London,” is launching today an exclusive new Web site with Sprint, www.sprint.com/mymobilestyle. The site is designed to help people decide what mobile phone best fits their personal style and help holiday gift-givers find the perfect gift for loved ones.

The mobile phone that each person chooses to carry is a clear expression of her or his individual personality, and this month CTIA-The Wireless Association(R) estimated that the number of wireless subscribers reached an all-time high in the United States by passing the 250 million mark.(1) This figure demonstrates that the mobile phone has become the most ubiquitous fashion accessory for Americans.

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Sprint and the National Football League (NFL) are giving Sprint wireless subscribers access to live NFL game coverage on their mobile phones. Coverage will include red zone drives and other key moments of all games televised on NFL Network in 2007.

The coverage will be provided by NFL Network which will produce a three-hour studio-based show that will be streamed live on NFL.com and via wireless exclusively to Sprint subscribers. Highlights of that coverage include live game action when a team enters the red zone, during scheduled time slots at the :15 and :45 marks, and at other critical moments in a game. The show also features replays, in-game highlights and analysis from that night’s action, and the halftime show featuring host Rich Eisen and analysts Steve Mariucci, Marshall Faulk and Deion Sanders.

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It’s Out! Version 20.0.015 firmware for the Nokia N95 classic is now available via Nokia Software Update. This includes demand paging (!), so 30MB plus free RAM after booting, faster operation, N-Gage game store previews and portal stub, new camera software, integrated Search, new Welcome apps and more. Comments below!

A Note on Firmware Updating

Please remember that a firmware update will delete all data from your C drive (internal memory). You should back up your data. You may also wish to perform a sync with your PC to ensure any data you entered on your phone is on your PC. We also recommend writing down key settings (e.g. your email account information).

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AT&T and LG today announced the availability of the new Shine by LG, a stylish new multimedia device for mobile phone users who want to stand out in a crowd. The Shine by LG arrived in stores Nov. 23, the day after Thanksgiving - “Black Friday”.

The Shine by LG is a sliding form-factor device, offered exclusively through AT&T, that features a silver exterior and comes with video, music and camera features and a 2.2-inch mirror LCD screen. Additional features on the Shine by LG include a 2.0-megapixel camera with video record and Bluetooth 2.0 capability for music and voice. The body of the Shine by LG is an elegant metal body surrounding the mirror LCD screen.

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It’s time for our next Market Update edition. You can expect our market reports every Friday. Those will inform you on the latest (and greatest) mobile phones that hit the stores on a weekly basis. As previously noted, unfortunately, we won’t be able to comment local availability in stores near you, as well as on carrier-subsidized prices.

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The BenQ S7 mobile phone won a place in the Entertainment and Communication category of the iF Design Award China. The iF Design Award China is sponsored by International Forum Design Hanover of Germany. This award is deemed as one of the most significant design competitions in the Asia-Pacific region. The jury is comprised of top international designers that examine and pick the award-winning entries and guarantee iF’s special status and the high reputation of the iF label.

The International Forum Design has often been a place where new models have leaked before they’ve been announced by the manufacturer. The same goes for the BenQ S7, a fashionable GPS-equipped bar-shaped handset. No detailed specs are known for BenQ S7 yet and the integrated GPS receiver, the slim body and the metallic finish are all that can be concluded for now. But knowing how things work, we can probably expect an official press release by BenQ really soon.

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Spb Software House, a Windows Mobile software vendor, restates its leading position on the consumer market in the terms of industry experts and professionals. November 2007 has seen Spb Software House do what no other Windows Mobile software vendor has done before: claim 11 “Winner” titles in the Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine’s Best Software Awards 2007, and dominate Handango’s Third Quarter Yardstick.

Competing against over fifteen thousand nominated software products, Spb software was voted best in 11 categories of Best Software Awards 2007 by a multinational and voluntary Board of Experts, formed from prominent and unbiased members of the Windows Mobile community. Such high ranking has not been achieved by any other Windows Mobile software vendor in the seven-year-long history of the Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine’s awards.

According to Hal Goldstein, the Publisher of Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, the annual awards process is called on to help Windows Mobile users navigate the vast ocean of the available software and select titles that best suit their needs. “We are honored to have been awarded, and proud to have five Spb products in the list of top ten best-selling Windows Mobile Pocket PC titles in the latest Handango’s Yardstick. We are only able to make such good software thanks to the Spb community, the people who chose to be our customers, who give us feedback, who tell us what makes better software,” admits Vassili Philippov, Spb Software House COO.