Device Arena

Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., announced today that the LG Versa™ will be available on the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless voice and data network beginning March 1. With its elegant chrome border on a bar design, animated 3-inch touch screen interface with tactile feedback and an attachable QWERTY keypad, the LG Versa will be an MVP (Most Versatile Phone) for customers.

Customers can personalize their LG Versa phones based on their messaging needs – either attach the QWERTY keypad to their phones or leave the keypad at home. The LG Versa’s home screen is transformed into a sizzling, animated 3D interface and customers can quickly customize three different home screens with their favorite shortcuts. The built-in accelerometer rotates the screen automatically from portrait to landscape, and customers can use rotation movements to steer games. The HTML Web browser includes Flash and RSS feed support, and customers can keep up to three windows open and switch from one window to the other to view pages.

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Alcatel-Lucent today announced that it has signed a Master Distributor Agreement with Gateway Distribution & Services Pty Ltd to provide voice, data and converged solutions to more than 120 Alcatel-Lucent partners who focus on Australian small and medium businesses.

As a value-added distributor, Gateway will enable businesses in Australia to evolve to a Dynamic Enterprise framework where communications solutions strengthen relationships, simplify interaction, and improve performance. The agreement, which is the third of its kind in Australia for Alcatel-Lucent, provides Gateway with a complete suite of voice, data and converged solutions, as well as applications.

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Alcatel-Lucent and Novatel Wireless, a leading provider of wireless broadband solutions, today announced that the Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian enterprise security and management solution will be ported to operate on MiFi 2352, an HSPA version of Novatel Wireless’ innovative Intelligent Mobile Hotspot product. This integration highlights the unique capability of Novatel to deliver innovative wireless data solutions and of the Alcatel-Lucent Nonstop Laptop Guardian (NLG) solution to be delivered as a software application through third-party products.

MiFi 2352 is a mobile wireless broadband device that enables high-speed Internet connectivity that can be easily shared between multiple users and Wi-Fi devices such as laptops, cameras, gaming devices and multimedia players. The MiFi product line makes it possible for large and small enterprises and home office workers to secure, control and manage wireless connections. MiFi is a robust platform capable of hosting third-party applications, such as the Bell Labs-developed Nonstop Laptop Guardian. MiFi and NLG combined extend the reach and control of the enterprise when dealing with remote mobile communications devices.

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Nokia’s revolutionary digital music offer, Comes With Music, will be commercially available in Australia on 20 March 2009 together with the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia’s first mass market touch screen device.

“While the hot-selling Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has already sold a million devices worldwide*, Australians we will be among the first in the world to get their hands on a Comes With Music-enabled Nokia 5800 XpressMusic when it hits the stores next month,” said Emile Baak, General Manager, Nokia Australia and New Zealand.

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Verizon Wireless said today it has filed a lawsuit to stop a Utah-based telemarketing company from calling its customers and employees to advertise the upcoming movie, “The Velveteen Rabbit.” The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Trenton, alleges Feature Films for Families, Inc. illegally used an autodialer to call Verizon Wireless customers on behalf of a company called Family 1 Films, based in Los Angeles.

The lawsuit states that over 10 days in early February, nearly 500,000 calls were made to Verizon Wireless customers and employees from the telephone number 917-210-4609. When customers answered these calls to their wireless phones they heard either a prerecorded voice message or an individual reading a script promoting the anticipated release of the film.

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