Device Arena

LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in mobile communications, announced today that the LG ARENA (LG-KM900) multimedia phone has exceeded one million sales worldwide. The ARENA reached the milestone in just five months after debuting at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in February, reinforcing its stature as a premium handset.

“We live in an age when mobile phones are tools for entertaining and staying connected to the world. The ARENA was developed to draw on this trend and LG has reached the pinnacle in terms of functionality and user convenience, which has been reflected in consumer uptake,” said Dr. Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “Considering the swift sales success of the ARENA it is true that real innovation comes from customers, so we will keep going out of our way to gain their insights and reflect their needs in our products.”

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HTC Corporation, a global designer of mobile phones, today debuts HTC Sense, an intuitive and seamless experience that will be introduced across a portfolio of phones beginning with the new HTC Hero for Hong Kong. With its distinct design and powerful capabilities fully integrated with HTC Sense, Hero introduces a unique blend of form and function that takes Android to new heights.

HTC Sense is focused on putting people at the centre by making your phone work in a more simple and natural way. This experience revolves around three fundamental principles that were designed by quietly listening and observing how people live and communicate.

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Nokia today introduced Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services. For many consumers, this will be the first time they have had any access to such financial services.

Nokia Money has been designed to be as simple and convenient as making a voice call or sending an SMS. It will enable consumers to send money to another person just by using the person’s mobile phone number, as well as to pay merchants for goods and services, pay their utility bills, or recharge their prepaid SIM cards (SIM top-up). The services can be accessed 24 hours a day from anywhere, meaning savings in travel costs and time. Nokia is building a wide network of Nokia Money agents, where consumers can deposit money in or withdraw cash from their accounts.

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The latest addition in the Nokia touch phone portfolio, the Nokia 5230, is designed for those who lead an active life and use their mobile phone as their primary instrument for music, photos and videos, as well as sharing their lives online. With the Nokia 5230, consumers can get new content, be it songs from the Nokia Music Store or apps, games, videos and other services from the Ovi Store, directly from their phones. The solutions offering is complemented by A-GPS navigation and the latest version of Ovi Maps with aerial images, 3D landmarks for over 200 cities and terrain map views for pedestrian and drive navigation.

“Competitively priced at 149 EUR, we believe the Nokia 5230 is an unbeatable offer for many new customers who aspire a device that stars in music, mingles with social networks from Facebook to MySpace, navigates you to where it happens, when it happens, and comes in an array of dazzling colors,” said Jo Harlow, Vice President, Nokia.

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The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola announced that its RFS7000-GR wireless switch/controller has received Common Criteria EAL4 certification. Having undergone rigorous testing at Aspect Labs and SERTIT, Motorola’s wireless switch/controller is the only such solution validated at both FIPS 140-2 Level2 and Common Criteria EAL4 with the U.S. Government Wireless LAN Access System Protection Profile for basic robustness environments.

The RFS7000-GR is part of Motorola’s award-winning family of high-performance, multi-core processor-based wireless LAN (WLAN) switch/controllers targeted at large enterprise and government wireless deployments. As these certifications extend to Motorola access ports, customers can build highly secure wireless LANs that are Common Criteria EAL4 and FIPS 140-2 compliant from the mobile user’s handset to the access port and to the RFS7000-GR switch/controller.

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