Seoul, Korea, October 28, 2008 - It’s time to start exercising your thumbs as LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, launches the LG Mobile World Cup, giving participants a chance to show off the speed and accuracy of their text messaging skills. The competition began in Korea on October 27 and in Brazil closer to the end of the year.

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The new war among high-tech companies, Mobile operating system war, is getting a lot hotter with the introduction of Google G1 phone that is powered by a promising open-source mobile operating system, Android. The world’s number 1 cellular phone maker, Nokia, is getting worried that its marker share in cellular phone market will be challenged by other mobile operating systems, should Nokia failed to improve its S60 operating system. The porting of Qt platform for S60 signals that Nokia is trying to invite more developers to program applications for S60.

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PRADA and Samsung are set to launch the 2nd generation PRADA phone in coming months. The new PRADA phone, also known as Samsung KF900, features a full QWERTY keyboard that slide out from the side. Features and specifications of the phone include a 3-inch LCD color display (not sure whether is a touchscreen or not), HSPA 7.3 Mbps network support, microSDHC memory expansion slot that supports up to 8GB, MP3 music player, and a whopping 5.0-megapixel digital camera with Xeon flash.

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You can’t deny that cellular phone manufacturers are now entering a new war - 8-megapixel camera phone war, by looking at how many 8-megapixels camera phones that have been released in September, and October. Before the LG-KC 790, we have seen the releases of LG KP500, Samsung Pixon M8800, and LG KC910.

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BASKING RIDGE, NJ, NEWBURY, England, and WATERLOO, Ontario Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group (NYSE and LSE: VOD) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry Storm^TM will be available later this fall, exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

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Sharp Launch a powerful multimedia phone, Sharp WX-T825, in Taiwan. The mid-level T825 slider phone is equipped with a 2.8-inch high-definition 240 × 400 pixels display with ASV technology, a built-in 2.0-megapixel digital camera / camcorder, Stereo Bluetooth connectivity, and microSD memory expansion slot that supports up to 4GB of memory upgrade. One of the coolest feature of the phone is its built-in motion detector that can rotate screen, change pictures, and etc. Let’s see how the motion detector in the video.

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Fashion giant, Giorgio Armani, and Samsung today unearthed the Emporio Armani Night Effect cellular phone in Europe. According to the press release, the phone is designed by Giorgio Armani. The unique and cool feature of this Emporio Armani Night Effect phone is its LED light effects and AMOLED display, which Giorgio Armani gets the idea from hits trips to Tokyo where the Armani/Ginza tower is lit-up with decorative lights in the shape of bamboo leaves.

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