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Patrik Andersson, formerly Channel Manager at LG, is now Head of HTC Sweden. Having recently took office his first order of business was to recruit 10 people under him to handle sales and marketing in the land of IKEA and meatballs. He says that standing in a room full of people arguing about megapixels and other useless specifications is not the type of environment where HTC thinks it should be, instead they’re focused solely on user experience and that the iPhone is a huge inspiration

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Head of HTC Sweden: Hero successor to be shown in February 2010, will be in stores shortly thereafter

Motorola’s LaJolla handset was revealed today in the Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) CLIQ’s source code. The codename, in Spanish, means “the jewel,” but given the lowly specs of the Android phone, it’s unlikely to be anything close to a “gem” in Motorola’s Android portfolio. Still, the idea of the lower-cost LaJolla could very well end up being the jewel in Motorola’s Android strategy

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Motorola ‘LaJolla’ could be the jewel of Motorola’s Android lineup, here’s why

Moneymoneymoney…. maaah-naaay… Stefan and I run down a whole lot of mobile banking news in this week’s podcast. The new startup Square and their 3.5mm-based peripheral take up the bulk of our interest, but we explore SMS, NFC, QR, and straight-up application-based solutions and which works where.

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The Signal 50: Mobile Banking and Super Monkey Ball 2 for iPhone Giveaway

Sygic and MapmyIndia, India’s leading map provider, have announced the launch of ‘MapmyIndia Sygic Mobile Maps’. The application allows GPS-enabled mobile phones to have GPS navigator functionality, allowing guided travel anywhere in India. The application uses the MapmyIndia maps, along with the Sygic Nav software, to offer what is said to be the best GPS navigation solution for mobile phones.

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Sygic and MapmyIndia introduce Mobile Maps India navigation app

The other day I posted on ‘Snowboading TnT’, which has been re-released with some whizzy new motion-sensing (accelerometer) code in it, to make the most out of the game. Well, I’ve had some time to play it now (one of the benefits of being an insomniac – you have loads of time to play-test games!), and I have to say I like it! Now S-TNT isn’t one of those games that you’ll spend hours and hours on – at least I don’t think so – but I do think it will serve brilliantly as a stop-gap when you’ve got say 10-60 mins spare, and want a game that will hook you, and get you playing with a mixture of racing, tricks, and tactics! The downhill element of the snowboarding is much like any other game – start at the top of the hill, then race to the bottom (in this case it’s against the clock). You could even argue the point about doing tricks off jumps is like MANY other games out there – but I say when it ain’t broke, why fix it

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Quick Review – Snowboarding TnT for the iPhone iPod/Touch

Golden Gekko has unveiled its new service ‘Tino’, that will apparently allow anyone to ‘build a mobile application and bring it to market much faster, and more affordably, than has previously been seen in the mobile app marketplace’. To build a mobile app, a customer can visit www.tinomobile.com and follow the five easy steps to build an application of choice.

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Golden Gekko Launches Tino – Make A Mobile App In Five Easy Steps!

Mean Girls: High School Showdown from Paramount Digital Entertainment, is now available for the introductory price of only $0.99 on the iTunes App Store. It’s inspired by Paramount Pictures’ film of a similar name, and so players take on the role of a new student who must decide if naughty or nice will run North Shore High by fighting opposing high school cliques in strategic Match 3 battles

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Mean Girls: High School Showdown Now Available for iPhone/iPod Touch

Another quick fiddle, another device tried out and ready to be reported on… The Sony Ericsson ( NYSE: SNE ) Satio is the recently-released touchscreen beast from Sony Ericsson, packing a 12.1MP camera! Wowzer, that is some serious image-processing power! I recently got my hands on one, and walked away with these impressions (bear in mind the idea here is first impressions from a few mins of playing with the device): Build quality & form-factor – overall it’s nice, very nice. Comes across much more like a camera than a mobile device, even down to a bulge where the optics for the camera are. The device feels about the right sort of weight for it’s size, and definitely feels like quality Screen – it’s a good size, the colours and sharpness are great, and it works well as a touch device.

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The five-minute fiddle: Sony Ericsson Satio

Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) is making a big push with their Android lineup. Google ( NSDQ: GOOG )’s mobile operating system is Motorola’s last chance to bring itself out of its rut and take its place as one of the mobile industry’s hottest phone makers, and by the looks of the CLIQ and the DROID , Motorola is well on its way back to recovery. But, it’s not just the high-end that Motorola is targeting – Motorola wants to make Android phone as cheap as possible

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Unannounced Motorola ‘LaJolla’ Android phone spotted in Motorola CLIQ source code!

The Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) Sholes tablet rumors have been coming hard and fast these past few days. We were first tipped off to a slate-based Sholes, which is believed to be a Motorola Droid variant, in a leaked product road-map . Then we were given our first glimpse of the keyboard-less Motorola Sholes tablet in leaked images that showed the upcoming Android phone sporting an HDMI output and 8-megapixel camera

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Another Motorola Sholes sighting, this time from China

In October we discovered that Nokia trademarked “Ovi Prime Place” and ever since then we’ve been wondering, what kind of service could it possibly be? Wonder no more, it’s officially launched ! Ovi Prime Place is a free services that businesses can use to put their contact details and other store information on Ovi Maps

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Ovi Prime Place: A serivce for businesses to put their information on Ovi Maps [Yellow Pages 2.0]

Just received a note from the folks at Mark/Space to let me know that The Missing Sync for Android is now shipping! Versions for both the PC and Mac are available, and it makes the syncing of your outlook, entourage, address book, iTunes, iPhoto and much, MUCH more all very simple and easy. Install music playlists, ringtones, photos, docs and videos on your Android-powered phone via USB… You can also sync contacts wirelessly via WiFi.

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The Missing Sync for Android Now Shipping

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has just signed up with the Wireless Power Consortium, which is an organization trying to establish open standards for (you guessed it) wireless charging called Qi. Although the Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) Pre gets all the love for wireless charging through its inductive battery door, RIM has been including charging contacts on its devices for a long time to use with charging pods – it’s not quite the same, but the sentiment’s there

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RIM Joins Wireless Power Consortium

MySpacers, RIM has recently launched version 2.0 of the MySpace app, in case you missed it! To get your mitts on it pop open App World on your device or on your desktop . A changelog has been made available, and below are some of the more key enhancements you’ll find within: Lookup friends while composing messages Add more than one recipient when sending a message Select multiple messages when managing messages (for deletion, mark as read, etc.) Create, view, edit and comment on blogs View and access MySpace messages from the BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) message list BIS-B Push Transport for new messages, friend requests and profile comments Your mood and status can now be selected and customized MySpace 2.0 has been updated for support of OS 4.5 and higher as well

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MySpace 2.0 for BlackBerry Now Available

Paul Pinnock left Psion , the once famous British company who pioneered the mobile computer space, in 1995 to start POS Limited . His new company offered service and support to Psion owners, a group of people whose dedication to their machines is equal to that of Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) fanbois from the 80s and 90s

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Former Psion employee and Editor at All About Symbian launch the PsiXpda [3G, QWERTY, Windows XP]

After being open for barely 2 years, Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) is going to shut down their Flagship Store in London because it has “not been as efficient or as profitable as we’d have liked it to” said a Nokia spokeswoman. The decision was a tough one and has “not been taken lightly” she added, saying that the store didn’t allow to bring the company’s services services “to life”. Word of Advice: Don’t blame the terrible state of Ovi for the terrible state of your store

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Brief: Nokia to close London Flagship Store on Regent Street

Google and Microsoft have joined the I3A ( International Imaging Industry Association ) and more importantly the CPIQ ( Camera Phone Image Quality ) Initiative. What does this mean to you? A 3rd party organization is going to give star ratings to camera phones and then slap them on retail boxes in the hopes that consumers actually pay attention to their newly developed metric instead of going “OMFG 12 MEGAPIXELS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN 8 MEGAPIXELS!!!”

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Google and Microsoft join an organization made for finding out which camera phones suck

“Multimedia retailer” (whatever that means) QVC is “ going iPhone.” The dedicated application is designed to enable iPhone and iPod Touch users to shop QVC anywhere. You can view the “Today’s Special Value” and “One Time Only Value” offers, as well as shop for QVC’s live show through the “Current Item On-Air” and “Items Recently On-Air” features. All this (content purchases) is conducted in a fast, seamless manner, using “Speed Buy” feature

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QVC launches iPhone app; Enables shopping on the go

Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) announced that its VC arm, Motorola Ventures, made an investment in Sensitive Object, a leader in multi-touch anywhere platforms and natural user interface (NUI). Here’s what we know about Sensitive Object (from the press release ): The company was created in October 2003 with an innovative and patent-protected technology capable of “tactilizing” any surface. This unique software technology leverages acoustics to analyze sound waves departing from the point of a touch to precisely and cost-effectively transform any product into a touch device

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Motorola invests in multi-touch platform and UI maker – Sensitive Object

Samsung is offering its “smarter than a smartphone” Jet S8000 handset in new color in Hong Kong – Mystic Purple. The price of the newly colored version of the Jet is unknown at the moment, but we do know buyers get a free leather name card holder with a purchase (while supplies last, at least). In addition, we’re also unaware whether the Korean giant plans to introduce the “Mystic Purple Jet” in other countries.

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Samsung Jet offered in Mystic Purple in Hong Kong

If you think adding a crazy SLR (single lens reflex) lens to an iPhone’s camera is going to turn your smartphone into a Frankenstein-ish cameraphone to be envied by all, think again. Sure, and an SLR lens has vastly superior optical quality, loads more light-gathering ability, and optical zoom capabilities that would make an iPhone cry, but none of that is going to help you take better photos with your Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) phone. Don’t believe us

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Modding an SLR lens to your iPhone’s camera won’t improve your pictures, here’s proof

When it comes to courtroom justice on the Nintendo DS, Phoenix Wright is the judge, jury, and executioner.  All terrible court jokes aside, Capcom’s Mobile Contents Head Takeshi Tezuka announced earlier today they’ll be bringing Phoenix Wright to the iPhone during a talk session at the Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) Store in the Ginza district of Tokyo, Japan. The title that started it all, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, will be the first title in the series to be given the iPhone treatment.  Takeshi-san told attendees to expect more than just a simple port, saying the iPhone’s ‘flick’ input when selecting different commands to input.  No word yet on a release date, but we’re told it should be out “soon”

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Objection! Phoenix Wright Being Released for the iPhone