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Five months after the LG Cookie reached income of 5 meg units, LG has today declared that it oversubscribed more than 10 meg Cookies worldwide.

The Cookie (which comes with assorted ignominy and slightly assorted designs – KP500, KP501 for Orange, KP502 for Vodafone, LG Cooky for South Korea) is LG’s 95th good that reaches the 10 meg units oversubscribed milestone, after the LG Chocolate, LG Shine, LG KP100 and LG KG270.

Europe is the activity where most of the Cookie phones were oversubscribed (5.4 meg units), followed by dweller army (2 million), aggregation (1 million) and South peninsula (800,000 units).

Launched in Oct 2008, LG Cookie features a 3 advancement WQVGA touchscreen display, Flash UI, Bluetooth, Music player, biaural FM broadcasting with RDS, composition viewer, 3.2MP camera and MicroSD bill support.

The information most LG Cookie’s action comes digit mark after Samsung declared it oversubscribed 10 meg Star S5230 handsets (like the Cookie, the Star is an inexpensive touchscreen good with kinda base features).

Via LG

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After acquire bit-side, Plum and Cellity, Nokia wants to advise this year’s acquisitions with Dopplr – a UK-based interact that offers free movement ethnic networking services via the Dopplr website.

According to TechCrunch, Nokia is primed to clear between €10 meg ($14.7 million) and €15 meg ($22.1 million) for Dopplr, which is currently removed by CEO Marko Ahtisaari, an ex-Director of Design Strategy at Nokia.

Dopplr helps users by making their “travel intellection smarter” and allowing them to deal movement plans, encounter tips and impart movement advices.

The company’s acquisition module belike earmark Nokia to boost compound its possess services, including Nokia Maps.

Somehow related: Dopplr has a free iPhone app (see above), named The Social Atlas app for iPhone and acquirable here.

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Back in June, HTC’s CEO fear Chou expressed that the interact plans to delude 1 meg HTC Magic phones by August.

August has become and, surprise, HTC has oversubscribed more than 1 million Android Magic phones worldwide – since Apr 2009, when the Magic (pictured below) was prototypal launched finished Vodafone.

In direct to announcing this, HTC has also undraped that it wants to pore on mid-end smartphones for the rest of the year. According to fear Chou, mid-end handsets module evidence for most 50-60% of the company’s shipments in the ordinal half of 2009.

Said mid-end smartphones should effect a retail sound of most $300. Most probably, the Android-powered HTC Click module be among these upcoming devices.

Via DigiTimes

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Today, LG has declared the LG MOBILE WORLDCUP 2009, an mark activity with amount prizes of $1 million, designed with the intention of uncovering “the world’s fastest texter.”

The LG MOBILE WORLDCUP 2009 module entry in July, but the prototypal National Championship module be held in Indonesia, on August 15, at the Djakarta Theater. 200 of the fastest Asiatic texters module backward for the bounteous accolade of most $9,900.

National Championships module also be held in Malaysia, Vietnam, China, South Korea. South Africa, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Argentina.

The effort World Championship module be designed in the US, sometime in November. Texting champions from 16 domestic rounds module backward for the bounteous accolade of $100,000. Participants module ingest LG ambulatory phones in face of a springy articulate to shew their texting skills.

LG expects the LG MOBILE WORLDCUP 2009 to “reach as much as 6 meg participants”.

Via Press release

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NEC, the third-largest Japanese phone manufacturer, plans to re-launch its handsets outside Japan, as early as 2010.

The company sold phones in Europe and China until 2007, when losses made it re-think its strategy. Since then, NEC phones are only commercialized in Japan. However, since the demand in Japan fell 29% this year, NEC now wants to try its luck abroad once again.

It’s not clear yet in what markets NEC will start shipping phones, but, according to Reuters, a company spokesman said that Europe is a possibility.

The Japanese manufacturer plans to sell at least 1 million handsets overseas, for an average price of $300.

(NEC N-01A, a phone sold only in Japan)

Sharp, one of NEC’s main competitors, also intends to release smartphones in Europe – its goal is to sell 4 million devices outside Japan this year.

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By now, Samsung has tons of full touchscreen handsets on the market, and more are soon to come.

So which one of these will become THE  best selling model this year? High end Symbian flagship Omnia HD i8910? 12 megapixel Samsung Pixon 12? “Smarter than smartphone” Samsung Jet?

Nope.

It looks like a lowly and cheap, 2.5G  Samsung Star  S5230 is a front runner for the top spot.

Chinese daily Commercial Times reports that Samsung S5230 Star is already selling at a rate of more then 1 million units a month.

And Taiwanese division of Samsung says that company expects Samsung Star S5230 sales to top 10 million units by the end of this year.

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By Chris Scott Barr

You’ve probably heard me mention Google Voice once or twice, mostly because I love the service. Almost every phone call and text message I receive these days is to my Google Voice number. With a handy app for my iPhone, I even call out using it. Unfortunately the only downside to the service is that it’s a rather exclusive club.

Earlier this week we reported that Google had purchased 1 million new numbers for the service. Well yesterday the precious invites that everyone has been waiting for went out. Some of them at least. I know a few people that signed up some time ago for an invite that didn’t receive an invite. Hopefully at some point they will allow current users to invite a few friends, similar to how the Gmail beta got going. One cool thing about the number picker is that you can actually type in words, letters or numbers that you want included in your Google Voice number. I wish they had that when I signed up.

VIA [ Google Blog ]

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HTC Magic has become India’s first Android phone, as HTC and Bharti Airtel announced its upcoming availability in the world’s second largest mobile market.

The Indian Magic comes in an interesting red/black color version.

Other than that, its features are similar to the ones of the original Magic, including: Android 1.5 OS, 3.2 inch HVGA touchscreen display, G-sensor, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, web browser, email and a 3.2 autofocus camera with video recording.

Customers will be able to find the HTC Magic at Airtel Relationship Centres and authorised HTC resellers in 17 important Indian towns.

The retail price of HTC Magic is of 29,900 ($616). Airtel’s subscribers who buy the smartphone will be provided with 100MB/month of free data download, for 6 months.

HTC Magic was recently announced in the US too, branded as T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, and it will be introduced soon in many other markets around the world. So it’s no wonder that HTC plans to sell the smartphone in 1 million units by the end of the summer.

Via Press release

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By Chris Scott Barr

I’m a huge fan of Google Voice, which was previously known as GrandCentral. I was an early adopter to the service, so I’m one of the lucky few that actually managed to snag a number. If you’re not familiar, Google Voice gives you a number that conveniently forwards to any phones you would like. It includes features like sending/receiving text messages, transcribing voicemails and more. The only downside to the service is that they haven’t given out new numbers in a very long time.

While Google hasn’t yet announced their plans to start handing out, we do have news that the search giant has secured 1 million new numbers from Level 3 (which is whom they’ve previously purchased numbers from). There’s little doubt that Google will soon start sending out invitations. It’s (currently) a free service, so if you’re interested, I’d head over to their site and get registered.

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We already know that Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has been quite a success in the countries where it has been launched. And it’s becoming even a bigger one fast.

It took Nokia about two months to sell 1 million 5800 XpressMusics since its launch – about 500K a month.

In their earnings release today Nokia said that they have shipped 2.6 5800 XMs during 1Q 2009 (Jan.- March), which translates into approx. 866K devices a month.

But during earnings conference call today, Nokia CEO said that the potential amount of Nokia 5800s shipped in Q1 was limited by the production capacity shortages.

But Nokia said that they have ramped up the production of Nokia 5800 XM handsets and are already shipping them in quantities exceeding 1 million units a month.

Despite the pretty bleak figures and huge sales drops in other segments, their first new S60 FP5 touchscreen device seems to be doing extremely well.

With the upcoming launch  of N97 handset and new FP5/Symbian^2 devices in Q3/Q4,  we should have 15-20 million devices running on this OS by year’s end.

Which, if Nokia gets OVI store and device interfaces right, should significantly boost developer interest in the platform. And next years Apple App Store like sensation might as well come from Nokia.

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