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For the puzzle and sports game lovers we have collected all our best seller games (Most recent versions) and offer them as a mega pack.Unlimited fun packed in a box! • PaintBall 2 PaintBall has returned with more addictive, faster & richer gameplay!• Crazy Athletics 2 Take a novice athlete, train him & make him an Olympic champion!• Psarakia A ‘fresh’ idea of puzzle gaming that won’t let you alone! • Croker The ‘Poker’ idea twisted into a completely new kind of gaming!–11/Apr/2006 UPDATE (1.2) —* Redraw issue fixed when receiving call in Treo 650/600. Check it here:

“Nokia swept the board at this year’s Mobile News Awards held in London, winning the awards for Manufacturer of the Year, Most Innovative Product and Most Technologically Advanced Product. The judging panel of industry experts awarded Nokia the coveted title of Manufacturer of the Year as a result of its bold moves in 2005. These included its launch of the Nokia Nseries sub-brand, its entrance into new territories through its music and youth platforms, the re-claiming of its design leadership and the creation of a new field sales force. Nokia also picked up the Most Innovative Product award for the Nokia N91. This device has been recognised as a true mobile music experience and is the flagship music device from the groundbreaking high performance multimedia Nokia Nseries range. The Nokia N91 is the first 3G device to include an integrated 4-gigabyte hard disk providing consumers with the largest storage capacity on a handset with up to 3,000 songs and 12.5 hours worth of unparalleled sound quality. Nokia was also presented with the Most Technologically Advanced Product award for the Nokia N92. The Nokia N92 is the world’s first integrated DVB-H mobile device and represents a significant leap forward for both the mobile and television industries. With DVB-H television services set to launch globally in 2006, the Nokia N92 provides an indication of how people will be consuming live television on the move in the future. Commenting on the win Mats Wolontis, Managing Director of Nokia UK, said: “Everyone at Nokia worked very hard in 2005 to cement our position as the number one manufacturer and to produce cutting edge devices such as the Nokia N91 and Nokia N92. It’s great to receive recognition for this hard work – especially when it originates from our colleagues in the mobile industry.” via phonemag.com

“With the increasing popularity and affordability of personal media players (PMPs), I’m personally a little surprised that portable DVD players still have enough of a pull in the marketplace to be a viable option for many consumers. I guess it’s quite a bit easier for travellers on the go who don’t want to bother with ripping the video from their collection. Toshiba is trying to breathe new life into the aging technology by producing a portable DVD player that has an integrated digital TV tuner, an industry first.The SD-P30DT comes with component video outputs, so you can connect it to you huge plasma television when you get home from your business trip, but even while you on the plane, the 9-inch widescreen display (800 x 480 pixels) is more than adequate for your on-the-go movie watching experience. The 170-degree viewing angle isn’t anything to sneeze at either, allowing you to share the experience with whoever’s on the bus beside you.It won’t come cheap, however, as the Toshiba SD-P30DT portable DVD player will weigh in at $609USD when it starts shipping this May. For that price, I’d rather put in a little extra and get my hands on a notebook computer.” via mobilemag.com

“Having established that I’m a bit late to do a ‘Predictions for 2006’ article, I’d like to stake my claim to the very first ‘Predictions for 2007’ (and beyond) piece!But first that dramatic headline. The smartphone is dead, long live the phone. Come to think of it, the iPod will be dead shortly afterwards as well. And within a few years the camcorder. The desktop PC will fall as well, but that’s perhaps ten years away. It’s inevitable, you see. Despite those sulking in the corner, proclaiming that they prefer ‘two (or even three) box solutions’, convergence is marching ahead regardless.The phone inherits the futureIt would have been just as easy for telephony to have been integrated into something else popular, such as an iPod (or similar), but the fact is that the ‘phone’ got there first. As of about five years ago, just about every human being on the planet over the age of 10 (and, increasingly, a large number under that age) owns a compact, multifunctional piece of high-tech – a phone. So sales figures of 50 million iPods pale into insignificance besides phone sales (into the billions).” Read this interesting article at allaboutsymbian.com

“Just not too long ago we reported the slim series from VK Mobile which is at 8.8mm thick, Samsung X828 grab the first place again for now with 6.9mm thickness! We are not only getting a credit card size phone, but also a credit card thickness phone!When the first Motorola v3 announced, there isn’t any camera or fancy features with it. Now putting on more features on slim phone is an easy task for phone maker. Samsung X828 is as slim as 6.9mm, and it also comes with a 2 megapixel camera, 1.9″ 262k colors screen, 80MB internal memory and bluetooth!The battery is still good at this thickness, you can change the battery as it is not attached with the back cover and it is not built in to the phone too.Samsung is at its very best to slim everything down, except the camera module. The camera module is thicker than 6.9mm at the top of the phone, although it is only a small part of the body. Currently the Samsung X828 is available for CDMA network only, no words on the GSM availability.” More X828 photos at slashphone.com

“For the puzzle game lovers CRAZYSOFT collected almost all their puzzle games and offer them as a mega pack. • PaintBall Crazysoft’s classic best seller.A must have for every PDA.• Frutakia The ‘casino slots idea’ turned into an original, fun & addicting puzzle game.• Yammy Yammy The new revolutionary puzzler with cartoon ‘Hi-Res+’ graphics.• The Wall An original strategy / puzzle game! Construct & demolish walls!• Robot Panic Complete the unfinished robots until they reach the checker.–10/Apr/2006 UPDATE (1.4) —* Redraw issue fixed when receiving call in Treo 650/600.” Check this great Pack here:

“Bitstream has unveiled a version of its ThunderHawk mobile Web browsing solution for Java/J2ME cell phones.The new offering is aimed to bring a real desktop browsing experience to mass-market mobile phones that would typically not have enough memory to run a full HTML browser. Unlike other mobile browsers that typically repurpose, reformat or remove content so it will fit on small screen devices, ThunderHawk Java/J2ME Edition displays full HTML Web pages just as they would appear on the desktop for a superior user experience.This service can definitely be seen as a challenger to Opera’s Mini initiative. Let’s hope the American company will make ThunderHawk Java/J2ME Edition available directly to consumers, unlike the latter.” via pdalive.com

“UK mobile phone network O2 has formally launched its XDA IQ smart phone, as exclusively revealed by Reg Hardware late last month. The IQ incorporates a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900MHz) GSM/GPRS radio with EDGE support. The phone also has Bluetooth 1.2 and 802.11b Wi-Fi wireless connectivity on board.As expected, the handset is based on a 200MHz Texas Instruments OMAP 850 processor running Windows Mobile 5. It has 64MB of SDRAM and 64MB of ROM. The display is a 2.2in, 240 x 320, 65,536-colour job, and there’s a 1.3 megapixel camera round the backO2 said the IQ ships with a 1150mAh battery, sufficient for up to four hours’ talk time and up to 150 hours’ operation in stand-by mode. The handset weighs 110g and measures 10.9 x 4.7 x 1.9cm.Alas, O2 didn’t say when the IQ would ship, beyond saying it’s coming very soon.” via theregister.co.uk

“Here are the highly anticipated S30 and S60V MP3 players, ready to be released onto the Japanese market. Toshiba fitted a 30 or 60GB HDD to these players, but also “Windows Mobile software for Portable Media Center（PMC)”, and these devices will be available in Japan near the end of the month! As a recap, some other specs: 2.4″ QVGA screen, WMA/MP3/WAV compatibility, WMV/Mpeg2 compatibility and FM tuner. The S30 measures 59.9×99.9×13.2mm for 127g whereas the S60 measures 59.9×99.9×16.2mm for 140g.”Check for more pictures at akihabaranews.com

“When you flip the phone open, you are presented with the PDA functionality. The A780 is built upon the 2.4.20 Linux kernel and then from the ground up using the Qt toolkit. Its closed-source graphical framework is called EZX. In the main display you get 4 big icons (application list, contact list, SMS/MMS client and a virtual numeric pad to make a call), a service line similar to the one described above, business meetings list and 4 shortcuts to apps (ring profiles, Opera, Real Player, Picsel Viewer and Bluetooth). There are a number of PDA-like applications included in the phone by default, some of these include a file manager (which I like very much), tasks, notes (can read .txt files too), alarms, clock application monitoring up to 3 timezones, calendar that supports events, pop3/imap email (no support for Gmail though), a calculator, the Opera browser, Real Player (supports mp4, 3gp and rm videos), camera and video capture, a drawing application, a voice recorder (in AMR format), Wireless Village IM, SyncML, Call history, VPN client, an STK and modem utility, 3 java games, a Chinese-to-english dictionary and of course, the system’s settings. In these settings you will find preference panels for customizing your ringtomes (you can set different ringtones for IM, phone calls, SMS etc), your wallpaper, the color theme, text size, language, voice command (no training required, but the feature didn’t prove very reliable), screen backlighting, GPRS settings, power management, keylock settings, and input setup (choose between two Asian languages or English virtual keyboards, a numeric keypad, or handwriting). Both the handwriting and virtual keyboard has predictive text support which we found sufficient. There is no way that even a world champion in T9/iTap will be able to type faster than you could with the A780’s virtual keyboard.” This this nice review here: