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Ok this is one dream come true for most people. Ovi maps and that too free! Now who in their right mind would not want to avail that? The latest version of Ovi Maps was just launched a week ago or so and after only a week, it has already hit 1.4 million downloads! Unbelievable stuff really. One great feature of this latest version of Ovi Maps is that it comes equipped with free walk and drive navigation, not many would want to miss a treat like that.

Just like every other company the financial results of the last quarter (2009) of LG are also out. The results are just perfect and they are really having a nice time as the company has recorded their highest Q4 earnings ever, beating their previous best by around 7 percent. The sales were around 12.2 billion US dollars, whereas the operating profit has risen to 382 million dollars. LG’s star is surely on the rise right now.

Nexus One is getting a new update and this one solves all the problems that the phone has been having in the past in addition to adding something new as well. What exactly? Well it basically takes care of all the 3G connectivity issues that the phone was facing along with adding pinch-zoom to it along with several new applications! All in all get excited, get very excited as this one is bound to make you happy!

Not many people are interested in knowing about the Symbian numbering scheme but in order to understand how everything works it’s important to start understanding. So we are currently at Symbian^1 but chances are that a ^2 isn’t to be expected at all as Nokia will be skipping it altogether, going straight to Symbian^3. It is being heard that Maemo 6 will be arriving later this year with at least one new device running it. So let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Sony Ericsson has been coming out with great sets these days. A couple of days back or so they announced their new QWERTY-packing WinMo handset, this time the meticulously done bar-shaped Sony Ericsson Aspen; the second handset to officially run on the latest version of Windows Mobile OS - 6.5.3. The company proprietary panel interface will also be packed in the handset as we have found out from the previous handsets namely XPERIA X 1 and X2.

Nokia N97 will never get tired of its updates; every other week, a new update surfaces. But good for them, everybody likes firmware updates even if the update has nothing significant to offer in itself. Similarly even in this firmware that is the 21.0.045 version, the only mentionable thing that has really improved is the kinetic scrolling, which should be smoother now. Kinetic scrolling is something that the N97 got equipped with very recently but it wasn’t as smooth as people were expecting it to be. So a firmware update was long due.

Mozilla has just come out with the final version of Firefox mobile web browser. But it seems that the company has decided to bestow this greatness on to N900 and N810 only for the time being. People who have been waiting for the Awesome bar and Weave bookmark with this browser syncing will definitely not be disappointed. You can now easily download and install the new Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser if you own any of the abovementioned two sets.

The fourth quarter and the complete year’s financial report suggest that Motorola’s gloomy days might be over. Everything in the report points out towards a better day that the company might be heading towards. They closed at 142 million US dollars in Q4, which means that the total loss suffered by the company is only 51 million dollars, as compared to the 3.7 billion dollars that Motorola lost in Q4 2008 and 4.2 billion loss for the whole 2008.

Samsung definitely did splendid in 2009 and that goes for all of its divisions. Financial reports for the year 2009 just came out and it seems that the excellent results shown by the company in Q4 is just the beginning; the number of Samsung mobile phones shipped have grown considerably each quarter despite the world financial crisis. The financial summary shows that the number of units shipped was almost 227 million; now this is almost 16% more than the 196 phones sold in 2008!

It has just been found out that while all HTC HD2 units are blessed with 576MB of RAM, only 448MB of those are available to the users. They usually disable one feature or the other to increase the curiosity of their users. But this is a bit extreme we think. Disabling a GPS or an FM radio unit is quite understandable as usually you just need some software to utilize it, but hiding such a big part of RAM, is something we have yet to make sense of.

For everyone who was getting impatient, here’s a piece of good news, the very first particulars of both Samsung Galaxy 2 and S5620 Monte have recently gotten leaked and it seems that the new Galaxy will definitely be one good addition to the Android family, whereas the S5620 Monte will be one of the best phones to have hit the mid-range market. The new Galaxy 2 is also being flaunted as Samsung’s re-entry in the Android market.

For those who might have forgotten, 3G network was initially launched by the Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO, some eight years ago or so; a network which now boasts a total of around 500 million customers, all around the world. Now not many will be able to get the significance of what we are trying to say here, so for them I must mention that over a decade was taken by 2G mobile networks to reach that number of customers. So definitely it is something to rejoice!

BlackBerry Magnum images can be found everywhere on the internet these days and to top it off we also have a video to flaunt now! So what’s so special about this Blackberry that hasn’t happened before? It is the fact that it happens to be the very first BlackBerry device to be equipped with a hardware QWERTY keyboard and a touchscreen at the same time. We have been telling you about this device which was codenamed Magnum since last year.

We all know that last year was too tough on the biggest mobile manufacturer, Nokia. Sales were particularly not that good in the first three quarters and no matter what they did, they kept losing. But this was not true of the holiday season as far was the sales are concerned, as the company ended the year with a net profit of good 882 million euro! Now keeping in point that 2009 was virtually hit by a mild global financial and economy crisis, this is really something to rejoice for the company.

With the continuous emergence of cheap but good phones in the market, Nokia couldn’t have been left behind. The Nokia 2730 classic is an evidence of just that as a part of the three part cheap phones series. The best thing about these phones is that they usually come with advanced features at a price as cheap as 25 euro a piece! Yes, you heard it right. It is much better than your usual low-end phone, with 3G data speeds and a 1GB microSD card in the box.