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LG has a new QWERTY phone that\’s able to be launched inside the UK: the LG Town C300 (here is the second LG Town phone we\’re seeing).

Although it\’s not officially announced, the LG C300 has showed up at Orange UK, where it will likely be available soon, only on Pay As You Go.

Like the LG GW300, the C300 is a QWERTY candybar with a 2.4 inch QVGA landscape display. It also features EDGE connectivity, social networking integration, push email, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, music player, FM radio, 2MP camera, and MicroSD card support. The handset weighs 92.5 grams and is 11.9 mm thin.

Orange UK\’s LG Town C300 will cost only £69 (€84 or $108) on PAYG. You will see that the phone online here. I guess LG can even launch it in other European markets after introducing it within the UK.

It sold more than 1 million units in February this year, LG has been relaunched GD510 Pop in a special edition in France: the LG GD510 Twilight Edition.

Available from today, the LG GD510 Pop Twilight edition was introduced to celebrate the upcoming release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – the third issue of the Twilight series of movies that will stick to the big screens in France on 07 July.

GD510 The Twilight Edition is black and comes with the Twilight logo on the back, plus some wallpapers that Twilight fans can watch in adoration.

Customers who buy the phone from Orange France will be able to download "Twilight: Chapter 2 – Tentation" (this is the French title of the Twilight Saga: New Moon movie) for free until the end of 2010.

With a price of € 199, the LG GD510 Twilight Edition has the features you may already know from GD510 original 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen, Dolby Mobile, Bluetooth stereo, socialetworking integration, 3MP camera and support for microSD cards.

Any Twilight fans out there?

LG blog via France

A couple of days ago we allow you to know just how serious Motorola is ready not letting you run any custom ROMs on their Droid X and Droid 2.

Not only were these phones confirmed to have locked bootloaders, however it appeared that they were also employing a technology called eFuse, that might effectively brick your device if it detected a kernel, bootloader or ROM that was altered in any way.

And now Motorola has stepped up and officially made this story funnier.

So, they are saying, this stuff that were facing the blogosphere aren’t true. The phones won’t brick themselves, they’ll just only ever boot in Recovery Mode until an “official” software version has been reloaded.

And I assume technically it’s true. The Droid X and Droid 2 won’t become bricks in case you mess with their software components.

But they’ll be exactly as useless as bricks, because you can’t use a tool that only boots to Recovery Mode.

It’s still off to Verizon and/or Motorola to reload ‘approved’ software, in the event that they will indulge you.

So it’s like I said before. in case you’re the kind of individual that can’t wait to root the Android device you’ve just bought, and need to attempt as many custom ROMs as possible, don’t buy the Droid X or Droid 2.

Other Android smartphone manufacturers are a good deal more relaxed about these things, though warranties generally don’t apply in any case in case you’ve got a custom ROM – keep that during mind.

Via Engadget Via Phandroid

LG’s smartphone-related plans are commencing to become so confusing that I suspect that LG themselves might be quite a lot confused.

What’s clear is that their mobile division has been losing money, and they have to change that asap. In doing so, a strong smartphone range is a must, since they’ve basically depended on featurephones for the past few quarters and that’s taken them nowhere with regards to profits.

Not some time past, we heard that they were planning on selling 6 million smartphones this year, 70% of those sales coming from Android-powered devices. But then they went and said that they expect Windows Phone 7 to outperform Android and it seemed they’d be banking on that.

And now they’re saying that they’ll sell 5 million smartphones, launch 10 new models, all by year’s end. What percentage of those will probably be Android-based, what percentage running Windows Phone 7 is unclear.

One thing is apparent, though. LG should start to truly do a little of the things it keeps announcing.

As for launching 10 smartphones by December, that’s entirely possible, but for the sales to move in addition as LG predict, they might better start releasing said handsets soon.

LG actually have a tablet planned, which we already knew, what we didn’t know is that it’ll apparently be “surprisingly productive”. Whatever meaning. It’s clearly an effort to tell apart from the iPad which everyone now regards as a ‘consumption-only’ device. How different LG’s tablet will probably be is still seen. Finally, more productive might just mean it’s going to have a video-conferencing camera.

Anyway, LG are also set to release a smartphone with a dual-core Nvidia Tegra CPU, on the way to join LG’s Optimus range. This can be big news, since the last phones that used Nvidia’s mobile processor were Microsoft’s failed Kin devices. Oh, the Zune HD also has Tegra, but an older version of it.

So it hasn’t been smooth sailing at involved in Nvidia in their mobile efforts, and getting LG on board may open the doors to other Qualcomm-enamoured manufacturers. And more competition is often good, so we’ll finally be capable of see how the Tegra performs against the Snapdragons and Hummingbirds of the sector.

Expect LG to keep announcing major milestones someday. Hopefully they’ll also deliver in some unspecified time in the future.

Via WSJ and Engadget

Almost two months after its launch in the UK, Maps Navigation is starting today, available in other European countries, too.

Several users have confirmed that Android Google Maps Navaigation works in France, Belgium and the Netherlands (through AllAboutPhones). The service is enabled probably important in other European countries, as well as Germany, Italy or Spain.

Google Maps offers free navigation step for navigation with voice instructions for Android (1.6 or later) smartphones.

Although Google Maps is available on many mobile platforms, free shipping only works on Android and the iPhone or Windows Mobile could never get it – which is an important advantage is that Google Android and other mobile operating systems ( except for Symbian, which has its own maps OVI with free shipping).