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As part of its marketing/PR activities, LG Mobile Phones hosted the first LG Mobile World Cup, which concluded yesterday with 18-year old Young-Ho Bae and Mok-Min Ha (age 17) from Korea as the winning team. The duo has split the $100,000 in prize money, after beating out 24 participants from 12 other countries in the five game series. U.S. team (Morgan Dynda and Kate Moore) scored the second prize of $20,000, while Juan Ignacio Aufranc and Agustina Montegna from Argentina placed third splitting $10,000.
In addition to the main competition, the players attempted to set a new Guinness World Records record for fastest texting, using the LG enV3 handset. A new record was set by 27-year-old Pedro Matias from Portugal who typed a 264-character text in just 1 minute 59 seconds, thus shaving 23 seconds off the previous record, set by Finland’s Arttu Harkki on April 27, 2005.
The LG Mobile World Cup took place on January 14th in New York City at the historic Gotham Hall. Players competed in various texting missions, including break the wall, monster popping, moving pillar, running relay and racing replay…
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
