LG Viewty 5MP camera mobile phone competition

New competition and date deadline

To promote the new LG Viewty (with 5MP camera), enter LG’s competition for your chance to win:

• A trip for two ‘Around the World’
• Three nights accommodation in each stopover city
• Your own LG Viewty
• $2,000 spending cash

“How can I win?” you ask

It’s easy.  To enter, head to LG VIEWTY competition

Answer in 25 words or less “why you deserve to view the world through Viewty”

Competition open until 29 August 2008

Good luck!

Want to know more about the LG Viewty?

Read review of the LG Viewty now

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Mobile phone help, tips, information and more

We’re always on the look out for handy tips for mobile phones - for the punters, or from the punters…

Here’s some we’ve pulled together over time:

• ACMA: Beware of mobile phone scams
• How to Protect your Stolen phone - and identity
• Make your Own Phone covers
• Choosing the Right Mobile Phone and plan
• Managing your monthly mobile spend
• Lost and Stolen mobiles - and prevention of
• AMTA: Known scams and spams
• Extend your mobile phone battery

Where to find more handy tips?

Know any other good tips we can share with readers?

If so, please let us know in comments below.

(This post will be updated each time we add more tips)

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Related:
- Handy Tips for iPods, iPhone
- Handy Tips for Digital Cameras and Photography

How many Australian’s still have a landline?

Actually - if I were to ask “how many Australians rely solely on a land line?”, I think you’d be surprised.

Landline only

A report released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found that only 10% of Australian’s do not have a mobile. That 10% of “techno-non-adaptors” (their words…) rely solely on a fixed line for voice communication.
[Imagine - they can probably go away for the weekend in peace, without being pestered by sms and mobile phone calls?]

Landline and mobile

Also noted is that 90% have both land lines and mobiles, but half of those (45%) prefer to mainly use their mobile.
[Perhaps those 45% are still tied up in landline contracts for their ADSL broadband?]

Mobiles

Of course, the number of consumers with mobiles in increasing dramatically. AMTA reports there is now more than one mobile service for each Australian. As at 30 June 2007 there was 21.26 million mobile services in operation, with the increase continuing at a rapid pace.

Why?

There’s many reasons for all these stats.

• Rising, unnecessary costs associated with fixed lines
• Mobile cap plans with credit for free calls and sms
• Cable and wireless broadband replacing the need for a land line
• More / new mobile broadband service providers
• Free or cheap Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) calls
• 3G technology (nearly a third of consumer’s phones are 3G)
• More children having mobile phones (even 42% of NZ children use mobile phones)

Any further ideas on these stats? Leave us a comment.

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Was your New Years resolution “to get fit”?

Then - Get a Sumajin SportPocket and Get Exercising

• Always wishing you had your iPod to listen to music when jogging?
• Do you miss calls by leaving your mobile phone in your gym locker?

If these are your complaints - or you’re just an active person looking for a new way to wear your digital music - then Sumajin helps out with their SportPocket.

It’s a universally sized pocket, with adjustable armband and inner pocket for your earbuds and small items. It suits many sized MP3s, iPods, mobile phones and PDAs.

Being Sumajin, you can also rely on great quality!

Read more and Order:

• Black with Grey
• Black with Pink

And, good luck on the fitness front!

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“Thieves - stealing a mobile phone is useless!”

Blocks on lost and stolen mobile phones from the mobile telecommunications industry’s handset blocking program fell nearly 26% in 2007.

Stats released by the AMTA indicate that requested IMEI blocks on stolen and lost phones dropped from a daily average of 487 in 2004, down to only 258 in 2007.

Coupled with owners being more vigilant, they hope it proves a trend that thieves realise stolen phones are inoperable once the owner has IMEI blocked them with their service provider.

Read more: stolen mobiles are network blocked

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