Ovi Mail 2.0 is out and the big news is integrating of Ovi Mail contacts and Ovi Contacts into a single lean. You can survey, edit, delete or create new contacts from both Ovi Contacts or Ovi Mail, as well as sync your mobile phone book with any (or both) of the services.

According to Nokia (New York Stock Exchange: NOK) genus Beta Labs’ blog office, this was the most desired lineament by Ovi Mail users and it makes perfect sense to rich person a single savoir-faire book instead of many.

The other big newsworthiness of this release is documentation for the Arabic language speech. Apparently, this is not a simpleton as it may auditory sensation, considering the fact that Arabic language is a right-to-left language.

There are over 280 meg people who use Arabic as their first base speech and there’s no question Nokia wants to savoir-faire such a large marketplace.

Hop over to mail.ovi.com and try the steel new Ovi Mail for yourself.

[Via: Nokia genus Beta Labs Blog]

Get ready for some football Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless users, as the largest U.S. carrier has struck a deal to get live National Football League games on its handsets.

The trade is reportedly worth $720 meg over Little Joe days and Verizon subscribers will be able to manipulation their handsets to vigil live games on Thursdays and Sundays – NBC’s Sunday Nox Football and NFL Network’s Thursday Nox Football - as well subject around the clock from NFL Network. NFL Mobile will also spring you access to the cool RedZone Channel, which provides live looks in to close games or scores across the NFL agenda.

“For Verizon Wireless, it is NFL subject delivered over our 3G network so football game fans can extend the upheaval of the athletics long after the shoemaker’s last touchdown of a time of year,” said John Stratton, Verizon’s administrator VP, in a prepared financial statement. “And the NFL subject is customizable in that consumers rich person options from video recording to ringtones to alerts; the pick is theirs.”

The service will go live before the NFL draught in April, and it volition provide live reporting of that event with in-profoundness videos on those drafted. The app had previously been on Sprint (New York Stock Exchange: S) phones and it was bundled with the Simply Everything plans. I used it every once in a while and it was pretty solid. A Sprint instance told Phonescoop it didn’t extend the NFL trade because the third base-largest carrier wasn’t sure if it was getting a great return on investment.

There’s no official word on what handsets this volition come to but it’s safety to assume it volition hit Android and BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) smartphones on Big Red. There’s no tidings on what pricing volition be but we will know in a few weeks. I promise Verizon just bundles it in with its smartphone information plans because I father’t see NFL Mobile being a lineament citizenry will want to pay duplicate for it. As a free, Verizon-only app, I think it could be a valuable tool for retaining customers though, particularly if it is free.

[Via The Wall Street Journal (subscription link) and Verizon]

LG Cookie Fresh GS290 has been officially announced. Previously, we’ve seen the all-touchscreen device at this year’s CeBIT and now LG decided to pull the nag and say to the whole thing earth: “Look, we have another Cookie phone!”

The Korean company obviously has high gear hopes for its whole thing Cookie kitchen range, which includes the master Cookie headphone and Cookie Plus. LG managed to move 10 million Cookies in a little over a class, and I’ve no doubts they’re working their asses off to repetition the success.

Specs wise, the LG Cookie Fresh comes with a 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen, 2-megapixel camera, EDGE information, Bluetooth connectivity documentation, 3.5mm headset jackass, FM radio and a microSD memory card slot. LG’s own animated cartoon-like UI is used for all the interaction, providing users with quick access to popular sociable networking sites.

The company volition start selling the GS290 later this calendar month in various colour versions. The plan is to make the headphone available in more than 50 countries by the oddment of the class. Pricing was not unveiled, though.

[Via: Unwired View]

The HTC Desire — the device has got a lot going for it. The Desire is virtually identical to the Nexus One, yet sexier since it has HTC’s Sense. What else could shuffling the device dethrone the Nexus One as the big top Canis familiaris of the Android kingdom? Well, it whitethorn be gaining DivX documentation, as fountainhead as 720P video recording encoding in an upcoming update!

If we go backrest to the roadmap leaked way backrest in December, the Bravo clearly says ‘HD Ready’ on it, so it would be assumed that it would only be a matter of metre before we got to see this lineament enabled. Supposedly this was going away to be a lineament all along, but it didn’t make it in metre for the launch of the twist. What it does not say is that it whitethorn documentation DivX in the future tense, so it is a pleasant surprisal to hear it will be advent to the device in the future tense.

DivX support will make it easy to throw some movies on your SD card, and have them swordplay seamlessly, without restrictions. Their ar applications in the market that support DivX, but they are very unstable, and not at all a joy to manipulation. There are also citizenry trying to get people to signboard a postulation to bring PSX, and N64 emulators to Android, as fountainhead as DivX support. While that sounds nice and all, who knows if that’ll ever happen. But I must admit, it would be nice to have VLC on my Nexus One.

So far, the only Android twist to documentation DivX is the Samsung Spica. Although it is rumored to receive the Android 2.1 update at some breaker point, it is no where near up to sniff to the likes of the Desire. Spica owners whitethorn be laughing now, but the Desire volition crush it in all its 3.7″, AMOLED resplendency once they get the support for DivX. Also also coming up in the update is 720P video recording encryption, which will enable a substance abuser to track record in HD, and I think everyone tin can be thankful for that.

So piece the Spica may be the only fry on the block to documentation such features as DivX, those days ar numbered. Also, when the Desire gets this supposed update, you tin can wager that eventually, either through HTC themselves, or the devs over at XDA, this ‘update’ will make it to the Nexus One someway, somehow.

[Via : MobileTechWorld ]

DataViz has updated Documents To Go Premium (former Documents To Go with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Exchange attachments) to include support for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Docs. Users tin download, survey and edit their GDocs files directly from their iPhones, as wellspring as save and synchronize them afterwards. In summation, the new variant also brings support for multiple Exchange and Gmail accounts, and fixes the annoyance microbe that used to lead to freeze rows or columns in spreadsheets.

Documents To Go (“habitue” variant) has also been updated, but is still waiting to go through Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s follow-up process. The new variant will add documentation for GMail attachments (edit and survey) and will localization the same rowing/pillar-freezing microbe. Plus, it will lineament an option for easy rise to the Premium version from within the app.

It’s only natural for DataViz to savoir-faire the ontogenesis number of Google Docs users and I’m guessing other players (i.e. Quickoffice) will do the same pretty soon.

Documents To Go Premium ($14.99) [iTunes link]

AetherPal has announced that Scicom has become the first help desk to install the AetherPal remote control controller result for Smartphone support. Using AetherPal, Scicom volition be able to remotely handgrip and firmness any issues that occur on a Smartphone, self-employed person of its localisation. Mobile subs should experience faster Trouble Ticket solving and will not need to effort and firmness problems themselves. The helpdesks will apparently be able to handgrip issues remotely as if they had the Smartphone in their hands.

“AetherPal is very excited to announce this commercial human relationship with Scicom” said Larry Adam Smith, AetherPal Vice Chief Executive of Sales, “As the global smart earpiece incursion pace continues to increase at a very rapid pace, we will continue to deliver topper in course of study troubleshooting solutions for radio Customer Care organizations around the globe”.

Okay so the name calling may not be instantly familiar spirit, but this idea of remote assistance is a good one. It’s been rolled out as office of many customers’ DSL packages, exploitation a specification called TR069 – but this is the first I’ve seen of it on Mobile River – please leave us a comment if you’ve seen other services doing the same!