Saturday, March 6, 2010

LG Cookie Pep Unveiled

NEW DELHI, INDIA - The war in the touchscreen phone segment is going to be intense this year, as it sees from the moves taken by manufacturers like Samsung and LG. After Samsung charmed the young users with its range of Corby Touchscreen Handsets, LG has unveiled its latest entry level Touchscreen wonder named Cookie Pep. It replaces the original LG Cookie which was launched years back. The Pep was launched in other countries almost six months earlier and it is still unclear why LG took so long to bring this model to India. Its model number is GD510.

The LG Cookie Pep looks attractive in its candy bar design and metallic finish. The phone has an impressive 3 inch touchscreen that offers a seamless browsing and operating experience. Like most of the present generation touchscreen phones the Pep focuses on the integration with social networking applications and sites. The pep offers good competition to the Samsung Corby range and the company has priced the handset aggressively. It is available for only 7800 INR, something that was unimaginable few months back. However, it has a meager 42MB inbuilt memory. The maximum memory supported is 8GB; it is where it is outshined by Corby Pro which boasts of a whopping 16GB memory support.

LG has tried to ensure that its Cookie Pep becomes a winner and that is why it has roped in stars like John Abraham to endorse this handset. The phone has a 3MP camera that offers decent image quality. It is a multimedia enabled handset which will appeal to the young and trendy users.

Hip-hop Star Handed Prison Sentence

Swedish hip-hop star DAVID MOSES JASSY has been handed a lengthy prison sentence after he was found guilty of killing a jazz pianist with his car.

The rapper - also known as Dave Monopoly - was found guilty of mowing down John Osnes in November 2008 in Los Angeles, with prosecutors claiming he lost his temper when the 55 year old banged on the hood of his car at a pedestrian crossing.

Jassy was convicted of second-degree murder, assault by force likely to produce great bodily injury, and battery with serious bodily injury at a hearing in L.A. last month (Feb10).

He was back in court on Thursday (04Mar10) to hear his punishment, and the judge handed him a prison sentence of 15 years to life, according to Fox News.

During the hearing at Los Angeles County Superior Court, Judge Michael Johnson denied a request from defence lawyers to have the second-degree murder conviction reduced to manslaughter, telling Jassy: “In my mind, there is no question that this is a murder (and you) deserves every bit of punishment.”