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Okay, our First Sunday Carnaval is here. This is the first Sunday of August, month where my country Indonesia always celebrates its independence day on August 17. These five post below is 3GWeek’s most visited posts from July 28 to August 2, 2008. Here we go.

3.5 mm headphone jack in Sony Ericsson phone?
July 29th, 2008 by Amir Karimuddin | Viewed 662 times.

Sony Ericsson is known for not including any of their phones to be familiar with 3.5 mm headphone jack. Although 3.5 mm headphone jack is informally standard for audio connectivity, Sony Ericsson seems not interested to equip it into their Walkman lines.

Rumor: new Sony Ericsson touchscreen?
August 2nd, 2008 by Amir Karimuddin | Viewed 612 times.

Let’s take a look at the video (commercials?) below. It displays a new “Sony Ericsson advertising” which reveals a new phone more similar to HTC line ups than Xperia. Ups, Xperia is also created by HTC. Probably the phone will be equipped with Windows Mobile (like Xperia)–since more has HTC taste–rather than using UIQ touch screen OS.

Nokia to cut handset prices!
July 31st, 2008 by Amir Karimuddin | Viewed 594 times.

We all know that global mobile market is not really that good right now. This condition affects many mobile companies, which lost most of their profits since people tend not to spend money for non-primary needs, due to the rise of gasoline and food price. This condition also affects Nokia, the largest mobile manufacturer. Nokia admitted their profit goes down for more than two digits in percentage.

Fault on service, consumer directs Nokia to refund
July 29th, 2008 by Amir Karimuddin | Viewed 424 times.

Seems like Nokia needs to be more concern on satisfying their consumer. A district consumer forum in India directs the Finn manufacturer to refund the money as cost of faulty mobile set purchased by a consumer of the city.

G’zOne Casio Boulder vs JCB Tough Phone
July 30th, 2008 by Wim Permana | Viewed 409 times.

Hello adventurer. Now this is the time for the tough phone for the tough guys like you there. Yeah, three days ago, Mr. Amir had published a post about JCB tough phone, which unfortunately, only available through European stores like UK or Belgium. But now, thankfully, American tough guys shouldn’t be envy to their colleague on UK since Verizon has also launched such a similar handset for them.

For our visitors and subscribers we would love to thanks. It is always you that keep motivate us to write better and report faster. Next time, we’ll do it better. Let see …

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