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Monday, November 30, 2009

Rumor Mill: Nokia replacing Symbian with Maemo in N-Series devices

Nokia plans to stop using the Symbian platform by 2012 in its entire N-Series line of devices in favor of Maemo, according to a report on The Really Mobile Project blog.

The blog, citing comments from Nokia's Maemo marketing team at an event in London, said that the transition will be gradual. Nokia's first Maemo-based smartphone, the N900, has been intended as a "bridge" device aimed at developers and tech enthusiasts, the blog said, but the company will gradually release more mass-market Maemo devices in the coming years.
Nokia declined to comment on the specific claims in the report, but said it remains committed to Symbian. "While it is our policy not to disclose details of our product roadmap, we'd like to explicitly communicate that we remain firmly committed to Symbian as our smartphone platform of choice," the company said in a statement. "Any speculation on what our 2012 roadmap, including operating systems and product branding, are completely premature."
In the statement, Nokia said that it has multiple platforms to serve different purposes and address different markets. "Symbian is more successful than ever in bringing smartphones to the masses," Nokia said. "Maemo is our software of choice for devices based on technology that you'd typically find inside a desktop computer. It delivers a different user experience and enables us to widen the market we can address."
Nokia's N-Series typically denotes high-end smartphones that run the Symbian operating system, though Symbian has been trickling down into Nokia's mid-range line of phones.
The N900 went on sale in the United States today for $649, and will be sold online and in Nokia's flagship stores. Notably, the device did not attract support from any of the major U.S. carriers. Amazon.com is selling the device unlocked for $510.

Nokia planning only one Maemo phone next year

Nokia will release only one smartphone based on the Maemo software platform, according to a Reuters report citing an unnamed source. This report appears to dash recent speculation that the world's largest cell phone maker plans to transition from Symbian to Maemo for its high-end smartphones.
Nokia began selling its first Maemo phone, the N900, earlier this month. Shortly after the release of the device, rumors surfaced indicating the company would stop using the Symbian platform by 2012 in its entire N-Series line of devices in favor of Maemo. At the time, Nokia said it remained committed to Symbian as its smartphone platform of choice, a statement it reiterated today.
Nokia declined to comment about its future device roadmap.
In other Nokia news, the company clarified comments made by its marketing chief indicating Nokia might consider selling its handset manufacturing business. Anssi Vanjoki, in an interview with the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche, said the handset maker is turning its focus to mobile solutions and applications. He said Nokia's device manufacturing business gives it a distinct advantage, but hinted the company remains open to the possibility of a sale of the business.
A Nokia spokesman told Reuters that Nokia's logistics and manufacturing business is "a very important competitive advantage for us, and (is) a core part of our business. We have no plans to change our business model."

Asphalt 5

Overview

Asphalt 5 is the successor to one of the first deluxe racing games for the iPhone Asphalt 4. The game is an arcade racer giving you tons of speed, and burning rubber while lacking the true real racing feel. Eight different types of gameplay modes are included giving you the chance to straight race, drift contest, or even escape the cops.
Plenty of cars are included from the mundane to the super exotic. Now you can get behind the wheel of your dream car, and just haul a**. You don’t have to worry about braking around curves, and all of that, just go as fast as you can. How does gameloft’s newest racing game rank?
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Features

The main feature is that there are eight modes of gameplay. You can play a typical race and try to finish first, or beat the time mark in time trial, or go one on one in dual mode. Also you have the chance to be last man standing by not finishing in last place in all laps where one racer is deducted per lap.
In addition, you can do cop chase or elimination game play where you play the cop and try to eliminate a certain number of racers. Or there’s escape, and you try to escape the cops. Finally, there is drift mode, where you try to score the most points drifting.
You can start a career, and play the different events all over the world. You can do a single race any time, where you chose all the aspects of the game. Maybe the best aspect is the inclusion of online play. You can play online live against anyone, or play a local game over wifi or bluetooth (including 6-player bluetooth).
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Three control methods are included. The main control method is automatic gas, and tilt to steer, but you can turn on or off automatic gas. Also you can tap left and right, or use a virtual wheel, all with the option for automatic gas.
12 exotic locations are available to drive through. All are wonderfully designed, and really put you there. You can race in Aspen, Las vegas, and Hawaii, among others.
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The Good

Asphalt 5 is packed with fun. Arcade racing is simply outstanding, as you can just jam the gas and go, and only worrying about steering. You don’t have to brake to take a curve, or drive cautiously not knowing when the next curve will come, and you may spin out.
As you’e speeding down the road, and trying to pass other racers, regular traffic is on the road. It can be quite sudden when you’re driving on the wrong side of the road, going up hill. The crashes can be massive, and will mess up your time, and your lead. Nitro is included as well as cash bubbles on the course.
The nitro is invaluable as you try to pass opponents, or eliminate them, or even avoid cops. Every time you press nitro your stock is depleted rather quickly so if you don’t pick up any new you will fall behind. Also different actions will score you points from leading the race, to a close call with traffic, or eliminations.
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Maybe the most fun part of the game is elimination. It’s great to see the car next to you, jam on some nitro, and smash them off the road. Whats even better is that you can do it during the race, or even to the cop cars. During the race if you run up against the walls or hit multiple items, it may call attention to the police and you’ll have to deal with them while racing.
Every race track is an actual location on earth, and it’s great to drive through them. This game reminds me so much of the crusin’ series whether it was Crusin’ USA, Crusin’ World, and Crusin’ Exotica. Also as you’re driving there are various short cuts to find, jumps to take, and even chances to drive off track and end up in the water.
The game looks absolutely stunning. It is one of the best looking games on the iPhone, from the brilliant car designs to the locations you drive in. The game flows flawlessly, (granted I’m on the 3GS), and the car driving is just beautiful to see in motion. When you eliminate a car, the is a low motion replay of the car getting slammed off the track. Whether you’re drifting, or scrapping walls, there are appropriate skid marks, and orange flares off the wall.
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Four upbeat techno soundtracks are included that play during the race, and play randomly. The sounds of the cars sound very realistic whether you’re changing gears, roaring forward, skidding and drifting. A bunch of game include iPod control within the game, but it has never felt better, or work as well as a car driving game.
The career mode is super deluxe providing hours and hours of race time. Every location includes four deluxe events, and there are 12 locations giving you 48 events. Many events will require you to play more than once to win. Also you’ll want to continue the career to unlock all 30 fabulous vehicles, and then race with all of them too.
If career mode wasn’t enough to make it worth $6.99, live online multiplayer is included. You can race against anyone in the world using gameloft live. It’s not as good as Ngmoco’s Plus+ Eliminate Pro matches, but what is? Also you can play locally over wifi and bluetooth supporting up to six players.
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The Bad

As good as the game is, I did find a couple problems. The first is that the races can become a little dull in the middle when you take the lead. Also going three laps is too long for many of the events, it would be great if it was one lap for half of the events. As you progress the courses become longer, and so does each event.
It would be great if there were more cars in traffic as that would keep you on your toes in the middle of races. The first lap is great because you have to play catch-up as your opponents sprint out. The final lap is tough depending on if you’ve hit traffic or not, and how far you’ve caught up. The middle lap is boring though.
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There needs to be more arcade action in the races and time trials especially. The cop chase, elimination, and last man standing have plenty of action for the entire event.
The game also doesn’t save your progress within the race. As long as these races become you definitely need to save in case you exit on lap 2. It does save your overall career progress.

The Verdict

Asphlat 5 is not only the best racing game in the app store, but the best game including cars. It’s one of the very best games overall, and exemplifies what the iPhone can do. The game looks amazing, the sounds are top notch, and the gameplay is somehow even better.
A terrific arcade racing experience that everyone should enjoy. An Absolute Must for $6.99

Our Rating

Asphalt 5
Developer: Asphalt 5
Category: Games
Released: November 2nd, 2009

Reviewed Version: 1.1.0
(currently 1.1.0 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested))

Reviewed Price: $6.99
(currently 6.99)

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The YouTube for Mobile application works on the following phone:
- Nokia S60 3rd edition devices (Feature Pack 1 and Feature Pack 2)
Nokia 5320 XpressMusic, 5630 XpressMusic, 5700 XpressMusic, 5730 XpressMusic, 6110 Navigator, 6120 classic, 6121 classic, 6124 classic, 6210 Navigator, 6220 classic, 6290, 6650, 6710 Navigator, 6720 classic, E51, E55, E63, E66, E71, E75, E90, N76, N78, N79, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N85, N86 8MP, N95, N95 8GB
Download
1. Using your phone browser go to: m.youtube.com/app
2. Follow the instructions to download YouTube
3. Exit your phone browser
4. Find the YouTube icon on your phone and start watching videos

you want to try to be a motorcycle racer without risk? you can try to play 3d Motor Racing Game just by installing on your mobile phone. feel the magnitude of this game!

Very Natural and beatiful theme for Nokia E71, it use an autumn season wallpaper just like the screenshot above. This Autumn Theme also compatible for another nokia s60v3 phones such as Nokia E50, E51, E60, E61, E62, E65, E66, E70, E71, E90, N70, N73, N76, N77, N79, N80, N81, N85, N90, N91,N92, N93 and Nokia N95.

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Shipment of the Nokia N900 series which happens to be the latest version of the mobile based computer on open source Maemo 5 software has begun. The Nokia N900 will be available in stores this month been November 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 500 ($750) excluding subsidies and sales tax.
The Vice president of Nokia N series, Jose-Luis Martinez, says “The N900 has generated a lot of interest since its public launch in August, which has been reflected in the device preorders. What is exciting is the Maemo software, which takes its cues from the desktop computer and offers a full browsing experience like no other handset. We believe the Nokia N900 will be a very compelling device for people who are passionate about technology”.
Nokia had lent out 300 pre-production units of the N900 to the open source community in the Maemo Summit in October to get more feedback from the community so as to enable them provide the best user experience with this device. The N900 is known to be Nokia’s first mobile phone product to run on Linux software.
The Nokia N900 offers a powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor and up to 1GB of application memory. It offers users the opportunity of surfing the web as they would have done using any computer and keep application windows open simultaneously on the dashboard. It also holds a 32GB in bit storage to hold quite a number of songs or 40 hours of DVD-quality video. The memory can as well be extended up to 48GB with an external microSD card. It comes with a 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera which automatically shows pictures and videos where they were taken.
The Nokia N900 will be initially available in Europe, Russia, North America and Middle-East.

Nokia to release X6 this Friday

THIS FRIDAY Nokia will release its latest handset, the X6, in the UK.
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The firm said that on release the handset, which boasts the firm's Comes with Music service, will be sold exclusively through Phones4U, and will also be available at Orange with mobile tariffs ranging from £25 per month - if you trade in an old N-series handset - to £35 per month. If you really can't wait for your current mobile contract to run out, you alternatively will be able to pay £449 for a SIM free version.
Pitched at the sort of people that ruin train journeys, the X6 has the ability to play up to 35 hours of music, and can take on up to 32GB of memory, enough to hold too many Celion Dion or Coldplay tunes for anyone.
Fittingly for a modern must-have gadget, it has a touchscreen interface which measures 3.2-inch with a 16:9 widescreen display, a five megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss lens.
In line with other mobile handsets the X6 also provides access to Nokia's Ovi applications store and the Nokia Music store. Nokia said that it has six million music tracks available to users, explaining that they can be copied from a handset to a PC and vice versa.
Punters will be given a free Rihanna track along with the handset, but we assume that actually listening to it is not required under the terms of the user agreement.

Opera Mobile 10 beta

Opera Mobile 10 beta is a sleek design, which Opera first introduced to the world in the recent release of Opera Mini 5 beta. The crisp, new look introduces the Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and the always convenient password manager to Opera Mobile. OperaMobile 10 beta is optimized for both touchscreen and keypad-style navigation

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Performance was prioritized in this beta. It is twice as fast as the previous Opera Mobile released for Symbian/S60, and users will discover significant speed improvement when downloading pages, zooming and panning. Opera Turbo is also integrated, saving end users both time and money with its server-side compression technology. Opera Mobile 10 beta is available for Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones running Symbian/S60, 3rd and 5th editions. The beta is free to download to your computer from http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/ or directly to your mobile phone from http://m.opera.co

XpressAlarm by kAIST is a freeware Python based software for Symbian S60 which helps to protect your phone against theft. Just block the phone and put it in your pocket. If the phone is out of the pocket, the alarm will start. To ensure that the alarm is not sounded, just unlock the phone.

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XpressAlarm For Nokia 5800 and N97

Allows you to to unpack, edit and sign Symbian 9 SIS packages (Nokia S60 3rd/5th Edition and Sony Ericsson UIQ 3.x platforms are supported). It helps you to inspect the files contained in SIS package, to see certificates against which it was signed as well as to view the PKG script that describes the on-device installation process. You can also edit the contents of packages and sign them after that.
System requirements
· Windows XP/2003 Server/Vista/2008 Server/Windows 7
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SISContents 1.5.0

Using your fingerprint to unlock your phone, this is just a simulation for fun!
How To Use:
When the FingerPrint screen pops up, you need to touch your finger to the screen to be “scanned” for your identity, there will be vibration and beep sounds during the scan. The phone will be unlocked not depend on whose finger it is, but on how many beeps or vibrations since your finger touch the screen

Play the trick with your friends:
Unlock Condition (times) – Beep/Vibrate times to unlock
- if you set it to 0, once your finger is removed, the phone will be unlocked!
- if you set it to 3, remove your finger after hearing 3 beeps or the phone vibrate for 3 times, the phone will beunlocked! Otherwise, an “Access Denied” red box will be displayed

More info visit : http://thinkchange.cn/

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What is NEW
Block all keypress when the FingerPrint screen is on top!
Phones Supported: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, N97, Samsung i8910 HD
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Flying Voice Notes is a symbian application for keeping track of task and other notes items via email.
Features

Just two button presses: start/stop!
Very easy just press hotkey to start recording and OK to finish and send
Record voice notes in a very good quality.
Possibility to save message to phone instead of sending.
Customized subject, body, e-mail address.
Productivity solutions to stay in touch with people without need to call them.

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Flying Voice Notes For Symbian s60 3rd & 5th

ByeByeCaller can Simulate a fake incoming phone call (No real calls are made) on your phone, when you want to find an excuse to stop a boring conversation OR leaving the tedious meeting room.
How to use
just start the application, a fake phone call will be activated after a delay (configurable, default is 30s). You can set the caller’s name/number and operator name, also you can choose whether to vibrate or blinking during the fake call. When the fake call starts, press the red button to stop it.
Phones Supported:
All S60 3rd and 5th devices with the following screen resolution should work: 240×320, 360×640, 320×240
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Advanced Blocker allows you to filter out unwanted voice calls, video calls, text messages, MMS and WAP Push messages.
Advanced Blocker seamlessly integrates with your phone and the standard phone software to ensure flawless performance and intact blocking of calls and messages.
Features include:

Silent instant reject of all blacklisted numbers, number patterns and text rules
Auto-start mode – option to automatically start-up AB after phone restart
Blocking of fixed numbers or groups of numbers (wildcard * number filters)
Discreet activity indicator on the phone’s stand-by screen
Various contact import options – import from the phone’s log, from phone’s contact book, manual import
Blocked history log for detailed history of filtered events
Visual indicators providing instant overview of all new blocked events in the blacklist rules main screen
Blocked messages can be easily viewed and restored
Full reject entry log with details screen for each blocked event
Customizable reject options for blacklisted contacts – you can select what kind of events to accept or reject from each number – calls, SMS, MMS, WAP pushmessages.

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Advanced Blocker 2.13

Qik client for Nokia Series 60 3rd/5th edition

Qik is a symbian software that lets you stream video live from your cell phone to the web, where your audience can chat back in real time to your device’s screen while you broadcast. With Qik you can stream engaging video live from your phone to the world or use your phone like a camcorder to capture entertaining, interesting and special moments.
This Symbian client update (version 1.0.14) enables you to sign-up/sign-in using Facebook Connect and share your videos directly to your contacts on the phone with a cool, new Speed Sharing Ribbon(TM).
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Qik client for Nokia Series 60 3rd/5th edition and Samsung Omnia HD i890

Handy Phoneguard, new smartphone protection software for Symbian S60 3rd and 5th Editions. It allows to remotely lock or wipe the phone data and send SMS alerts to the phone owner. It also secures general access to thesmartphone by protecting any kind of stored data (contacts, settings, messages, images, etc.)
Features

Secures general access to your smartphone.
Protects any stored information (contacts, messages, notes, settings, images, videos, etc.) from unauthorized use.
Provides password access to any selected applications.
Sends an alert SMS to alternative phone number in case of false access attempts.
Locks your device when SMS lock command is received.
Deletes your confidential information when remote SMS wipe command is activated.
Employs just one secured password (strong encryption) for all protection functions enabled.

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Handy Phoneguard protection utility for symbian S60

DivX Mobile Player v0.89

DivX Mobile Player will try to play any video on any device, but playback performance will depend on the phone’s processor speed (DivX recommends 200 Mhz or faster). The application will drop video frames as needed during playback which means it won’t achieve 30 fps for all bitrates.

For the best playback results on most mobile phones, convert your videos to DivX at 24 or 30 fps, 320×240 resolution, 300 kbps video and 128 kbps stereo audio.

Expenses Software allows tracking your daily private and business expenses. It allows creating expense reports on screen and convenient exporting all the expense data to MS Excel.
Features

Customizable list view of all your expenses, also with the personal notes
Secure password protection
Application options lets user personalize the main page view, report view, all used expenses types, currencies and payment methods
When recording a new expense, the most used expenses types will come first in the list to avoid much scrolling
Unlimited number of expenses categories can be created for keeping separately different expenses types
User can make a personal note to every expense
The software is fully compatible with the latest mobile phones Series 60.5: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97
User can get the total of all expenses just with one click
Report on screen can be made, with custom data chosen for the certain period and fully customizable report view
Easy export MS Excel (universal CSV format)

Nokia Configuration Tool 4.0

Nokia Configuration Tool is a PC application that enables you to manage the settings of selected Nokia devices. Your PC and the devices must be connected through Nokia PC Suite and a Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable. Nokia Configuration Tool uses SyncML Data Synchronization (DS) and Device Management (DM) protocols, which are defined by Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).
With Nokia Configuration Tool, you can configure various settings, such as wireless LAN (if available), email, and Internet access points (IAP) on several devices at the same time. You can also transfer files, contact cards, and applications, if available.
The configuration is performed by sending a configuration profile to a phone. The configuration profile is a group of settings; you can create different profiles for different purposes and different types of devices. The settings that are defined in a profile are configured to a device when you transfer the profile to that device.
You can use a compatible connection cable (USB) to transfer configuration profiles to devices. For connectivity and system information, refer to Section 3.2, System requirements.
Supported devices
Nokia Configuration Tool supports following Nokia devices: Nokia E51, Nokia E51-2, Nokia E60, Nokia E61, Nokia E61i, Nokia E62, Nokia E65, Nokia E66, Nokia E70, Nokia E71, Nokia E90 Communicator, Nokia 9300i, Nokia 9300 and Nokia 9500 Communicator.
System requirements
To install and use Nokia Configuration Tool, you need the following:
• A compatible Nokia device
• A PC with Windows Vista™, Windows XP™ or Windows 2000™ operating system (SP4 or newer)
• Minimum display resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels
• At least 25 MB of free disk space
• Nokia PC Suite 6.86 or a later version
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or later (for Nokia Configuration Tool help)
• For connectivity, a USB connection port on your PC and a suitable Nokia Connectivity Cable
For information on connecting the device to your PC, refer to the Nokia PC Suite user guide, the Nokia device user guide, or the PC user guide.

SmartMovie Version 3.41

SmartMovie is a video player for your mobile device, with counterpart PC converter utility. With the converter, you may prepare any video clip for playback on your mobile device.
With Features:

*Standard AVI format, allowing you to preview converted files on your PC.
* Player uses the phone screen in portrait or landscape mode, utilizing full screen size of the device.
Rescaling of video to utilize full-screen area.
* PC converter allows you to split video file into multiple segments, so that it fits onto your memory card, if not entire, then cut to more parts – you may watch your favorite video in parts, e.g. while traveling to work/school.
* Support for subtitles – allowing you to watch movies in different languages.
* Friendly PC converter – preview videos on PC, select parts you want to convert, alter quality.
* Supports DirectShow codecs, so you may use video codecs downloadable from the internet.
* Very fast conversion; on standard PC conversion is 5x faster than video clip playback time. You’ll convert entire movie in just a few minutes
* Bicubic rescale algorithm shrinks video to small screen size in best possible quality.
* Adjustable quality parameters for video and audio streams, allowing tuning target video to your needs.
* Customizable video Player (brightness, language, volume, and more).

Compatible Devices

S60: Nokia 3230, 3620, 3650, 3660, 6260, 6290, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 6682, 7610, N-gage, N70, N90
Siemens SX1, Panasonic X700, X800
S60 3rd edition: Nokia E50, E60, E61, E62, E65, E70, E90, N71, N72, N73, N75, N76, N77, N80, N91, N92, N93, N95, 3250, 5500, 5700, 6110, 6120, 6290
Samsung SGH-i520, LG JoY
UIQ: Sony Ericsson P800, P900, P910, Motorola A920, A925, A1000, BenQ P30
UIQ 3.0: Sony Ericsson P990, M600, W950, Motorola Motorizr Z8
Series 80: Nokia 9300, 9500
Nokia 7710

nUnLock v2.1 for S60 5th edition phones (N97, 5800, i8910 etc) fixed the autostart problem.
System requirements
- Nokia 5800,
- Nokia N97
- Samsung i8910 Omnia HD
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nUnLock v2.1 (trial)

Secures general access to your smartphone.
Protects any stored information (contacts, messages, notes, settings, images, videos, etc.) from unauthorized use.
Provides password access to any selected applications.
Sends an alert SMS to alternative phone number in case of false access attempts.
Locks your device when SMS lock command is received.
Deletes your confidential information when remote SMS wipe command is activated.
Employs just one secured password (strong encryption) for all protection functions enabled.

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Monday, November 30, 2009

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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The Bad

The Verdict

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Asphalt 5

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App Screenshots

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