LG KS360

Specifications
LG KS360

Network	2G 3G	GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
Size	Dimensions Weight Display	101.5 x 51 x 16.8 mm (4.00 x 2.01 x 0.66 in) 111.5 gram TFT, 256K colors 240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches (~167 ppi pixel density)
Memory	Phonebook Call records Internal Card slot	1000 entries, Photocall Yes 64 MB microSD, up to 4 GB
Data	GPRS EDGE 3G WLAN Bluetooth Infrared port USB	Class 10 Class 10 v2.0 with A2DP 2.0
Features	OS CPU Messaging Ringtones Browser Radio GPS Games Camera Video Colors Java	SMS, MMS, Email, IM Vibration, MP3 ringtones WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML Stereo FM radio Yes 2 MP Yes Black/red, black/silver, white and soft pink, titanium and bright blue MIDP 2.0 - Loudspeaker - Mini-SIM - QWERTY keyboard - Touchscreen dialling - MP3/eAAC+ player - MP4/H.263 player - Organizer - Office document viewer - Photo/video editor - Voice memo - Predictive text input - Clock - Calendar - Alarm
Battery	Stand-by Talk time	Standard battery, Li-Ion 800 mAh Up to 444 h Up to 5 h

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LG KM710

Specifications
LG KM710

Network	2G 3G	GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
Size	Dimensions Weight Display	103 x 48 x 15.4 mm (4.06 x 1.89 x 0.61 in) 118 gram TFT, 256K colors 240 x 320 pixels, 2.0 inches (~200 ppi pixel density)
Memory	Phonebook Call records Internal Card slot	1000 entries, Photocall 40 dialed, 40 received, 40 missed calls 15 MB microSD, up to 2 GB
Data	GPRS EDGE 3G WLAN Bluetooth Infrared port USB	Class 10 Class 10 v2.0 with A2DP 2.0
Features	OS CPU Messaging Alert Browser Radio GPS Games Camera Video Colors Java	SMS, EMS, MMS Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones WAP 2.0/xHTML FM radio Yes 3.15 MP, autofocus Yes White MIDP 2.0 - Loudspeaker - Mini-SIM - Second 256K colors, 1.1 inches TFT display (128 x 128 pixels) - Downloadable wallpapers - MP3/WMA/ААС++ player - Full GraceNote Applied - Voice memo - Clock - Calendar - Alarm
Battery	Stand-by Talk time	Standard battery, Li-Ion 800 mAh Up to 250 h Up to 3 h

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Pasini, British 250GP Race 2008

By Mike Nicks

Bradley Smith this morning became the most frequent crasher in 125cc GPs, when he came off his Polaris World Aprilia for the 13th time this season during the free practice session. That must hurt - the rider's morale and the team's budget, as well as Bradley's 17-year-old bones.

Before he binned it on a damp track, Bradley was joint most frequent faller in the 125cc class from another Brit, Danny Webb on the DeGraaf Aprilia. Now Danny is left in second place with 12 crashes (and we're only halfway through the tenth round of the year, I remind you).

Amongst the MotoGP runners, Randy de Puniet is top of the crashers' league, with 14 incidents on the LCR Honda. Alex de Angelis is runner-up with ten falls from the San Carlos Gresini Honda. James Toseland, who came off his Tech 3 Yamaha yesterday, has fallen nine times so far this year.

The king of all crashers though, comes from the 250cc class. Mattia Pasini, the 22-year-old Italian, has laid his Polaris World Aprilia down 15 times. Polaris World again: their carbon-fibre supplier must love this team…

There are two ways to look at crashing. Some in the paddock say that great riders of the future often crash a lot before they become champions. They point to ferocious competitors such as Casey Stoner and Mick Doohan.

On the other hand, the frequent fallers have to decide at some stage not to keep losing it, or they're never going to win championships. I side with the latter view.

Source:
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Randy de Puniet

PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME:	RANDY DE PUNIET
TEAM:	HONDA LCR
NATIONALITY:	FRENCH
DATE OF BIRTH:	14 FEBRUARY 1981
MARRIED:	SINGLE

Randy de Puniet has been involved with motorcycles since he was old enough to walk. At three-years-of-age the young Frenchman first threw his leg over a motorcycle, with his race debut coming just three years later at the tender age of six years.

After winning back-to-back titles in the French National 125cc Championship in 1997 and 1998, de Puniet made his Grand Prix debut as a wild-card entry at the 1998 Grand Prix.

His performance in his first world championship race was enough to secure the young Frenchman a full time ride in the championship the following year.

In 2001 de Puniet moved up to the quarter-litre class aboard a customer specification Aprilia 250cc machine. Two podiums on a non-factory bike the following season were enough to convince Aprilia to give Randy a factory bike for 2003, and he repaid them with his debut grand prix win in that season's Catalunya Grand Prix.

Having secured 5 wins, 22 podiums and 9 pole positions during his time in the 250cc World Championship, de Puniet was signed by Kawasaki at the end of the 2005 season to step up to the MotoGP class, where he rode a Ninja ZX-RR alongside Shinya Nakano in 2006.

The 25-year-old Frenchman showed flashes of speed during his debut season, in which he qualified fourth for his home race at Le Mans and took a best finish of 10th.

With Nakano moving on for 2007, and replaced by test rider Olivier Jacque (himself later replaced by Anthony West) de Puniet found himself in the role of team leader. Kawasaki's first 800cc motorcycle was also drawing compliments from throughout the field, and the pressure began to mount for de Puniet to produce.

Randy undoubtedly had the raw speed to succeed - he qualified in the top six on nine occasions - but was he also crashed frequently, failing to reach the finish seven times from 18 races. de Puniet finally scored his debut MotoGP podium at round 15, the Japanese Grand Prix, but by then he had already surprised Kawasaki by signing for the satellite Honda LCR outfit, for whom he had previously ridden in 250.


Achievements:

2007 Stays with the factory Kawasaki team in MotoGP. 11th in championship. 108 points.

2006 Signs to ride for the Kawasaki Racing Team in MotoGP. 16th in championship. 37 points.

2005 8th in the 250cc World Championship on a Repsol Aprilia. 138 points.

2004 3rd in the 250cc World Championship on an LCR Aprilia. 214 points.

2003 4th in the 250cc World Championship on an LCR Aprilia. 208 points.

2002 9th in the 250cc World Championship on a Campetella Racing Aprilia. 119 points.

2001 13th in the 250cc World Championship with Equipe de France - Scrab GP. Scored 50 points.

2000 17th in the 125cc World Championship with 50 points.

1999 18th in the 125cc World Championship.

1998 Ninth in the European Championship.
French 125cc Open Championship winner.
Made 125cc World Championship debut (FRA).

1997 Won Cagiva Cup.
Won the French National Championship 125cc
Second in the French 125cc Open Championship.
Stock-Motorbikes winner.

1996 Fourth in the Cagiva Cup.
Fifth in Stock-Motorbikes

1995 Won the Typhoon Cup.

END OF 2007.
STARTS:	N/A
WINS:	5 (250CC)
POLES:	9 (250CC)
FASTEST LAPS:	4 (250CC)
POINTS:	N/A
DEBUT:	SPN 2006 (MOTOGP) / JPN 2001 (250CC) / FRA 1998 (125CC)
DRIVEN FOR:	HONDA LCR (2008) / KAWASAKI RACING TEAM (2007 - 2006)

Source:
http://www.crash.net

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Sylvain Guintoli

PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME:	SYLVAIN GUINTOLI
TEAM:	ALICE TEAM
NATIONALITY:	FRENCH
DATE OF BIRTH:	26/06/1982
MARRIED:	MARRIED

Some eyebrows were raised when Yamaha Tech 3 signed Sylvain Guintoli, a 250cc privateer from 2003-2006, for the 2007 MotoGP World Championship - but the Frenchman went on to make Tech 3 proud and secure a seat for 2008, albeit with a rival team.

Guintoli had first joined fellow Frenchman Herve Poncharal's Tech 3 outfit as a test rider back in 2002, and made a one-off MotoGP race debut at Brno, before returning to full time racing - in the 250cc class - the following season.

2003 saw Guintoli claim his one and only 250GP podium finish, a third place at Assen, on his way to tenth in the championship with Campetella Aprilia. Sylvain stayed with the privateer team the following season, but slipped to 14th in the championship, before making the switch to Equipe de France for 2005 and 2006.

Guintoli was one of the top non-factory riders during those seasons, in which he finished tenth and ninth in the championship standings, but had also maintained his links with the Tech 3 team and, after several tests during 2006, was handed the second Dunlop-backed MotoGP seat for 2007, alongside Makoto Tamada.

Guintoli fractured his collarbone while testing at Paul Ricard in November 2006, but recovered in time to take the final world championship point on his MotoGP debut at Qatar. Sylvain then went from strength to strength, regularly overpowering former MotoGP race winner Tamada, whom he eventually finished 12 points and two places above (16th compared with 18th) in the world championship standings.

Notable highlights of a inspiring season were briefly leading his home (wet) French GP, only his fifth MotoGP race, finishing fourth at the wet/dry Japanese Grand Prix - 0.6secs from third placed Toni Elias - and qualifying fifth for the Valencia season finale.

Nevertheless, with double World Superbike champion James Toseland signing for Tech 3 in 2008 - and Colin Edwards moving from the factory team to occupy the second seat - Tech 3 was reluctantly forced to let Guintoli go. Sylvain duly signed for the satellite d'Antin Ducati team, which will be sponsored by Alice in 2008.

END OF 2007.
STARTS:	N/A
WINS:	0
POLES:	0
FASTEST LAPS:	0
POINTS:	N/A
DEBUT:	QATAR 2007
DRIVEN FOR:	ALICE TEAM (2008) / TECH 3 YAMAHA (2007)

Source:
http://www.crash.net

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Toni Elias

PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME:	TONI ELIAS
TEAM:	ALICE TEAM
NATIONALITY:	SPANISH
DATE OF BIRTH:	26/03/1983
MARRIED:	SINGLE

On his day, Toni Elias is one of the fastest - and certainly one of the most exciting - MotoGP riders in the world, but he's yet to put together a full season of consistent performances and 2008 will see his third change of manufacturer in four years.

Elias is well-grounded in motorcycle racing, his grandfather was a road-racer and his dad was a ten times Spanish motocross champion as well as running a bike shop in Manresa, north-west of Barcelona. So there was some degree of inevitability about young Toni's eventual immersion in motorcycle racing.

Elias entered made his full time 125cc World Championship debut in 2000 with Honda, won two races during his second season, then moved swiftly into the 250cc class with Aprilia - and won a race during his debut season.

Toni's second quarter-litre season saw him win five races - more than any other rider - and he also scored five pole positions in a row at the back-end of the season. Had it not been for a last lap crash in Rio, while leading, he might well have been world champion that year, but instead he was ranked third.

Back on a Honda in 2004, he won in Portugal, but never recaptured the form he had shown the previous season. The seven rostrum finishes showed he was more than simply 'on the pace' but the frustration of seeing his fierce rival Dani Pedrosa cruise to the title weighed heavily on him.

After the relative disappointment of that 2004 season, it was easy for Yamaha to prise him away with the lure of a MotoGP ride, especially as Pedrosa was to remain in the quarter-litre class to defend his title.

Elias' aggressive style adapted quickly to the 990cc four-stroke but, in a pattern that was to be repeated in later seasons, Toni was sidelined by injury just as he was getting into his stride - although a sixth place at the penultimate round gave the MotoGP paddock a timely reminder of his talent.

Elias moved to Gresini Honda for 2006, where he was paired with Marco Melandri. Fourth in the season opener suggested it was to be Elias' breakthrough year, but he was still to climb the podium by the time he was injured at Assen just before the midpoint of the season.

Heading into the penultimate round at Portugal and Elias' MotoGP future looked in severe doubt. Toni had only broken the top ten twice since his return from injury six races ago and a new contract for 2007 looked unlikely...

...Until, that is, Elias rode the race of his life at Estoril - charging from 11th on the grid to pass Valentino Rossi for victory on the run to the chequered flag. With Honda's title hope Nicky Hayden taken out by team-mate Pedrosa early in the race, Elias had also deprived Rossi of points that would prove crucial to Hayden's eventual title success.

That ride saved Elias' career and he was duly re-signed by Gresini for 2007, but once again Toni's hopes were blighted by injury - this time a leg breaking accident, once again at Assen. Elias took one podium before the fall (elbowing an angry Rossi out of the way in the process) and then another after his comeback, during a year in which he and Melandri were the only satellite Honda riders to appear on the podium.

But this time it wasn't enough to keep his seat and Elias has been 're-homed' at the satellite d'Antin Ducati team, backed by new title sponsor Alice, for 2008. Elias and his fans will hope that the powerful Desmosedici will suit his style and that he can finally remain injury free.


Career Highlights:

1992 : 1st Manresa Pocketbike Cup
1993 : 3rd Catalan Pocketbike Championship
1994 : 2nd Catalan Pocketbike Championship
1995 : 10th Catalan Scooter Championship
1996 : 4th Catalan Scooter Championship
1997 : 1st ScooterMania Cup
1998 : 23rd 125 Spanish Championship Honda
1999 : 3rd 125 Spanish Championship Honda
2000 : 20th 125 World Championship Honda
2001 : 3rd 125 World Championship Honda - race wins 2
2002 : 4th 250 World Championship Aprilia - race wins 1
2003 : 3rd 250 World Championship Aprilia - race wins 5
2004 : 4th 250cc World Championship Honda - race wins 1
2005 : 12th MotoGP World Championship Yamaha.
2006 : 9th MotoGP World Championship Honda - race wins 1.
2007: 12th MotoGP World Championship Honda.

END OF 2007.
STARTS:	N/A
WINS:	10 (1 - MOTOGP, 7 - 250CC, 2 - 125CC)
POLES:	9 (5 - 250CC, 4 - 125CC)
FASTEST LAPS:	10 (3 - MOTOGP, 6 - 250CC, 1 - 125CC)
POINTS:	N/A
DEBUT:	MOTOGP DEBUT IN 2005.
DRIVEN FOR:	ALICE TEAM (2008) / GRESINI HONDA (2007) / FORTUNA HONDA (2006) / FORTUNA YAMAHA (2005)

Source:
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Capirossi to return at Sachsenring

By Steven English

Monday, July 7th 2008, 16:39 GMT

Loris Capirossi will return to MotoGP action at Sachsenring this weekend after missing the last two races through injury.

The Italian veteran had to sit out the Donington Park round after fracturing his right hand in the previous race at Barcelona. He was set to return for the Dutch TT at Assen two weeks ago but was sidelined again when he sustained a puncture wound in his right arm in a practice crash.

But Capirossi says he's ready to rejoin the series this weekend and is looking forward to racing again on the German circuit, where he finished second last year.

"My arm is still mending and it's quite painful but it's strong enough to ride with," he said. "I've had lots of good advice about how the injury is reparing, but I also know my own body very well and the experience I have gathered tells me that I will be able to compete and give it all I've got.

"I can't wait to get back on my bike, not just for myself but for the whole team and for Suzuki. I like Sachsenring and I made a good result there last year that I was really happy about. Now I need to get a good result for Suzuki to repay them."

Source:
http://www.autosport.com

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