LG U8138

Specifications
LG U8138

Network	2G 3G	GSM 900 / 1800 UMTS 2100
Size	Dimensions Weight Display	95.7 x 49.5 x 22.4 mm (3.77 x 1.95 x 0.88 in) 126 gram TFT, 256K colors 176 x 220 pixels, 7 lines
Memory	Phonebook Call records Internal Card slot	500 entries 20 dialed, received and missed calls 32 MB
Data	GPRS EDGE 3G WLAN Bluetooth Infrared port USB	Class 10 384 kbps Yes Yes
Features	OS CPU Messaging Alert Browser Radio GPS Games Camera Video Colors Java	SMS, MMS, Email Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3, AAC ringtones WAP 2.0/xHTML Yes VGA, 180 deg swivel QCIF Silver, Blue MIDP 2.0 - Loudspeaker - Mini-SIM - Second external 65K colors display, 110 x 88 pixels - Four way navigation keys - Wallpapers - Video-calling - Predictive text input - MP3/MP4/AAC player - Voice memo/dial - Organizer - Clock - Calendar - Alarm
Battery	Stand-by Talk time	Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh Up to 120 h Up to 2 h

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Valentino Rossi leads prestigious sports poll

By Matthew Birt

MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi is currently leading a poll by the Telegraph newspaper in its search for the most important sports star of 2008.

The Fiat Yamaha rider, who won nine races to reclaim the title he last won in 2005, has currently registered 39 per cent of the vote in the poll in which he is up against nine other of the year’s most successful sport stars.

Rossi is currently 14 per cent ahead of tennis world number one and Wimbledon champion Rafa Nadal in second place.

Other stars on the list include youngest ever F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton, triple Olympic cycling gold medallist Chris Hoy and sprinting sensation Usain Bolt.

Source:
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/

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Wimbledon - Robson claims title for Britain

England's Laura Robson claimed Britain's first Wimbledon girls' singles title in 24 years when she beat Noppawan Lertcheewakarn 6-3 3-6 6-1 in the final.

The 14-year-old Londoner overcame the 16-year-old Thai third seed in one hour, 34 minutes after an impressive performance on Court One.

Robson follows in the footsteps of 1984 champion Annabel Croft, the last Briton to win the girls' title.

"It was so good today as all the crowd were behind me and it was an overwhelming experience," said Australian-born Robson.

"I didn't feel relaxed and I thought I was going to be sick when I walked on court as there were so many people watching.

"In the second set I went a bit mad but I got it back together and that is how I won."

Left-handed Robson claimed an early advantage when she broke in the second game of the match. She served out for the opener in just 29 minutes to the pleasure of a packed home crowd.

The two players traded breaks at the start of the second set and again in the seventh and eighth games.

From there the Thai took advantage of a string of double faults and unforced errors from her rival to break again in the eighth before serving out for the set.

After three more breaks of serve to start the third set, Robson saved a break point in the fifth game and held her nerve to go ahead 4-1.

She broke again in the sixth game as Lertcheewakarn sent an unforced backhand error wide.

Robson hit another double fault on triple championship point, before wrapping up the victory with a service winner.

Recent Wimbledon junior champions include Martina Hingins, Amelie Mauresmo, Katarina Srebotnik, Agnieszka Radwanska and Caroline Wozniacki.

Jeremy Stahl / Eurosport

Source:
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com

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Scolari Keeps Thoughts To Himself

Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari kept his mouth tightly shut after his side failed to snatch the Barclays Premier League leadership from Liverpool last night.

Scolari refused to attend the post-match press conference, afraid, it seems, he could say something about referee Phil Dowd that would get him in trouble with the football authorities after the 0-0 draw with Everton and the red card for skipper John Terry.

But if Scolari slipped off into the Merseyside night in silence with his frustrated squad, there will be plenty who will want to dissect a performance that again saw the west Londoners short of their best.

It is the second weekend on the trot Chelsea have failed to take advantage of a Liverpool draw. After this display, the Anfield men will be number one at Christmas.

Scolari will now be without Terry for three matches - the Premier League games against West Brom and Fulham and the FA Cup tie with Southend.

It could have been worse, because for Chelsea, these are not the most difficult of fixtures.

But the real problem for Scolari was the overall display of his team, who lacked genuine conviction even before Terry's dismissal against an injury-ravaged Everton.

Scolari may have been furious with referee Dowd at the break after England captain Terry had been red-carded for a high tackle on Leon Osman.

But Everton boss David Moyes considered the tackle "reckless" and was not surprised to see Terry dismissed.

A Chelsea spokesman said: "None of the management team feel able to come up for a press conference.

"They had issues with a number of decisions and felt that they could well get themselves into trouble if they did speak."

Moyes revealed Osman has an ankle injury following Terry's challenge that could keep him out of the Boxing Day trip to Middlesbrough.

Moyes, who also saw a late Stevens Pienaar 'goal' ruled out by Dowd, said: "I felt the referee and linesman got that decision (the disallowed goal) right. Many managers may not say that.

"But I felt it was just offside and the ball could have just been in Petr Cech's hands as well, so from that point of view, the officials were right.

"My first reaction from the sidelines was that the tackle for the sending-off was reckless.

"It was going to be close. In my day I would have enjoyed a tackle like that, but they won't allow them now.

"The referee did well. Did he get the big decisions right? Yes, he did. The tackle for the red card was not good, and the disallowed goal was also the correct decision.

He added: "Our team played well. We do not have any forwards due to injury, and that showed a bit, but it was not for the lack of effort, and at times that is all you can ask.

"Osman has a very sore ankle from the challenge, which will make him a doubt for Boxing Day. And Joseph Yobo looks to have picked up a hamstring injury.

"I felt in the end we deserved more than a draw, we played well enough to take all three points.

"But Chelsea showed why they are such a good team, especially away from home, and they made it difficult for us to get through them."

He added: "They are always a threat when they have players like (Didier) Drogba and (Frank) Lampard around, so even with 10 men they were a threat. We had to make sure we concentrated.

"With them down to 10 men, you always feel you can get something from the game.

"They filled the middle of the park, that made it difficult. From our point of view we did not get to the line enough to really cause them trouble."

Source:
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com

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Régis Laconi

Régis Laconi is one of those rare riders to have won in both Grand Prix and World Superbike racing, and he remains competitive almost a decade into his top flight career. Although he can be relied upon to go particularly well at the Valência and Phillip Island circuits, he is no slouch elsewhere. With the best Superbike available to him this year, he is many people’s tip for a World title at last

1991
Débuted in the French 125cc championship

1992
French 125cc Champion; Yamaha TZR Cup Champion; World Championship 125cc début
Raced the number 75 Team-JMC Honda in the French GP, finishing 26th

1993
6th in French 250cc championship; 10th in European 250cc championship - both with team Vitesse

1994
French 250cc Champion; European 250cc Champion

1995 Equipe de France GP, number 55 Honda
Laconi graduated to a full-time 250cc GP ride in 1995, scoring four points from his three best finishes, and ending up 27th in the final table
Also finished 2nd in the French 250cc championship

1996 Tecmas Racing Team, number 55 Honda
Progress was made as he broke into the top ten four times, with best results of eighth in Germany and seventh in Britain. 43 points amounted to fifteenth overall

1997 Tecmas Honda Elf, number 55 Honda
For 1997, Régis moved in the 500cc ranks on a Honda twin. Due to a mid-season injury, after crashing in Austria, he only raced eleven times, but he scored in eight rounds and took fourteenth overall. 52 points scored included seventh in the Czech Republic and fifth in the season-closing Australian race

1998 Red Bull Yamaha WCM, number 55 Yamaha
Moving to Yamaha, 1998 was his best season to date, with a front row start in Germany, where he finished fifth, and another eight top ten results. 86 points gave him a career best tenth in the final GP rankings

1999 Red Bull Yamaha WCM, number 55 Yamaha
Better was to follow in 1999, although he ended the season a place lower in the points table - albeit just twelve behind the eighth-placed man. His best race was in Valência, where he started from pole and won the race in front of Suzuki’s Kenny Roberts. Regular finishes, including another podium in Australia, meant he scored 103 points
Also finished fourth in the Suzuka 8 Hours, with Noriyuki Haga; finished sixth in a Japanese Superbike race at Suzuka, with a Yamaha R7

2000 Red Bull Yamaha WCM, number 55 Yamaha
Laconi scored in every race of the 2000 season, but could not improve on fifth in Portugal and sixth in Valência. The same two races were won by team-mate Garry McCoy. Although he qualified third in Australia, and led the race, his overall performances amounted to only twelfth in the championship, with 106 points being 55 less than McCoy

2001 Aprilia Axo Team, number 55 Aprilia
Out of GP racing, Régis found a new home in World Superbikes. Immediately on the pace, he finished fourth in the first race, and was regularly within the top eight. His best performances came in the last round at Imola, where he led in the first race, until being taken out by Troy Bayliss, and was the victor in race two. A score of 152 put him eleventh overall

2002 MS Aprilia Racing, number 55 Aprilia
Laconi’s reward for 2001 was a move back to GPs with the new four-stroke Aprilia ‘Cube’, complete with F1 engine technology from Ford Cosworth. The racing season effectively doubled as a development programme, but despite this the Frenchman qualified as high as fifth in Italy, where he ran seventh in the race. However, the bike was a handful, and two eighth places were the best he could manage. 33 points put him joint nineteenth in the table

2003 Team Caracchi NCR Nortel Networks, number 55 Ducati
Replaced at Aprilia, Régis returned to WSB in 2003, piloting a customer Ducati 998 RS. In what would prove his best season of international racing to date, he qualified in the top six at all venues bar one, and was on pole at Sugo. With the works 999s way ahead, Laconi still managed three second places and two thirds. Overall, he finished in the top six on eighteen occasions, only missing third overall with tyre problems in the very last race. With two fastest laps, he scored 267 points in total

2004 Ducati Fila, number 55 Ducati
For this season, Régis moves to the Ducati works team, with the new 999 F04. Given his experience there is every chance that this could be a ticket to the WSB title, although he will have to beat young team-mate James Toseland to do it

2005 Ducati Xerox, number 55 Ducati

Photo:
http://www.superbike-news.co.uk

Source:
http://www.f1network.net

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Dani Pedrosa

Daniel “Dani” Pedrosa Ramal (born September 29, 1985 in Sabadell, Spain) is a Grand Prix motorcycle racer . Pedrosa grew up in a village near Sabadell called Castellar del Vallès. He is the youngest world champion in 125cc and 250cc Grands Prix. Pedrosa is 1.58m (5ft, 2in) tall and weighs 51kg (112.4lbs).

Early days
Dani Pedrosa started riding bikes at the early age of four, when he got his first motorcycle, an Italjet 50, which had side-wheels. His first racing bike was a minibike replica of Kawasaki, which he got at the age of six and which he used to race with his friends. Pedrosa experienced real racing at the age of 11, when he entered the Spanish Minibike Championship and ended his debut season in second place, scoring his first podium finish in the second race of the season. The next year, Pedrosa entered the same championship, but health problems prevented him from improving his results and he ended that season in 3rd position.

125cc
In 2001, Pedrosa made his World Championship debut in the 125cc class after being selected from the Movistar Activa Cup, a series designed to promote fresh racing talent in Spain, back in 1999. Under the guidance of Alberto Puig, Pedrosa scored two podium finishes in the first season and won his first race the following year, when he finished third in the championship. In 2003, he won five races and won the championship with two rounds remaining, scoring 223 points. In his first championship winning year, Pedrosa scored five victories and six podium finishes. A week after winning the championship, eighteen year old Pedrosa broke both of his ankles in a crash during practice at Phillip Island (Australia), ending his season.

250cc
After winning the 125cc Championship, Pedrosa moved up to the 250cc class in 2004 without a proper test on the new bike because his ankles were healing during the off-season. Going into the season unprepared, Pedrosa won the first race in South Africa and went on to clinch the 250cc World Championship title, including rookie of the year honours. In his first season in 250cc class, Pedrosa scored 7 victories and 13 podium finishes. Pedrosa decided to stay for one more season in 250cc class, and he won another title, once again with two races remaining in championship. In 2005, Pedrosa won 8 races and scored 14 podium finishes, despite a shoulder injury he sustained in practice session for Japanese Grand Prix.

MotoGP
Pedrosa made the move to 990cc MotoGP bikes in 2006, still riding for Honda. Critics said that Pedrosa’s tiny stature wasn’t strong enough to handle a big, heavy MotoGP bike and successfully race in the premier class. Proving them wrong, he finished second in the opening round at Jerez on March 26, 2006. At his fourth ever MotoGP appearance, on May 14, 2006, during the Chinese Grand Prix race weekend held in Shanghai, he won his first MotoGP race. This win made him the exact equal 2nd youngest winner (tied with the late Norick Abe) in the Premier Class behind Freddie Spencer. He won his second MotoGP race at Donington Park and became a strong candidate for the MotoGP Championship. It was a memorable victory for Dani, who shared the podium first time with Valentino Rossi in 2nd place. He also took 2 pole positions in the first half of the season.

Until the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, Pedrosa was 2nd in the Championship only behind his more experienced team-mate Nicky Hayden. However, he fell heavily during Free Practice and suffered a severe gash to the knee; which practically rendered him immobile. Pedrosa qualified 5th on the grid in that race due to the cancellation of the qualifying session proper due to heavy rainfall. He miraculously managed to finish 3rd in that race, only behind Rossi and Ducati rider Loris Capirossi. However, in the next races, his form dropped and he struggled with the bike; moving him down to 5th place in the MotoGP standings.

His poor performance continued at Estoril. After a promising start, he briefly ran 2nd before being passed by Colin Edwards and then championship leader and teammate Nicky Hayden. On lap 5, he and Hayden were involved in a crash. Pedrosa slid and crashed out of the race, taking out Hayden on the way. This crash ended his slim chances of winning the championship and also caused Hayden to lose his lead in the championship standings, as Rossi managed to finish 2nd.

However, two weeks later, Hayden recovered to win the championship while Pedrosa managed to finish in 3rd place. Pedrosa ran a strategic race, holding up the field and allowing Hayden to run away from the pack. This result clinched his 5th place in overall standings in his debut season, thus taking the title as Rookie of the Year in MotoGP category, beating fellow rookie and former rival in 250 cc Casey Stoner. At the final (post 2006 season) three day test of 2006 at Jerez Spain, Dani put his 800 cc RC212V at the top of the timesheets (on qualifying tyres) edging out Valentino Rossi by 0.214 seconds. Rossi had been fastest for the first two days of the test. Dani set a time of 1min 39.910 sec around the circuit.

Pedrosa has continued to race with Honda in 2007 and 2008, on their Honda RC212V, the new 800 cc bike for the new season.

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http://www.detiksport.com

Source:
http://www.motogpmagazine.com

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Stoner Stuns on The Island

by Jacob Black

Australian Casey Stoner has overcome injury and the recent loss of his world championship title to win his second consecutive Phillip Island MotoGP.

The Ducati rider finished the race 6.5 seconds ahead of newly crowned world champion Valetino Rossi in an action packed race at Phillip Island.

Stoner said he was surprised to pull ahead of American Nicky Hayden after being hounded by the Honda rider during the early stages of the race. “I wasn’t sure I could stay ahead of Nicky at the beginning but then he seemed to drop off” the Australian said.

Hayden seemed secure in second until the final lap when Rossi passed the former world champion, making the podium of Hayden, Rossi and Stoner a collection of the last three MotoGP world champions.

Stoner says he is happy with second in the world championship for this year and pleased with a home win after some disappointing crashes mid way through the season ruined his championship defence.

Fellow Australians Anthony West and Chris Vermeulen finished 12^th and 15^th, Vermeulen lucky to gather points after a first lap incident involving Dani Pedrosa nearly ended his race.

Source:
http://www.motogpmagazine.com

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