Shiny Awards. The name may not sound like much to you, but it's the Oscars of the techie gadget world. Hosted by none other than Shiny Media, the most recent award ceremonies was held at London, the night of February 21, 2007.

LG, with their Chocolate mobile phone, Roberto Cavalli LG phone and the BH100, bagged two wins, a runner up spot, and the lovely and equally stunning Colleen over there.

Of the most notable, and laughable, highlights during the night was the wicked ASBO Gadget of the Year award. ASBO, short for Anti-Social Behavior Order, describes the gadget that could be best used to annoy people around you. But wait, who needs a gadget to annoy people?

Samsung - those poor chaps - won that award fair and square with their K5 MP3 player. It won not because of its small profile and even smaller speakers, but because the "itsy bitsy" speakers are actually very powerful - almost too powerful.

We also noted that Apple's iPod Nano and (*gasp!* lo and behold!) Nintendo's Wii, bagged their own prizes from this prestigious event. And look, even Bethesda Softwork's The Elder Scrolls Legends IV: Oblivion and Nintendo's Wii Sports gets to bring home something for Mommy.

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So its been a busy few weeks for Nokia, they've released news of new forthcoming handsets, while at the same time had to deal with the release of some of its N-series handsets. In the past week, we in Europe have seen the N91 release, and after our post of the review for it, I decided to buy one myself.

Anyway, Nokia's recent press releases have included two basic handsets, one of which seems to take its inspiration from the LG Chocolate, or even Nokia's subsidiary, Vertu.

The basic model, the 1110i, is a simple 80g phone that boasts 5 hours talk time, and standby of up to 15 days. It will cost €45/£31/$57 + Tax. Like its predecessors, it has a mono-chrome display, and is dual band equipped. Remember this phone isn't meant to astound you with features, just provide something for those infrequent users.

What seems to be its older brother, appears to have been taken to town on its looks. It has an unusually black and gold appearance, something that makes many feel it got its looks off the LG Chocolate or its much fancier relative, the Vertu range. Its called the 6080 and is triband equipped. It handles 65'536 colours on a 128 X 160 display. It'll weigh 91g and is mainly aimed at sales in Asia. Smaller details include a blinking light to indicate missed calls and messages. Battery life lasts 3.5 hours for talking, and up to 12 days in standby. Music wise it has a MP3 player and built in radio. Its price will be around the €180/£123/$228 mark, and is expected to ship in Q4.

The 4th Annual Mobile Game Conference which will take place in Seattle on July 13 and 14 has been announced to have speakers from big companies which include Digital Chocolate's Trip Hawkins and Square Enix's Kosei Ito.

Game Initiative has announced other speakers for the said conference, most from leading developers, publishers and operators all over the world. Game Initiative is a producer of conferences for professionals in the computer and video game industry. The confirmed list of conference speakers are

• Alex Bloom, Vice President, Content and Developer Services, Motricity
• Andrew Stein, Sr. Product Manager, Cingular
• Andre Vahsen, COO, Machineworks NW LLC
• Are Traasdahl, Founder and CEO, Thumbplay
• Chris Early, Studio Manager, Microsoft Casual Games Group
• Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover Technologies
• Jason A. Ford, Vice President, Strategy & Planning, Namco Networks America Inc.
• Jason Spero , SVP Marketing , Digital Chocolate
• Jill Braff, GM North America & SVP Worldwide Marketing, Glu Mobile
• John Cahill, General Manager, Mobile Games, Yahoo
• John Szeder, CEO, Mofactor
• Julian Corbett, Vice President of Business Development and Brand Partnerships, In-Fusio
• Kanishka Agarwal, Vice President of New Products, Telephia
• Kris Davis, Games Product Marketing Manger, Sprint
• Kyu Lee, President, GAMEVIL USA, Inc.
• Neil Halder, Vice President Content Programming & Strategy, SkyZone
• Mark Pierce, CEO, Super Happy Fun Fun, Inc.
• Matthew Bellows, General Manager, Floodgate Entertainment
• Mike Yuen, Senior Director, Gaming Group, QUALCOMM
• Misha Lyalin, CEO, Reaxion
• Paul Foster, President/CEO, Pick Up and Play
• Paul Nakayama, Sr. Director, Content Programming, Amp'd Mobile
• Ron Czerny, Founder & CEO, Play Phone
• Randy Shepherd, founder & director of business development, werd interactive inc.
• Scott Edison, Director-Mobile, Oberon
• Seamus McAteer, Chief Product Architect & Senior Analyst, M:Metrics
• Steve Hoffman, North American Studio Head, Infospace, Inc.

The 4th Annual Mobile Game Conference where the latest innovations in the mobile games industry will be showcased will focus on the themes Design, Construction and Potential.