ROCK, POP, ACOUSTIC

Times are p.m. unless otherwise indicated. Listing order does not necessarily indicate billing order. All events subject to sudden (hopefully not violent) changes.

Alexs Bar, 2913 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, (562) 434-8292. Myspace.com/alexsbar. Thur: Vavak, Lakes, Briertone, Curt Phillips. Fri: Falling Idols, Long Beach Allday. Sat: The Spores, Arugula, The 1090 Club, DJ Cottonmouth. Sun: The Sex Pistols Experience Tribute Show.

The Avalon, 1735 N Vine St, Hollywood, (323) 467-4571. Avalonhollywood.com. Sat: Good Charlotte with the Pink Spiders. Mon: Band of Horses with Chad VanGaalen and Simon Dawes. Tue-Wed: DJ Shadow.

Boulevard Music, 4316 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City, (310) 398-2583. Boulevardmusic.com. Fri: Bruce Molsky. Sat: Pete Huttlinger.

Caf-Club Fais Do-Do, 5257 W Adams Bl, Culver City, (323) 954-8080.

LG KG920

With the LG Kg920, LG has seriously upped the ante in the UK camera phone market by delivering a model that can snap five megapixel images - at least a couple of megapixels up on its main rivals. The quality of the images the phone takes is superb too, especially on close-ups, delivering levels of colour and detail significantly beyond the shots its main rivals are capable of. Video capture is excellent, with the handset grabbing footage at 320x240 pixels at 30 frames a second. However, the phone's user interface is not very sophisticated and the control buttons on the front are tiny. It is also hard to get a decent grip on the phone and I found my fingers constantly drifting over the lens. The camera's auto focus system isn't especially reliable and there's no optical zoom as there is on the Nokia N93.

Samsung SGH-X820 review

The Samsung P300 was both innovative and successful, but now Samsung has now gone a step further and taken the lead with the Samsung SGH-X820, which at 6.9 mm is the slimmest phone in the world. I wouldn't be surprised if other manufacturers go down this path and manage to spur Samsung on to even greater achievements. You cannot believe how thin the Samsung X820 is until you have held it. Next to the slim design, Samsung has managed to boost the X820 with a 2 Megapixel digital camera, with a maximum photo resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels. I tried the Samsung SGH-X820 out for a while and will discuss its functions and characteristics in the following mobile phone review.

Samsung X820 - Slim designThe SGH-X820 balances slim elegance with a functional keypad and tops off its supreme design with a beveled cut surface for a natural grip.

KRZR goes on sale Sep 16; others in Q4

Motorola today announced at a launch event that the much-anticipated KRZR K1 will be available in stores in Singapore from 16 September. The mobile phone maker also confirmed that the other upcoming handsets which includes the RIZR slider, Moto FONE, W220, RAZR V3xx and RAZR maxx will be expected in the fourth quarter of 2006. Two new Bluetooth headsets, the H670 and H800, will be introduced later this year, too.

While there is no word on whether the Moto FONE will make it to Singapore, a company representative has not ruled out the possibility of launching this basic candy-bar phone in the island state.

Built based on the trademark clamshell design of the RAZR, the quadband-enabled KRZR sports an overall smaller form factor (narrower in width but slightly longer in length) than its popular predecessor but ironically weighs a little heftier.

Suspected robber killed in PH

The police in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has gunned down an armed robbery suspect who has been terrorising residents at that Naval Barracks, Borikiri.

A source indicates that the police on getting information that some hoodlums were attacking innocent citizens in the area moved to the scene and during the exchange of fire one of the suspected robbers was killed.

The source said the others with bullet wounds escaped arrest.

The source further said that one locally made pistol loaded with one cartridge, a Jinchang motorcycle 125 with registration number CQ 593 PHC and a Motorola GSM handset model C115 was recovered by the police.

FT, Moto Demo 'Seamless Mobility'

PARIS -- France Telecom and Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today publicly demonstrate an innovative Network Controlled Seamless Mobility, one of the results of the companies' seamless mobility strategic partnership signed in January 2005. This collaboration aims at developing and deploying new and innovative integrated services using a wide range of devices, applications, and wireless access networks and technologies for the enterprise and consumer space. The France Telecom and Motorola labs research teams have collaborated on several projects including the one being showcased today: Network Controlled Seamless Mobility. It permits simultaneously to the operator to have a solution that enhances its services quality, optimizes the use of network capacity and achieves a greater end-user experience.

Compal Communications ships 17.8 million handsets in 3Q 2006

Compal Communications shipped 17.8 million handsets in the third quarter of this year, up 5.3% from the 16.9 million units it shipped in the second quarter, according to company sources. The third-quarter shipments brought the company's combined handset shipments for the first three quarters to 49.6 million units.