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It made its first appearance among LG phones at CES 2008 in black, and now Verizon Wireless has it in titanium, with V Cast Music with Rhapsody for over-the-air downloads of over 5 million songs, and Visual Voice Mail feature, which allows you to manage your messages I a smarter way.

This touchscreen smartphone with a flip QWERTY keyboard in a laptop style, and dual-display, comes at a price of $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a 2-year agreement.
The V Cast Music costs $14.99 monthly, while the Visual Voice Mail service available at $2.99 on month lets you delete, reply or forward voice mail messages without listening to voice instructions.



LG Voyager in Titanium provides also V Cast Mobile TV, full HTML browsing, Bluetooth 2.0 wireless transfers at high-speeds, a built-in 2MP camera with camcorder functionality, and the possibility to manage your files on a large 2.81-inch external or internal touch-sensitive Thin Film Transistor display with vibration response. The vibration response makes me thing of the haptic technology used by Samsung Instinct, which gives you a subtle feedback as you browse through the menus and access commands. Haptic comes from the Grek “Haphe” which means “pertaining to the sense of touch”, and the new technology replies to the user selections by making him/her feel subtle forces, vibrations or motions through the skin surface.



Other features include multimedia player, dual speakers for stereo sound, microSD memory slot for up to 8GB storage capacity, Instant Messaging, standard email, the VZ Navigator service for access to location details of all points of interest as well as turn-by-turn directions, USB Mass Storage for PC connectivity, retractable TV antenna for enhanced TV reception, and up to 240 minutes of talk time.
The handset measures 4.64 x 2.12 x 0.71 inches at 4.69oz and has hearing aid compatibility, like all the other newly released handsets on the market.

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The LG KC550 cell phone was announced in May and was released recently on the market providing a built-in 5MP digital camera. It is a high-end model working on GSM 900/1800/1900 frequencies and featuring EDGE Class 12 connectivity, with no 3G. Even if you can’t download files at high speeds with it, the handset comes with other useful technologies and a large 2.4-inch TFT display of 256K colors at a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, which if it is turned on a side provides landscape view based on the accelerometer sensor with auto-rotate functionality.

The black slider measuring 96.9 x 51.4 x 14.9 mm at 110 grams plays MP3 songs, records up to 1000 entries in the phone book, has photo call feature, and offers 12MB space for your favorite media. You can expand the storage via a microSD memory card.
There is also the Bluetooth support for wireless file transfers between enabled devices, as well as the A2DP profile to allow you listen to the music using Bluetooth headphones.

LG KC550 has email functionality, web browser, USB connectivity, Java support, video player, photo editor, FM radio, voice memo, speakerphone, organizer, TV-out and motion-based games. These motion-based games work with the motion sensing technology and the capability is called M-toy. It detects the handset movements and responds during gaming by tossing darts, casting fishing lines or navigating a maze.

Its digital camera accessible via dedicated keys, captures images at a maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels with the Schneider-Kreuznach optics, featuring autofocus, flash light, image stabilizer and video recording capability at 15 fps for 720 x 480 resolution or 30 fps at 640 x 480 pixels.
It is powered by a Li-Ion 900 mAh battery for up to 6 hours of talk time or 450 hours of standby.

Available at Phones4U in Black, Grey and Pink, the prices range depending on the chosen carrier. Options include Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, 3, O2, Virgin Mobile and BT.

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Three more cool looking cell phones from Red Dot Design Awards 2008!
PP3400 is a personal digital assistant with a honorable mention at this year’s Red Dot edition, which was received for the overall smart design allowing the user to operate the phone’s applications and to navigate using just the thumb. It has large keys and convex-shaped with transparent backlight for low light conditions.

It’s a creation of Wang-Hung Yeh, Cheng-Chi Cheng, Yi-Hsi Chiu and Chung-Yu Liu from Mobinnova Interactive Design Center from Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
We can’t provide you more information about the model because the company’s website is under construction, but in the mean time we could take a look at the second cell phone i want to show you today.

LG’s LH5000 aka LG Ice Cream is a clamshell with simple design lines, 3D patterns and a white-metallic finish, measuring 100.9 x 50.9 x 13.6 mm at a weight of 101 grams. Inside it has a built-in 2MP camera, 3G, secondary video call camera, sporting a 2.2-inch TFT display of 262K colors and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. Users can send emails, browse the Internet, check dictionaries, or talk on the phone for up to 2.5 hours until they’ll have to recharge the battery.



It is available in South Korea at around $450 together with the cool blue and cool pink versions.

U8600 is a personal digital assistant optimized for Internet navigation, made by Huawei Technologies from Shenzhen, China. It measures just 13 mm thick but features high-speed HDSPA transfer rates and a large 3-inch WVGA display with touchscreen. The input methods are finger touch or stylus.



In addition it comes with accelerometer technology so that when you rotate it you can see and scroll full web pages in the landscape mode.
The built-in 3MP camera with autofocus capture sharp images at high-resolutions and you can send them wirelessly through Bluetooth.

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LG launched a new cell phone with a side sliding QWERTY keypad and cool blue chassis, designed especially for the young customers. Blue became as classic as black but if it has a pearl finish it will surely have a modern look.

The handset comes in UK rich in messaging applications such as SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging and email. With an ergonomic QWERTY keypad, touchscreen dialing, and a 2.4-inch large display of 262K colors, with 90-degree automatic rotation capability based on accelerometer technology, the model becomes very practical for communication on the go, and it fits in your packet easily as it measures just 16.8 mm thick.
It has also a built-in camera of 2MP with video recording and a microSD card slot which allows you to expand the memory up to 4GB, and store lots of media favorites.

"We recognize that manufacturers need to develop a variety of handsets that cater for different segments of the market,” said Jeremy Newing, head of LG mobile marketing, LG Electronics. “By offering a whole range of handsets - whether it's premium or prepay, a camera or music device, for example - we're giving consumers the choice to purchase a phone that's right for them."



We don’t know the price yet, but we know the specification, and these include GSM/GPRS/EDGE network support, GMS 900/1800/1900 bands, a 800 mAh Li-Ion battery, 15MB internal memory, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, USB Mass Storage, MP3 player, MPEG4/H.263 supported video formats, WAP 2.0 Internet browser, and Java games.

"With the popularity of social networking sites and instant messaging amongst younger audiences, the KS360 has been designed so they can access these features when away from their computer. This handset is perfect for this segment of the market. Its vibrant colours, easy-to-use QWERTY keypad and fantastic messaging features offer users a simple and fun device that will enable them to communicate with each other instantly," added Newing.

LG KS360 comes in titanium and bright blue, white and soft pink, black and red, and black and silver color combinations.

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Announced in February and released in April, the LG KF510 cell phone supporting GSM 900/1800/1900 frequencies comes to delight us with superb gradating colors and a touch-sensitive 2.2-inch display with haptics and 256K colors.
The haptics technology is not new for us, as we’ve encountered it before, at the most popular handset of the moment, Samsung Instinct. It provides tactile feedback when you touch the icons on the screen.

LG slider phone has no 3G support but comes with MP3 player, 16MB shared memory, card slot, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP profile, USB 2.0, email, xHTML browsing, built-in 3.15MP camera with autofocus, image stabilizer, flash and video recording capability, as well as FM radio, organizer, voice memo, handsfree, and a Li-Ion battery of 800mAh, which provides up to 4 hours of talk time and 400 hours of standby.



The crystal-clear glossy display has a scratch-proof coating and the body is made of metal with a stylish finish, measuring just 10.9 mm thin. To add more sensuality, LG added the interactive touch lighting, which makes the LED lights sparkle brightly accompanying the haptics when you touch the handset.
The built-in digital camera has red-eye reduction for low-light environments and captures the image in less than a second after you touched the dedicated button.

It is available at $375 in Stardust, Dark Grey and Sunset Red, and was designed especially for women.