LG has officially announced the LG Arena KM-900 phone, just 8 days before the MWC 2009 event Barcelona.

Rather than showing off the phone and its spec in its entirety, though, LG has teased us with a single screenshot, a list of some of the phone’s features, and the promise of some “surprises” in store from what it claims is a high-end multimedia phone with “never seen before” features.

Intriguing!

The specs that LG has released include 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, aGPS, WiFi, support for Dolby sound and DivX video playback, and a brand new 3D user interface.

As you can see from the screenshot, LG isn’t joking when it claims the interface is 3D. Comprising a series of cubes that rotate, with four customisable home screens, LG claims the interface is “natural and easy to navigate.”

“The direct, intuitive and dynamic S-Class UI will be unlike anything that has appeared on a mobile phone before. With rich 3D graphics, touch sensitivity and exciting multimedia capabilities, it will truly make ARENA a fully loaded multimedia phone,” said Dr. Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company.

The LG Arena is designed to be a top-end multimedia phone, so you can expect much of the interface to revolve around the ability to create and playback multimedia content as easily as possible. Given the speed pf its HSDPA connection, I’d also expect it to come with tight integration with Web-based multimedia sites such as YouTueb and Flickr.

What’s really stoking up the hype, though, is LG’s promise that it will “…announce more specifics about ARENA and its features along with some surprises during a press conference at the Mobile World Congress.”

Ooooh,we love surprises! More details as soon as we get them.

[Source: Pocket-Lint]