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LG have announced the LG SB190 SatNav phone. Through absolutely no coincidence whatsoever, LG’s launch comes months before Nokia release their own SatNav phone in the form of the Nokia N95, which is sure to generate a huge amount of interest.

LG seem to be making a habit of pre-empting their rivals at the moment, as they recently announced their new LG KE850 Prada phone, which looks like an iPhone, but will beat it to market by a good six months.

Pantech are obviously feeling a bit left out with all the iPhone chatter, and so have announced a new phone of their own.

The Pantech IM-U170 is a good looking silver phone that features rather a novel concept: a face recognition game.

Apparently, the built-in camera traces the movement of the user’s face to use for input instead of controllers.

So I guess nodding your head moves your character up and down, while shaking your head from side to side moves it left and right.

Weird! Who said Apple had then most innovative user interface on a mobile phone?!

More details and pictures of the Pantech IM-U170 after the jump.

Samsung have announced a new range of phones called the Samsung Ultra. The Samsung F500, or Ultra Video, is, as you’ve probably guessed, a video-based phone. Featuring an innovative twisting form factor, the F500 comes with 2 megapixel camera, 2GB storage and Bluetooth. On the video front, it comes with a DivX codec, as well as support for MPEG4, H.264, WMV and AVI, so Samsung are pushing this as a full PMP mobile phone.

More details and pics of the Samsung F300 Ultra Music phone after the jump.

Samsung have announced a new, er, handset, designed to drive the adoption of WiBro, Korea’s high-speed mobile Interent technology.

The Samsung SPH-P9000 Deluxe MIT is a bit of an odd one – part mobile phone, part PDA, part Internet tablet without the tablet!

It features all that you’d expect from a mobile phone.

1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player, etc. But it also features a few things that you maybe weren’t expecting.

More details and pictures of the Samsung SPH-P9000 Deluxe MIT after the jump.

LG have announced the new LG KB1800 mobile TV phone. We’re all used to Korean mobile TV phones by now, and the LG KB1800 doesn’t offer anything new over the rest of the competition. In fact, it looks just like a standard mobile phone, and maybe that’s a real sign of the times – that an ordinary Korean phone now comes with TV built-in, no-one bats an eye-lid, and it looks no different from your standard run of the mill mobile phone!

It wasn’t that long ago we’d all have been amazed at TV on a phone (in fact, for most of us where mobile TV is still a dream rather than a reality, we still are!). Ah, how quickly we grow accustomed to the new mobile phone gizmos!

More details and pictures of the LG KB1800 mobile TV phone after the jump.

Samsung, the world’s third largest mobile phone manufacturer, have announced the Samsung EW-700, a mobile phone that’s not.

More specifically, the EW-700 features everything most mobile phones do, except the ability to connect to mobile phone networks. Instead, the EW-700 harnesses WiFi to offer full VoIP connectivity whenever you’re near a WiFi hotspot, but omits the seemingly essential GSM/3G connectivity normally expected of a mobile phone.

More details of the Samsung EW-700 smartphone after the jump.

KTFT have launched a new mobile TV phone that’s not only tiny, but also can split the screen in two, with the TV shown in the top half, and the standard user interface shown in the bottom. The purpose of this nifty technological feat, is to let you use the phone’s user interface whithout missing your favourite TV programme.

LG have announced the new LG KB6100 mobile TV phone, complete with nifty PVR-like functionality. You can not only watch TV on your new LG phone (T-DMB standard), you can also record it directly onto the phone, and either replay it on the phone later, or hook it up to a PC via USB and watch your favourite TV show on your PC’s monitor.

More details and pictures of the LG KB6100 mobile TV phone after the jump.

Samsung have finally released their new Samsung SCH-B600, a mobile phone so packed full of features it makes the Nokia N95 look like an old brick (well, not quite!). We first saw the SCH-B600 at CeBIT in March 2006, and were amazed by its incredible 10 megapixel camera, complete with 3x optical zoom, autofocus and a proper flash unit that’s optimized for a 10 megapixel camera.

More than just a gimmick, it seems Samsung really mean business with the camera on the SCH-B600, and are prepared to challenge Sony Ericsson’s latesty CyberShot phones head on.

More details of the Samsung SCH-B600 after the jump.

This is the Motorola MOTOVIEW, Motorola’s first attempt at a mobile TV phone. Coming rather late to the party, the MOTOVIEW is a reasonable looking mobile TV phone with what can only be described as modest features. It supports the satellite-based S-DMB mobile TV standard, but a weak 1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player, and er, that’s it!

More pictures and details of the Motorola MOTOVIEW mobile TV phone after the jump.