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Pantech have announced the new Pantech IM-U140 mobile TV phone. An odd-looking phone this one, as the screen pops up at a 30 degree angle to let you view the TV picture more easily. While making the phone look undoubtedly cool and interesting (albeit in a geeky way), it also seems to make it very large!

More details and pictures of the Pantech IM-U140 mobile TV phone after the jump.

LG have released a new phone for the visually impaired that can read books. At first glance, the ability o read a book from a phone sounds amazing, but looking at the details, the LG LF1300 simply downloads an audio book and speaks it to the user using voice synthesis. So, not too amazing, but a nice touch from LG for users not usually thought of by the mobile phone manufacturers.

The 16mm thin mobile phone also comes with MP3 player, bluetooth, and keypads specially developed for the visually impaired. I was initially surprised at the lack of a camera, but then I thought that one through!

[Source: The Korea Times]

Pantech have announced the new Pantech IM-U130, a mobile phone with 2 megapixel camera, MP3 player, Bluetooth and 512MB of internal memory. Aside from all that, though, is the looks of this Korean mobile phone.

Silver, slim, large screen, and really sleek and clean looks all round, the Pantech I-U130 looks great. Destined only for Korea at the moment, though, with no news on its availability in other markets.

More pictures of the Pantech IM-U130 mobile phone after the jump.

Samsung have announced the SCH-B570 mobile phone. Following in Samsung’s fine tradition of super hi-tech phones, the B570 sports an 8GB hard disk drive capable of storing 1,600 MP3 tunes (in true Samsung style, this is the “world’s largest storage capacity for a handset”). As if that wasn’t enough, it also offers 5.1 channel virtual stereo and echo effect, to apparently bring you the same quality of sound you’d expect from a 5.1 channel home theater system.

And did I mention the satellite mobile TV, Picture in Picture feature, GPS, 2 megapixel camera, and motion sensor? No? Then read on!

More details of the Samsung SCH-B570 mobile phone after then jump.

Samsung have announced the Samsung SCH-B470 – a mobile TV phone for the seriously addicted telly addict. Not content with just putting TV on a mobile phone, the SCH-B470 offers picture-in-picture – letting you see your TV programme on one side of the screen, whilst doing any of the million other things a Samsung phone will let you do on the other half.

VK Mobile, who recently filed for bankruptcy, have released the VK-X200, a tiny mobile phone, which could very well be their last

LG have announced the new LG KG920 mobile phone, which comes fully-loaded with a 5 megapixel camera. Although LG have released other mobile phones with similarly-high megapixel cameras, the KG920 is aimed squarely at Sony Ericsson’s CyberShot phones, focusing heavily on the quality of the pictures it can take.

Details and more pictures of the LG KG920 after the jump.

Samsung have announced the new Samsung SCH-B450 ‘free-folder’ phone. The SCH-B450 is another of Samsung’s high-end technological marvels that certainly has the wow factor. The first thing that grabs your eye is the form factor of the phone. The term ‘free folder’ coomes from the 180 degree swivelling design, which lets you use the phone in clamshell form, or swivel it round to play games. But it’s not just the form factor that’s impressive – in typical Samsung form, the SCH-B450 is packed to the gills with features.

More details and pictures of the Samsung SCH-B450 after the jump.

Motorola have launched the Motorola Z in silver. Originally announced in Korea back in February, the Motorola Z is a slim phone, at just 14.8mm. In true Motorola fashion, however, the new Z offers nothing new over the old (black) Z – just a different colour (silver).

After my previous post commenting on VK Mobile’s bankruptcy, and the possible difficulties some of the other smaller Korean handset manufacturers may have, one or two interesting things happened.