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Samsung have announced the new Samsung SCH-B490 mobile phone, a 3.2 megapixel camera phone. Earlier they announced the Samsung SCH-a990, the first 3.2 megapixel camera phone available in the US (through Verizon). The SCH-B490, currently destined for the Korean market, goes one better though, by also offering mobile TV. Looks pretty neat, too.

More pictures of the Samsung SCH-B490 mobile TV phone after the jump.

KTF have announced a new phone, which they’re boldly claming is smaller than a lapstick. Granted, at just 82mm x 37mm x 16.9mm, and weighing only 73.5 grams it is extremely small, but as this pic shows from MobileKorea.tv, it’s not exactly smaller than a lipstick.

Korean phones have always been about a generation or so ahead of the rest of the world’s but their latest innovation takes them into the next century. Beginning in a few months’ time, 1,000 robots will be cleaning up people’s homes, taking care of pets and reading books to children – and half of them will be controlled by mobile phone.

NEC have announced the NEC N908, a new mobile that’s the same size as a credit card. Not the same width, mind – at 12.8mm thick, it’s nearly twice the width of Samsung’s record-breaking super-thin phone the Samsung X828. But as you can see from the pics, the N908 has the same length and height as a credit card – it’ll just look a bit odd in your wallet!

LG have announced the new LG-KG10 slim phone. Seriously cool looks, as slim as a RAZR (14.6mm), MP3 player, and best of all, it works with GSM networks, meaning it can be used in countries outside of Korea. Hurrah!

More pictures of the LG-KG10 slim phone after the jump.

Korea’s SK Telecom have launched their new HSDPA mobile phone network, offering data transfer speeds of up to 14.4Mbps. Unfortunately, the latest HSDPA-equipped phones will ‘only’ support 1.8Mbps. SK Telecom has had this problem in the past. So advanced is its network (and most other Korean networks), that it frequently outpaces the mobile phones that use it.

Samsung have released the new Samsung SCH-W200 mobile TV phone. The SCH-W200 is the first HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) phone to become commercially available, and offers data transfer speeds of 1.8Mbps. Not content with being the fastest phone on the market, though, Samsung decided to throw in a few added extras – like mobile TV, a 2 megapixel camera, an MP3 player, and text to speech.

More details of the Samsung SCH-W200 mobile phone after the jump.

Pantech have released the new Pantech PG-3600V, which it describes as a “touch wheel music phone.”

Apparently, the “revolutionary” touch wheel enables easy navigation by allowing users to sweep the wheel key with their fingers (you know, just like an Apple iPod – now that is revolutionary!)

More details and pictures of the Pantech PG-3600V after the jump.

This is the new LG-KV6000 Black Label II mobile phone. Building on the success of the Black Label I, LG have pitched the LG-KV6000 as another ‘chocolate’ phone, meaning it’s all about style rather than features. And what style, too – LG have done what many thought beyond them, and created a phone that looks stunning.

More details and pictures of the LG-KV6000 Black Label II phone after the jump.

As if to demonstrate how many light years ahead of us the Koreans are, customers of the Korean Train Expess (KTX) will soon be able to watch TV on their DMB-enabled mobile TV phones whilst speeding across the Korean countryside on a KTX bullet train. Nothing unusual about that, you may think, until you learn that the KTX travels at 300kph!