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LG have officially announced the new LG Viewty Smart, a brand new upgrade to the 6+ million selling LG Viewty cameraphone. The LG Viewty Smart (or the LG-GC900 to give it its official, and even worse, name!) is LG’s top-end camera phone, and has been designed to take on the high end camera phones of the other mobile phone manufacturers.

To that end, LG have equipped the Viewty Smart with an 8 megapixel camera, the same 3D touchscreen UI as the LG Arena, and some seriously impressive specs.

Check out the details of the LG Viewty Smart after the jump.

LG has officially annoucned the LG GM730 Eigen smartphone at MWC. The Eigen is a Windows Mobile-based smartphone that has the specs you’d expect from a feature-phone, plus the new S-class interface of the LG Arena. In other words, it looks set to be a top-notch smartphone (even if it does run Windows Mobile!)

The LG Eigen will feature the new Windows Mobile 6.5 OS, which itself comes with a brand new UI. However, not for LG the default UI of other Windows Mobile smartphones – they’re going to equip the Eigen with the brand new 3D UI they developed for themselves. First shown on the LG Arena, this is leagues ahead of the TouchWiz UI from Samsung, and only marginally behind the iPhone’s UI.

As such, putting such a powerful UI in a phone with specs like these is tantalizing to say the least!

So what are the specs? They’re just a jump away:

LG have announced several new phones at MWC 2009 as you’d expect, but one that caught my eye was this – the LG GD900. It’s not the most exciting of phones spec-wise, particularly when compared ot the LG Arena, but it does have one trick up its sleeve – a completely see-through keypad.

The LG-GD900 is a fashion phone, so don’t expect anything too special from it, but the transparent keypad should certainly provide a talking point. If you’re into fashion phones, and you like your phones in the buff, you should certainly check out the GD900 when it’s released later this year.

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LG have announced the LG Arena KM900 at MWC 2009 this morning. The LG Arena is a smart looking touchscreen phone from LG with a great feature-set and what promises to be an intuitive and innovative user interface.

It was the interface that intrigued me the most when newws of the LG Arena first broke last week. The feature-set is as you’d expect from LG – excellent – with a 5 megapixel camera, 3″ touchscreen, Wi-Fi, aGPS, 120 frames-per-second video recording, 40GB of storage, MP3 player, Dolby stereo, DivX playback and FM radio and transmitter being just some of the highlights.

But features don’t tell the whole story – it’s the user interface that makes or breaks a phone these days, and the LG Arena looks like it might have it spot on.

More details after the jump.

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!

LG are set to release a very iPhone-looking phone in the form of the LG Arena KM900. The LG Arena is obviously a touchscreen phone, but what’s most striking is just how similar its interface (“S-class” apparently, whatever that means!) is to the iPhone’s.

It’s not how a phone’s interface looks, though, it’s how intuitive and responsive it is to use that will determine its success. Obviously this is difficult to assess from a screenshot alone, but we shouldn’t have long to wait for the real thing, as it’s rumoured to be on show at MWC 2009 in a couple of weeks.

We do have some news on the specs on the LG Arena though, after the jump.

Happy New Year all, and welcome to 2009! This week sees the start of the consumer electronics tradeshow season, with CES 2009 running from 8 – 11th of January. I’ll provide an overview of what to expect from CES 2009 from the major mobile phone manufacturers tomorrow, but before then, I thought I’d mention a new trend that has just appeared on the radar regarding mobile phone form factors – the watch phone.

Prepare yourselves for a hands-on LG KP500 review, a new phone from LG which I’ve just been sent by the nice people at LG to have a play with!

Better known as the LG Cookie, the KP500 is a brand new phone from LG, and I have to say, after playing with it for around 20 minutes or so, I’m extremely impressed. The KP500 is a touchscreen mobile phone with a really intuitive and rather smart new user interface, and has one of the clearest, sharpest screens I’ve seen.

It’s not exactly under-specified either. Sure it doesn’t have Wi-Fi or GPS, but it looks like it’ll give the Samsung Tocco a run for its money as a decent touchscreen phone.

Read on after the jump for my complete hands-on LG KP500 review.

Well well, what have we here? It’s the rather cute looking LG KP500 in my sweaty little hands, being all unboxed! It’s a great little phone, I have to say. I’ll have a full hands-on review of it for you early next week, but I thought you might like to see a little unboxing of it first as a taster.

No idea why, but people seem to like unboxing videos!

Since the credit crunch descended on the world like a tsunami of gloom, things in the mobile phone sector have been shaken up as much as they have in every other sector. Mobile phones obviously cover the entire sector of price points, from virtually disposable, to completely unaffordable.

With an impending global recession looming on the horizon, though, it’s the more expensive designer phones that will start to struggle first. Designer phones are all about luxury, offering looks but few frills for a designer price. When everyone’s cutting back on their spending, though, look are the first thing to go. If you can make do with a similar phone that looks a bit uglier but offers the same features as a designer phone, what are you going to choose when money’s tight?