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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.

Eighteen months after the iPhone was launched, the world’s major mobile phone manufacturers have finally released a set of phones that will give it some serious competition. Apple completely changed the game with the iPhone, focusing not on features that nobody used, but on a world-class user interface that was literally second to none.

Ever since then, seemingly every mobile phone that’s been released has featured a touchscreen, but the user interface itself has been largely unchanged, with just a few tweaks and polishes here and there; certainly nothing that come close to Apple’s glorious invention.

Until now.

With the start of MWC 2009 just days away, the big guns of the mobile phone world are preparing to unleash their brand new phones onto the market, and nearly all of them have something very special waiting in the wings – full touchscreen phones with enhanced user interfaces that match or even surpass the iPhone’s, plus a feature spec that takes your breath away.

Is 2009 the year that the iPhone is finally overtaken? Read on to find out.

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.