LG GT350

The follow-up to the popular Ks360 messaging phone, the LG GT350 improves all aspects of the previous handset while retaining the characteristically friendly design.Despite the similar looks, the GT350 has had a complete overhaul. The 3" 240 x 400 pixel panel is now a full touchscreen.

Specs: The LG GT350 is a QWERTY keyboard phone that directly replaces the popular KS360 model.

It retains a similar design and profile as the original and size and weight are pretty much the same. Despite the external similarities though, the GT350 is much more advanced. For a start, the large 3" display is now touchscreen and it's also 3G enabled too, making for much faster download & surfing speeds.It also now has that all important feature - an array of social networking applications with dedicated one key access, allowing you to go directly to your favorite sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Mail is also a strong point, with support for push email protocols and multiple accounts.

As you'd expect, it comes complete with multimedia player & an FM stereo radio and the camera is a relatively simple 3.15Mp affair.

• Key Features:
• 3.15MP Camera
• Vide capabilities
• Full QWERTY Keyboard
• MicroSD memory card slot
• Specifications:
• Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, Push Email
• Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
• Radio: Stereo FM radio
• Games: Yes, incl. motion-based + downloadable
• Colors: Aqua Blue, Purple, Light Silver, Black
• Java: MIDP 2.0
• Social networking integration with live updates
• MP3/MP4/AAC/AAC+/EAAC+/WMA player
• MP4 player
• Document viewer (DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF)
• Organizer
• Voice memo
• T9

The LG GT350 will be available in Europe in April and other markets will follow. The four inbox color options are Aqua Blue, Purple, Light Silver, and Black.

LG GS500 Cookie Plus

Today LG launched the GS500 Cookie Plus, a 3G touch screen feature phone that is the spiritual successor to the original Lg cookie. The Cookie Plus sports a new graphical user interface that has a focus around social network connectivity. A Face book widget is on the home screen, and Twitter, Flickr, and others are also available.

Specs: The LG GS500 Cookie Plus takes the fine reputation of the original and builds on it.

Retaining a mid-size footprint like the original Cookie, it's just 107 x 52.5 x 11.5 mm and weighs 92 grams.It's also currently one of the slimmest touch screen phones on the market today

With a TFT touch screen display that measures 3" it supports up to 262k colours, which gives a crisp clear resolution.With three raised, round buttons at the bottom of the handset to give you quick access to the menu. The menu itself has a "cartooney" feel about it which is designed to appeal to the younger folk amongst us but it also makes for a more pleasent approach in day to day use.

It's a quad band, 3G enabled phone so it can be used virtually everywhere and it comes with an internal memory of 41 MB that is very easily expanded to 8Gb via the microSD memory card slot.

This phone features SNS functionality that basically integrates the most popular social networks such as Flickr, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. It also has your standard multimedia player which supports WMA, MP3, RA, AAC, AAC+ and MPEG4 formats. There's a 3.5 mm headphone jack so you can easily listen to your favourite music using earphones.

Specification

• GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• HSDPA 900 / 2100
• 107 x 52.5 x 11.5 mm
• 92.5g
• 3" TFT resistive touchscreen, 256K colors
• Flash UI
• Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
• Handwriting recognition
• 3.5mm audio jack
• 30Mb internal memory
• microSD (TransFlash) up to 8GB
• GPRS
• EDGE
• 3G
• Bluetooth
• 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels
• SMS, EMS, MMS, Email
• WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Native Facebook client
• MP3/WMA/AAC player
• MP4/H.263 player
• Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
• Organiser
• T9

G says that additional cookie devices will be revealed in the coming months. The Cookie Plus will be available initially in France and Italy in March but will eventually be available in 45 countries. This phone will be available in three colors i.e.- Black, Silver, Purple