LG has just announced the launch of two new handsets the LG GW520 and LG GT505. These two new handsets are designed to offer users more than simple means of communication with push updates from social networking sites and both business and personal email.

The GW250 is what I would call the LG KS360’s big brother. The LG GW520 and the LG GT505 are the first LG phones to offer push social networking updates allowing consumers to receive alerts from multiple social network sites as they are posted. Users now have the ease of use and functionality to update their own statuses, personal pages or photos. Both new models support push email for personal accounts and have Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync for business accounts.

“Mobile communications have been about more than just voice based calls for a long time, but consumers are now demanding more than just SMS and IM services. They want the kind of messaging and social networking features previously the preserve of high end handsets on a wide range of models, and that is what LG is offering. We recognize the demand for mobile devices that enable quick and easy interaction with social network sites as a growing market. LG aspires to be at the forefront of this with the launch of these great mobile phones”, said Jeremy Newing, head of marketing, LG Mobile UK.

The LG GW520 is a mobile made for messaging, be that via social networks, email or SMS and IM. It enables users to connect to their communities and grow their social life on the move. It also features -

• 2.8-inch touchscreen
• slide-out QWERTY keypad
• 3G with HSDPA 3.6
• Voice instruction
• MicroSD card support
• Bluetooth with A2DP
• 3 megapixel camera

This handset also includes LG’s LiveSquare feature which enables the consumer to see those friends that you talk to most often appearing as an animated character on the homescreen. These characters enable quick and easy access to a contact at the click of a button.

The second handset – the LG GT505 allows easy navigation using Wisepilot for LG. This handset comes preloaded with a 30-day free trial of WisePilot for LG, a turn-by-turn navigation solution, which offers voice instruction and a choice of 2D and 3D mapping to guide users to their destinations.

LG Mobile division has launched its new phone LG KP500 Cookie. The LG KP500 cookie is a power packed elegant handset full of great features, and comes in a variety of colors like gold, brown, black and silver. LG KP500 device has a slide QWERTY keyboard so you can use the Internet with ease. It has a 3 inch screen that is a decent size to browse Internet as well as play your favorite videos. With TFT 240X400 pixel resolution and 262k color it gives a clear and colorful display. The FM radio and MP3 player are just what you need to listen to your favorite music tracks. You can store all your favorite tracks and photos with 48MB of internal memory that is expandable to 8 GB Micro SD card. Dimensions of the KP500 phone are 10.6 x 5cm x 5.54cm x 1.19cm and weighs 87g; device has 3.3 hours of talk time and 350 hours of standby time.

 Price:The LG Cookie KP500 costs Indian Rupee(INR) 12,500*** in India.(Indian Price for LG Cookie KP500 in Rupees)

 
Features and Performance

 The LG Cookie has a large 3 inch screen with three buttons at the bottom (the call buttons and the menu button). It looks stylish enough and only slightly thinner than the iPhone 3G. The stylus can be found at the bottom of the phone.

I’m not expecting a lot from the LG Cookie, I mean, for 100 Quid you can’t expect it to compete with the iPhone but for that budget conscious individual who want to be part of the touch screen revolution, the LG KP500 may be the perfect phone to start with. The widgets on the LG Cookie reminds me so much of my Samsung Omnia, the only cool thing about it is that when you shake it, the widgets would arrange themselves in proper order(BTW, the LG KP500 has a built in accelerometer). Now I really wish that Samsung would get to that SDK kit for the Omnia so developers would start making new widgets for it.

If you’ve already handled the Omnia or the iPhone you know that when you first get hold of the LG KP500, it’s the touch screen action is laggy. You can see how laggy it is when you turn the phone sideways and it would take a while before the LG Cookie goes to landscape mode. I’ve heard other users say that the phone constantly hangs or resets itself, I only had that once during my two days with it.

Music Player wise, I wasn’t disappointed with the LG KP500. The speaker on this phone is superb and it’s almost worthy to be called a music phone. You can even update the album info on the LG Cookie, which is not present in many other similar phones.

As for the camera, the LG KP500 sports a 2 3 megapixel camera WITHOUT autofocus. Needless to say, you shouldn’t expect much out of the LG Cookie if you’re looking for a camera phone. It can do a good job especially if you’re outside and it’s sunny but indoors, picture quality is not great.

The LG KP500, unlike the LG Viewty can’t play DiVX videos though it can play MPEG4 videos at 24fps. The screen resolution is excellent though doesn’t fare well if you use it on direct sunlight.

The LG Cookie has a good browser though it’s slow reading web pages, maybe because it’s only running on EDGE and has no WiFi or 3G. Too bad but like I said, for 100 Quid, I didn’t expect it to have one.

LG has given a new pet name “LG Cookie” to it’s new LG KP500 affordable price touch screen phone.The LG Cookie has 3-inch TFT touchscreen display and a 3.15 megapixel camera. It does not have 3G support but GPRS,EDGE,Bluetooth,USB are there in it.

It detailed features are :

• TFT touchscreen, 256K colors,240 x 400 pixels, 3.0 inches display screen
• Flash UI
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
• Handwriting recognition
• microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB,48 MB internal memory
• GPRS,EDGE,Bluetooth,USB
• 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels Camera
• FM radio with RDS
• MP3/WMA/AAC player
• MPEG4/3gp video player
• Standard battery, Li-Ion 900 mAh with Talk time    Up to 3 h 30 min

Negatives : No WiFi,No 3G

Still a good touchscreen phone at low price

Price:The LG Cookie KP500 costs Indian Rupee(INR) 12,500 in India.

Specifications of LG Cookie KP500

 ***,Mumbai Price, can vary depending on various factors.

This price list of Mobile models by LG company in Indian Mobile Market (Mumbai) Updated : at sep 08.

*******The actual market price may differ. these are just indicative prices.