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LG announces the launch of LG KP500 with an affordable introduction price. Slim-profiled and lightweight, the LG KP500 is a GSM phone which can operate in four frequency bands and supports 39 languages. LG did not reveal the selling price but said it will be affordable to most mobile phone users. When available, it will come in black, Vandyke brown, Anodizing silver, and Elegant gold, giving consumers more choices for their personal tastes.

The LG KP500 has an embedded stylus pen concealed in the base that can be easily removed for the advanced handwriting recognition program that allows the user to write memos and text messages, and also edit photo images by touching the screen with the pen tip. The QWERTY keyboard on the 3-inch display screen slides into view when the LG-KP500 is held horizontally, and the auto rotating display always shifts images or documents for proper viewing no matter which way the handset is turned. Also packed into the LG KP500 are motion sensor games that are played by turning, flipping, and shifting the handset for a more active and fun gaming experience.

“The feedback we receive from consumers around the world indicate that there’s more people who wish to try the latest touch screen phones,” said Dr. Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “We want to reach out to this group and LG KP500 is our answer to deliver a high quality full touch screen phone that is easy to use and much easier to afford. Within reach of many consumers, we hope that more people will experience the joy of using the latest touch screen technology with LG KP500.”

The LG KP500 will be available at the end of October 2008 in Europe and then on to the rest of the world. The price of the LG KP500 will be announced during the launch.

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Seems High Tech Computer (HTC) doesn’t want to put all the eggs in one basket and will continue to simultaneously develop smartphones based on Windows Mobile and Android platform. HTC is Taiwanese-based phonemaker for Android’s first phone, T-Mobile G1.

Android and Windows Mobile handsets can complement each other in the market, offering consumers and telecom service providers more choice, according to John Wang, CMO, High Tech Computer (HTC), who added in saying the company will continue to simultaneously develop smartphones based on the two platforms

Windows Mobile and Android handsets form separate ecosystems with their own merits and advantages, Wang explained. The former provide users with high performance, interoperability and a large library of applications, while the later give handset design companies and developers more flexibility, he detailed.

[DigiTimes via TechTicker]

GSMAreana has managed to obtain a press photo of the new 8 megapixel camera phone, the LG KC780. The slider phone was first leaked last week and is the second 8 megapixel camera phone from LG after LG KC910. Although it is built in slider form factor, GSMArena said it will be slimmer than Samsung Pixon which is at least less than 13.8 mm for the thickness. Detail specifications is still unknown at the moment. Expect it to support GSM Quadband network and VGA video recording. The first LG KC910 is scheduled to be available in the market in October next month.

Source [GSMArena]

How to fight against illegal music downloads? Just offer the unlimited mobile downloads and it would be big business for mobile operators and also could shift consumers’ music habits away from older CD and PC-based technologies.

A report by TNS has found that within the UK alone, mobile phone owners could download 2.1 billion music tracks from the Sony Ericsson and Nokia music portals.

Last week’s statement by Sony Ericsson that it will partner with Omnifone to offer its PlayNow plus service is the latest in the race to bring unlimited music downloads bundles to market - kicked off by Nokia’s recent announcement that its ‘Comes With Music’ package will be available from next month.

The study also indicates that the new bundled music download services could shift consumers’ music habits away from older CD and PC-based technologies. 45% of CD buyers in Britain claim that they would buy fewer CDs if they adopted Nokia ‘Comes With Music’, while 47% of PC music down-loaders would expect to reduce their PC downloading.

[via Cellular-News]

I just wrote a few hours ago about the possibility of Android phone goes Asia through Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom – country’s largest operator, according to the Taiwan News.

But now, I got another clue: China Mobile Communications (China Mobile), the largest operator of mobile communication services in China, may take the initiative to offer Android handsets in the China market.

It’s make sense that China Mobile, among mobile telecom carriers in China, is the only one to join the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), the main backers of Android.

Moreover, the Android handset possibly to support China’s TD-SCDMA 3G standard, the country’s standard of 3G mobile telecommunication.

Please take a note that China Mobile will also bring iPhone 3G to that market, but without 3G and Wi-Fi capabilities (due its incompatibility with China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA 3G standard).