LG has recently announced that it is now one very happy girl scout, having sold 5 million Cookies in just nine months.  The LG Cookie or the KP500 had already found 2 million customers in the first four months of its release, so hitting the 5 million mark barely three months later comes as no big surprise.  Dr. Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company remarked:

Achieving five million units in sales in only nine months is proof that we’re on track with our goal to make Cookie a phone that’s loved by everyone.  Our strategy to provide a full touch screen phone at an affordable price has succeeded beyond our original expectations. If the current trend continues, we expect to see Cookie hit sales of 10 million by the end of this year.

We’ll be around to tell you if the Cookie crawls its way to the 10-million mark, and for all those Cookie users out there, remember that you now have a bestseller in your hands.

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They sure meant business when they said they wanted to sell 10 million of these babies and a CDMA version is a pretty good idea to reach that tantalizing milestone.  But before you Verizon and Sprint subscribers get your hopes up, the new LG Cookie KX500 CDMA will only be available in the Asian market for now, although we can’t entirely rule out the possibility that it will pop up in the United States in the future.  LG has carried over all the features that the KP500 is liked for, including the lovely 3-inch touchscreen display, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, widget-based UI, and an accelerometer with support for CDMA 1x networks instead of GSM.

The LG Cookie KX500 is expected to go on sale starting at the end of May for approx. $276 in the Asia Pacific regions.

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Looks like touch is the way to go, seeing how even non-smartphone touchscreen handsets are kicking up a storm these days.  It is now LG’s time to toot its horn again, this time with the LG KP500, more widely known as the Cookie, which has surpassed the 2-million-unit mark in just five short months since its release and still going strong.  Dr. Scott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications, had this to say on reaching the milestone:

We wanted to allow more people to benefit from the advanced touch technology that we introduced in previous touchscreen handsets.   Because of our extensive background in touchscreen handsets, we are now able to bring this innovative technology to consumers at an affordable price without compromising quality with the LG Cookie.

More peer pressure on the LG Arena to perform better, even if it was preordered a million times before its release, don’t you think?

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We have almost three weeks to go to Valentine’s Day and more pink handsets are coming in. Today is the turn of the pink LG Cookie which was released exclusively in the UK by Orange. This version is codenamed LG Cookie KP501, as opposed to the regular KP500 and it comes in silver too.

The phones comes free of charge if you pick a two-year, £15 per month contract or £99.99 on pay as you go plans. So if in Britain you can go right ahead and order this LG for your soul mate.

via Pokect-lint