LG Electronics has unveiled a new phone in Korea, the LG-LV7500 Whistle Mobile. The phone is said to be catered to Koreans only and comes in four different colors: white, dark navy, hot pink, and sky blue.

Among its striking features include support for 115 LED lights on the front panel to create users’ own emoticon designs. Basing it from this feature alone, it can be seen that this phone is targeting the yuppies market although don’t be surprised if some mature ones may consider getting it.

Standard Features:

• 2.4-inch 240×320 Pixel External Display
• LED 5h23
• Battery 800 mAh for up to 150 minutes talk time/ 150 hours standby time
• 2G network connectivity

The LG-LV7500 Whistle Mobile carries a price tag of about $322.

(Source) LG

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Motorola lifts the covers of the Motorola ROKR ZN50, a mobile phone that comes with a full-touchscreen slider with 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS and a T-DMB2 digital TV tuner. It also boasts of a 3.2-inch 240 x 427 touchscreen with a Panorama UI which seems to be copying the Anroid-like layout.

For now this mobile phone remain in Korea though it would be interesting to note if the phone would become available worldwide soon.
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Koreans are sure to rejoice as the Sony Experia is scheduled to come out next week locally. Sony Ericsson opened their local office to launch the Experia to the Korean market and has actually been hiring to build up the Sony Korea branch.

Xperia becomes the second phone to be made available in Korea for 2009. HTC had launched the Touch Diamond a week ago.

(Source) Cnet Asia

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