LG has its very own 12-megapixel phone. The LG GC990 Louvre is going to be available at some point in the future but it has decided to make an appearance. The phone will offer you neat specs like a 12.1-megapixel shooter, a Schneider-Kreuznach lens, touch-focus features, a 3.2-inch 16:9 touchscreen display, DNLA, TV-Out, XviD and DivX playback, Bluetooth connectivity, aGPS and WiFi connectivity. In other words, the GC990 is a great camera that doubles as a phone. It gets even better! The Louvre can handle ISO of up to 3200 for images and it can record video up to 720p at 30fps. Have we gotten you all excited about it? So now we need some prices and arrival dates! What do you say LG?
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It looks like those people saying that the B7610 Louvre phone was going to be called Omnia Pro were almost right. Samsung unveiled today two OmniaPRO phones, the B7320 and the B7610 formerly known as the Louvre.

The B7610 will offer you a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard and an impressive AMOLED touchscreen. Other important features are the 5-megapixel camera, HSDPA connectivity, AGPS, WiFi and Opera 9.5 browser. These features will make the phone an important asset both to your personal and professional life. Working on the go or looking for some mobile entertainment? The Louvre will deliver in both cases.

We’re expecting the B7610 to come with Windows Mobile 6.1 on board which should be upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5 and we’re waiting for a carrier to pick it up.

What would you choose between the Samsung OmniaPRO B7610 and the HTC Touch Pro2? They are similar phones with similar features. What manufacturer do you love most?

We don’t really care how manufacturers call their new handset as long we like them, do we? What would you like the Samsung Louvre to be called if not the Louvre? Maybe the Omnia Pro? It looks like Samsung leaked some Louvre pictures in its press gallery. And Samsung called the phone the Omnia Pro. And here’s what this phone will offer you no matter how it will be called:

• 3.5-inch AMOLED resistive touchscreen display w/ WVGA resolution
• 800MHz processor
• 5.1 megapixel camera with auto-focus and LED flash
• Sliding QWERTY keypad
• 2 UIs (Pro & Media w/ dedicated button to switch between them)
• TV-OUT
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• MicroUSB
• Divx/WMV/H.264 accelerations
• GPS/WIFI/HSDPA/HSUPA/Bluetooth
• FM Radio
• DNLA support
• 1GB internal memory with microSDHC up to 32GB
• 1500mAh battery

The phone should arrive sometime in September or October. We have no price details for it but by the time Samsung will chose between Omnia Pro or the Louvre for a name we should have more precise launch details.

If you were wondering what the Samsung B7610 Louvre is all about then we have some hot details for you besides the picture above. The Louvre will have some impressive features:

• 112mm x 5.8mm x 16mm
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 7.2Mbps UMTS/HSDPA
• 3.5-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display
• 5 megapixel camera
• 1GB ROM
• 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and aGPS
• Accelerometer
• Bluetooth 2.0
• FM tuner with RDS
• microSD support
• miniUSB
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• 1500 mAh Li-ion battery

What we don’t have for you are release dates and pricing details yet but the phone is said to be available next month and it will apparently cost anywhere between 250€ to 500€.

via gpsandco

This may seem out of the blue but that’s the way most cell phones get leaked, isn’t it? Touted to be a successor to the F700, a new smartphone has popped up on ThePhoneHouse (Dutch subsidiary of Carphone Warehouse) called the Samsung B7610 Louvre.  Details are sparse as of now but from the picture, we can assume that the device will be running Windows Mobile 6.1 and has a full QWERTY keypad.  We will have to wait for Samsung to open up for other details and with a release date of July according to the website, they better make it official real soon, before blurry pictures or detailed spec sheets start emerging.

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