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Size: 117.7 x 55.7 x 17.1 mm
Display: TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
Ringtones: Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3, WAV
3G: Array
Camera: Array
Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 1150 mAh

Getting an early start on the competition, LG Electronics announced Sunday that its new Arena KM900 smartphone will debut at the Mobile World Congress.

LG is touting the new phone’s 3D touchscreen user interface as

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Microsoft appears poised to officially unveil a Web-based service that will let users store, share, and back up data from their mobile phones.

Provided, that is, that the phones run Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6 phone operating system. And the service will be available as only a limited beta to …

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LG’s flagship music phone thus far has been the LG Chocolate line of phones from Verizon Wireless, and we’ve given it some mixed reviews. The original LG Chocolate annoyed us with the touch-sensitive wheel, but the second LG VX8550 Chocolate impressed …

SINGAPORE–Four years after LG Electronics and Prada began their cross-industry collaboration combining technology and luxury goods, mobile phones today remain the focal product of their partnership.

Matteo Sessa Vitali, vice president and licensing director at Prada, noted that a mobile phone is very much a personal accessory, with many similarities as the other products offered by the luxury goods company. “You carry it with you and it tells something about you,” Vitali told ZDNet Asia in an interview.

The ability to add LG’s technology in Prada’s portfolio gives “a lot of value” to the company’s product, he said.

Chang Ma, vice president of marketing strategy at LG Electronics’ mobile communications division, said the partnership with Prada provides LG much-needed insight to the luxury goods market.

Chang said, during the interview, that Prada’s strong understanding of this market and its openness to innovation encouraged LG to introduce luxury goods–an initiative it would not have undertaken alone, due to the company’s limited knowledge of the market segment.

He noted that the first Prada phone the partners collaborated on was a “full” touch-screen-enabled phone, launched some four months before Apple introduced the iPhone.

The executives were in town Thursday for the local launch of LG’s latest edition of the Prada phone.

Preserving the original touch-screen design of its predecessor, the new LG-KF900 features a QWERTY keyboard that slides out. Other upgrades include 3G support and HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps, and a 5-megapixel camera.

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img src=http://i.gsmarena.com/vv/reviewsimg/se-w902/thumb3.jpg width=80 height=97 hspace=3 alt= border=0 align=left style=”background:#333333;padding:0px;margin:0px 4px 0px 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:#aaaaaa;border-width:1px” / pA phone like no other or a quick-fix Cyber-shot Walkman mongrel trying to pass off as a hip novelty - you can call the Sony Ericsson W902 whatever you like, but it will still be the best cameraphone among music phones. The 5 megapixel auto focus camera opens a new chapter in the Walkman book…/p

img src=http://i.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/09/02/samsung-omnia-reloaded/thumb.jpg width=70 height=92 hspace=3 alt= border=0 align=left style=”background:#333333;padding:0px;margin:0px 4px 0px 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:#aaaaaa;border-width:1px” / pSamsung revealed a reloaded version of the i900 Omnia, which comes in purple to complement the already existing black and white versions. New security and social applications plus new home screen widgets…/p

Internet phone company Jajah can turn the iPod Touch into an iPhone. (Download from CNET Download.com.)

The company, which competes with other low-cost Internet calling applications such as Skype, announced Thursday a new application that will allow Touch users to call and text messages using a voice …

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