No doubt, thin is most definitely in at the mo’. Now, with some help from LG Electronics, we’ll soon see a few more millimeters planed to the shop floor with the introduction of their new 1.48-millimeter sliver of an LCD. Besides being able to balance on a razor’s edge for photo ops, this wee TFT panel will drop in both 2.0 and 2.2-inch formats able to handle QVGA (320 x 240) resolutions. No word on when these might appear, but we’re pretty sure that Samsung’s rigs won’t be sporting ‘em.

The replacement for one of Verizon’s first EV-DO V CAST phones, the VX8100, the VX8300 trades a MiniSD slot for MicroSD and adds Verizon’s notoriously sketchy flavor of Bluetooth (although DUN is officially supported, so maybe we’re okay here). That’s about it — the camera remains the same at 1.3 megapixels, and the VX8100′s silver case is traded for a more subdued black. Available immediately for $99 with contract.

Yep, just your usual, run of the mill 2GB audio player in Korea — with DMB video. LG’s new sleek plasticy hotness, the FM35, obviously emulates the aesthetic success of their Chocolate Phone, and sheds its namesake to go straight for broadcast video; it’ll play four hours of DMB, or supposedly 55 hours of MP3, WMA, OGG, AVI, or ASF. You know the story about launch price, and date — even if we knew, it wouldn’t matter much since unless you’re reading this in Korea, you’re probably never gonna own one.

There was little surprise in this one, but Sprint’s officially launched that LG LX550 as the Fusic. Sure, maybe it’s not the most skillfully named (or styled) phone we’ve laid eyes upon, but it’s got EV-DO, A2DP, an FM transmitter and radio, 1.3 megapixel camera, and MicroSD (bundled with 64MB) for $179.99 after rebate and two-year contract.

[Via Phone Scoop]

There was little surprise in this one, but Sprint’s officially launched that LG LX550 as the Fusic. Sure, maybe it’s not the most skillfully named (or styled) phone we’ve laid eyes upon, but it’s got EV-DO, A2DP, an FM transmitter and radio, 1.3 megapixel camera, and MicroSD (bundled with 64MB) for $179.99 after rebate and two-year contract.

[Via Phone Scoop]

The folks at LG are no stranger to slim phones, and they look to have a winner with their new KG320. Beyond the 0.39-inch thick form factor (the same as Samsung’s recently launched T509) the LG phone features a 2.2 megapixel camera, 176 x 200 pixel screen, Bluetooth and a whole 128MB of memory. Playback isn’t bad neither, with support for MPEG4, MP3 and AAC files. It’s just a tri-band GSM unit, but the phone is headed for Europe in addition to the usual Asian targets, so here’s hoping for a US launch.

[Via MobileKorea.TV]

Nothing too exciting, but it looks like the US might be getting a couple more handsets from LG: the VX8400 and VX8500. The VX8500 (pictured right) is a bit camera shy, and we’re otherwise short on deets, but we can tell it least has a camera, and it could be a slider — or something. As for the VX8400 clamshell (pictured left), the FCC was kind enough to share the manual, so we know it’s a musicphone with 128MB of storage, Bluetooth, a 2.2-inch 176 x 220 pixel screen, external color display and a 1.3 megapixel camera. The EV-DO phone also promises to have a 3D graphics GUI, so that should be exciting. Phone Scoop is predicting Verizon on this one, but no word on price or availability of either handset.

[Via Phone Scoop]

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Read – LG VX8500

Samsung has just upped the ante in its ongoing “anything-you-can-do-we-can-do-better” battle with LG. While LG’s most recent plasma and LCD TVs with built-in DVRs had hard drives that topped out at 250GB, Samsung’s new 42 and 50-inch Anyview models have 300GB of storage. Yeah, an extra 50GB is hardly a big deal (unless you run out of space while recording the season finale of “Lost,” that is). But it lets Samsung thumb its nose at its crosstown rival — for a few days at least. We have no doubt that LG will hit the market with a 500GB model very soon.

Looks like LG just updated their emotional series of monitors with their new L1900. Other than throwing a 2000:1 contrast ratio (was 1600:1), everything else looks pretty much the same — 4ms response, 1:1 aspect, and choice of different fashionable base colors and designs. Of course, that shiny suit wearin’ dude licked in gold trolling the display is new, but not likely included for the roughly $600 tag. However, if you place this pup conspicuosly near the window, well, you never know who might drop by.

South Korean consumers looking for some serious mobile bandwidth need not wait until June to pick up one of LG’s SH100 handsets that we brought you earlier today, because SK Telecom has just announced that their HSDPA network is live in 25 cities as of today, and that a new model from Samsung is available for the rollout. Besides 2G, 3G, and 3.5G data support, the new Samsung SCH-W200 — which is the first of five impending HSDPA phones, including the SH100, that will available by year’s end — offers both a two megapixel as well as a VGA camera, S-DMB TV capabilities, MP3/AAC playback, text-to-speech, and perhaps most importantly with all these features, multitasking. Although theoretically capable of 12Mbps downstream traffic, SKT’s HSDPA network will currently only deliver a relatively pokey 1.8Mbps to the W200 — with 3.6Mbps promised for later this year — but claims to be the only WCDMA network in the world to offer guaranteed video conferencing performance through circuit, and not packet, switching.

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Here’s another dual-core ultraportable to add to your drool-list (probably just due to its looks): LG’s latest superslim XNOTE laptop, the 14.1-inch T1. Unfortunately you’ll probably never see this piano black, 21.5-millimeter thick notebook over here in the States, which is a shame considering how many features they managed to cram into just a 4.2-pound package, most notably a dual-layer DVD burner, 5-in-1 media card reader, plus Bluetooth and 802.11a/b/g. Performance, though, is nothing to write home about, with the low end L2300 1.5GHz Celeron Duo processor, integrated graphics, and pokey 4200RPM 60GB or 80GB PATA drives probably making this model a non-starter for gamers or serious multitaskers. For simple web browsing, emailing, or DVD watching on-the-go, however, the 512MB to 2GB of RAM and optional 1,440 x 900 WXGA+ screen should prove more than adequate.

[Via Core Duo News]