Aiming at the midrange market, LG will be bringing full touch handsets to the masses, by introducing their latest LG KP500. Standing at 11.9 mm of thickness, the LG KP500 may be affordable but not at the expense of style.

Borrowing its design from the LG Renoir, the LG KP500 uses the latest reincarnation of the proprietary LG Flash-based UI. The user interface is thumb-optimized, but a stylus is also provided to assist handwriting recognition. Unlike the LG Viewty however, the stylus here is tucked into the body of the handset itself.

The LG KP500 is not a high-end device, but once again it's feature pack is optimized for affordability. The KP500 doesn't have 3G support, but there's quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE for a true world-wide use.

It also has a 3 megapixel fixed focus camera, but there's a 3-inch wide touch screen display with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels to poke around. A microSD memory card slot, stereo Bluetooth, FM radio and an accelerometer for auto screen rotation and gaming completes the tally. A virtual landscape QWERTY keyboard and office document viewer are also present.

Weighing only 89 g, the LG KP500 will land in Europe in October 2008. Its price will be announced later on, but we can't help but wonder what do they exactly mean by affordable - their most affordable touchscreen handsets are the LG KF700, which currently sells online for around 200 euro (285 US dollars).





This post has been edited by sonyclie77: Dec 22 2008, 02:00 AM

please quote where the source of this article

u can check at gsmarena.com (most common phone review website)

here:
http://www.gsmarena.com/enter_lg_kp500__pi...ne-news-611.php

nway i wonder how affordable it will be?

herm kf700 in malaysia rm1200..kp500 affordable? must below 1k i think

i think it aroun 900 - 1k for 1st month

i find now LG is copying samsung widget style...

both are koreans ...

dont care which type of cat ... as long as good cat is good enough

yeah..more cheaper than samsung..

ahhh so many henpon to choose...so many release
me better wait until end of this year

the advert out in today's STAR

RM899

And i sold 2 units to the forumers here ady..

not bad for the price tag.

899? whats in the package? the screen look like a window

I'm new to LG. Can anybody tell me the OS? Is it window mobile, or symbian? Can it support pushmail?

this is lg cookie right?

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Added on December 14, 2008, 4:23 amLG now released models are mostly named with food stuff

This post has been edited by kennyshan: Dec 14 2008, 04:23 AM

I saw LG Cookie @ Sungai Wang yesterday.
Size quite small, light in weight and price also not bad
Just the box pretty small in size

(P/S: And I saw JJ at sungai wang )

erm.. charger, cable, extra screen protector, phone, battery, stylus, cd, manual and 1GB. its not winmob phone...

it is the same like viewty, featured phone with active Flash UI. no.. it dont support push email.

i would like to buy this phone for my wife birthday.. rm899 is really good price i think..

Anyone using this cookie now? Might want to know more about it. Quite interest in it.

*My friends say that normally touch screen will become not so sensitive after a period of time and have to use stylus instead of finger. What do you think?

does it haf wi-fi?

This phone no wifi.

My previous viewty getting less sensivity of touch screen after 1 year usage.. after doing calibration also same..