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LG Electronics India Pvt. Limited (LGEIL), has launched two new mobile handsets - KG 288 and KG 285. These handsets are an addition to LG’s entry portfolio and are targeted at the entry-level customer. Both models are loaded with an anti-theft tracker and have features like Sudoku and in the case of the KG288, a hot key for FM radio. Anil Arora, Business Group Head, GSM said, “LG has always been on the forefront in launching new technology and wrapping it up with the style quotient.

In our latest offering, we have continued with this trend by providing the customer attractive features at unbeatable prices.”The KG 288 and 285 are equipped with TFT 65K Color Displays; 300 entry phone book memory and 100 SMS memory. Both models also have speaker phones and are dual band handsets. Other features include a stopwatch function, calendar and an alarm. The KG 288 also comes with an inbox headset for listening to FM. The KG 288 and KG 285 will be available in the market for Rs. 1,949 and Rs.1,649 respectively.

LG’s 5 megapixel camera phone the KU990, called the Viewty, has made an appearance at this year’s GSMA Mobile Asia Congress 2007 held in Macau. The KU990 follows in the footsteps of the popular iPhone-like LG Prada. This candy bar styled phone has a large 3-inch LCD touch screen with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels and sports 256K colors. The Viewty has a Flash UI (user interface).The LG KU990 has an inbuilt memory of 100MB and also supports external memory through microSD cards. It’s also 3G enabled with HSDPA for faster connectivity. Speaking of connectivity it’s also Bluetooth v1.2 enabled with A2DP compatibility and USB v2.0. The main feature of course is the 5 megapixel, auto-focus camera with a Xenon flash.

The KU990’s camera is also equipped with anti-shake image stabilizer and face-tracking software and even manual focus should you wish to get a bit more ‘professional’ with it. What the Viewty also incorporates is an application that allows users to upload videos to the net to sites like YouTube and there’s another photo editor application for making changes to images shot through the camera. The best part about the camera is its ability to capture 120 frames per second. There’s also a VGA camera located in the front for video calling.

LG Electronics unveiled some new products and future technologies at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It officially launched the LG-KF700, a new handset with an optimized user interface that makes use of touch technology. Other handsets from LG featuring touch technology included the convenience oriented LG-KF600, the slim and stylish interactive touch-lighting LG-KF510, and the professional level camera phone-equipped LG Viewty.

Combining three separate input methods, the LG-KF700 provides easy access to multimedia features, which includes a full web browser, digital audio and video players, and handy widgets. The high-res 3-inch full touchscreen LCD provides an optimized interface for watching video content. A shortcut dial on the rear of this 3G, HSDPA-enabled handset offers an easy and intuitive way to switch among applications. There’s a sliding alphanumeric keypad for calls. Other features include a 3 megapixel auto-focus camera, support for microSD cards, Bluetooth and USB connectivity.

Those of you who are also into audio will have surely heard of a big name in the biz – Mark Levinson. This audio equipment manufacturing company has teamed with LG mobiles and developed what they call the LG: the Rhapsody in Music. So it’s a long and odd name for a mobile phone, but according to the company it should speak for itself.

The most obvious fact about this device is that it of course should have a Kick-Ass music player. Other specs include Bluetooth (possible with A2DP) 1GB of internal memory and external memory support and a 2 megapixel camera. This LG slider also has a navigation wheel under its screen, so following in the footsteps of the and yes, the ever popular Apple iPod.

LG Electronics posted full-year sales of more than W40 trillion for the first time in its history (US$1=W953).The Korean electronics giant said Wednesday it recorded W10.91 trillion in sales and W380.9 billion in operating profit in the fourth quarter of last year, including the performance of its overseas operations.

The sales figure is an all-time quarterly high, and the operating profit slightly outperformed market expectations. The company posted full-year sales for 2007 of W40.85 trillion, an increase of 11.2 percent from 2006. Operating profit was W1.23 trillion, up 46.2 percent year-on-year. The performance was driven by the firm’s cell phone division, which posted W10 trillion in annual sales and recorded 8.5 percent growth in operating margin.

In just the final quarter of last year, the cell phone division posted sales of W2.92 trillion, up more than 10 percent year-on-year, and saw its operating margin increase 8.8 percent. LG’s display division posted W3.97 trillion in sales and reduced its perennial operating deficit to W10.9 billion. The company expects the display division to earn a profit this year, an LG Electronics executive said. LG Electronics aims to achieve US$50 billion in sales this year, a 10 percent increase from 2007. It lowered its forecast for the foreign exchange rate from W900 per U.S. dollar last year to W885 this year.

Several mobile phone makers have won a W300-billion (US$1=W947) lawsuit against the Korea Customs Service for import duties levied on multi-chip package memory products, a key component in mobile phones. The Seoul Administrative Court sided with LG Electronics in its request to cancel W22.4 billion in tariffs imposed by the customs service on MCP imports. The court also ordered taxes be canceled for Toshiba (W42 billion) and Pantech (W3.7 billion).Samsung Electronics is also expected to win a similar W150-billion suit which is scheduled to be ruled on soon.

The customs service has slapped over W300 billion in tariffs on 140 MCP importers. Combining flash memory chips and S-RAM, MCPs are used for data storage in cell phones. Manufacturers have imported them as integrated circuits which are not subject to tariffs since 1998.But the KCS categorized MCPs as devices subject to an 8 percent tariff in 2004 and demanded back duties on products imported before Jan. 2006, which brought about the lawsuit. The court denied taxation on MCPs, citing their non-independent functionality.

Slider cell phones are definitely rising in popularity, especially those made by LG and Samsung, so it only makes sense that the sliding mechanism gets implemented in related technology as well. I’d imagine that the i.Tech i.Slider Bluetooth Headset isn’t the first to headset to feature a sliding mechanism, but it is pretty cool that you can use that to answer and end calls. It’s an active slider, much like what you’d find on the LG Chocolate or the Samsung U700. When a call comes in, you simply extend the microphone boom and start yakking. When you’re done explaining where you were last night, you retract the boom and continue on with your day.

For those you who don’t like the slider, there is also a multifunction button like most other Bluetooth headsets. Then again, if you don’t like the slider, you probably wouldn’t buy this device anyways. Other notable specs include the ability to connect to two phones simultaneously, a weight of 9.5 grams, Bluetooth v2.0 Class 2, up to 4 hours of talk time, up to 80 hours of standby, and your choice of silver or purple-black.

U.S. TV broadcasters will be ready to start transmitting signals for portable electronics like cell phones next year, the developers of the technology, LG Electronics Inc. and Harris Corp., said Sunday. The technology represents a chance for broadcasters to challenge cell-phone carriers, who are trying to sew up the market for mobile TV with their own transmissions. “This is going to let broadcasters get back in the game,” said Howard Lance, chairman and chief executive of Harris, which makes broadcasting equipment. But it’s doubtful that the Mobile Pedestrian Handheld, or MPH, receivers developed by LG will make it into cell phones in the U.S. market, which is tightly controlled by the carriers.

LG’s president and chief technology officer, Woo Paik, said MPH is also suitable for other portable devices, like media players, navigation devices and laptops. The cost to build TV reception capabilities into these would be “minimal,” Paik said at a news conference ahead of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Broadcasters “realize the great opportunity out there in reaching customers who are now more and more on the move,” Lance said. Harris has conducted field trials of MPH in Chicago and Washington. Expanded trials will be conducted this year, and broad coverage is planned for 2009, Lance said. MPH uses an available part of the digital TV broadcast spectrum, and the necessary equipment is easily added to existing TV towers, LG and Harris said.

Competing technologies include MediaFLO, developed by Qualcomm Inc. and deployed by Verizon Wireless, and DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld), championed by Nokia Corp. and adopted overseas.

Momail has passed yet another milestone with its popular mobile email service. Already the market leader in devices supported, Momail now hits the 1000 mark. Examples of the latest and upcoming models compatible with Momail are the Apple iPhone, LG KU990 Viewty, Motorola MOTORAZR V9 and MOTO Q9h, Nokia N82 and 8800 Arte, Samsung I450, J200 and P520 Armani and the SonyEricsson K660i, W380i and W890i.”In UK the GPS and the digital photo frame has been selected as this year’s “must-have” Christmas gifts, but if we count the number of units sold during the holiday season, the mobile phone will win again this year.

We estimate that more than 300 million mobile phones will be sold worldwide this quarter: In UK alone, approximately 6 million handsets will be sold, and Momail functions on almost all of them”, says Roger Grönberg, CEO of Momail. Of the more than 1.1 billion mobile phones that will be sold this year, more than 80 percent include built-in email support, and Momail intends to be first choice on markets where launched. Today Momail is available in the five Nordic countries, the UK, and will launch in Germany and Poland very soon.

Momail will continue to expand its offering across many countries throughout 2008.”Many consumers will receive a mobile phone this Christmas, and of course we hope they will be used for mobile email and Momail. Momail makes it very easy to get started and its patented technology optimizes every email for each mobile’s specific requirements, thus, saving an average of 82 percent of the data traffic to the mobile. Therefore, Momail is the fastest and most cost effective mobile communication solution available today,” says Roger Grönberg.

LGE fully leveraged its sponsorship of the opening ceremony of 2002 FIFA World Cup as effective promotional venue for its cutting-edge IT products such as IMT-2000 handsets, TFT-LCD TVs, and others - LGE’s IMT-2000 handset selected as “Hot News” item in the recent issue of Fortune magazine of the U.S. - LGE’s W-CDMA IMT-2000 handset used for global roaming demonstration between KTICOM of Korea and J-Phone of Japan to affirm LGE’s position as the leader of W-CDMA IMT-2000 technology.LG Electronics is being identified as the benefactor of World Cup PR in advanced IT products. Cutting-edge IT products of LGE have enjoyed worldwide exposure and recognition for their quality leadership during the 2002 World Cup period.At the World Cup Opening Ceremony IT Performance that signaled the opening of the World Cup events at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on May 31, LGE’s latest W-CDMA IMT-2000 handset was used for video call demonstration and its latest display products including PDP and TFT-LCD TVs were used for Digital Image Performance to boast LGE’s strength in the best of breed IT technology to the world.At the IT Performance, organized as part of the opening ceremony of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan� , LGE provided total 450 million won worth of advanced IT products including W-CDMA IMT-2000 handsets (130 phones), TFT-LCD TV (15 inch/ 350 sets), and DVD players (20 units) to promote the image of a globally leading “IT Korea,” leaving an indelible mark about the sophisticated technologies offered by LGE to the world.