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Details are still few and far between on this flashy little number, but we don’t doubt it’s going to be something of a hit comes its Q3 release (testified to by the fact that it’ll be hitting the shelves of no less than 54 countries at more or less the same time. So are we excited about the LG BL40 Chocolate? Well, kinda. It is without doubt an absolutely stunning phone, a work of design craftsmanship to be proud of no matter how you look at it. That 4-inch screen is coated in a curved, tempered glass which is going to feel as delicious as, well, chocolate, we guess. And with a 21:9 ratio and a whopping 800 by 345 pixel resolution, that going to produce some truly stunning visuals. The promise is, in fact, that once the the LG BL40 Chocolate is rotated into landscape, it’s going to more or less remove the need for horizontal scrolling in order to see the full width of a normal web page. That we do like. However, don’t expect to be watching many movies or TV shows that fill the whole screen without some weird stretching or cropping, as there’s very little released in that 21:9 format.

And there’s also something deeper… something in us that we know is not shared by everyone. The fact that, well, we’re just a bit scruffy. A bit rough around the edges. A bit unfancy. And if there’s one thing this phone is, it’s fancy. Super fancy. Like, fancy fancy. And maybe that appeals to you. Maybe you’ll be swept away by all the superlatives in this LG BL40 chocolate review and start leaping at these LG BL40 Chocolate deals quicker than lemmings off a cliff. And good luck to you, we say, good luck. Just be aware that this is one hell of a fancy phone, and you may well find yourself the recipient of a fair few jealous / angry / baffled / mocking / (but mostly jeaous) looks after you do so.

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It’s August and that means only one thing in the mobile phone world, bargains. Whilst people are off sunning themselves, mobile phone manufacturers and retailers are busy lowering their prices in an attempt to stimulate what has always been a slightly stale month. So we decided to put together a list of handsets that we like along with the monthly price you will pay for getting them. We hope you enjoy.

1) Nokia N97 deals – Yes guys it’s the big one, Nokia’s answer to the iPhone and we can tell you for free, that it isn’t the cheapest handset on the market. £40.00 per month on either T-mobile or Vodafone will get you 800 minutes and unlimited texts or 600 minutes and unlimited texts respectively. If you can afford it, then why not go for it?
2) Nokia 5530 deals – Vodafone wins out here offering 600 minutes and unlimited texts for a mere £20.29 per month. OK it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of the N97, but for that, you do get a line rental at half the price. Just promise us that you’ll consider it… please?
3) HTC Hero deals – I deliberated for a long time as to whether to put this one in at number 3 or 4 and in the end I went with number 3, simply because the magazines are going crazy over this little beauty. £25.00 per month with 400 minutes and 3000 texts is not a bad deal either on the Orange network.
4) Samsung Jet deals – I love this phone and it was hard for me to put it below the Hero, especially considering you can get this wonderful handset for a little over £21.00 per month on (you guessed it) Orange with 400 minutes and 3000 texts.
5) Blackberry Curve 8520 deals – No list would be complete without adding a Blackberry to the equation. It has to go in at number 5 simply because not everyone wants to send emails on holiday whilst sipping a long Island iced tea in the Bahamas, but with a deal on O2 offering £170 automatic cashback on a £35.00 per month tariff, I might justtake my emails everywhere I go.
6) Nokia N86 deals – The gamers delight, the Nokia N86 is packed with fun, hell it screams fun, perhaps that’s taking it a little too far, but it is an excellent little phone and for £30.00 per month you can get 600 minutes and unlimited texts on Vodafone. With that you can call and text all your mates to let them know your high scores.
7) Sony Ericsson W995 deals – I feel sorry putting the W995 in seventh place, partly because it is a truly amazing phone. What’s more you can get it for just over £21.00 per month. The thing is you will get it and in 3 months time you will want the Satio or the Aino and then you will blame me for putting it on the list and I just couldn’t handle the guilt.
HTC Diamond 2 deals – In at number 8 simply because it is a huge improvement over the original diamond and you can get it for below £30.00 per month on O2. If it’s a Smartphone you’re looking for, this one should be on the shortlist.
Any others we should have included? Get commenting and we will shout them out to the world.

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Bah! Humbug! Curses! Gosh diddly darn it!

We hate it when those cynical phone manufacturing types get things right. Sometimes they take big risks and invest in new technologies that sometimes make our lives way more fun, but that sometimes fail and lose them lots of money. Sometimes they bow to pressure from our good selves and produce something fun / exciting / new / groundbreaking just to show that they care. But sometimes, just sometimes, they release things that are so downright annoyingly profitable that we just have to (cynically) applaud their efforts.

Step forward the LG GW300. A phone that offers pretty much nothing beyond a QWERTY keyboard. A phone that is actually going to be marketed as offering little more than a few pre-installed bits and bobs that will let you us said keyboard to update your Facebook or Twitter accounts with ease. Because it’s going to be sold very cheaply indeed, and all those who use Facebook too much, or understand what the hell Twitter is all about, are going to get very excited and buy these in the hundreds of thousands.

But with all these cheap LG GW300 deals, we hear you scream, surely LG won’t make that much? Ah, precious stupid reader, but you forget (already) that this thing is about as basic as phones get. That with no 3G, no Wi-Fi, no GPS and no lots of other things, it will cost LG about as much to make as the hourly wage of their underpaid workers in whatever god forsaken country these things are constructed in.

That’s the truth according to us, anyway. You can corroborate it, kind of, by reading the truth according to GSM Arena, or the truth according to this LG GW300 review.

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We’ve been scathing about a few recent cameraphones, we’ll admit. This is mainly because, smart (and modest) as we are, we realise that the 12 megapixel promise actually guarantees nothing but enormous file sizes should you choose to shoot in the highest res mode. And given that most of these cameraphones have had little more than toy lenses attached to their light sensors, even if those light sensors have had megapixels crammed into them tighter than idiots into a Michael Jackson memorial concert they still wouldn’t take a decent picture.

The LG Louvre, however, has a decent looking lens from comedy-German-named lens experts Schneider-Kreuznach, manufacturers of millions (and millions) of very decent lenses over the last near-century of their existence. And, even if this might not be as scientific, if you have a little Google Image hunt, you’ll find that the back of the LG Louvre GC990 looks more like a dedicated camera than a phone. And, as looking at the kind of idiots that attend memorial services proves, you can more often than not judge by looks.

The Louvre, or GC990 as it will more likely be called once LG get their ducks in a row and actually confirm a release date for this thing, might actually just be the best of the upcoming batch of 12MP cameraphones… you heard it here first. Hear it second in this LG Louvre review. Have a look at these LG mobile phones. And watch this space…

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The LG GC900 Viewty Smart is a phone that is ideal for anyone and everyone, however it is best suited for a business individual who is constantly on the road. This phone offers a great variety of features that is sure to leave you asking for more. Some of the specifications in this phone are mentioned below:

- 3 inch WVGA touchscreen
- HSDPA 7.2Mbps
- microSD memory slot
- A-GPS for navigation and geo-tagging
- Bluetooth enabled

The LG GC900 Viewty Smart also has a wide range of alternative features. The phone has Wifi capabilities and therefore makes it the perfect phone for any business individual. The user can access the web in no time and search for information or they can send and receive e-mails from anywhere in the world. Also note that this feature is subject to alter when considering the phone usage and network.

The GC900 Viewty Smart also has an 8 megapixel camera which is perfect for all those occasions that you do not want to forget. It also has a number of other additions as well. The camera has face-tracking, Xenon flash, auto-focus and image stabilizer.

This LG phone also has a wide array of basic features as well. They can be found in every mobile phone and thus proves that these features too are quite essential. The phone consists of a TO-DO list, notes, calendar and a calculator.

The LG Viewty Smart is a long way off according to CNET and therefore you will not be able to purchase it just yet, however if you are planning on investing on a new phone then you might want to wait a bit longer until the phone is released. You will not regret it!

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It’s not often that we find we’ve got little to say here. But we’ve got little to say here. It’s all the fault of LG and whatever dodgy deals they’ve done with Orange and T-Mobile, because as we’ve come to review the LG GT505 (available exclusively on Orange, and coming to shelves very soon) we’ve realised that it is exactly – exactly! – the same as the GT500 reviewed a couple of posts earlier.

Which is no bad thing, of course. The GT500 (available exclusively on T-Mobile) is a pretty decent, if not groundbreaking mid-ranger. Something that’ll keep you ticking along nicely. We’re just a little stumped as to why the LG GT505 deserves a number all of its own, and a slightly less cool one than the GT500.

But wait… what’s that you say?…. you’ve found a difference? The GT505 comes preloaded with Wisepilot – a turn-by-turn navigation program that even offers voice instruction and a choice of 2D and 3D mapping. Good lord, that is indeed a difference… what’s that though? It only comes pre-loaded with a 30-day trail? Ah. Well then. That’s not really a difference at all, is it? Oh dear.

Anyway, we’re not at all suggesting the GT505 is bad, wrong, or even immoral. Though we might say that about LG themselves for trying to fob us off with even the hint that the GT505 is in any way original (or exclusive). Shame on them. Check out a LG GT505 review here to see for yourself it’s just-like-the-GT500-ness.

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It’s not often than learning all about a new phone gives us goosebumps and a fear of going to sleep when the long day is done, but the GW520 has done just that. Promoting itself heavily via two main points – firstly, that you can use push technology to receive constant updates from both emails and social networking sites, and secondly that it’s high speed internet access and software will make uploading things like photos to sites such as Facebook – we realised that this might be a phone for ‘the kids.’ You know the ones. You might even be one. Playing loud music on the buses. Shouting and screaming at each other. And constantly taking pictures of each other doing the most boring, inane things. Look! Shazza’s yawning! Take a picture with your LG GW520. Look! Shazza’s stopped yawning! Take a picture! You know the ones.

So while the LG GW520 might not be for us, there’s definitely going to be a large audience for this phone. It’s internet is indeed fast at 7.2mps, its slide-out QWERTY keyboard might make style gurus vomit in their mouth a little, but for the kids with their nimble fingers, this will make messaging / emailing / Facebookstatusupdating happen even quicker than ever before. Pretty soon they won’t need to interact with the real world at all. Look! Shazza’s updating her status on he phone! Quick, take a… and so on. More specs and less early-middle-aged cynicism in this LG GW520 review. The LG GW520 will be available any day now on just about any provider you want.

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Sometimes mobile phone manufacturers twist the truth. Sometimes they bend it. Sometimes they get it in one of those arm-behind-the-back locks that really hurt. Other times they just plain lie. And LG have dropped an absolute stinker on us today. With this sentence… wait for it, because you’ll like this… seriously, it’s impressive… “The stunning LG GT500 Puccini is a slim yet feature-packed touchscreen phone that will revolutionise the way you think about mobile communications.”

Now then. There’s several things we’re not going to dispute here about the LG GT500 Puccini. Firstly, “stunning.” Well, actually, it’s not. But it’s not bad looking either, so we’ll let that one go. “Slim.” Here we’ll agree. Not the slimmest, but at 12mm it’s certainly not obese. “…yet featured packed.” Again, we’re at arm bending ever so slightly back in a direction it’s not supposed to here, but it does have a lot of features that aren’t half bad (5MP camera with lots of cool add-ons, high-speed internet access, GPS, etc.) so we’ll let them have that too. Here’s where it gets tricky though: “…that will revolutionise the way you think about mobile communications.”

Right. So this phone will revolutionise, will absolutely turn on its head, turn inside out, upset, challenge, provoke and completely alter how you think about the entire mobile communication industry. Erm, it won’t. We’ve learnt all about this phone, seen it in action, read all the specs, read them again, read them a third time really slowly just in case we missed something, and we can categorially tell you that we have not experienced a revolution in how we think about mobile communications. To be honest, we didn’t even spin round once in our spinny office. We just nodded, thought that the GT500 Puccini (released very soon on T-Mobile only) was a pretty average phone that, as long as you can pick it up cheaply, would not be a bad choice really. Bearded Cuban men or angry Iranian people start revolutions. Sometimes, when something as startling as the first iPhone comes along, you might just about be able to squeeze the word revolution into a sentence. This is not one of those times. Shame on you, LG press release writers! Check out a less angry LG Puccini review here, where we promise the words revolution, cataclysmic, world-ending, tectonic or even brilliant are used.

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LG KT770 comes under the banner of the LG Series 60 and was announced to be released sometime around mid of this year. LG officially introduced it to the public this February at the Mobile World Conference 2009. Just like its LG’s other mobile phones, the KT770 also does not use Windows Mobile. Instead, it uses Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2.

It looks quite average but alright at the same time as the sliding keypad gives a business-like look. This model is quite thick at 15.8 but it doesn’t show so much as a disadvantage either. It is a quad-band phone equipped with global roaming. The camera is 5megapixel and autofocus, smile & face detection enabled. Furthermore you get digital zoom and panaroma also. The 2.8 WQVGA (240×400pixels) screen is accompanied by the 9-way navigation button and the soft keys on the face of the phone. Talk time and standby time is not known, however we do know that the battery is a 950mAh Li-Ion.

The in-built memory capacity is 2GB maximum but this can be increased up to 16GB with the use of microSD slot. There is also inbuilt GPS while internet can be accessed fast using HSDPA 7.2Mbps.

You also need to give some serious thought as to what network you’re going to choose for your phone. Because this will decide how frequently and easily you can use the features offered by the phone. Therefore you need to compare the deals available online for LG KT770. This way you can not only ensure cheap tariffs but also win some extra gifts and discounts alongside your phone. The LG KT770 will help you select from a wide range of service providers and go for the one that’s most suitable for you. These LG KT770 deals are kept updated so that you can receive the benefits as soon as it hits the market.

If you think that LG is your one stop shop for mobile phones and accessories, then you need to check out LG mobile phones in depth.

For network specific deals, follow the links below:

LG KT770 on Orange
LG KT770 on O2
LG KT770 on T-Mobile
LG KT770 on Vodafone
LG KT770 on 3 Mobile
LG KT770 on Virgin

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LG’s Renoir line introduced another new phone at the Mobile World Conference 2009 Barcelona. This new model KC910i Renoir, like its previous models, is dedicated to the memory of the famous painter Pierre-Aguste Renoir and was released on the day of his anniversary. The 2 models KC910 and KC910i which was introduced successively, have very limited differences however.

The newer model KC910i claims to be slightly better looking as its more slim and shiny. LG have decided to remove the lens protector in the new model, the effectiveness of this is yet to be decided by the critics and public. However LG have managed to solve the little problems it experienced with the original version as the new KC910i camera does not crop part of the pictures you take. The image is just the same as you see in the screen through the lens.

The KC910i carries the significant 8megapixel camera as a strong symbol of its identity. This camera is also equipped with smile & blink detector, autofocus and digital image stabilizer. It can record videos at a speed of 30fps normally and 120fps in slow motion recording. Apart from this, the other features you can experience is fast internet connection with HSDPA 7.2Mbps, coupled with WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, inbuilt GPS which enables photos to be geo-tagged, Dolby Sounds and video playback in XviD & DivX formats.

In times of financial difficulties it’s difficult to afford such technologically driven items which naturally tend to be expensive. However there is a solution for that; LG KC910i Renoir contracts. These contracts will make it possible for you to pay the price of the phone in installments. So if you want to buy the latest model of the Renoir edition and you do not have the financial capability, LG KC910i Renoir deals are the best way. LG KC910i Renoir contracts and deals are of a wide range and depends on the number of texts and call time you require. You are also entitled to win many gifts and various accessories that go along with your phone.

For network specific deals, follow the links below:
LG KC910i Renoir on Orange
LG KC910i Renoir on O2
LG KC910i Renoir on T-Mobile
LG KC910i Renoir on Vodafone
LG KC910i Renoir on 3 Mobile
LG KC910i Renoir on Virgin

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