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Got touchscreen envy but don’t have the pair of Benjamins required to get yourself into a celly without a keypad? LG has a solution: the KP500, a nearly button-less and stylus-bearing handset that sounds rather like another recent cheap smartphone. LG’s not giving many details about this one beyond its 3-inch display, a 3 megapixel camera, motion sensor, and availability in black, brown, silver, or gold (though based on the pic above we’d stay away from that last one). There’s a short video of the TouchFLO-like UI to whet your appetite just below, but that’s all we have to share until this phone hits europ. in a month, with a worldwide release to come afterward.

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If you find yourself squinting at your celly but can’t bear the thought of investing in a Jitterbug, LG has a phone that might catch your (bespectacled) eye. The new senior-friendly SV390/LV3900 Wine Phone features a larger screen inside (2.4-inches) and out (1.8-inches) for reading text “comfortably,” plus larger buttons for aging fingers to press more comfortably, too. Beyond the up-sized screens your $400 gets you leather texture on the outside and a fancy digital camera, though not much else, much like LG’s slightly smaller (and equally featureless) SV300 from last year. It’s available at this time only in Korea, meaning those with bad eyes and big thumbs in the U.S. will either have to stick with their Jitterbugs or just keep squinting. We’d squint.

[Via SlashPhone]

Continue reading LG’s new Wine Phone has big screens, comfort

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