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Next in the line of LG 8MP-touting mobile phones is the just announced LG-KC780 slider phone.  According to LG, this camera phone, or rather portrait phone, has special features that make it ideal for shooting portraits.  Measuring a mere 13.9 mm thick, this portrait phone comes with a Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens, which is actually common in most Kodak digital cameras.

Complementing this lens is the portrait phone’s face detection and smile detection technology, which automatically searches for your subjects’ faces and angle of their mouths to focus on their best angle.  These features help make for high quality portrait photos.  More info on this phone after the break.

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Finally, LG has officially announced its 8MP camera phone, the KC-910 which from now on will also go by the name LG Renoir.  Like we told you before, the LG Renoir is a slim and feature-rich multimedia phone with a touchscreen interface, Dolby Mobile sound technology, Wi-Fi connectivity and, of course, a full-function camera which according to LG can even surpass the capability of some regular digital camera models.

The LG Renoir has Schneider-Kreuznach optics, Xenon Flash, auto and manual focus ISO sensitivity up to 1600 and a feature which is quite popular lately - geotagging. But the most interesting camera feature of the LG Renoir has something to do with its touch-screen interface. 

Keep reading for more details on the LG Renoir

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Hit by hard times?  Financial markets got you worried about dropping bucks on a shiny new phone?  LG feels your pain and wants to reach out to all those folks who want the sexy touchscreen-type phone with the aptly named KP500.  KP as in “Kitchen Pass,” as in you won’t need to check with your significant other to buy it thanks to its super low retail price.  Unfortunately, I suspect LG did not name it the KP for that reason.

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The continuously growing netbook market welcomes a new member, this time it is LG Electronics which just announced the Xnote Mini netbook. Although Aving USA tagged the new LG machine as a mini-notebook, we’re still inclined to believe that the Xnote Mini should be called a netbook instead, if we are to judge it by the few specs and details available about the netbook.  Actually, the Xnote Mini’s Intel Atom processor gave away the fact that it is really a netbook.

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Alltel, the owner of the world’s America’s (meaning USA) largest wireless network, announced today they will be offering the nuTsie service on select phones bringing customers their iTunes music wherever they are, just like an iPhone.  nuTsie says they’ve got over 1 million happy users and the Alltel deal gives them direct access to even more.  Alltel will become the first wireless carrier to offer the service to their customers. 

Forget syncing, nuTsie works via low-bandwidth streaming.  No downloading, sideloading or waiting.  Seems like a simple idea.  In addition to offering access to users iTunes music, a clever “Serendipity Slider” allows music recommendations to be be played as well opening up users to new music.  Customers can also share playlists, check out lyrics and view YouTube videos, if the phone supports these features.  Alltel is offering the service for $5 per month or $19 per year.

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There have been a lot of great Scarlets in the last one hundred years.  Scarlet O’Hara, Scarlet Johansson, Miss Scarlet from Clue.  The new Scarlet from LG is the latest of fine looking Scarlets to burst onto the scene. 

LG has recently unveiled two more great Scarlets with the LG70 and LG80 LCD televisions.  I imagine that these televisions take their namesake from their red frames, and each one has full HD resolution of 1080p, as well as USB connectivity.  The LG70 has a contrast ratio of 50,000:1, while the LG80 has a 30,000:1. 

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LG is introducing a successor to its popular LG Viewty mobile phone, the KC910. Featuring an 8-megapixel camera, the KC910 is being touted by LG as an all-in-one multimedia phone. To prove this, LG put in Dolby sound, DivX and XviD for video playback. The KC910 is also now the slimmest 8-megapixel camera phone measuring only 14mm thick.

The LG KC910 boasts of a Xenon flash, Schneider-Kreuznach lens, ISO sensitivity of up to 1600, and video capture in VGA resolution at 30fps. To make its camera feature even more fun, the LG KC910 can also record QVGA video at up to 120fps. The LG KC910 also comes with a built-in GPS, geotagging feature for photos. In addition the KC910 also has an option for manual shooting, face, smile and blink detection and image stabilizer.

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AT&T along with LG Electronics have just announced the availability of the LG Invision. Not just another mobile TV capable phone, the Invision offers a nice slim design measuring in at 4-inches tall by 2-inches wide and a little less than a 1/2-inch thick.

Other than the nice size, the Invision offers a nice feature set which includes a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0 and also has 3G support. The Invision also offers support for Video Share calling, AT&T Mobile Music, Napster To Go and XM Radio Mobile. The Mobile TV offers content from CBS Mobile, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX Mobile and NBC2GO.

The Invision is currently available and retailing for $99.99, however that comes after a $50 mail-in-rebate and along with a two-year agreement.

Via [SlashPhone]

Visual Voicemail has proved to be an effective way of receiving and checking your voicemail, now instead of listening to every message you can listen to just the important ones, and save the rest for later.

This is a feature that we first saw on the iPhone with AT&T, however since then Sprint has also begun to offer it on the Samsung Instinct and now Verizon has become the latest with their LG Voyager.

The visual voicemail will come as part of a new software update and will be offered free of charge for current owners. It will also be included on a new model of the Voyager that has been dubbed the Voyager Refresh.

Verizon has also stated that the visual voicemail feature will be available for other models, but have not given any information on which will be included or when we can expect it.

Read [Verizon] Via [PhoneArena]

LG Electronics is making good on it’s promise to bring Netflix streaming to your TV.  LG’s new Blu-Ray player, the LG BD3000, that will release this fall will have the service integrated automatically.  Those with Netflix accounts can stream videos from their queue as well as browse the full library of titles without having to go to a computer.

The player will of course also play Blu-Ray discs, and DVDs, up-converting the DVDs to 1080p if your TV can handle it.  This may edge out the PlayStation 3 as the Blu-Ray player to get if you don’t like playing video games.  Netflix streaming movies aren’t quite HD quality as of right now, most are actually around or just about DVD quality, so Blu-Ray discs will be more desirable for movies you’ll want to watch over and over again, but it’s a great for an On Demand type of service, with more the 12,000 titles available when the machine launches.

You also can’t forget that the play will run “well under $500,” according to LG Electronics.

Via [Gizmodo]