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The LG Town GT530 has been designed for those who like to keep in contact either via text messages or via social networks. The device has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and includes social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook to let users easily keep in touch.

The LG Town uses a live social network feed that brings the contents of Facebook and Twitter together in to a single stream that can be easily viewed and interacted with when needed.

The LG Town has a 3 inch wide touchscreen display that allows for a single tap on the screens refresh button to update the social feed. [Read more…]

We have seen the LG Bali GM360, LG GX300 and the LG Pure GD550 previously in a number of leaks. Today, these three smartphones became more official by appearing on the LG site.

LG Bali GM360

First up is the LG Bali GM360 smartphone. Rumours mentioned that it was a dual-SIM phone. This is not the case. The phone on the connectivity side of things is a 2.5G handset capable of connecting to GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks with GPRS and EDGE connectivity. The smartphone uses LG’s own propriety operating system.

The screen on this device measures 3 inches and has a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels and can display 262K colours. It is also a touchscreen. The camera on the back can capture images at 5 megapixels and the phone also has 2X digital zoom. For storage a microSD memory card can be used. Wireless and Bluetooth is built in along with an FM radio. [Read more…]

Verizon [VZ] today formally announced the LG Ally along with a release date and pricing. The LG Ally will be launched on May 20 and will cost $100 on contract.

The LG Ally is the first ever LG Android based phone to be launched in the US. The Ally comes installed with the Android 2.1 operating system along with a slightly tweaked UI by LG.

Technical spec wise it has 802.11n connectivity, GPS built in and a full QWERTY slide out keyboard. Live wallpapers can be used on this device.

Around the back a 3.2 megapixel camera can be found along with a flash. The camera can capture pictures and video although there are no HD resolutions on this smartphone. [Read more…]

Details of the LG Ally have been revealed by the team over at BGR. The LG Ally will be up for pre-order on May 13 and will follow a week later on May 20 with a launch in all channels.

The LG Ally comes with a 600MHz processor and runs with 256MB of RAM. It will run Android 2.1 from Google [GOOG] and come with an LG user interface. The phone it’s self is a slider that opens to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard.

Features running on the device include a calendar, weather/time and socialite widgets. Verizon has also made some changes to the UI and included features such as Visual Voicemail and V CAST media manager. [Read more…]

Last week we heard some information about the LG Optimus being launched soon. More details have now arrived.

The Optimus runs Google Android and is described as being a phone for beginners. It runs Android 1.6, allows GMail, YouTube, Gtalk and Google Maps as well as a number of other Google branded services to be accessed from the handset by using a synced Google account.

LG haven’t left Android 1.6 as standard though and have made a few changes here and there to allow integration with social networking that brings Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to a real-time update service on the home screen. [Read more…]

The last time we heard about the LG GT540 was back at CES in January. Back then the launch date of the phone was said to be April this year and then I don’t ever remember hearing of the phone since then.

Today the LG Blog in France gave an update to the handset and revealed it will be known as the LG Optimus when launched. The Optimus runs the Google [GOOG] Android 1.6 (donut) operating system.

Other specifications include 5 keys on the front of the device with 3 being physical and 2 being touch keys. The display on the LG Optimus measures 3 inches and has a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. The processor running inside is a Qualcomm Qualcomm MSM7227 that runs at 600MHz. [Read more…]

The lG LU2300 was first spotted back on April 7 at which point it was referred to as the LG Aloha. The phone has now been made official when LG made an announcement about it.

The phone is to be called the LG LU2300 and when launched will run the Google Android operating system. The Android version will be 2.1 from what we have heard.

Feature of the phone include a 3.5 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen and the phone it’s self is powered by a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. The phone is a slider phone with a QWERTY keyboard that slides out from the side of the device. [Read more…]

Some pictures of the LG Aloha Android based smartphone have been spotted. The Aloha it’s self is yet to be announced but from what we hear it is to be a high-end phone that will run a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU from Qualcomm and have a 3.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen that has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

The camera on the back is said to be capable of capturing images at five megapixels. From the pictures we also see that the LG Aloha has a slide out QWERTY keyboard that is designed for those who prefer to work with physical keyboards rather than virtual keyboards.

The phone front is black and mostly covered by the screen and appears to have a search and home button on the front along with what looks to be an optical trackball. The keyboard when slide out looks to be brushed aluminium or something similar. [Read more…]