LG announced another addition to their popular Cookie family of touchscreen handsets. Billed as the LG Cookie Plus GS500, it's an entry-level feature phone that boasts slight improvements over the original KP500.
Looking to compete against the widely successful Samsung Corby, LG endowed the new device with a similar cartoon-like, widget-heavy UI. In fact, the promo pictures show icons that look suspiciously familiar to anyone that has used Samsung's entry-level number.
The biggest update for the Cookie Plus is 3G connectivity, paving the way for faster browser page loads, better performance from web-connecting apps and, hopefully, streaming media support. Social networking is a primary focus, with both the SNS (which supports Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and other social sites) and the LiveSquare apps onboard. Most of the hardware set should be along the same lines as the original Cookie. Other details mentioned in the press release include a 3.2 megapixel camera and an FM tuner.
In a not-so-surprising move, LG also announced that the company will be releasing a slew of Cookie-branded handsets in 2010 (each one likely to bring only slightly different features from the rest). Yep, a strategy that directly copies a page from what Samsung has began doing with the Corby (e.g. Corby, CorbyTXT).
The LG Cookie Plus GS500 will debut in 45 countries beginning with Italy and France this coming May. No pricing details have been given. They also mentioned a second Cookie handset in the press release, dubbed as the LG GS290. No details yet, but they're priming it for the UK sometime in March.
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Eagerly waiting for this phone to be available in the market. Seems to be a very sleek and smartly designed phone. Quite impressed with 3G and SNS features that have been added into it.
A phone that lets its user have a taste of social networks in the palm of their hands. Imagine updating your favorite social network using your phone anytime anywhere.
The purple design looks sleek. Overall a very nicely designed phone. Looks feature laden too. I’ll be considering buying this when it becomes available
It looks a beautifully designed phone. The social network aspect of it is very exciting, I am looking forward to its release.
I’ve been waiting ages for something like this. Updating my social network profile on the go, just wow. Looks great too.