LG Announces the new Viewty Smart Camera Phone
LG is bringing the new Viewty Smart camera phone to the mobile phone table. Otherwise known as the LG GC900, this camera phone boasts of an Intelligent Shot Mode which analyzes scenes and adjust camera settings properly before taking the shot. This feature is common to some digital cameras. If you’re a fan of the LG Viewty phone, the Viewty Smary phone brings all the goodness of that phone plus some more advanced features.

Topping the list of these advanced features is of course an 8 megapixel camera sensor which can have as high as 1600 ISO sensitivity, a WVGA touchscreen, and of an intelligent image processor. The phone is also equipped with LG’s S-Class User Interface.

Complementing these great camera features of the LG Viewty Smart phone is multi-face detection and DVD-quality D1 video recording and various shooting settings such as Touch Shot, Art Shot, Beauty Shot, Panoram Shot and Continuous Shot.

The LG Viewty Smart phone is also equipped with a 3D S-Class UI which was previously used in the LG Arena phone. The S-Class UI allows users to switch between shot modes and a thumbnail viewer to look into recently taken photos without needing to open the photo gallery. An nice zoom in and out feature was also included which allows you to use your finger in zooming in and out the photos.

Other features of the LG Viewty Smart camera phone include a 3-inch WVGA screen with 800×480 native resolution, 7.2MPBS HSDPA network and WiFi connectivity, A-GPS based geotagging, 1.5GB internal memory supplemented by up 32GB of MicroSD card,

The LG Viewty Smart phone is slated for a May release in Europe.

T-Mobile Announces the Social Networking Phone - Sidekick LX
T-Mobile USA has just announced a new Sidekick phone dubbed Sidekick LX. Sporting a sleek and trendy look, the Sidekick LX boasts of 3G connectivity and social networking features that supports direct access to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Yes, you read it right, the Sidekick LX has an integrated Twitter application. You can imagine just how popular the Sidekick LX will be given the growing popularity of Twitter in the social networking industry.

The Facebook, MySpace and Twitter application is integrated into the Sidekick LX’s “Communities” section. These application will be updated in real-time and will display notifications on the phone’s home menu screen. In addition, the Sidekick LX would also features GPS-enabled Live Search capabilities.

Aside from these cool features, the Sidekick LX is also equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera with enhanced video capabilities. Using this camera to take photos and capture videos, users can immediately upload them to their social networking profiles. The Sidekick LX also supports YouTube video streaming.

Other features of the Sidekick LX include built-in self-help app, swivel design, full QWERTY keyboard, mood lights, support for personal e-mail, SMS, MMS, and IM through AOL, Windows Live and Yahoo Messenger. The Sidekick LX also comes with 1GB microSD memory card, Bluetooth, and Network Address Book.

The Sidekick LX is a Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE worldphone (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) phone. Battery configuration is as follow - 3G — 3 hours talk time, 6 days standby; 2G — 5.5 hours talk time, 8 days standby.

This great looking Sidekick LX phone is available now for preorder at www.sidekick.com. It will be available in orchid and carbon colors.

Samsung Releases the Propel Pro Smartphone
Samsung has released a follow-up to its highly successful Propel Smartphone which was released sometime last year. Taking most of the great features of its predecessor, the Samsung Propel Pro is offering a chrome slider smartphone with full QWERTY keyboard, unique and seamless navigation, and running on Windows Mobile 6.1 OS on AT&T’s 3G network.The Samsung Propel Pro is a compact slider phone with an easy to use joystick that allows users to navigate through the phone’s menus and messages seamlessly. The phone allows users to access their multiple email accounts, through Microsoft Direct Push for corporate email, and At&T Xpress Mail for accessing their personal emaila ccount. It also allows over-the-air account synchronization for contacts, calendar, and task lists using Microsoft Exchange Server.

The Samsung Propel also lets users browse the web using IE Mobile, sync schedules and contacts as well as manage their Windows mobile documents including Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. It also features threaded SMS, Internet connection sharing, mobile banking and voice command.

For enterprise-grade mobile solution, the Samsung Propel supports Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Manager. This allows Mobile Device Manager administrators with software distribution and update capabilities as well as security-enhanced access to company date.

Other features and specs of the Samsung Propel include, AT&T GPS Navigator, GPS-enabled turn-by-turn voice, on-screen driving or walking directions, colorful 3-D moving maps, mobile banking, AT&T Video Share, MobiTV, AT&T Mobile Music, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3.0 megapixel camera with video capture, and microSD memory card slot.