Today at 2011 International CES, T-Mobile USA, Inc. and LG Mobile Phones announced the upcoming Android™ Honeycomb-powered T-Mobile® G-Slate™ with Google™, by LG. Expected to be available in coming months, the G-Slate will be the first 4G tablet from the two companies powered by Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), the upcoming version of Google’s Android platform optimized for tablets.

“T-Mobile is proud to add a new milestone in the evolution of the Android platform with our first 4G tablet powered by Android 3.0,” said Cole Brodman, chief marketing officer, T-Mobile USA. “The T-Mobile G-Slate with Google will build on our rich history of Android innovation and leadership and deliver deep integration with Google services.”

“LG is dedicated to continuing its role as an innovation leader and is thrilled to announce its entry into the tablet marketplace with the G-Slate,” said Jeff Hwang, president of LG Mobile Phones. “Streamlining everyday tasks and enhancing entertainment with blazing fast 4G speed, the T-Mobile G-Slate by LG will deliver the latest in Android technology and provide users with an advanced tablet experience.”

The T-Mobile G-Slate will be among the first 4G tablets to fully benefit from the tablet-optimized Android 3.0 platform, which was designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes and addresses the unique aspects of tablet use cases and form factors. The Honeycomb user experience improves on Android favorites such as widgets, multi-tasking, browsing, notifications and customization. It will also feature the latest Google Mobile innovations including Google Maps™ 5.0 with 3D interaction, collection of more than 3 million eBooks and Google Talk™ with video and voice chat.

Additional product details will be disclosed at a later date.

Verizon Wireless and LG Mobile Phones today announced the LG Octane™ will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores tomorrow. Keeping customers up to date with their social networks has never been more convenient with the LG Octane’s iconic form factor with full QWERTY keyboard and seamless integration of Facebook®, MySpace™ and Twitter™ via Social Beat.

Key features:
· Sleek, dark brown outer case
· QWERTY keyboard
· Social Beat Widget – offers a single point for accessing social networking sites, allowing customers to stay connected to Facebook, Twitter and MySpace plus more than 50 news, sports and entertainment feeds
· microSD™ slot for up to 16 GB of memory
· Bluetooth® 2.1 capabilities with support for the following profiles: headset; hands-free; dial-up networking; object push for vCard and vCalendar; stereo; file transfer; phonebook access; basic printing; basic imaging; human interface; message access; and instant sharing of music, photos and videos
· Built-in music player with music library, repeat and shuffle features, as well as stereo sound via headset or Bluetooth
· Voice commands

Lifestyle features:
· V CAST Music with Rhapsody®
· Favorites shortcut keys for quick access to up to 10 contacts with picture ID
· Customizable font type and size on internal and external LCD for dialing, menu and lists, and messages
· New Mobile E-Mail client 4.0
· Skype mobile™ capable
· Visual Voice Mail and HTML Web Browser
· 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera and camcorder with flash that includes:
o Five different camera resolutions and two different video resolutions
o Zoom up to 2.98 times
o Intelligent shot for improved image quality
o Smile shot automatically takes a picture when a smile is detected
o Panorama for three guided, sequential shots
o Dual display activation for self portraits
o Image editor with zoom, rotate, resize, crop, added frames and stamps
o Customize brightness, white balance, shutter sounds, color effects and use a self-timer

Pricing:
· The LG Octane will be $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.
· For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

From CTIA WIRELESS 2010®, Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. (LG Mobile Phones) announced LG Cosmos™ will be available on March 25 in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com. Equipped with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for easy text messaging and built-in social networking tools and features, LG Cosmos allows customers to keep their friends in the know while keeping up with life on the go.

Key features:
· Compact, friendly and stylish candy bar phone with a rounded shape and metallic finish
· Web-based e-mail, instant messaging and chat
· Text, picture and voice messaging
· One-touch speaker phone
· Speaker-independent voice commands, including Call, Send Msg To, Go To, Check, Contacts, Search, Redial, My Verizon and Help
· Voice clarity – Auto adjust voice clarity based on surrounding noise level
· Bluetooth® 2.1 capabilities with support for the following profiles: headset, hands-free, phonebook access and object push
· Send calendar events, contact information and print photos via Bluetooth
· Dedicated favorites shortcut keys for up to 10 contacts
· Micro USB charging port
· USB charging via computer
· GPS support for enhanced location accuracy

Additional features:
· Access to Twitter, Facebook®, MySpace and other social networking sites
· 1.3 megapixel camera that includes:
o Three different resolutions
o Zoom up to 2.0 times
o Noise reduction to improve image quality in low-light environments
o Image editor that allows users to zoom, rotate and crop any picture
o Insta-uploading of pictures directly to online albums and Facebook
o Customizable shutter/cue sound, brightness, white balance, color effects, photometry, self-timer and night mode

Pricing and availability:
· LG Cosmos will be available on Thursday, March 25, online at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores for $29.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.
· For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

Designed to meet the needs of a fast-paced, action-filled lifestyle, Alltel Wireless, America’s largest network, and LG Electronics today introduced the LG Swift. The new flip phone is bursting with easy-to-use multimedia features and advanced technology for immediate access to services and applications while on-the-go. Available for purchase at Alltel retail stores or online at shopalltel.com, the LG Swift is a vibrant and fun phone created for consumers seeking a wireless device full of innovation.

The LG Swift is the first Alltel handset to be equipped with a next generation keypad featuring Fastap Press-to-Experience keys which integrates six raised one-touch access Quick Keys with a traditional numeric keypad. The Fastap Keypad provides “swift and simple” one-touch discovery, access and use of phone features, services and applications such as Alltel Navigation, Alltel Shop, Email, Alarm Clock and Image Library.

“The LG Swift is an innovative phone that helps our customers explore and enjoy Alltel’s most popular data features,” said Brian Ullem, vice president of device strategy for Alltel Wireless. “The introduction of Fastap Press-to-Experience keys enables us to delivers information and entertainment to our customers faster than ever before.”

Perfect for music lovers, the LG Swift also features external music buttons to conveniently play and manage music. A dual speaker system with stereo sound can be enjoyed using background music mode or using the Bluetooth® headset. The phone also includes a 1.3 MP camera with multi-shot and video capabilities, one-touch speakerphone, and an expandable memory slot for song storage.

Alltel Wireless is offering the LG Swift, in a red and blue clamshell design, for $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. This discounted price is for new customers on two-year service agreements, as well as existing eligible customers on qualifying rate plans.

Want to listen to your iTunes music right on your wireless phone? No problem. Alltel Wireless, America’s largest network, today announced that it is the first wireless carrier to offer its customers access to nuTsie, a service that allows users to listen to playlists from their iTunes libraries on over 10 Alltel wireless handsets. In addition, nuTsie enables users to share those lists with friends across the Internet and on their mobile devices.

nuTsie, available for $4.99 a month or $19.99 for one year, can be accessed by visiting Alltel Shop located on the handset. In addition to being able to play music from their iTunes collections, customers can also listen to recommended music based on their playlists and explore hundreds of thousands of playlists from other users and nuTsie’s music experts, providing a new world of music right at their fingertips.

“Our customers are now relying on their wireless phones to provide entertainment as well as reliability,” said Kristi Crum, director of multimedia content for Alltel Wireless. “The launch of nuTsie will maximize the music capabilities on their phones so they can now easily listen to their favorite music from iTunes, no matter where they go.”

The nuTsie application, developed by Melodeo, a leader in mobile and online media, is available on a wide range of including the MOTORAZRTM V3m and V3c, the MOTOKRZR K1m, theäAlltel devices the MOTORAZR2 V9m and MOTOROKRTM Z6m. Additional handsets include the LG AX565, The Wave by LG, the LG AX8600, Samsung MuseTM, the Alltel HueTM by Samsung and The WaferTM by Samsung. More Alltel handsets supporting nuTsie will be announced in the coming months.

“nuTsie offers Alltel Wireless customers an easy, inexpensive way to access their iTunes libraries on the go and to hear new music from other users’ playlists and from our own programmed music,” added Dave Dederer, Vice President of Business Development at Melodeo and founding member of the GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum rock band The Presidents of the United States of America.
“We’re extremely pleased to be teaming with Alltel to bring nuTsie to a wider audience.”

Alltel Wireless continues to provide choice and flexibility to the customer’s wireless experience with its exclusive “My Circle” feature, giving customers unlimited calling to and from any five, 10 or 20 numbers on any network for free. Alltel Wireless was also the first to offer Anytime Plan Changes, giving customers the flexibility to change their calling plans at any time, without extending their current contract.

Verizon Wireless today introduced Visual Voice Mail, an application that works much like Apple’s iPhone Visual Voicemail. The application is available for the LG Voyager, an iPhone-clone of sorts, that gives the Verizon user the ability to check voicemail right on their phone. Going beyond the iPhone’s simple listen at your conveniences, Verizon’s Visual Voicemail allows for customers to forward voice mail messages in addition to the ability to listen, delete, and reply to. The non-linear system allows a Verizon customer to retain up to 40 messages for 40 days on their LG Voyager.

Verizon also notes that customers can create up to 10 greetings, 20 distribution lists and 50 distribution members to receive messages.

Verizon relies on the Alcatel-Lucent 5150 Messaging Applications Broker (MAB) for visual voice mail, “Which provides enhanced notification and content delivery services for voice, text and video messages through an intuitive visual interface.”

Feeling a bit like grandpa with this statement, I can remember the days when Bluetooth headsets (BTh) where just a few and even those where difficult to find. Today with many states going with hands-free laws (California to join the fray four days prior to our Nations birthday,) headsets are a dime a dozen now. Many offer a wide range of differing features but none seem to offer what LG’s Decoy does. You see, the Decoy docks its Bluetooth headset in the phone!

According to the Verizon press release SvenOnTech received, the headset attaches to a “discreet docking port” on the back of the slider phone. With the 2.2” mirror-like LCD screen and five-way joystick, you’ll be able to navigate through the multimedia friendly phone that supports mp3, .wma, .aac and unprotected .aac+ files as well as doing the V-CAST thang. You’ll also be able to do email (access MSN® Hotmail®, America Online® and Yahoo!®) along with web surfing. Speakerphone, 2.0 MP camera, and Bluetooth 2.1 pretty much round out this phone. Full set of features after the jump.

The LG Decoy will be available beginning on June 16 for $179.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year customer agreement through Verizon Wireless’ online store at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, including those in Circuit City.

Features:
Bluetooth capabilities
Supports Version 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
Integrated Bluetooth headset for voice and for music
Support for headsets, hands-free car kits, dial-up networking, advanced audio distribution (stereo), phone book access, basic printing, object push for vCard and vCalendar, file transfer, and basic imaging
Supports multiple Bluetooth connections – connect up to two Bluetooth devices to have one on standby
Ability to send all contacts and calendar events via Bluetooth
Print and send user-generated pictures (.jpeg)
2.0 megapixel camera and camcorder
Camera resolutions: 1600 x 1200 (default), 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, 320 x 240 pixels
Video resolutions: 320 x 240, 176 x 144 (default) pixels
Image Editor: zoom, rotate, crop
Text, picture and video messaging
Mobile IM and chat capabilities
Display: Large 2.2” mirror-like LCD, 262K Color TFT, 240 x 320 pixels
One-touch speakerphone
Speaker-independent voice commands
Frequency: 1.9 GHz CDMA PCS, 800 MHz CDMA
Data Transmission: High-Speed EV-DO
Hearing aid compatibility (M3/T3)
Dimensions: 4.01” (h) x 1.97” (w) x 0.67” (d)
Weight: 4.05 ounces
SAR: head 1.22 W/kg, body 0.718 W/kg
Handset battery times:
Usage: Up to 230 minutes or
Standby: Up to 330 hours
Headset battery times:
Usage: Up to 2 hours or
Standby: Up to 80 hours

Verizon Wireless, builder and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless network, today announced the enV2™ by LG will be available on April 30 at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores across the nation. The new phone, revealed at CTIA WIRELESS 2008, features a sophisticated, slim redesign of the original enV by LG and will also be sold at Circuit City and online at www.verizonwireless.com.

The enV2 is the perfect handset for on-the-go texters and music and video fans. In addition to its pocket-sized good looks, the phone is available in two sleek finishes – black and maroon. The following features and capabilities are available on the enV2:

• V CAST Music – access more than three million songs from both well-known and independent artists to download over-the-air and play on the phone
• V CAST Video – download or stream video clips from the best names in news, sports and entertainment
• VZ NavigatorSM – visual and audible directions to a destination, locate businesses and other places in an area, get a map of a location, bookmark favorites and recent searches, and even share locations with others
• Mobile Web-capable – customizable, enhanced wireless access to the latest in news, sports, weather and more
• Media Center-capable – download games, ringtones, wallpapers and more
  Instant Messaging using AIM®, WL Messenger®, and Yahoo!®
• Mobile Email-capable – access to e-mail services including Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Mail, AOL, AIM, and Verizon.net accounts; or configure POP3 and IMAP accounts
• Full QWERTY keypad with large-sized external keys
• 2.4” internal screen
• 2.0 megapixel camera and camcorder:

• Self-Portrait capabilities and external LCD for self-portraits
• Camera Resolutions: 1600 x 1200 (default), 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, 320 x 240 pixels
• Image Editor – rotate, zoom, crop
• Digital Zoom: zoom varies by image size; camera setting of 1600 x 1200 pixels does not support zoom function
• Video Resolutions: 320 x 240, 176 x 144 (default) pixels
• Video Player for WMV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2 formats

The enV2 by LG is available tomorrow for $129.99 after a $50 rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. For more information about Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

* For Bluetooth vehicle/accessory compatibility, go to www.verizonwireless.com/bluetoothchart.

Alltel Wireless, America’s largest network, providing coverage across the nation, and LG Electronics MobileCommU.S.A., Inc. (LG Mobile Phones) today announced that the highly anticipated GlimmerTM by LG will be exclusively available in Alltel retail stores and online at shopalltel.com beginning tomorrow, March 13. With a slide-out keypad and touch-screen interface, the LG Glimmer incorporates traditional phone functions with the latest multimedia features.

The LG Glimmer is loaded with a 2 MP camera with video capabilities, an MP3 player with customizable equalizer, an expandable memory slot and is GPS capable. This slick phone is rich with several of Alltel’s Axcess applications including Alltel Navigation, Axcess Search, CityID and Axcess TV. In addition, users can listen to their favorite music while utilizing other multimedia features on the phone, such as taking photos, recording video or sending text messages. The Glimmer also features 3D graphics support and 128MB of internal memory.
“With touch-screen phones revolutionizing wireless, the LG Glimmer from Alltel has an innovative new touch interface while offering the convenience of a slide-out physical keypad,” states Brian Ullem, vice president of device strategy for Alltel Wireless. “Its large display and multimedia capabilities allow our customers to access and manage their video and music with a simple touch.”

“Consumers will appreciate the durable metal body of this elegant, user-friendly mobile phone,” said Ehtisham Rabbani, vice president of product strategy & marketing at LG Mobile Phones. “With its slim form factor and large sliding touch screen the Glimmer by LG is another example of forward-thinking technology and design.”

Alltel Wireless is offering the Glimmer by LG for $249.99 after a $100 mail-in-rebate. This discounted price is available to new customers who sign-up for a two-year service agreement and to existing eligible customers on qualifying rate plans. All Alltel customers who purchase the LG Glimmer and are on a qualifying rate plan are able to receive “My Circle,” Alltel’s exclusive calling feature allowing customers to receive unlimited calling to any five, 10 or 20 numbers, any network. In addition, Alltel was the first to offer Anytime Plan Changes, giving customers the flexibility to change their calling plans at any time, without extending their current contract.

The LG Glimmer also supports Alltel’s new service, Axcess Voice2TXT. The service, which is available on any Alltel Wireless SMS text message capable phone, quickly converts incoming voicemails to text messages in the customer’s inbox and also allows customers to store and forward converted voicemails as regular text messages. For more information on this innovative feature, please visit www.alltel.com/voice2txt.

“Alltel strives to provide customers with phones that have the most innovative technology and allows them to express their individual style,” said Brian Ullem, vice president of device strategy for Alltel Wireless. “Our phone lineup delivers a variety of functions, from music to messaging, which will give our customers the ultimate wireless experience.”

Messaging Made Quick and Easy
For people who stay connected through text messaging, the LG Scoop allows customers to take it easy on their thumbs with a messaging-friendly QWERTY keyboard and chat-style IM. Offered in three colors including citrus orange, slate gray and turquoise blue, the LG Scoop has AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger pre-loaded, so there is never a missed message. The phone also features a 1.3 MP camera with video capabilities and is Celltop-ready as well as Bluetooth capable. The LG Scoop is the ideal phone to use Alltel’s new service, Axcess Voice2TXT, which converts incoming voicemails to text and sends them to the customer’s text inbox. With the QWERTY keyboard, users of this phone will be able to easily and discretely respond to voicemails.

Coolest Smartphone is Now Red Hot
The BlackBerry Pearl 8130 smartphone, now available in red, gives customers an exceptional mobile experience with powerful communications and multimedia capabilities. This sleek, eye-catching smartphone offers e-mail, fast HTML Web browsing, a 2 MP camera with flash and video capture, GPS capabilities, Bluetooth wireless technology and microSD expandable memory. With the stylish red BlackBerry Pearl 8130, customers can multi-task like a pro, and look good while doing it. This smartphone is available for pre-order at www.alltel.com/style.

When Music is Your Inspiration
The Samsung Muse sports a fresh look and a stimulating sound to satisfy all who find inspiration in music. With the Samsung Muse, those passionate about music always have their favorite tunes within reach. Users can customize the phone with a dedicated music key for ringtones, XM Radio Mobile and easy access to the MP3 player. The modern design, available in midnight blue, also features a 2 MP camera with video capabilities, GPS capabilities and is preloaded with Axcess Mobile Guide and Stereo Bluetooth technology. Multimedia fans can also enjoy streaming music from their PC using Music Powered by Celltop along with premium preloaded applications like Axcess TV and Search.