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Lg Gs500 Cookie Plus Joins The Cookie Jar

Korea’s second leading mobile phone maker LG Electronics launched last February 10 its successor to the highly popular entry level touchscreen handset LG Cookie with the new LG GS500 Cookie Plus.

To date , there have been more than 10 million LG KP 500/501 Cookie phones sold worldwide since its release in October 2008.  This is the 5th mobile phone from LG that has reached this level, after the LG Chocolate, Shine, the KP100 and the KG270 models.

A good 5.4 million of the Cookie had been sold in Europe alone.  The new handset offers the same full feature touchscreen experience, this time with 3G and Social Networking capabilities.  According to LG’s press release, this is LG’s new Cookie for the year as it plans to offer more Cookie handsets in 2010.  There’s mention of a forthcoming LG GS290 Cookie on the horizon.

Plus Features

LG has added a dual band 3G/HSDPA 900/2100 at 3.6 Mbps on the new Cookie’s quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio on 2G.  This should delight new Cookie fans with high speed internet surfing to match its SNS capabilities.  The handset is slightly wider but thinner than its predecessor at 107 x 52.5 x 11.5mm and weighs 3.5g heavier but still at a pocket-friendly 92.5 g

Other than that, it shares the same hardware features like a 3-inch resistive touchscreen TFT LCD display with 256k colors and QVGA resolution, Flash-based UI, accelerometer and handwriting recognition. There’s Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0 for local data connectivity, a 3.2 megapixel basic fixed-focus camera with QVGA video recording at 12fps, FM stereo with RDS, Bluetooth with A2DP for wireless stereo earphone listening and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It is powered by the same 900 mAh lithium-ion battery for up to 3h40min of talk time and 400 hours of standby time.

Internal memory has been reduced from 48MB to just 30MB though with the same 1000-entry limitation on the phonebook and the usual microSD support for up to 16 GB.  It’s plainly a cost balancing compromise after putting in a rudimentary 3G.

Software-wise, the new Cookie has some improved features like a “cartoon”-like UI similar to that used in the Samsung Corby line. Imaging gets digital zoom and you have an editable screen shot apps that allows you to capture a webpage screen you can edit and send out as MMS.  It now has SNS support with built-in apps and homescreen widgets you can use with Flickr, Twitter and Facebook that the older Cookie did not have.

Availability

The new Cookie is expected to hits its markets this March and will comes in a choice of body colors like Brown, Wine Red, Baby Pink, Imperial Purple, White Silver and the standard Black.   There’s still no information on the pricing but this is an entry level touchscreen feature phone meant to be as affordable as its predecessor. The current LG KP501 Cookie with a new model released in white will be available from O2 at ₤99 on Pay & Go without contract. If this is any indication, you can expect the affordable entry level touchscreen LG GS500 Cookie Plus to be priced in the same price point.

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