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LG GC900 is a 8-megapixel touchscreen phone featuring DivX video playback, 3G, stereo bluetooth, and microSDHC memory slot. LG has now announced the GC900, which we knew better as the Viewty II, and will be called the LG Smart hereon.

The new LG Viewty Smart packs a 3-inch capacitive touch-display with WVGA resolution, an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash and D1 video recording, accelerometer, 3G support, Wi-Fi and GPS. It runs on the new S-Class 3D user interface and most probably will have the multi-touch functions. Dolby Mobile technology along with the DivX/XviD support is also on board.

The program module camera is equipped with the function geo-TEG : using technology A -GPs, The telephone can identify the photographed objects and places. LG also confirmed information relative to the presence of WLAN and HSDPA support. Among the interesting special features, we should note the presence of volumetric user interface, divX and Xvid support , the possibility of expanding the memory up to 32 GB.

We pretty much knew all its ins and outs but in case you missed some, here are its major features all crammed into a thickness of 12.4 mm.

• HSDPA network support
• WiFi
• 3-inch TFT touchscreen display
• 8-megapixel camera with video capture at 720×480 resolution
• aGPS with Geotagging
• S-Class 3D UI
• Weight: 90g

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Apple’s iPhone Bluetooth Headset has now been completely removed from the Apple online store, suggesting the company will cede the headset business to third parties or return with an improved version leveraging new features in iPhone Software 3.0

The minimalist headset’s removal followed a week-long period of its being listed as discontinued. AppleInsider has since received a couple of unconfirmed tips that suggest Apple may have recently recalled existing inventory of the iPhone Bluetooth Headset for undisclosed reasons.

Apple regularly discontinues its existing products to clear inventory for revised new models, so the delisting may suggest that the company is planning a new headset that takes advantage of improved Bluetooth features in the upcoming iPhone 3.0 Software release.

One new feature in iPhone 3.0 is support for A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile), a Bluetooth profile already supported in Mac OS X Leopard, which enables wireless stereo audio streaming to headsets, speakers, a car stereo, or similar outputs.

Existing A2DP stereo headsets are often regarded as battery hogs, but as the technology in supporting chipsets and power management improve, Apple may likely be considering the option of introducing a new stereo headset with playback controls and hands-free features, which would not only work on the iPhone, but also on the second generation iPod touch and the company’s notebooks and Bluetooth enabled desktops.

An exit strategy?

It’s also possible that Apple may want to cede the headset business to third party partners, just as it has previous stepped out of other businesses that were less than central to its hardware business.

In the 90s, Apple jumped out of the market for digital cameras, scanners, and printers. More recently, the company introduced and then discontinued its iPod Hi-Fi portable speaker system for the iPod, introduced in 2006 and then discontinued without a replacement the following year.
iPod hi-fi

The company subsequently released a statement saying, “Apple has decided to focus priorities on the iPod and iPhone and will not be making more iPod Hi-Fi units. There are over 4,000 accessories in the iPod ecosystem and hundreds of speakers systems designed specifically for the iPod, which provide customers with a wide variety of options.”

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Samsung is really fleshing out its netbook lineup, following up the lovable N110 and N310 with the N120, another 10.1-incher, but with enough screen bezel to make room for a full 12.1-inch-style keyboard. Samsung also found enough room inside for a 6-cell battery that can muster up to 10.5 hours of runtime. There’s also a 1.3 megapixel camera, 3-in-1 card reader, three USB plugs, a Bluetooth option, and Samsung made use of those wide expanses of plastic on each side of the screen to place some decent speakers. It’s overall a premium offering to the N110′s vanilla utility (with regular Atom internals and XP on top) but you’ll have to make up your own mind on aesthetics. Both the N110 and N120 hit Europe in April, no word on price for either.

Asus has gone official and introduced their Asus P835 Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile phone, and one that is upgradeable to the newer Windows Mobile 6.5 OS when it arrives.

Feature wise the Asus P835 offers up quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, tri band UNTS/HSPA 900/1900/2100 MHz, a 3.5 inch touchscreen, 5 megapixel auto-focus camera, on screen QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth + EDR, and microSD slot.

The Asus P835 measures 115 x 59 x 13.8mm with a weight of 148 grams and incorporates a Qualcomm 7201A processor and 4GB internal memory. The Asus P835 should become available soon but as yet not pricing is available.

It’s been a while since the Meizu M8 made the tech scene but it’s back now and with some exciting news too. The M8 is apparently due for a launch sometime in December this year and that’s not the only thing that’s got me raving. The fact that the Taiwan-based distribution company is also planning on an official Indian launch is what is making this a big deal. It’s not like there’s a shortage of i-Killers, but this just happens to be the closest competitor… or was it the HiPhone?

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