LG Viewty (aka LG KU990) is available in fashionable purple now. This high-end handset was first released in 2007. Along with the black, silver and pink versions, now there are four colors you can choose.

Besides the purple color, the new LG Viewty keeps the basic features as the original one: a 3 inch touchscreen TFT display with 256K colors and 240 x 400 pixels, a 5 Megapixel camera, microSD card support, Media player, FM radio with RDS, Java MIDP 2.0, Bluetooth with A2DP, email, WAP 2.0 / HTML Web browsers, a 4 hours of talk-time / 400 hours of stand-by time 1000 mAh Li-Ion battery and so on. LG Viewty measures 103.5 x 54.4 x 14.8 mm and weighs 112 g.

The purple Viewty can be bought from Orange UK for prices ranging from free to 149.99 GBP (with different data plans).

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We have introduced the LG Viewty, it was available in black and silver colors before, now LG releases a pink version for ladies. LG Viewty (aka KU990) comes in an elegant design, and offers many high-end features, including: a 3 inch 240 x 400 pixels TFT touchscreen with haptic feedback, a 5 Megapixel camera, 170MB internal memory, microSD card slot, tri-band GSM connectivity, HSDPA, GPRS, EDGE, Video and Music players, FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth with A2DP, USB 2.0, Java MIDP 2.0, WAP 2.0 and HTML browsers, mobile email.

The LG Viewty pink version is only available in South Korea for the moment, but it should be available in European in a few weeks and North American during the 2nd quarter of the year. It has a high retail price for about $600 – $700.

LG presented its new LG Viewty (a.k.a. LG KU990) at the CeBIT 2008 show in Hannover, Germany. LG Viewty is the successor of LG Prada, and packs many high-end phone features. It comes with a 3-inch 240 x 400 pixels TFT touchscreen, a 5 Megapixels photo camera with High Speed Video Recording (120 FPS), Auto and Manual Focus, a secondary camera for video calls, tri-band GSM connectivity, HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), GPRS, EDGE, 170MB of internal memory, microSD card support up to 2 GB, Music player (MP3, AAC, eAAC and WMA), Video player (3GP and MPEG4), FM radio with RDS, Java MIDP 2.0, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, WAP 2.0, email capabilities, document viewer. LG Viewty measures 103.5 x 54.4 x 14.8 millimeters, weighs 112 grams.

It is available in both black and silver with a retail price for at least $500.

This is one of LG’s best phones yet. If you’re looking for a good camera phone the LG Viewty is definitely worth checking out. From the vibrating touchscreen interface to the YouTube video capabilities and photo-editing app, we liked what it had to offer and think you will too

[via softpedia & cnet.co.uk]