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LG shows GT540 Android phone in Barcelona

LG skipped the main show floor, but it displayed new handsets in a slick setting.

Kent German Former senior managing editor / features
Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran of CNET since 2003, he reviewed the first iPhone and worked in both the London and San Francisco offices. When not working, he's planning his next vacation, walking his dog or watching planes land at the airport (yes, really).
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BARCELONA, Spain--You might say that LG had a quiet Mobile World Congress--it didn't announce new handsets and it didn't have a presence on the show floor--but the manufacturer didn't skip Barcelona entirely. In the modern setting of Barcelona's Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, the company showed two handsets, the Mini GD880 and the Google-Android powered GT540.

LG GT540 Kent German/CNET

The Mini GD880 takes minimalism to an extreme. Sharp and angles and straight lines predominate and the bright 3.2-inch display takes almost the whole phone. Features include a 5-megapixel camera, e-mail, integration with social networking services, a full Web browser with copy and paste, and LG's Air Sync.

The GT540 runs Google Android 1.6 on a 3.2-inch touch screen. All the normal Android features are here plus a 3-megapixel camera, e-mail, a full Web browser, a unified e-mail manager, a media player, a motion sensor, and wireless syncing.

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