High-end smartphones may be what stokes the fires of geek lust in most of us, but the low-end cheap or free handset is where many customers shop. Thankfully carriers like AT&T are starting to add some more text oriented mobile devices to their basic lines.

AT&T now offers its customers the LG Neon phone with a slide out QWERTY keyboard. The device features Bluetooth 2.0, mobile email, a music player, and sports a 2-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and the ability to record video.

The music player supports AAC, AAC+, MP3, and WMA tracks. Mobile email from AOL, AIM, Yahoo, and more are supported. The device has 14MB of internal memory that can be expanded to 4GB via a microSD card. The battery is an 800mAh unit good for three hours of talk time and up to 244 hours of standby. The display is touch sensitive and measures 2.4-inches with a 240 x 320 resolution. After a new 2-year agreement and a $50 mail-in rebate the Neon costs $29.99.

[via AT&T]