From April Korean internet addicts with a taste for mobile TV will be able to pick up LG’s Touch Web LG-LH2300 cellphone, complete with a 3-inch, 800 x 480 touchscreen display and the company’s new “Hello UI” interface which allows for 18 picture shortcuts – whether to contacts, websites, email or elsewhere – on the home screen.  Of course a screen like that demands full internet access, not WAP, so that’s what LG deliver, via a “high speed” network connection that’s presumably 3G or faster.  It should also do well displaying mobile TV via the T-DMB internal tuner.

There’s also a 3-megapixel camera with autofocus, Bluetooth 2.0 and a microSD card slot.  A side-mounted scroll-wheel aids navigation, while Quick Search adds icons regularly accessed search engines to the home screen.  For anyone who thinks too much TV makes you stupid, LG also preinstall a “brain training” game on the LG-2300; they’re quoting 180 minutes talktime or 130hrs standby from the 880mAh battery.

Measuring 54.4 x 104 x 12.8mm and weighing in at 95g, it’ll be available in ‘grape wine’ and ‘navy blue’, in Korea, early next month for around 600,000 – 700,000 KRW ($592-690).

[via AVING]