The is the first handset by the South Korean company to feature an optical touchpad. May be, it won’t impress you at first sight, but still its features treasure something significant of a mobile phone. This is the latest slider phone from LG and planned to be released by Vodafone, most probably in all the countries where it operates.

• It features 3.5G capable slider phone with a 3.0 megapixel camera, multimedia player and 320 x 240 pixel display.

The highlight is, this handset is featured with GPS and A-GPS, plus Yahoo! Go maps.

Otherwise, its technical Specifications include:

• Tri band GSM connectivity
• Dual-band UMTS/HSDPA connectivity
• QVGA display with 262K colors
• 3 MP camera without autofocus
• 100MB of built-in memory
• External memory card support, up to 8GB
• 102.8 x 49.2 x 14.9 millimeters

If you are not looking out for a luxurious phone, but a one with a typically plain look with some indispensable features, then LG KS500 can be the right one for you.

And FYI, there was a rumour that KS500 is to be released as a smart phone rather. But LG did take a step ahead at least with KS500. Just check out for more in the time ahead!