Unwilling or unable to wait for the next major trade show (CTIA in two weeks), LG showed off a king's ransom worth of new devices to a bunch of journos in the Netherlands this week; most of it appears to be pretty low-end fare, but there were a few notables in the lot. First up, the Cookie Music extends the Cookie brand with Dolby Mobile tech on board (something LG's been doing pretty frequently lately), a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a tweaked design that looks a little more futuristic than Cookies of old. Viewty was starting to feel like a forgotten marque, but not so -- we've now got a GT400 Viewty Smile here featuring a 5 megapixel cam and scratch-resistant display. As QWERTY dumbphones go, we'd thought that the GT350 was the KS360's true successor, but not so -- there's a new KS365 in the mix with revised styling but seemingly very little in the way of upgraded specs. The rest of the lot looks like pretty forgettable stuff -- and seeing how LG operates, they'll all be forgotten and replaced with revised models within a few months' time anyhow. You know, Circle of Life and all.

Careful, LG -- we know you've got a good thing going with your reasonably-priced Cookie line, but don't overdo it, okay? After the original KP500 and the alternatively-spelled Cooky, LG's now rolling out a purely CDMA-based variant as the KX500, ripe for battle in the Asia-Pacific region's 1x networks. It's got a WQVGA display, handwriting recognition (especially important in those markets), a 3 megapixel cam, built-in FM radio, 92MB of onboard storage, and microSD expansion. If those specs have you worked into a tizzy, you can look for it on shelves across the region starting later this month in black.

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LG's Cookie -- which is more formally know as the KP501 -- has just arrived in two more hues on Europe's most colorful carrier. If black just wasn't doing it for you, the touchscreen handset (which obviously resembles the KP500 in more ways than one) is now listed as "Coming Soon" in pink and silver. If you believe Orange's press release, though, it should be available now in stores for £99.99 ($142) on a pay-as-you-go contract and just £15 ($21) with a two-year agreement.