Posted on ZDNet News: Feb 11, 2008 12:31:00 PM
BARCELONA, Spain--Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics unveiled at the start of Mobile World Congress trade show on Monday a new KF-700 slider phone with a large, 3-inch touch screen.
LG's Chocolate and Prada phone models have been very successful on many developed markets and LG, the world's fifth largest mobile phone maker, said last month it aimed to increase its global phone sales by around 25 percent this year, to 100 million handsets. LG and three out of four of it larger rivals--Nokia, Samsung Electronics, and Sony Ericsson--have reported strong growth numbers in last quarters, helped by falling sales at U.S. firm.
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