Seen sporting a Cyon badge (LG’s Korean phone brand), the LG Maxx LG9400 is powered by Snapdragon and the dashed dreams of anyone hoping it’d be an Android handset instead of another disappointing S-Class phone. That Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm is actually the QSD8650 model, a little faster than the QSD8250 one that’s used in most of the Snapdragon phones on the market today. The display is a 3.5-inch WVGA job, with an optical trackpad, GPS, Wi-Fi, 5.0-megapixel camera (capable of shooting HD video), DivX and T-DMB mobile TV support. There’s no word on whether it’ll launch in other parts of the globe, but I bet LG won’t confine it to just South Korea. [ Telecoms Korea via Unwired View ]

As we become more aware of the various viscera inside our gadgets, otherwise unremarkable gadgets seem suddenly… strange . Take the LG Arena Max LU9400: It’s almost definitely a feature phone, but it’s got the spec sheet of a Nexus One. The Arena Max is a 3.5-inch screen handset with all the iron you’d expect, including a Wi-Fi, GPS and a five-megapixel camera, and a little you wouldn’t, like a 1GHz Snapdragon processor—the same brain you’d find in the Nexus One, the HTC Touch HD2, and the Sony Xperia X10. In other words, it’s a monster. But if it’s anything like its predecessor —and these early shots seem to indicate that it is—it’ll be treated to (burdened by?) an in-house OS and UI, most probably LG’s flashy-but-limited S-Class experiment .

Looks like AT&T is about to get a version of the LG Arena — these shots of a GT950 with the carrier’s branding just hit the tubes. The phone hasn’t been officially announced by either AT&T or LG, but the safe bet is that the 950 is just a bespoke variant of the familiar Arena KM900 , so look for a three-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen with LG’s S-Class UI, a five megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, and 8GB of storage. We’ll have to see whether this hits at CES next week or MWC in February — but until then you can get a feel for this thing by checking out our KM900 hands-on video right here . LG Arena GT950 leaks out with AT&T branding originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

Clocking in at 1:48, this glimpse at LG’s IQ (a.k.a. Monaco ) is indeed very brief and not much is said. It’s got a fingerprint sensor lock, S-class UI ( which we knew ), and that backing is definitely Windows Mobile 6.5, but for everything else we’ll have to refer to the previous specs we’ve seen leaked. As noted twice by the voice behind the on-screen hand, it’s coming “this holiday season” and will be exclusive to Telus, so all the fine print should be revealed soon. Video after the break

The sliding point where cameraphones and point-and-shoot cameras seems to keep moving towards the latter. The latest hybrid is the 720p, 12-megapixel LG GC990 Louvre , which, at least from the back, actually looks like a camera. We can get nervous about the potential quality of such high-res photos and video coming from such a small sensor all we want, but on paper, the GC990 does well: the camera shoots through a Schneider-Kreuznach lens, gets lighting help from a Xenon flash module, and shoots up to ISO 3200, though I can’t imagine the noise levels being anywhere near tolerable. As for the phone side of this brick, we’ve got a 3.2-inch touchscreen showing LG’s interesting S-class 3D UI .