By Shane McGlaun

The mobile phone market is down like most other electronics categories thanks to the global economic recession. However, the smartphone segment is still booming and thanks to the success of smartphones, more and more devices are being introduced.

Verizon Wireless is getting three new handsets from LG this summer including the LG Glance, LG enV Touch, and the LG enV 3. The handsets share some of the same features including support for text, picture, and voice messaging along with Bluetooth support. The handsets work with VZ Navigator, email, IM and chat as well.

Both enV handsets have full QWERTY keyboards and can surf the net with HTML browsers and support up to 16GB microSDHC cards. The enV Touch has a 3-inch external touch screen and a 3-inch internal touch screen along with a 3.2-megapixel camera. The enV 3 has a 2.6-inch internal screen and a 1.56-inch external screen along with a 3-megapixel camera. The Glance offers a 1.3-megapixel camera. The enV 3 will sell for $129.99 after $50 rebate, the Touch will sell for $149.99 after $70 rebate, and the Glance will sell for $49.99 after rebate.

[ Verizon Wireless ]

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I am a big fan of movies; especially HD movies form my PS3 Blu-ray drive. I was glad when Blu-ray won out over HD DVD, not so much because I liked Blu-ray better, I was simply glad to see one format win despite the fact that I am now stuck with a worthless HD DVD player.

Now that Blu-ray is the standard, we are starting to see players with some cool features show up. LG announced an interesting player called the LG BD300 Network Blu-ray Disc Player. The BD300 does everything you expect a Blu-ray player to do like play full 1080p resolution Blu-ray movies, upscale standard DVDs to 1080p, and it supports BD Live.

LG also adds its LG SimpLink technology for easier control of compatible LG devices. The coolest feature of the BD300 is that it is the first Blu-ray player that can stream Netflix films over the Internet to your HDTV. Netflix subscribers can stream over 12,000 TV shows and movies from the Netflix Instant Queue library. Pricing and shipping information for the BD300 is unknown at this time.

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