LG may seem all focused on the Korean market lately but today it showed that it hasn't forgotten about the rest of the world either. The company released a whole new series of touch-operated mobile phones, called Wink. The LG T300 Wink, T310 Wink style and T320 Wink 3G are all mid-range handsets with a distinct youthful appeal.

As the naming suggests, the LG T300 Wink is the most basic of the trio. It offers a 2.4" touchscreen (of QVGA resolution, presumably) and a body resembling the good old LG KP500 Cookie. The T300 Wink also sports a 3.5-inch headphone jack, FM radio and a microSD slot (those three features are common for the whole series).

Next comes the LG T310 Wink Style, which upgrades the display size to 2.8-inch. The Wink Style obviously has distinct design as one of its key assets and will come in a variety of bright colors.

Lastly we take a look at the LG T320 Wink 3G. It doesn't take a genius to understand that UMTS is the best it can put on the table. LG didn't even mention HSDPA so don't get your hopes too high.

Another couple has just joined the happy family of rooted Android-powered devices. Guys, say Hi to the rooted Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini and its QWERTY-fied twin, the X10 mini pro.

I have some great news to share with you: it only takes some clicks and a few minutes to root your tiny little Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini. By the way, the so called Exploid method will grant root access to X10 mini pro users as well.
Rooting gives you access to all system files and allows you to remove useless preloaded applications, to change boot images or to use themes, to move apps and cache to the SD card, to enable tethering and, of course, to run apps requiring root. And so much more.
There are only a few steps you have to go through but make sure you understand what you're reading and most importantly - what you're actually doing. After all, you might end up with a bricked device in your hands. This will also probably void your warranty as well.

Being a popular manufacturer for mostly feature phones, with an occasional smartphone sprinkling every now and then, Pantech is revving up to get themselves into the dual-SIM market with two new upcoming devices. Pantech's Italy web site is now showing the Pantech P1000 and P4000 which are of course dual-SIM capable with the latter being the more high end between the two. The Pantech P4000 sports a  sizable 3” WQVGA touchscreen, quad-band GSM connectivity, 3.2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio, Facebook access, microSD card support, and a 1,000 mAh battery. On the other end, the Pantech P1000 follows similarly to their usual offerings as it features a minute 1.8” display, dual-band GSM connectivity, 1.3-megapixel camera, microSD card support, 3.5mm headset jack, Bluetooth 2.0, and FM radio. Unfortunately the pricing on either handsets are not known right now, but if there's any indication, it should be relatively inexpensive like their other offerings. All in all, this move into the dual-SIM market will definitely get Pantech's name out there to more people.

Pricing details have been released about two Android powered Dell phones the Dell Aero and the tablet wannabe Dell Streak. Aero builds on the Dell Mini 3i while the Streak is trying to carve out a whole new niche of voice call capable mini tablets.

The Dell Aero was announced officially in late April but we knew it's coming to AT&T even before that. Yet it took more than three months for pricing details to appear - SIM-free, the Dell Aero will set you back 299 US dollars or if you sign a 2 year contract with AT&T it will go for 99 bucks.

The Aero is a mid-ranger that updates Dell's first try at Android - the Dell Mini 3i. It features a 3.5" screen with nHD resolution (quite uncommon for Android), 5MP camera, Wi-Fi and GPS. The OS version is 1.5 Cupcake right now, though Dell will update that some time in the future.

The other phone, the Dell Streak is an absolute pocket buster. It's got a 5" screen with WVGA resolution and 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. It boasts 16GB of storage expandable via microSD card and it too is stuck with an old Android - 1.6 Donut. Dell have said that there's a 2.2 Froyo update coming.

The Dell Streak is understandably pricier than the Aero - 550 US dollars without a contract or 299 dollars with an AT&T contract. Anyway, that's cheaper than the UK price of 429 pounds (670 USD).

I fell in love with the phone at MWC 2010, when I got my hands on it in an outside booth. The article was so enthusiastic that I myself am surprised. You can find it here.

When the phone arrived to me in Moscow, I decided to respect the rules of the game in order to prevent my initial impressions from affecting the final conclusions. Should you know, I was unsuccessful. Completely. The situation was unique, as I, lovestoned, played with the device and praised those behind it, without even paying attention to its characteristics. I spent a week with the phone without knowing the resolution of the camera, with only a rough idea of the actual screen diagonal. Usually, what interests me most, are the technical characteristics, not the impressions. But with this excellent product from Sagem, the emotions come first. There is one catch, though. You have to be a PUMA fan to realize the true worth of the phone. Every now and then, the level of its sophistication can blow you away. On the box, made of recycled paper, there is an image, according to which, you will need your brain to use the device. I would put it differently. The people behind the device cared about a plethora of tiny little things, which allows one to say that they like what they do. For example, you can hold the camera button to activate the flashlight mode. Isn't that handy? And it's like that everywhere. The device offers a high general level of comfort, sports plenty of winning details. They make you neglect the fact that it's expensive, based on an outdated platform and with occasional working delays. All of that fades away. The emotional charge beats the disappointment with the technical realization. I am certain that the model will be blamed by many. It can't do that, it's freezing there, it has one icon too many in some menu. All of that is expected. But those, who can understand it and love it, will discover an ideal model. It is an exceptional example of an emotional device. It is the PUMA customization that makes it ideal. Moreover, I believe that we will see more devices like that in future, and all of them will be different. It is important that emotions, impressions, but not technical characteristics matter, which requires a perfect balance of the two realms. The PUMA has it. It is a casual model from the technical point of view but a little masterpiece from the emotional perspective.

Sagem's business is not going well, they are struggling their way out, and the device didn't come natural for them. And that is splendid as it shows what an emotional device can be like. In Russia, it is due this fall. The price is around USD 400. We will talk about that in the review, though. The latter will be out this week if nothing extraordinary happens.