LG’s LX290 for Sprint touts “compact and sleek productivity” ‘Compact and sleek productivity’ might be a bit over the top, but the bottom line is this: at $29.99 on contract after rebates, LG’s new LX290 for Sprint is one of the cheapest ways to get Sprint Navigation and email access in your pocket. The slider packs a 1.3 megapixel camera for basic shooting needs, instant messaging capability, AGPS (naturally), a 320 x 240 display, and a 2.5mm audio jack — we would’ve preferred 3.5, of course, but at that bargain-basement price, we’ll take what we can get.

NTT DoCoMo succumbs to the solar trend, announces Sharp’s SH-08A For Sharp’s domestic carrier partners, solar power is all the rage right now, and now NTT DoCoMo is hopping up on the exceptionally eco-friendly bandwagon with the SH-08A. Bearing the same SOLAR HYBRID badging as its sister device on SoftBank, the 936SH, the SH-08A flip features IPX5 / IPX7 compliance for splashes and submersion up to a meter, an 8 megapixel camera, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, and — of course — a wide VGA display.

Nokia E55 hits the FCC if the E52 isn’t your style So you’re like, ‘man, I love the E52 — I just wish it had more… keys !’ Yeah? Well, there’s a phone for that, and it just passed the FCC. The ‘dash 1′ variant of the E55 just garnered approval from the American powers that be, but sadly, this particular unit is a special kind of useless in the States because it’s doing HSPA on 900 and 2100MHz alone.

eBay is a place where you can see lots of weird deals and sales. Like this unreleased OQO Model 2+ which has been sold for $4,500. Why would anyone pay so much for an unreleased gadget? Just so you can say that you’re the only person in the world that has such a gadget? Is it really that cool? The Model 2+ comes with a 1.86 GHz Intel Atom processor, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB HDD, a 5-inch touchscreen display, Gobi-1000 Mobile Broadband connectivity, EV-DO Rev.A, Bluetooth, and HSPA connectivity, HDMI port, VGA and Ethernet adapters and one USB 2.0 port.

Sony Ericsson hand delivers 8.1MP C905a and W518a Walkman to AT&T While one could argue that Sony Ericsson should really be focusing its efforts on getting a Rachael / Android -based handset out on the double, it’s evidently content with digging up a year-old phone , slapping an ‘a’ on the end of it and passing it along to AT&T.; The 8.1 megapixel C905 that we were so jazzed about in June of 2008 has indeed been certified for AT&T; as the C905a Cyber-shot (left and center), offering the same 8.1 megapixel sensor, face detection, AutoFocus, Xenon flash, GPS tagging and 3G support.

Word from the land of Yao is that Foxconn has begun mass production of a 3G-enabled iPhone 3GS-looking device that lacks WiFi functionality, though it’s being suggested that these may actually lack a WiFi module altogether as opposed to the software lock we’d heard about earlier . The phone (read: iPhone) in question is said to be the same as the one Apple recently sent to the China Telecommunication Technology Labs for testing, which points to the handset making its long-awaited Chinese debut in the near future.