LG’s KF750 was just announced official-like by the non-rioting folks at Lucky Goldstar. With it, we get the official specs courtesy of, uh, Photography Blog. Why is a site for digital photogs carrying a cellphone press release, you ask? Easy, this one’s got a 5 megapixel camera with face recognition and the ability to shoot DivX video at 120fps. A member of LG’s Black Label series, the 11.8-mm slider is the thinnest 5 megapixel cameraphone on the market. Unfortunately the press release is heavy on fluff and light on specs so we can only tell you that it’ll also be sporting a touch-screen, suite of mobile Google apps, and Bluetooth when it makes its European debut sometime this year, presumably, for an unknown price.

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Various manufacturers have released a host of light, functional and good-looking laptops; there is the IBM X300, the MacBook Air and the Sony Vaio, to name but a few. The bottom line is that the road warrior, or any user, who wants a full-featured laptop that also looks good, has never had it better.

The just released LG is a surprisingly well-specified laptop in the ultraportable field. Most ultra light, sub-2kg laptops make significant compromises. The LG, at 1.6kg, has few. The first major compromise is obviously the size of the screen. With 10 to 12 Inches being the norm for sub-compacts, the LG has a 13.3 inch screen. The benefit of this is that, at the resolution chosen, which is 1200 x 800, most spreadsheets, documents and web sites are big enough for you to use the laptop all day. The smaller screens of 12 inches and below, which have similar screen resolutions, have very small text, and can result in eye strain after extended use.

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16:9 LCD panels designed for computer use aren’t exactly all that uncommon, but this latest batch announced by LG will likely generate a bit more interest than most, especially given that they’re apparently intended specifically for use in low-cost laptops. According to DigiTimes, LG will first roll out a standard 16:10 aspect ratio, 8.9-inch panel with a resolution of 1024 x 600 in August, which will then be followed by a 16:9, 10.1-inch panel with a 1024 x 576 resolution in October, and finally a 9.4-inch panel of unspecified resolution in April of 2009. Making things even more interesting is that some unspecified “industry sources” say the panels are “expected” to be adopted by Acer and HP for use with their low-cost laptops, and possibly Asustek as well, which will no doubt add plenty of fuel to the next round of Eee PC rumors.

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