LG officially made it clear their iPhone look-a-like LG KE850 phone will launch across selected mobile ships and PRADA stores in the UK, France, Germany and Italy at the end of February and parts of Asia before March is through. But, sadly the KE850 isn't getting launched in the US since this version is limited to tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 with EDGE data. This version is little more compact then the iphone, at just 98.8 × 54 × 12-mm is much more compact, with a 3.0 inch display and 240×400 resolution it looks impressive. If you don't know then let us remind you that the iPhone sports quad-band GSM with EDGE and WiFi in a 115 x 61 x 11.6mm shell sporting a 3.5-inch, 320×480 display. The KE850 lacks on internal memory so instead a microSD expansion slot is used to boast up the storage deficiency. It packs in a 2 megapixel camera (with Schneider-Kreuznach lens) and LED flash and Bluetooth 2.0 quite similar to the iphone. But it lacks things like multi-touch capabilities, an on-screen keyboard, or the accelerometer and proximity sensors found on the iPhone. The UI of KE850 is Macromedia Flash-based, just a black and white display compared to the visually charming iphone's OSX GUI.

 The KE850 also packs in a video player supporting MPEG4, H.264, and oddly, H.263 normally used for video conferencing; a document viewer supporting Microsoft's PPT, DOC, XLS formats, PDF and TXT; an audio player with support for MP3/ACC/ACC+/WMA/RA formats; and a "music multitasking function for messaging," what it is anyways. The KE850 might burn a big hole in your wallet, around €600/$778. So start saving.