Everyone likes giveaways, unless of course that giveaway has to be won by submitting a picture of you posing as Alfred E. Neuman. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is announcing the 12 hottest Bluetooth enabled products for the 2008 holiday season by launching a giveaway event on Bluetooth.com. These products were hand selected to highlight fun, gift worthy Bluetooth enabled devices that are available today. Hit the jump for the details and learn how Gearfuse readers can get an extra edge:

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LG makes every product under the sun. You name it, LG probably mass produces it. LG also enjoys marketing bizarre combination of electronic equipment. Take this 8″ portable DVD player, the LG DP889. Little excessive on the numbers, don’t you think?

Well, this portable DVD player not only works as a normal CD player but it also happens to be a digital photo-frame. Now, when you aren’t watching The Dark Knight on it, you can gawk at family photos as you dream of days past. It’s compatible with a plethora of formats, including DVD video/DVD±R/DVD±RW/Audio CD/CD-R/CD-RW, ensuring nearly any burned disc will work. It’s priced at $200, making it the most diverse digital photo-frame in existence and while, not quite as compact and portable as the Panasonic LF-P968C DVD burner, it’s certainly getting there.

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Verizon customers may have great reception, but they usually get the shaft when it comes to the latest and greatest cellphones and features. Finally, Verizon is offering something that the iPhone can give users: visual voicemail. For $3 extra a month, you’ll be able to browse through your voicemail with a GUI and see who left you a message. Users can navigate with a touchscreen or d-pad, depending on the phone they own.

Right now, only the LG Voyager supports visual voicemail. Don’t fret, though. Plenty of other phones will pop up throughout the year. Is it worth it? Depends how many voice mails you get a day and whether or not you screen your calls.

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While searching around recent patents I came across this interesting looking LG device patent which was released on October 2nd. The design looks to have a slider standard keypad, with a vertical candy bar like form. The front of the phone sort of resembles the LG enV, yet it does’t seem as though it has a clamshell QWERTY keypad. The camera lens seems pretty large though. Maybe a nice camera / multimedia phone? Could it be a new LG Shine-like device? (more…)

LG was sending out warning letters to shops threatening to take legal actions should they sell/ display the Chinese clone of LG Shine, we never understood why they’re so uptight about it until we saw this today.

We learned that the the clone is called Diamond KG70 Shine, and from what we see, it looks almost like the original. With the same silvery finishing, same size, same weight (3g difference), same scroll wheel, same 2.2″ QVGA screen and same 64 chords polyphonic ringtones. The camera is a 1.3 megapixels fixed focus module, a microSD slot that is not found on the original KE870 is also added. This baby is priced just under $100 online, you might want to be quick before LG gets serious. We have a picture of the backside after the jump, which looks just as close as the front.
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Comparing to Nokia, LG is doing a far better job in handling illegal “replicas”. That is, they act before the replicas had the chance to become popular, before their own product starts selling, and most importantly before they have to hire a law firm. Across the Easter weekend LG has issued a warning letter to shops in Hong Kong warning them from carrying the SHINE clone (a clone from a mainland Chinese company), the shops were so freaked out and removed the stock so fast that we didn’t even have the chance to figure out what they’re called, how they looked like. If Nokia is Nokir, does that make LG Shine Shinier? –Sam Chan

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LG has just announced 37 inch, 42 inch, and 47 inch LCD TVs, as well as 50 and 60 inch plasmas. What is so special about these large HDTVs? Each and every one has an integrated digital video recorder coupled with a 160GB hard drive. Take that TiVo. You also get dual tuners so that you can either record two shows at once or watch and record two shows simultaneously. It’s like magic, except not really. Multitasking is what new technology is going after, and it just takes a small amount of thought to know that this multitasking TV makes sense. –Nik Gomez

LG’s New HDTVs with Digital HDD Recorder [via TechFresh]

LG is starting to go overboard with their Chocolate line of cellphones. It’s getting to the point where comparisons to the constant flux of Motorola RAZR and KRZR phones need to be drawn. This time, the LG Strawberry Chocolate has been released. Nothing has changed other than the case color and the price. It might be suprising at first to hear that it only costs $100 after a rebate and two-year contract, but then again, look at it. I think a more appropriate name would be the Bubblegum or the CottonCandy, and to make it hip, let’s call it the CotonCandi. –Nik Gomez

Verizon adds LG Strawberry Chocolate [via Electronista]

Look at those screens and realize that they aren’t nearly as small as your iPod Nanos. Comparatively, the new LG FM37 digital media player packs either a 1/2/4 GB flash drive and supports MP3, WMA, and OGG audio playback. On the concept of thin, this player is only 10.4mm thin (about 1cm). Those screens are touchscreens and are 2.4″ LCDs. iPhone is a tad late here. At first glance, these look almost like an iRiver S10 of sorts, but it also looks like it ties in with the Chocolate line. Too bad this isn’t a USA player. So whatelse can this tiny piece of hardware sqeeze out? 24 hours of audio, 3 hours of video (unspecified), and it will only cost $159, $192, or $256 for the 1/2/4GB capacities, respectively. Looking like quite a catch. — Nik Gomez

LG’s FM37 touch-screen MP3 player (and others) outted in Korea [Engadget]

Remember last week, all of the news stories of a new LG DVD player that had broken the barrier that stood between the new next gen DVD formats? That player, the BH100, has officially been released at CES. Any new news? Yes, they also announced that there will be a drive for the PC released also due in Q1 of 2007, called GGW-H10N. While the BH100 is a proud supporter of 1080p playback through HDMI, component- and composite-video outputs, the GGW-H10N is limited in it’s playback and recording capabilities. It has been announced that it will have a fully functional read and writer for CD & DVDs, and that it will also support BD-R and BD-RE, but that’s where the writing capabilities stop. It will only be able to read HD-DVDs and some of the online interactive features will be crippled.

One last note on design. The GGW-H10N looks just like a normal PC drive, a bland off-white that won’t stand out, but the BH100 looks like it was made out of Chocolate phones. It even has the same kind of backlight touch sensitive control buttons. No prices on the GGW-H10N, but the BH100 is said to sell for $1,200… Ouch.

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