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Making your own arcade unit? What about some other DIY project that uses buttons? Buttons that don’t glow are mundane and unattractive, so why not make your own illuminating buttons? Playing arcade games in the dark is tough without being able to see what button you’re mashing down upon.

Thankfully, Hacknmod has written up a great how to guide on converting those dull unilluminating buttons into the glowing variety. It’s not too late to turn the buttons on your DIY Neo-Geo joystick into something worthwhile.

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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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Looks like the latest trend in Japan is to go for shiny phones, Softbank announced 3 more shiny phones this morning, one from each of NEC, Panasonic and Toshiba. All these phones runs on W-CDMA in Japan and GSM triband when being roamed elsewhere. Cameras on 706N and 706P are 2 megapixels whereas the one on 813T is 3.2MP. The rest of the specs are pretty much standard: QVGA screens, microSD slot, bluetooth, music player, HTML browser… so it’ll be up to personal preference to decide between the trio, perhaps the different user interface. They will all be on shelves before March. — Sam Chan

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So we know that the keyword for LG in 2007 is SHINE, we have the SHINE slider coming to the European and American markets. How about a SHINE candybar? Well, this is what the KE770 is about. Shiny, silver, smooth screen that does not sink into the body and acts as a mirror when turned off. This has already won some design awards prior the official announcement. For once, a Motorola SLVR-killer without much copying. CES is coming up next week. Stay tuned. — Sam Chan

We’ve all seen the LG Shine (LG-SV420), it’s the full silver metal-brushed slider that has caught so much attention that Samsung decided to copy it. Supposedly, the LG Shine design will be used on GSM phones in 2007, LG hopes to repeat the Chololate sensation. This week LG announced a limited Designer’s Edition to the Shiney slider, with beautiful Korean Hangul Calligraphy engraved at the back. See? You can make something look good without copying the RAZR. Take a look at a video we dug up, showing you the Shine in action.

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