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I hope you haven't decided to pick up that LG phone projector eXpo yet. Right now it's available for just $99.99 USD on Amazon, but they'll even throw in a $50 Amazon gift card with your purchase. This means that you can get the handset for $50 on a 2-year AT&T contract. Check it out on Amazon here.

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After just over a week of shipping delays, AT&T now has the LG eXpo available on their website. Codenamed the LG Monaco way back when, this handset is now available for $199.99 USD on a 2-year contract. This handset is running Windows Mobile 6.5, has a 3.2-inch touchscreen display with a 480 x 800 resolution, and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Don't forget that this will also have a detachable and optional pico-projector attachment but it'll cost you $179.99, so it's nothing cheap. Get one on AT&T's website now.

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Unlike AT&T and the LG eXpo, Telus has released the LG IQ! This handset is now available with WinMo 6.5 for $99.99 on a 3-year contract, $399.99 on a 2-year contract, $449.99 on a 1-year contract, and $499.99 contract-free. The IQ sports: a 3.2-inch touchscreen display with a 480 x 800 resolution, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz CPU, a 5MP camera, Bluetooth support, and FM radio. This handset is now available here.

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The LG "Monaco" will be launching as the LG eXpo in the USA on AT&T and will be available in Canada on Telus as the LG IQ. This Snapdragon-powered handset has a detachable pico-projector that will reportedly only be available to business customers, which definitely sucks. If you're interested in watch a video on exactly what the projector can do then click play on the video above.

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Telus will be getting the LG Monaco as the LG IQ in the next couple of weeks, but now we know that the US will be getting it as well. AT&T will be launching this handset as the LG eXpo and it'll be available starting on December 7th. In case you forgot, this handset features: a Snapdragon CPU, a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a removable pico-projector, a fingerprint reader, and WinMo 6.5.

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At this point we've seen the LG IQ a couple of times. It's headed to Telus with some pretty good specs for a WinMo 6.5 phone. We now know that the LG IQ will be coming to Telus for $99.99 on a 3-year contract, $399.99 on a 2-year contract, $449.99 on a 1-year contract, and $499.99 contract-free. The release date is still TBA.

Update: According to Engadget, this handset will be launching in the next couple of weeks aka "this holiday season."

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Alright, so by now we know that Telus will be getting the LG IQ, which was once codenamed the LG Monaco - and was supposed to run WinMo 7 way back when. So yeah, you want to know more don't you? Well, there's really nothing more I can tell you.

What you see above is our first look at the handset live in the flesh and it's running WinMo 6.5 with Snapdragon internals - the 1GHz one. The display is a 3.2-inch touchscreen, there's a 5MP shooter on the back, and it has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Pricing and release details still haven't been mentioned.

[WMExperts, Mobile Syrup]

Earlier this month we heard that the LG IQ would be hitting Canada's Telus. Well, now we're hearing that this handset is actually the LG Monaco. It will feature a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 5MP camera, a Snapdragon CPU, and WinMo 6.5. We still don't know when it will launch though.

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According to what you see above, AT&T will be launching the LG Monaco and the HP Obsidian in November of this year. Both handsets will launch with Windows Mobile 6.5 on-board. In case you forgot, the Monaco has: a 5MP AF camera, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, WiFi 802.11 b/g, GPS support, and GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity.

The HP Obsidian looks like it will have: a 3.5mm headphone jack, GPS / WiFi 802.11 b/g / Bluetooth 2.0 support, GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity, a QWERTY keypad, and a microSD card slot.

On a side note, the AT&T Tilt 2 will be released next month (October), but we already knew that. The Samsung Epix and Samsung Jack will also be upgradeable to WinMo 6.5 as well.

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We still don't have a confirmed date on Sprint's HTC Touch Pro 2, but we're now hearing it'll be either September 8th or the 13th. Unfortunately, Sprint and Verizon's HTC Touch Pro 2 will be launching with Windows Mobile 6.1, so we'll see it before October 1st - since that's the date WinMo 6.5 should be out. If you want WinMo 6.5 pre-installed on your Touch Pro 2 then you should probably get yours on US Cellular. They plan to launch the TP2 with WinMo 6.5 pre-installed, which means we'll see it after October 1st.

In the leaked roadmap above, you'll also see the AT&T Touch Pro 2, the LG Monaco (running WinMo 6.5 not WinMo 7), the HTC Warhawk which is the Touch Diamond 2, and Verizon's Samsung Omnia II.

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US Cellular TP2 With WinMo 6.5: WMExperts

According to this picture from AT&T, the LG Monaco running Windows Mobile 7 will be available this September! Don't get too excited though, because this slide looks to be outdated, seeing how WinMo 6.5 hasn't even rolled out yet - and Microsoft has already mentioned that WinMo 7 will be available next year. Nonetheless, this handset does look great. It has: a 3.2-inch WVGA (480 x 800) touchscreen display, WiFi, a 5MP camera with autofocus, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR / A2DP, USB 2.0 connectivity, aGPS, a microSD card slot (support for up to 16GB), and a Pico-projector to top things off. I don't know where the projector will be located, but it looks like a pretty thin and sleek design.

I just think that this handset is too simple for my liking. I want to get something that is so sexy, something that makes people jealous. Getting back on topic, if this LG Monaco does hit AT&T this September, don't expect it to run WinMo 7.

[Engadget]