LG has announced Cooke Pep (GD510) to take on the Corbys and other cheap touchscreen phones in India. Priced at a modest Rs. 7,500, the phone goes for the young crowd with its social networking prowess and easy-to-use interface. Cookie Pep will feature a 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen display, 3MP camera, 8GB internal memory, Bluetooth and quick access to various social networking sites.

The international version also comes with an optional solar charger back panel accessory but it seems LG India won’t sell it here.

Aspects of Cookie Pep:

Cookie Pep is a 2G phone that weighs 87g with 97.8 x 49.5 x 11.2 mm dimensions
It displays 256 colors, 3.0 inches TFT resistive screen with 240 x 400 pixels, and accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
It sounds with speaker phone, vibration and MP3 ring tones.
Cookie Pep bags an internal memory of 42 MB along with the microSD card slot of 16 GB
It connects the data through GPRS (Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 – 48 kbps), EDGE (Class 12), Bluetooth (v2.1 with A2DP), and USB (microUSB)
The device is outfitted with 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels camera and video with QVGA@15fps
The other features of Pep includes Messaging (SMS, MMS, Email), Browser (WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML), radio (Stereo FM radio with RDS), java, solar pane battery, MP3, MP4.
The LG Cookie Pep is energized with standard battery, Li-Ion 900 mAh (LGIP-550N) and it provides a talk time of up to 3 h 20 min and stand-by time of up to 360h.
The solar panel charging(10 min charging) provides a talk time of up to 2 min 30 sec and stand-by time of 3h.