LG announced the release of its new multimedia touch screen phone, LG ARENA (LG-KM900) in Europe. According to the company, LG Arena has already achieved one million unit pre-orders from various carriers around the world since its announcement in February.LG ARENA will be available in silver and black titanium colour schemes and available for purchase starting in March in major European markets.

Samsung S5600 and S5230 affordable touchscreen handsets announced.Samsung S5230 has a slim and compact body at 11.9 mm thickness but without HSDPA supports. Instead of a QVGA screen on the Samsung S5600, the S5230 has a WQVGA full-touch screen in 3-inch size. It is also powered by the TouchWiz User Interface with Mobile Widgets and comes with a 3 megapixel camera. The Samsung S5600 featuring a 2.8-inch QVGA, comes with a 3 megapixel camera and SmileShot feature for smile detection auto shutter.

Samsung S5600 specs include:

• Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900), GPRS/EDGE, UMTS 900/2100. HSDPA 7.2 mbps connectivity
• 2.8” 16M color 240×320 QVGA TFT touchscreen display
• 3 megapixel camera with 15 fps QVGA video recording
• FM Radio with RDS
• Bluetooth 2.1,  USB2.0
• 80MB of built-in memory
• microSD memory card slot (up to 8GB)
• Dimensions: 102.6×55×12.9mm
• Battery: 1000 mAh

Another handset is a 2.5G Samsung S5230, with very similar specs and a bit bigger screen. Its  specs are:

• Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900) GPRS/EDGE connectivity
• 3” 262K color 240×400 px WQVGA touchscreen display
• 3 megapixel camera
• FM Radio with RDS
• 50 MB of built-in memory
• microSD memory card slot (up to 8 GB)
• Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0
• Dimensions: 104×53m11.9mm
• Battery: 1000 mAh

Samsung S5600 will start shipping in May, and Samsung S5230 will hit the stores in April. Both phones are headed for Europe.