We were the first site to bring you live pictures of the LG Xenon a few weeks back. However, today AT&T launched the phone to the rest of the world. Starting today, you can get the LG Xenon for $99.99 after rebate once you sign away your life for two-years. The Xenon has a two megapixel camera, 3G, bluetooth, and a QWERTY keyboard.

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We got our hands on LG Xenon today and boy is this thing clean. Hit the jump for more!

To start off, the phone has a resistive touchscreen with slide out QWERTY keyboard for typing. It’s packing a 2 Megapixel camera with dedicated camera button.

The software running on the phone seemed very similar to Samsung’s Touch Wiz OS. It has a widgets box where you can drag and drop different items on to the desktop. We found this to be kind of hard to use due to the fact that the widgets were so large and the desktop was so small. The “note” widget took up a huge chunk of the screen. The phone was running on early firmware so this may change later when production models hit. The widgets had your basic items such as a calendar, photos, analog clock/alarm, notepad etc.

Huge shout out to LG for creating an amazing keyboard. The feel of the keyboard was very similar to the Sidekick 2 (rubbery) and the travel between the buttons was excellent. You can feel the click with every press without the buttons being too stubborn.

Camera quality was decent. We did take a photo and the phone locked up while saving the picture requiring a battery pull. Again, early software so this is obviously a small bug they will fix.

Speaker was loud and easy to hear.

The build quality was great. The phone was very light and very pocket-able while maintaining a high quality feel to it.

The address book of the phone has been improved compared to the software on the LG Vu. The scrolling direction while going through the names is now similar to that of the G1 and iPhone. There is a dedicated button in the address menu for browsing via first letter.

All in all we were very pleased with the phone. We were told it will hit AT&T very soon at a $100 price point after $50 mail in rebate. It will drop in 3 colors including black and red.

Glad to see LG step it up with this model. Looking forward to it! The LG Xenon is a great phone but There are many other options currently available on the market. Make the right choice when it comes to cell phones by reviewing the specs and deals offered.

A major national retailer’s list of upcoming phones has made its way on the Internet and is giving us phone addicts some things to look forward to. Check out what it has to offer:

• Verizon Intrigue – March 15th
• Sprint Palm Pro – March 15th
• AT&T JackFrost – March 29th
• AT&T Nokia E71 – April 1st
• AT&T LG Zenon – April 10th

If you have been having your eye on a new phone from any of these carriers than you have some decisions to make in the next few months.

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