LG Announces Two New Android Gingerbread Phones: Optimus Pro, and Optimus Net

It seems like some time in the last 5 months or so, all of the major Android handset makers had the same idea: they, too, needed a BlackBerry-esque QWERTY candybar handset. It's as if RIM's self-fueled fiery demise made them realize that BlackBerry owners might be abandoning ship soon, so they adopted a form factor that would make the transition to Android that much smoother.

While Motorola had the Droid Pro way back in Q3 of last year, Samsung joined the keyboarded-slab party just back in March with the Galaxy Pro. HTC announced their first Android QWERTY candybar, the lawsuit triggering ChaCha, back in February and will launch it in the US (as the AT&T Status) this weekend. The latest OEM to board the ol' Android-QWERTY-Candybar Express: LG. This morning, they're debuting two brand new pieces of hardware, both running Android v2.3 (Gingerbread).

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