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Arwel Hughes, who some of you might remember as the fake Darth Vader from one of my favorite news stories earlier this year, has been sentenced to a two-month suspended sentence and a £100 fine. We’re hoping Hughes, who’s a chronic alcoholic, something rare in Britain, can stay out of trouble and on the right side […]

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Arwel Hughes, who some of you might remember as the fake Darth Vader from one of my favorite news stories earlier this year, has been sentenced to a two-month suspended sentence and a £100 fine.

We’re hoping Hughes, who’s a chronic alcoholic, something rare in Britain, can stay out of trouble and on the right side of the Force.

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From the very low to the relatively high end, three new models LG’s unleashed on its Indian customers this month run the full range of price points while still managing to pack in music playback across the board. Starting on the bottom, the KP110 is a member of LG’s Bullet series (we’re not seeing the resemblance to an actual munition, but whatevs) and is being targeted squarely at first-time phone buyers with a microSD slot and FM radio headlining the feature list. Next, the Dynamite KP320’s actually a heck of a phone — 3.2 autofocus megapixels worth, to be exact — with Television out and A2DP to boot. Rounding out the launches in LG’s global KF510 fashion slider with a 3 megapixel cam and a pair of color choices. Look for the three to run Rs. 2,899, 7,990, and 12,250 (about $69, $190, and $291) respectively.

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At first glance this handset looks boring enough to make even a seasoned professional cry, but hold up just one hot second: it has at least one cool feature that we’d be willing to be a day’s wage (not really) that your phone can’t do. The Samsung Guru200 — follow-on to the recently released Guru100 — features FM radio recording, putting an extra twist on the regular FM radio that’s virtually standard on each cellphone sold across India. Otherwise, yeah, it really is as boring as it looks, if you don’t count a few software twists designed to cater to the Indian market. Look for it to launch for Rs. 2,999, which works out to about $71.

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Thank you, LG, thank you for getting it. A music phone should have a 3.5mm headphone jack — no exceptions — and the new KM380 destined for the Chinese market has exactly that, not to mention a clever set of external controls on the outside of the flip dedicated to tune control. Failing to bring something like this onto the low end of your American or European offerings is pretty weak, but maybe this marks the beginning of a new chapter for you — a “Golden Age” of music phones. Or maybe not. We can hope.

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