LG announced it will launch a Silver edition of its much appreciated LG Prada (or LG KE850), after almost a year since the original black version came out (in March 2007). This is great news for those who like LG Prada but wished from the beginning for another color. Considering the black Prada has been sold in more than 700,000 units until now, the South Korean producer hopes that, with the new edition, the handset will have at least the same success throughout 2008. LG Prada is in many ways similar to Apple's iPhone, but it's far from being a copycat, first of all because it was launched before the Apple handset.

As expected, the silver LG Prada has the same features as the black one, plus a new virtual QWERTY keyboard that provides an easier way to input text. Although many hoped the next Prada would come with 3G features, it doesn't. So the new Prada is actually the same tri-band GSM device with the same 3 inch TFT touchscreen with the 240 x 400 pixel resolution and Flash UI and the same 2 Megapixel camera with video recording (at 30 fps).

Furthermore, we have the same dimensions (98.8 x 54 x 12 millimeters) and the same weight of 85 grams. Other nice specifications include GPRS, EDGE, WAP 2.0 / xHTML browser, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0, MP3 player and FM radio.

The silver LG Prada will be available, before the end of January, in 18 European countries, including France, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain. Most probably, its retail price will be similar to the black Prada's one which, for those who don't know, is somewhere around $800 (meaning about 540 Euro). There are no details whether the Silver LG Prada will reach US or not, but I don't see any reason for this not to happen.