Today LG launched the GS500 Cookie Plus, a 3G touch screen feature phone that is the spiritual successor to the original LG Cookie. The Cookie Plus sports a new graphical user interface that has a focus around social network connectivity. A Facebook widget is on the home screen, and Twitter, Flickr, and others are also available.

The Cookie Plus offers a unique "Editable Screenshot" MMS feature that lets you take screenshots of websites to edit and mail to friends. For images, the Cookie Plus comes equipped with a 3 megapixel camera.

LG says that additional cookie devices will be revealed in the coming months. The Cookie Plus will be available initially in France and Italy in March but will eventually be available in 45 countries.

• 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
• Weight 92.5 g
• Display Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 256K colors
• Size 240 x 400 pixels, 3.0 inches
• - Flash UI
• - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
• - Handwriting recognition
• Sound Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones, composer
• Speakerphone Yes
• - 3.5mm audio jack
• Memory Phonebook 1000 entries, Photocall
• Call records 40 dialed, 40 received, 40 missed calls
• Internal 30MB
• Card slot microSD, up to 8GB
• Data GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• EDGE Class 12
• 3G HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
• WLAN No
• Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
• Infrared port No
• USB Yes, v2.0
• Camera Primary 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels
• Video Yes, QVGA@12fps
• Secondary No
• Features Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, Email
• Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
• Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Games Yes + downloadable
• GPS No
• Java Yes, MIDP 2.1
• - Native Facebook client
• - MP3/WMA/AAC player
• - MP4/H.263 player
• - Organizer
• - Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
• - Voice memo
• - T9
• Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 900 mAh
• Stand-by Up to 400 h
• Talk time Up to 3 h 40 min