This comes just weeks after the Korean giant signed a similar deal with Yahoo! And then you've got Larry and Sergei's kiss-up with Samsung. The other Korean giant and Google got into bed together at the beginning of the year. How long before one of the cuckolded parties pulls out of their deal with the immortal words, "There were four of us in this relationship"?

Google Maps, Gmail, and Blogger will all be preloaded onto 10 LG handsets, and Google search will be available just by clicking an icon on the cell's application menu. What looks almost certain is that the phones, which will be available in the next quarter, will be marketed as LG-Google handsets. In completely unrelated news, Laura Ocaña is still not returning Larry and Sergei's calls. – Ad Dugdale

LG Phones To Bundle Google Apps [GigaOM]

Or in other words: "OMFG! We must do something about that iPhone-thang! Pronto!"

ZenZui's Zooming User Interface organizes Web and user content in 36 tiles arranged in a virtual desktop grid. The desktop can be panned and zoomed in or out using the cellphone's touchscreen or numeric keypad. Then, when you activate one of the tiles, it will show you a small interface, which appears to follow the same directional pad control for user interaction. The interface looks rather sleek and zoomtastic, I have to say, but you'll be the judge after you see the video demonstration, right after the jump.

The idea was originally patented at Microsoft Research labs, although to me it looks inspired by Don Hopkins' pie menus and the Nintendo Wii Channels. The system will require the participation of carriers and content providers, but beyond Kayak.com, OTOlabs, Avenue A | Razorfish, and Traffic.com, there's not much more detail.

The press release babbles on about social connections and digital content sharing, but I don't know if this is just marketing drone speech or if ZenZui will offer the users the possibility to share their bookmarks and content using a centralized server or some kind of peer-to-peer messaging. You can clearly see a "Rate tile" button on the screenshots in the gallery, so there may really be some kind of social bookmarking/recommendation system in place.

We will know more from CTIA, when Brian and Jason get their sticky paws all over it. – Jesus Diaz

They will also show some of their latest releases just to keep us drooling, but until Jason gets them in his pants when he arrives in Orlando, we only have a few pix of these C-models and a few other naughty bits. They're right after the jump.

The Pantech C510 (from now on, the Greenrrrzr), approved last month by the FCC, has a 1.3 megapixel camera, external music player controls, slot for memory cards, Bluetooth support for stereo headphones and, ignoring Kermit's advice, a green brushed metal case.

The C600 (the Smlehphone) is a 850/1900 UMTS, quad-band GSM/EDGE phone, which comes with Bluetooth stereo headphones support and a Flash-based user interface. Apparently, it also comes with a time machine that the designers traveled in to steal a design from 1996.

The Pantech C710 (the Soundawhoompa) will also have the same features: 3G, a Flash UI, and a 1.3 megapixel camera, adding two «deluxe» speakers (which will either come with bacon and cheese or sound better than the normal speakers), a video sharing client and push-to-talk abilities, so you can pretend you are a secret agent using walkie-talkies. Hopefully, it will look better than this C600.

The Pantech C3b (the Tinynippleclamper), which they say is the smallest camera flip phone in the world, will be just like the current C3 but with added Bluetooth. – Jesus Diaz

Pantech showcases five new ha [ZDNet Korea]