We weren't particularly pumped about LG's so-called Wine Phone, the SV300, when we saw it last year for the Korean market, so we're definitely not pumped about it now. Especially when you consider that in the process of its transformation to the KF300 (a member of the fashion-centric "KF" series, you'll notice), it apparently managed to lose 3G somewhere along the way. Then again, with buttons the size of Chiclets and a name like "Wine Phone," we guess the target audience won't have much use for anything that travels more than a small handful of kilobits per second. Other features -- if you can really call them that -- include a 2 megapixel camera, 10 megabytes of onboard storage with microSD expansion, and Bluetooth. Thanks, but we'll just take an actual glass of wine instead if that's quite alright.

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We're still a bit bemused at why the LG-SV300 gets the Wine Phone moniker, but even cellphone connoisseurs can appreciate a finely constructed handset photographed while receiving white glove treatment. The mobile was opened up and shown to the camera over at SEK2007, and interestingly enough, it looks like the enlarged buttons (and font, too) could hint that this device will be aimed at those with aging eyes (you know, the stereotypical "wine crowd"). Regardless of speculation, be sure to click on through for the pictures you're surely salivating over.

What exactly makes this a "Wine Phone," we're not sure -- but then again, when you think about it, there isn't anything about the original Chocolate that makes it chocolatey, either. The SV300 looks to be a Korea-only special (for now, anyway) with a 2.2 inch display, media player, and cam of unknown resolution -- pretty unremarkable specs, even by fashionphone standards. Look for it in red (kind of wine-like, we suppose) or black (not so much) this week from Korea's SK Telecom and LG Telecom for 300,000 won, about $322.