LG has just announced the Optimus L9 as a followup to its Optimus L3, L5 and L7 handsets. This series is viewed by LG as a budget lineup that places an emphasis on style, with the L9 leading the pack. It sports a dual-core 1GHz CPU and a large, 4.7-inch IPS display. The phone will be outfitted with Android 4.0, 1GB of RAM, a 5-megapixel rear camera and a beefy 2,150mAh battery.
its got a new keyboard is dubbed the My Style Keypad, which allows users to adjust the key placement for easier one-handed typing. Its also got an app called QTranslator that LG says can scan text in 44 foreign languages, and using optical character recognition (OCR), translate the text into 64 user languages.