LG PITCHED UP AT IFA in Berlin with its very first computer for the British market and a netbook at that, seen in their X110.

They’ve always offered a plethora of laptops elsewhere on Earth, just not in merry old England. It’s about time we were no longer shunned as the whole ordeal has gone on long enough. We were almost about to cross them off our Christmas card list.

Sharing the same product name as a John Deere tractor, the lite-laptop doesn’t arrive with a fully welded, heavy gauge steel frame, or a cast iron front axle.

Instead it’s powered by an Intel ATOM 1.6GHz processor, running Windows XP home with a minor discrepancy over whether there will be 1GB or 512MB RAM onboard.

It falls into the 10-inch screen category of netbooks, almost bypassing a generation seen in the earlier 8.9-inch ASUS Eee PC displays. They’ve packed in WLAN 802.11 b/g, a 10/100 Ethernet port with an onboard 80GB HDD, although no mention of SSDs as yet.

Other notable specifications are an inbuilt HSUPA modem, integrated GPS and a three-cell battery all weighing in at 1.19kg.

We’ve been informed that Phones4u will be initially partnering with LG in selling the mini-lappy, whilst offering just white and pink case options when it arrives in late October.

As this is a mobile-focused netbook, we would have assumed a carrier and a tariff of some sort would be announced at this point. Unfortunately this isn’t the case, as it appears there isn’t a mobile broadband package being bundled in at present.

So we’re a tad curious as to why a notable mobile phone retailer would be linked so prominently in such a way.

No pricing has yet been confirmed to The INQUIRER. It will be interesting to see how LG pitches this product against an increasingly over crowded market with Acer, Dell, Asus and MSI to name a few all wanting a slice of the cake.

Only time will tell who’ll have the nattiest netbook around. µ