Rural users cope with black holes where coverage evaporates, slower speeds and any number of network inconsistencies that city folk would deem unacceptable-buy oh, the vistas!-right? Anyway, LG's is marketing its new KF390 specifically to regional and rural users in Australia, through an exclusive with Telstra.

The phone supports supper fast 7.2Mbps HSDPA data networks, and can receive a signal boost from an external antenna (either a patch lead or a directly-coupled car kit). But, LG's intimating it should work well without the antenna.

The KF390's got a 2 megapixel camera, a front-facing camera for video calls, a touch-sensitive navigation pad, Bluetooth, a 2-inch display, expandable memory and quad-band GSM and dual-band HSDPA connectivity.

Telstra sells the KF390 for AUD 559 (about $526)

For more info, see here.