LG Electronics on Thursday unveiled its newest touchscreen mobile handset, dubbed Renoir.

Also known as KC910, the newbie is a successor to the company’s Viewty camera phone, and comes with a host of features including an 8-megapixel camera and other camera features that the company claims can supersede a full blown digital camera.

With a 3-inch display screen and an on-screen virtual QWERTY keyboard, Renoir is equipped with Schneider-Kreuznach optics, a Xenon flash, auto and manual focus, up to ISO 1,600 sensitivity, geotagging and a feature called Touch Shot, which allows users to focus on an object by tapping it on the screen, and then automatically taking a photo of it when the finger is removed.

Other features of the Renoir include text and multimedia messaging, A-GPS, HSDPA, a music player, a camcorder with the ability to capture 120 fps slow-motion video and to compress events to 5 fps time lapse recording, built-in support for DivX and Xvid, said the company.

For connectivity, there''s integrated Wi-Fi, EDGE, and 3G capabilities with up to 7.2-Mbps downlink speed. These can be used to quickly upload photos, browse the Web with the HTML browser, use the included online widgets, and send and receive e-mail.

The Renoir is scheduled to hit Europe in October and followed with a launch in America, Latin, Asia and CIS in November, the Middle East and Africa in December, and China in January 2009.