This has got to be one of the stranger FCC approvals, because from what I can gather, the LG MG140a cell phone is a dual-band GSM unit… with the 900 and 1800 bands that we don’t even use here in North America. So, what is it doing at the FCC? Well, it turns out that they didn’t bother changing up the user manual before sending it off. Based on this update (warning: PDF link), it is indeed an 850/1900 dual-band phone.

Granted, the MG140a doesn’t have the sexy appeal of the Chocolate or the text-happy keyboard of the enV, but it does appear to be reasonably straightforward to use. For this and several other reasons, I think that the MG140a is an entry-level phone with a rather basic feature set. What we can find on this phone are a camera, FM radio, voice recorder, and Flight mode.

Now that the “advanced and compact MG140a mobile phone” has received the go-ahead from the FCC, your guess is as good as mine as to where it’ll end up. T-Mobile, perhaps?