LG Electronics today announced that the LG Viewty (KU990) is the first mobile phone with DivX Certification to natively record video in the high quality DivX format.

The Viewty can now capture high-resolution video, comparable in quality to a video camera. DivX videos recorded through the Viewty can be played back on any DivX Certified consumer electronics device, including DVD players, gaming consoles and portable media players.

"Users of the LG Viewty have come to expect innovation and quality," said Dr. Skott Ahn, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. "The addition of DivX recording capability to the Viewty will open up the media experience and enable our users to do more with the videos they capture, from sharing that content online to playing it back beyond the phone on a wide variety of devices."

The LG Viewty includes 5.0-megapixel still image capture, manual focus, image stabilizer, handwriting recognition for photo editing, a document viewer, voice recording and 120 fps 640 x 480 px DivX video encoding. The Viewty, currently for sale in Europe, will begin shipping immediately with DivX encoding capabilities.