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The LG Vu, and LG Shine are very popular feature phones but not much has been written about the best free apps for these fun phones. The LG Vu has 3G and great TV capabilities, now you can enhance your LG Vu with these free apps. We rounded-up reviews of LG VU, and LG Shine apps and found these free apps for your enjoyment.

Best Browser
BOLT Browser - This PC-like browser has proprietary compression, navigation and rendering technologies. BOLT enables users to find and read information quickly and easily. Built in J2ME and able to operate on phones of all types, BOLT can work on an estimated 3 billion phones already in the market.

Fun Goodies/Lifestyle
Feel-Goodies - this free feel-good app can really made your day. Filled with inspirational uplifting sayings, Feel-Goodies, can give you a quick lift in the bank line or the "bored room." This app has been featured as one of our J2ME Apps 2Day.

Social Networking, News & Photo Sharing Apps
Snaptu - is free service filled with apps that work on the LG Vu and LG Shine that requires internet access.  Snaptu provides iPhone-like applications to almost every mobile phone.  Although the service is geared toward people in the U.K. and Europe it has many free ad-supported apps for facebook, Picasa, Flikr, Twitter and Soduko.
Twitter Client
TWIM - This free mobile Twitter client lets you browse latest entries on your timeline and you can update your current status. This app requires an Internet connection for reading your timeline entries and updating your status.

Mapping
Mobile GMaps - is a FREE application that displays maps from various sources like Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local, Ask.com and Open Street Map on Symbian and Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices. MGMaps can connect to a GPS receiver over bluetooth or use internal GPS features on some phones in order to automatically display the map for your current position.

List Keeper Utility

Lists2go lets you keep to-do lists and notes online and accessible from virtually any mobile device. You can even share your to-do with others and be updated as items are completed! You can even create your list on your PC, and automatically receive an SMS to your mobile phone that will take you right to your note without any long typing task on a small keyboard.

Free Trial eBook Reader

Libris eBook reader turns your mobile into an eBook reader. Its clean interface and crisp anti-aliased fonts make reading on your mobile a pleasure. Libris reads books in PalmDoc, unsecure eReader, plain text, and our own Libris formats. Books in PalmDoc and eReader format are available from www.fictionwise.com (and other places), or you can produce your own books in Libris format using the included MakeLibris tool. Its easy to convert books with MakeLibris from sources such as Project Gutenberg.  This TRIAL version allows you to read one book (included). All features are available except for opening books.

Google Mobile - we wanted to put Google Mobile in this round-up of best free LG Vu and LG Shine apps but were unable to confirm how well itworks on the these model phones.  If you have gotten Google mobile, Gmail or Goggle Maps to work please on the LG Vu or LG Shine, let us know via the comments section.

We're currently looking for more great free apps for the LG Vu and LG Shine.  Do you have any suggestions?