If our eyes don’t deceive us, these are the first shots of the upcoming LG VX9600, a touchscreen phone with modular components.

The LC VX9600 (sporting a Verizon logo here) tempts us with the prospect of a detachable QWERTY keyboard, which would allow you to slim down your phone’s packaging when heavy emailing wasn’t in your near future. Beyond QWERTY, we may see other modular components as well, including gamepads and speakers. It’s like something we might see from Bug Labs, but fully functional without knowledge of JAVA coding. [Howard Forums via MobileCrunch]