LG announce E90-like GPS-equipped S60 clamshell
Published by Steve Litchfield at 13:53 UTC, February 10th 2008
LG Electronics has announced its new 'LG-KT610', described as a "GPS-enabled, stylish candy bar mobile phone with a unique 2.4" flip screen holding a PC-like Qwerty keypad". More details below (it's actually a clamshell, in the style of the Nokia E90), plus photos from Rafe.
"Based on Symbian OS™ v9.2 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, 'LG-KT610's users can take full advantage of a rich suite of multimedia features and applications.
The sleek new 'LG-KT610' is powered with HSDPA connectivity at 3.6 Mbps and GPS navigation capabilities. Combined with a QWERTY keypad and push email functionality, socialising, working and web browsing on-the-go is made easy. Symbian OS ensures the benefits of advanced power efficiency and a high-level of OS security, crucial for social and professional users." - from the press release.
Take all this with a pinch of salt though - after all, it's not as if LG's smartphones usually make it into production and over here... let's hope 2008 is the year that bucks the trend.
I can't see what's 'unique' about the design, to be honest, although at least it brings some of the Nokia's E90's philosophy to a presumably much lower price point.
For more photos, see Rafe's MWC stream
Categories: Hardware
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition
News Discussion
I agree it would be quite difficult to read websites on a phone screen, but it may help with making things look a lot smoother. The current QVGA standard can still look quite blocky sometimes.
Also an important-but-little-discussed thing to bear in mind: if S60 phones start having TV Out sockets as standard and also VGA as standard, they will make much better desktop computers than the current QVGA models with TV Out. I know it sounds crazy, but in developing countries where phones outsell PCs by quite a wide margin this could become revolutionary.
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Originally Posted by slitchfield
Take all this with a pinch of salt though - after all, it's not as if LG's smartphones usually make it into production and over here... let's hope 2008 is the year that bucks the trend.
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1. http://www.twenga.co.uk/prices-KS10-...hones-179355-0
2. http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/00...e_in_italy.htm
3. http://ae.lge.com/products/model/detail/ks10.jhtml
4. E.g. http://www.expansys-usa.com/p.aspx?i=158851 or http://www.cellswholesale.com/LG-KS10,C,425/
5. http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/featu...007_Report.php
:)
Whose bright idea was it to put a small screen inside a wide clamshell?
there's a pic at http://www.pixycell.com/verizon-env2...ack-p-247.html