LG aims for #2 spot by 2012, plans new “Black label” iPhone competitor, Prada III phone and extreme premium brand
LG has made some pretty impressive strides in a cellphone market during these last few years. With the demise of Motorola and the problems ailing Sony Ericsson last year, they’ve even managed to become #3 cellphone maker in the world.
And LG does not plan to stop here. In an interview to Yonhap [...]
LG to ship more 3G phones than Samsung, thanks to demand from China
LG might soon ship more 3G handsets worldwide than Samsung, helped by the fast-growing Chinese mobile market.
Currently the world’s third largest phone maker (behind Nokia and Samsung), LG is the only international manufacturer that was selected to provide 3G phones for all of China’s carriers: China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, which together have [...]
LG KT878 and KV920 announced for China
LG will enter the Chinese 3G market with two phones destined for China Mobile and China Telecom: LG KT878 and LG KV920.
China Mobile’s KT878 is a TD-SCDMA smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and features stuff like a 3 inch WVGA touchscreen display, a 5MP camera, Bluetooth, music player, FM radio and microSD card [...]
LG shows off the world’s first 4G (LTE) modem
While we’re still waiting for a 4G / LTE network to be commercially launched anywhere in the world, LG has recently showcased the first-ever LTE USB modem.
Presented in Singapore, during CommunicAsia 2009, the new LG modem is capable of providing data transfers of up to 100 Mbps over a mobile network – thus being much [...]
LG plans 3 Android phones for 2009, doesn’t know if they’re high-end
Back in 2008, when we first heard that LG wants to launch Android phones, we didn’t know how many of them would be out in 2009.
Well, now it looks like there are no less than three LG Android phones planned for release by the end of the year.
Details are still scarce, but it’s said that [...]
Nokia E71-like LG GW550 WM smartphone shows up
The GM730 is not the only Windows Mobile handset presented by LG yesterday.
The South Korean company has also unveiled the GW550, a smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, unlike the GM730, which obviously comes with WM 6.1 Professional.
Design-wise, LG GW550 looks like the Nokia E71, one of the most popular Symbian smartphones of [...]
LG GM730 officially launched, available starting July
Remember the LG GM730 Windows Mobile smartphone presented way back in February?
Well, LG has officially launched it today, but not before changing its appearance a bit: while the original GM730 had a round d-pad, the handset’s final version comes with a rectangular one.
This aside, it looks like the GM730 has the features that were initially [...]
G1-like LG Tritan AX840 launched by Alltel
Alltel Wireless has released a new LG phone that borrows a bit from the form factor the T-Mobile G1 / HTC Dream is famous for.
The new phone is called LG Tritan AX840 and it obviously has a touchscreen, plus a full QWERTY keyboard hidden underneath it. There’s also a weird-positioned d-pad that looks to be [...]
Pink LG Arena, Samsung Toco Lite for the UK
Pink-loving mobile users in the UK should know that they can now buy two new phones in their favorite color: LG Arena KM900 and Samsung Toco Lite (aka Star S5230).
The pink LG Arena can be bought only from Orange and it’s free if you’re willing to pay 30 GBP per month for two years.
Of course, [...]
LG GD910 watch phone hits the UK in July, via Orange and Carphone Warehouse
Back in February, when Orange announced the release of LG GD910 in the UK, it only said that the watch phone would be available “later this year”.
Today, LG has finally unveiled the release date of GD910: the watch phone will be on sale starting July, exclusively through Orange UK and Carphone Warehouse.
After that, the LG [...]