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August 21, 2007
LG Loosens The Grip On My iPhone
My loyalty to electronics sucks. I admit it. I always want the next best thing and up until now, there wasn't anything on the market that could break the iPhone spell holding me over, except for the new LG KU990.
This baby sports a 3" 240x400 pixel touchscreen using an updated interface similar to the LG Prada. On the flipside you'll find a 5.1 megapixel Schneider-Kreuznack camera with image stabilization, auto focus, LED flash, ISO 800, and can record at 120 fps!
Now its faults. A big touchscreen still isn't the cool multi-touchscreen found on the iPhone. Although the U.I. is nice, it's still not as nice at the iPhone's. Multimedia functions are a plenty but again, not as polished as the iPhone. The one thing it has that almost all iPhone users wish they had is 3G HSDPA.
The KU990 makes its debut in Germany next month. No information regarding a Stateside release yet but I'm totally import happy. Bring it!
Posted by tranism at 2:59 AM | Permalink
Comments
This phone is SICCCCC. I want it now. You find the most amazing stuff. I've been reading this blog for 3 weeks now. You're all over the map but I love that.
Posted by: SavePolarBears at August 21, 2007 11:35 AM
Wow, that's sexy... The camera is one of my favorite things on the Prada - and seeing LG bumping that one up even further is great!
However, I don't think this is an iPhone-killer at all... The lack of a qwerty-keyboard, the sloppy performance of the touchscreen (which, by the way scratches worse than a first-batch Nano) is driving me insane!
Also, the interface not only lacks the multi-touch of the iPhone, in many ways it seems like LG is using the touchscreen more as a gimmick than a UX-tool...
Posted by: John Arnor G. Lom at August 23, 2007 10:42 AM