The sources are a little foggy on this one, but it looks like LG will be releasing the SH460, or ‘Ski Phone’ in Korea soon. The Ski phone comes from a long lineage of rather mediocre phones that are re branded with a ‘cool’ name and pushed into the hands of the less intelligent consumers [...]
Starting November 17th the Samsung Gravity, also knows as the Samsung T459 will be available via T-Mobile. The Gravity is a fairly generic consumer phone, other then its full QWERTY keyboard there is little to distinguish it from last years cheap phones. Basing phones around text messaging seems to be the big theme this year [...]
LG Japan hosted a Mobile Design Contest and with the winners announced the phones were put on display at a Tokyo Designers Week event. Although the phones are only concepts and may never actually become products, its always interesting to see the designs and concepts that come out of these competitions.
The winning design was “Planet [...]
AT&T’s love affair continues with their adoption of the Pantech Slate, the slimmest phone in the world with a QWERTY keyboard. The phone is a little under one centimeter deep, and features raised tactile buttons, sure its not as impressive as some of Samsung’s worlds best, but its not bad for an often second party [...]
Samsung released some details on an another upcoming phone at this years London Smartphone Show. The Samsung INNOV8 will be following in the footsteps of the previously announced Samsung S60 I7110 by including an impressive digital camera setup. The phone features an 8 mega pixel camera (Samsung’s first) with ’smile shot’, ‘blink shot’, face recognition [...]
A new imrpoved Samsung i7110 mobile was revealed across the pond today, its gotten a litte update since the company last showed off the phone. The new 15% more slick phone features a beautiful 2.6″ AMOLED screen with some sort of 3D graphics, as well as a whopping 5 mega pixel camera. The camera also [...]
LG & Samsung Take Things Slow and Steady With Android
Samsung and LG are reportedly set to release their Google Android based phone in the second half of 2009. T-Mobile’s G1 will be the first and for a short time only Android phone available to consumers who live within areas with established 3G networks to ensure [...]
AT&T is getting ready to launch the Xenon a slick new QWERTY phone, built by LG Electronics. Lately, a few snapshots and specifications of the phone have been uncovered by the BoyGenius who’s sources say the phone is undergoing testing in AT&T’s labs, and could be out in time for Christmas. Apart from having the [...]
Korean manufacturer Samsung and European design house Giorgio Armani have teamed up once again to enthrall fashion savvy users looking for a mobile phone that will complement their mass production luxury goods fueled style. The long awaited Samsung Armani 2 mobile will be called “Night Effect”. The phone comes with huge Emporio Armani logos on [...]
At SID 2008, LG unveiled a reflective LCD panel that can display different images on the front and back sides of the glass substrate. The Dual sided panel eliminates the need for backlight and gives higher visibility outdoors, which makes them ideal for mobile devices.
LG prototyped 2.2-inch and 15-inch LCD panels. Both [...]