LG’s been crowing about its success again, now claiming that it’s going to sell 700,000 touch-screen Prada handsets by the end of the year.
Certainly LG has had a particularly success year. In the last couple of months alone it’s claimed to have sold over 15m Chocolate handsets and then that its second touch-screen handset, the Viewty, sold out its first shipments in three weeks, with the latest figure being 310,000 in just two months.
Considering the Prada was only released in March in four countries before a wider global release, this isn’t bad going for LG’s first touch-screen device.
[Via Mobile Entertainment]
Just after claiming it had sold 15 million KG800 (Chocolate) handsets around the world, LG has unveiled two new colours of the massive-selling handset as xmas gifts – in lilac and silver.
LG claimed last week that the Chocolate had sold 15 million units since it was launched way back in November 2005 in Korea, then in May 2006 in 100 countries around the World. It reckons five million were sold since April alone.
This isn’t bad for a handset that features a 1.3MP camera, a 176×220 pixel screen, and a mere 128MB of storage (and no memory card slot!).
Obviously the Chocolate’s appeal is in the stylish casing and glowing front buttons. Oh, and the range of colours it’s available in, definitely not targeted in a cynical way at getting people to buy different colours to suit their outfits?
If you want one of the new Chocolates, the silver one’s available on prepay from Phones 4u (£49.95), while Carphone’s selling the lilac one on both contract and prepay (£39.95), alongside pink, black and white versions.
LG has been shouting about its success with its Viewty handset, of which has sold out in Europe in less than a month.
LG claims that 200,000 handsets delivered to 14 European countries have sold out after only three weeks.
The five-megapixel cameraphone with three-inch screen is one of the best around, and the latest in a long series of hits for LG, which has come from nowhere in Europe to the first tier of manufacturers in only three years.
The Shine and Prada handsets got a lot of attention, but the Chocolate is its biggest yet, with over 11 million handsets sold so far (globally, not just in the UK!).
LG’s especially encouraged by the fact that the Viewty is pretty expensive compared to a lot of other handsets. Market research firm Strategy Analytics puts LG at number five globally in terms of sales, but second only to Sony Ericsson in terms of average phone price ($125 compared to Sony Ericsson’s $171).
[Via Korea Times]
We want one. One of the new LG’s that is - not the models.
LG’s already won plaudits for its stylish, sexy handsets like the LG Prada and LG Chocolate phones, and now it’s turned its hand to smartphones with the LG KS20.
It looks similar to the Prada handset but the KS20 is more like a iPhone (surprise, surprise). It boasts a 2.8-inch touchscreen and runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional, and to ensure connectivity has HSDPA as well.
As you would expect from all this, the LG KS20 is designed to be the ultimate mobile internet smartphone. It will play music and video content and has a two-megapixel camera, plus another for video calling. Further content can be stored on the microSD card slot.
It looks superb and from the sounds of the specs, will work like a dream as well. It could have the looks and the capabilities to make it the ultimate smartphone.
The catch? It’s not available in the UK. Yet. If you want one, you’ll have to get it in France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy, or wait until it’s undoubtedly released over here sometime soon.
