You can go to a mobile store and ask to try out a new handset but it’s very problematic – the store staff are busy, there are too many customers, you don’t have the time to play around with the phone as you’d like…
What if you could try out all the phone’s features on your PC without leaving the house? How cool would that be?
Well, Tryphone’s launched a new website letting you test-drive a handset.
Unlike a lot of emulators and demo phones on websites, which are quite limited in terms of what you can try out, Typhone promises to let you do anything and everything on your desired handset.
It works a treat and is a great idea I’m sure will eventually be picked up by operators and retailers for their websites.
There is one catch though – it’s a US site and at the moment on the iPhone, Samsung Juke, LG Muziq and BlackBerry Pearl are online. However there is a ‘Suggestions’ link for you to ask very nicely for your desired handset to be uploaded.
You can check it out for yourself here.
LG recently signed ‘living legend’ audio engineer Mark Levinson as audio consultant (no, we hadn’t heard of him either but apparently he’s very good), and his first creation is the ‘Rhapsody in Music’ phone.
Apparently he set up Mark Levinson Audio Systems over 30 years ago to produce high-end audio products. Since LG took him on, he’s produced its first ‘handheld audio system’ – the ‘Rhapsody In Music phone’ (LG-LB3300 to its friends).
Levinson’s brief was to ensure the best possible sound quality on a music phone and earphones but without having tested the phone we can’t tell whether he’s done that.
What we do know is that the phone looks cool - the LED-lit touch-wheel on the front controls song browsing and volume control. It’s also got 1GB of memory (expandable up to 4GB), a two-inch screen and two-megapixel camera. There’s also A2DP Bluetooth stereo audio that can be streamed to two listeners in parallel.
It sounds promising and certainly looks good, but how much difference Levinson’s made to the sound quality remains to be, well, heard.
[Via Digital Chosunilbo]
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]
If you fancy yourself as a bit of a photo guru then it might interest you to know that LG is looking for people like you. The company is currently running a competition called CityClickers to select ten Europeans to be official photographers for the company. To enter all you need to do is take a portrait photo of the city you live in to try and get across the essential essence and atmosphere of where you live.
So what does this have to do with mobiles? Well a couple of things, first of all the LG site set up for the competition features a clever embedded moblog section where all the entrants are posted, that means that you can submit an entry directly by MMS. The other thing is that the winners will receive a sexy LG Viewty phone complete with paid monthly bills which is pretty decent.
Utilizing a moblog as part of a competition in this way is a pretty neat idea and one that we would wager will become much more popular before long. More details about the rules etc can be found on the site but don’t hang about, entries have to be in by the 25th.
(Via CityCickers)
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.
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