Ever dug into the theory around why people choose certain coloured cars? I never got further than ‘red means a big angry road-raging bastard’ line of thought. Although arguably that’s enough to know when not to swear at someone who’s just cut you up at a busy junction.Anyway, there may well be a parallel theory covering mobile phone colours. In which case, the latest model of LG’s Viewty should appeal to all the big, angry, road-raging… well, you know. Apparently the ‘hot red’ model shown here will be on sale initially in the Ukraine, although presumably it’ll also come out in other parts of Europe eventually too.Specs-wise, it’s the same: five-megapixel camera, ninja video recording functions, slinky touchscreen. Last Christmas, the UK mobile operators went colour-mad in their ranges, so it wouldn’t be a surprise to find the hot red Viewty being bagged as an exclusive by one of them this year. Watch this space.(via Unwired View)
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Having posted already today on the ongoing contest between cameraphones and digital cameras, LG is hammering the point home with a new mobile photography competition based around its Viewty handset, in partnership with Yahoo and National Geographic magazine.
It’s all about uploading your best shots to the Viewtyful World community (ouch!) for other users to vote on. Every week, three Viewty handsets will be given away - two to people chosen by the community, and one awarded by National Geographic’s top snappers.
That’s not all. Eventually, eight finallists will be chosen, with the ultimate winner getting their shots featured in a Viewty advertorial in the National Geographic itself, as well as a $10,000 copyright fee (i.e. prize). Competition promises to be pretty stiff, so don’t assume that blurry snaps of your cat licking its bum will see you quids in. This is the National Geographic: they’ve got more class than that.
A lion licking its bum, mind? Now you’re talking…
Mobile video continues to be big news. With the Viewty’s support for DivX movies, the Nokia N96’s TV streaming and multi-format playback and the ubiquitous multimedia behemoth that is the iPhone, the only thing missing is something to watch.
No less a being than Robert Redford descended on the Mobile World Congress to talk about his solution - short films in bite-sized mobile chunks.
Redford’s nonprofit Sundance Institute is working with mobile operators to bring video ‘content’ to the small(est) screen in a bid to create new outlets for filmaking talent. “There are new forms of storytelling coming,” said Redford “I don’t think we’ve explored all the possibilities yet. The only thing you know will keep going is change. If you can’t ride with it as a wave, you’re out.”
Blue Velvet star Isabella Rossellini was also on hand to promote a series of mobile-targeted short films about ‘insect sex’ entitled Green Porno.
As Nelson from The Simpsons put it after seeing Naked Lunch - “I can find at least two things wrong with that title.”
Momail, the mobile email service that aggregates all your email accounts into one inbox on your phone, has passed the 1,000 mark in terms of the handsets it supports.
Examples of the latest Momail-compatible phones are Apple’s iPhone, the LG Viewty, Motorola RAZR V9 and Q9h, Nokia N82 and 8800 Arte, Samsung P520 Armani and Sony Ericsson’s K660i, W380i and W890i.
Currently Momail is available in five Nordic countries, the UK and soon, Germany and Poland. More countries will follow in 2008.
While Momail is certainly a useful and easy to use service, letting you view attachments and featuring its own built-in Spam filter, there is a catch. It is free to download to your phone, but of course you do have to pay for the data downloads of emails delivered to your phone. If you get a lot of emails, you’ll get a lot of data charges.
The blog of UK mobile retailer Dial-a-Phone has a post claiming that LG’s Viewty is outselling the iPhone in Europe, after LG released figures saying it had sold 310,000 Viewtys since the handset went on sale five weeks ago.
To some extent, this is speculation, since Apple hasn’t released any sales figures for iPhone in the UK or Europe yet. Of course, its failure to do so has fuelled the rumours that the sales haven’t been great - something bolstered by the odd report that iPhone activations haven’t been quite as numerous as Apple and O2 were hoping in the UK.
Viewty’s success spells danger for Apple, because it’s seen as one of the iPhone’s most powerful rivals. From personal experience, I can testify that Viewty’s camera makes mincemeat of the iPhone’s, even if its touchscreen interface isn’t quite as intuitive. The battle between the two will be a defining mobile trend in 2008.
(via Dial-a-Phone blog)
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]
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)
