Yesterday Sony Ericsson and Motorola announced their new handsets at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Now LG’s got in on the act with its 2008 line-up.
Already award-winning at the CES Innovations Awards, LG’s handsets are bound to get a lot of interest before their releases later this year. LG’s certainly got form in this ever since it caught everyone’s attention with the 15m-selling Chocolate.
So what’s it got lined up? Sadly only two phones that sound at all interesting.
First up is the LG Voyager (right). Already heralded as LG’s own “iPhone killer”, LG claims it’s the first handset with both a touch-screen and full QWERTY keyboard, but it also has access to V CAST Mobile TV (Verizon Wireless’ mobile TV service – well, CES is in the US)and full HTML internet browsing as well as a 2-megapixel camera. For music and video playback there’s also dual stereo speakers.
Then there’s the LG Venus, “the brightest star in the LG handset lineup” according to the manufacturer. This slider, available in black and pink, has dual screens, touch navigation, a music player and 2-megapixel camera. Hmm. We’re not quite sure yet why it’s the ‘brightest star’, but maybe we’ll find out soon enough.
Of the rest (and there’s a LOT), the others are all pretty low-end mass-market handsets pitched at particular markets…
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