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Photos seemingly showing LG’s BL40, the company’s upcoming Black Label touchscreen featurephone as teased in this video, have emerged. According to the photographer, who did not reveal where he took the images, the BL40 does indeed have a 21:9 aspect display with 800 x 345 resolution, and running the existing S-Class 3D UI.
More photos, plus a second version of the device, after the cut
Other specs include an FM transmitter, around 335MB of internal storage, and an LED light to go along with a 5-megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach optics. There’s also WiFi, and we’ve previously heard about a microSD card slot, HSDPA and accelerometer.
One of the images also shows the large touchscreen phone next to a smaller version, with the same design elements but a reduced display and a larger lower bezel (possibly with illuminated touchscreen controls, as LG has used before on previous Chocolate-series devices). No word on what that companion handset is, but earlier rumors suggested LG would announce their new range in August.
[via Engadget Mobile]
5 Responses to “LG BL40 21:9 touchscreen phone shows up in wild”
Vincent Nguyen July 16, 2009
holymoly – not only does it look real – it’s really-really long!
NeutralChris Davies July 16, 2009
Almost ridiculously long, yes. And yet the display isn’t WVGA – only 345 wide – which seems a bit bizarre.
NeutralVincent Nguyen July 16, 2009
Someone up top need to use that phone as a beating stick and smack over the designer’s head…better yet the headhoncho who approved the damn project. WTF are they thinking?
NeutralChris Davies July 16, 2009
I can only imagine that they’re intended people to use it for internet browsing in landscape orientation, at which point the 800 long display becomes a decent page width. But either way, plenty of scrolling!
Neutralozmoi July 17, 2009
that UI on the live photo looks nuthing like on the video!!!!
Neutralplus the icons looks depressing.
“confuse face”