LG’s first Android smartphone, the LG GW620, has made an appearance in France, and CNET were there to catch the sliding touchscreen handset on video. The GW620 has a 3-inch 320 x 480 resistive touchscreen, a full QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA 7.2Mbps and WiFi, and runs Android 1.5 Cupcake.
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Sometimes a gadget comes along that is so pretty that, when you realise it has a spec-sheet more barren than the Sahara, you can’t help but tear at your chest and roar. LG’s GD510 “Pop” isn’t quite so bad as all that, but it’s a handsome 3-inch touchscreen phone – the most compact ever with such a screen-size, they say – with a brushed aluminum body that throws out most of the things we take for granted in today’s handsets. WiFi we can live without, but a handset lacking 3G? For shame!
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Having made its first official appearance on an LG engineering site last Wednesday, the LG Chocolate BL20 has finally got a press release and product page to go along with the specifications. Smaller – and less complex – sibling to the BL40, the BL20 will arrive in the UK on O2 in Q4 2009 with a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash.
LG’s BL20 has gone from being a poorly kept secret to an acknowledged member of the Chocolate family, with the fashion phone appearing on LG’s developer site. A slender 12.3mm thick handset with a 2.4-inch QVGA 262k color display, slide-out numeric keypad and touch-sensitive controls, the BL20 has triband GSM and dualband 900/2100 HSDPA.
Images of Verizon’s upcoming LG Chocolate Touch VX8575 have leaked, and it seems that the BL40’s distinctive stylings were indeed too unusual for the CDMA carrier’s tastes. According to phoneArena, Verizon had two prototypes of their Chocolate Touch – one resembling the BL40, the other a more restrained design – and following focus groups decided to go with the somewhat mundane style you see here.
Something we’ll seldom argue with is a super-compact desktop PC with the bonus of NVIDIA’s Ion GPU, and so we’re pleased to welcome the LG XPION X30 to the nettop fray. Packing Intel’s Atom 230 1.6GHz CPU with 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard-drive, the VESA-mountable XPION X30 is designed to be hidden around the back of your LCD.
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LG have confirmed that their 15-inch OLED TV will be priced at between $2,500 and $3,000 when it launches in Korea this November. A senior executive from the company has told OLED-Info that, while the flat-panel's final price is yet to be decided, it will be in the same bracket as the existing Sony XEL-1 OLED TV.
LG have officially announced their first Android handset, the LG GW620, and with it a “two tier smartphone strategy” signifying the company’s intent to continue to offer Windows Mobile devices. The GW620 has both a 3-inch touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY hardware keyboard, and avoids the heavy customization of HTC Sense or Motorola MOTOBLUR.
The only real downside to putting a big, powerful home theater in your living room is all the wires that goes along with it. If you want to wall mount your HDTV, wires become even more of an issue because hiding them requires cutting into your wall.
LG have announced a new NAS (network-attached storage) which rather than positioning as a computer peripheral are instead suggesting would make a great place to back up multimedia files. The LG N2R1 packs up to 2TB of storage and RAID data redundancy, and can function as a DLNA or iTunes media server in addition to backing up your family photos, videos of grandparents falling off chairs and other priceless clips.
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