After the leaked photos of the LG BL40 were spotted this morning, we’ve been wondering what the touchscreen device’s smaller sibling might be. According to AllAboutPhones’ tipster, it’s actually the LG BL42, and the true successor to the original LG Chocolate.
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
Last week we berated LG for rolling out another tired teaser campaign for their latest Chocolate-series device; today we’re feeling a little more accommodating, having been sent a teaser video with a whole lot more promise. According to the footage, the fourth-gen LG Black Label series device – tipped to be the BL40 - will have a 4-inch multitouch display, 7.2Mbps HSPA, WiFi and full internet browsing in a deliciously skinny chassis.
Video demo after the cut
LG’s latest super-snapper cellphone has broken cover, and from the spec-sheet at least you’d think this was the handset to quash all point-and-shoot digicams. The LG GC990 Louvre is tipped (despite LG’s own denials; see after the cut) to launch later on in 2009, taking the place of the existing LG GC900 (aka the Viewty II), and brings with it a 12.1-megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach optics, Xenon flash and what the company suggests is ISO 3200 sensitivity.
UK carrier Orange may not have secured the Palm Pre, but from the sound of it they don’t really mind; their next high-end device is far more unusual than a simple slider smartphone. The carrier has revealed that it will be exclusively offering LG’s GD910 Watch Phone in the UK this August, complete with capacitive touchscreen and integrated video calling.
Video demo after the cut
Don’t you just love a cellphone teaser campaign? The answer you’re looking for is “No, Chris, we don’t” but sadly news of that fact is yet to reach LG. After the success of their Chocolate series of cellphones, the company is unsurprisingly looking to milk that enthusiasm for all it’s worth: hence the shadowy preview photos and the PR hyperbole that the new LG Chocolate “will be a disruptive force in conventional mobile screens”.
LG have revealed their plans to launch a number of new luxury phones, including a new PRADA design, which they hope will help usurp Samsung from their number two cellphone maker in the world position. According to LG’s mobile business president, Ahn Seung-kwon, the current number three is aiming to step up by 2012, and one of their first steps in doing so will be releasing a new “Black Label” series phone in Q4 2009 to take on Apple’s iPhone 3GS.
LG have announced their first LED combination TV and monitor, the W2286L, a 22-inch display with whopping 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio. The 20mm-thick widescreen display supports up to 1,680 x 1,050 resolution and has two HDMI inputs.
LG have unveiled two new ”full LED” HDTVs, each with 55-inch LCD panels and 240Hz refresh rates. The LG 55LH95 and LG 55LH93 both use 3,360 individual LEDs and boast a contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1; the company’s backlighting technology can individually control 240 sections of the display, dimming or brightening as suits the image on-screen.
LG and ARM have announced a partnership that will see the former’s HDTVs use the latter’s ARM11 MPCore multicore processor and ARM Mali GPUs. The system will allow for not only high-definition 1080p processing but video-on-demand, voting and polling, games, and e-commerce without the need for a separate set-top box.
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