Possibly trying to stay away from Nokia's own announcements, LG Electronics has announced its new 'LG-KT610', described as a "GPS-enabled,
stylish candy bar mobile phone with a unique 2.4 VGA flip screen
holding a PC-like Qwerty keypad". More details below, I'm waiting on Rafe for some hands-on photos!
Read on in the full article.
VGA resolution on a tiny 2.4" screen??? Unless you have super human eyes I don't see this being practical at all.
Unregistered, I noticed the VGA too. That must be the first S60 with VGA?
I agree it would be quite difficult to read websites on a phone screen, but it may help with making things look a lot smoother. The current QVGA standard can still look quite blocky sometimes.
Also an important-but-little-discussed thing to bear in mind: if S60 phones start having TV Out sockets as standard and also VGA as standard, they will make much better desktop computers than the current QVGA models with TV Out. I know it sounds crazy, but in developing countries where phones outsell PCs by quite a wide margin this could become revolutionary.
slitchfield wrote:Take all this with a pinch of salt though - after all, it's not as if LG's smartphones usually make it into production and over here... let's hope 2008 is the year that bucks the trend.
That's a pretty rough comment Steve! The LG KS10 may not be widely available in UK shops but a couple of minutes with Google shows that Twenga.co.uk are selling it at around �154 [1], it is shipping to places such as Italy[2] and the UAE [3], several web shops have it in the USA [4] and your own Asri al-Baker saw it at CommunicAsia 2007 [5].
1. http://www.twenga.co.uk/prices-KS10-LG-Mobile-phones-179355-0
2. http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/007/05/joy_available_in_italy.htm
3. http://ae.lge.com/products/model/detail/ks10.jhtml
4. E.g. http://www.expansys-usa.com/p.aspx?i=158851 or http://www.cellswholesale.com/LG-KS10,C,425/
5. http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/CommunicAsia_2007_Report.php
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Oh no, this is that terrible phone design we all thought was fake!
Whose bright idea was it to put a small screen inside a wide clamshell?
I really don't think this is VGA, looking at the internal screen, you can see that there are 4 icons by 3 icons which is a characteristic of QVGA
it sort of looks like the verizon env2.
there's a pic at http://www.pixycell.com/verizon-env2-vx9100-cellphone-black-p-247.html