Device Arena

Ahead of CTIA WIRELESS 2008, Verizon Wireless, owner and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A. announced the enV(2)™ by LG will be available in April, online at www.verizonwireless.com and at more than 2,400 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores across the nation, including those at Circuit City. The successor to the popular enV by LG, the new enV(2) gets a makeover with a new slim redesign and sophisticated black or maroon finish.

The enV(2) supports a number of features and services that customers have come to expect in wireless phones from LG and Verizon Wireless, including V CAST Music and Video, VZ Navigator(SM), Bluetooth® capabilities, dual speakers and a 2.0 megapixel camera. The phone’s spacious QWERTY keypad with large sized external keys makes messaging easy, while its 2.4-inch internal screen offers crisp, crystal-clear videos and images.

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Ahead of CTIA WIRELESS 2008, Verizon Wireless, the owner and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung) announced the Alias™ by Samsung will be available in mid-April. The successor to the popular Samsung SCH-u740, the Alias will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com or in any of the 2,400 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, including those in Circuit City.

The Alias sports the familiar dual-hinge design of the SCH-u740 but is packaged in a cool silver finish and features an updated easy-to-read full-QWERTY keyboard, making the phone ideal for sending text messages and e-mails. When customers open the Alias vertically, the phone is a sleek and stylish clamshell phone.

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Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company with the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, and Konami Digital Entertainment announced Metal Gear Solid® Mobile is available for purchase exclusively through Verizon Wireless. Metal Gear Solid Mobile is an award-winning game, having recently received the Grand Prix and Operator’s Choice awards at the 2008 International Mobile Gaming Awards.

Metal Gear Solid Mobile features never-before-seen dramatic 3D art displays and camera work that greatly surpass the current standard of mobile games and allows players to shift the viewpoint from first to third person and to control a variety of weapons. The game also takes advantage of the camera functionality – for example, Verizon Wireless customers can use their camera phones to capture images and the game will incorporate the image colors into the players’ camouflage system.

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Sprint and LG Electronics announce the availability of Rumor by LG in green.

As Sprint’s official wireless phone of St. Patrick’s Day, Rumor by LG helps customers celebrate the holiday with the ability to:

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LG Electronics announced the launch of its LG-KF700, a new multimedia phone that combines three input methods to create an amazingly intuitive user interface and provides instant access to features.

The world’s first phone with three separate input methods, the LG-KF700 itegrates a 3-inch touchscreen, alpha-numeric keypad and Shortcut Dial. Each of these input methods is assigned to the tasks at which it is most efficient, making LG’s highly intuitive interface possible. With its user-optimized navigation, all of the phone’s functions and features are instantly accessable.

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LG Electronics announced the European launch of its 2008 iF product design award winning LG KF600, a new mobile phone that is as feature rich and easy to use as it is stylish, thanks to its unique InteractPad™.

The InteractPad™ replaces physical navigation keys with context-specific virtual keys that change to fit the task at hand. This new interface comes in response to the need for a simple way to navigate through the multitudinous features on today’s mobile phones.

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LG Electronics unveiled its LG-KF510 at the 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. LG-KF510 is a stylish, fashionable phone catering to users’ demand for slimmer phones with unique design accents.

At just 10.9 mm thick, the LG-KF510 is the extremely slim slider phone. It combines a slim style with strength created by its metal frame and tempered glass. At the center of its design are metal gradation paint schemes available in Stardust Dark Gray or Sunset Red.

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LG Electronics, Inc. and DivX announced that the LG Viewty camera phone (Model: LG-KU990) is the first mobile phone with DivX Certification to natively record video in the high quality DivX® format.

The LG Viewty enables consumers to capture high-resolution video, comparable in quality to what they would expect from a video camera, on their mobile phones, DivX videos recorded through the LG Viewty can easily be uploaded to online video sites or can be played back on any DivX Certified® consumer electronics device, including DVD players, gaming consoles and portable media players.

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That LG is good at bringing devices to the market in different colours was already known, so the Korean manufacturer started 2008 by launching the silver LG Viewty. Today the employees of Akihabara News published the first photos of the stylish silver LG Prada.

Dark make-up and heavy clothing, that is what Prada is generally known for. The original LG KE850 Prada fit the trend that fashion brand Prada sets perfectly. Today LG went a totally different way by launching a silver variant of the device. It still offers the same specifications and Prada extras and the luxurious feeling has not vanished, the device only received glamourous new looks. Specifications that the LG Prada offes are a 16 million colour display, a 2 megapixel camera, expandable memory and internet and e-mail support. An extra feature that the silver LG Prada offers is a virtual QWERTY keyboard.

Silver LG KE850 Prada

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Remember LG Chocolate successor for Verizon network, called LG Venus?

That dual screen, interactive touchpad technology is now making their way into more LG handsets, this time LG KF600, bound to China.

The bottom touch screen technology is now called InteractPad and is the key to the new capabilities shown off by LG KF600.

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