LG to go international with Shine at CES

After a Korean launch a few months back, LG's finally ready to show its "Shine" slider on a slightly... er, way bigger stage. The spritual successor to the Chocolate (and its many, many variants) will make its international debut at CES form next week, apparently rocking the same mirrored surface, checkerboard keypad, and 2 megapixel cam as its Korean cousin -- though the radio will change from CDMA to GSM for European and (hopefully) American launches later this year. Likely missing from CES, though, will be the just-announced Shine Designer's Edition for LG's home turf, but let's just be thankful for the scraps we're thrown, shall we?

[Via Phone Scoop and I4U News]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 3rd 2007 8:13PM]

engadget
why must you get my hopes up?
we both know this phone will never see a GSM carrier in the u.s.
but yet you still post this news.
and i still continue to get excited and believe it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 3rd 2007 8:25PM]

*Prays for the phone to go to Sprint*

C'mon I need a new cell in '07!

AKBlade13

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 4th 2007 11:02AM]

I hear you man, Sprint is really starting to piss me off with their weak selection. They have maybe 3 decent phones and a whole bunch of crappy wannabe's. I'm still hoping they list the Moto Q soon, I need to a new phone too.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 3rd 2007 9:01PM]

I like the babe second from the right.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 3rd 2007 11:32PM]

second from left

[ConceptVBS Posted Jan 4th 2007 6:28PM]

They are all ugly.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 3rd 2007 10:34PM]

i dunno if LG is goin bankrupt but they sure got the uglier models for this international release....

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 4th 2007 3:14AM]

FTW.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 4th 2007 12:37AM]

It looks sweet but slippery ... probably needs some egrips ... http://www.egrips.com

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 4th 2007 7:48AM]

I'll take the middle two. My wingmen can take the two on the outside.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 4th 2007 5:06PM]

www.o2.co.uk are advertising this already with a February release date. As my O2 contract is up this month you can guess what I'll be waiting for.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 5th 2007 6:28PM]

Ugly, eh? The phones? Yes, I agree.

The women? Fuggedaboutit. The two in the middle are hot... especially the second one from the right.