Hands-on with the LG KU990

We wanted to get down and dirty with LG's other touchscreen phone -- the KU990 (AKA the Viewty) -- a 5.1-megapixel cameraphone that also does Flash, but the company's staff would barely even let us get close. It's true: the German showgirls and Japanese press handlers were less than forthcoming with the goods, but after a round of strong drinks and some serious sweet talking, we got to demo some of the phone's functions -- though there appeared to be a lot more lurking beneath the surface. Check the gallery for some "hands-on" action, and feel free to write letters suggesting LG's people to lighten up.

Gallery: Hands-on with the LG KU990

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[Xzavier @ Aug 31st 2007 9:06AM]

I watn to play with it!

gimme, gimme, gimmeee!

[Neeko @ Aug 31st 2007 9:08AM]

Very nice LG. I like were ur heading. Now what are the specs?

[Nando @ Aug 31st 2007 10:03AM]

Come on Stateside!!!!

[Jamar @ Aug 31st 2007 8:34PM]

The plus side is T-Mobile doesn't lock their phones to just one country, so if you're already on T-Mobile, buy the phone and pop in the SIM- no unlocking needed.

[Ayle @ Aug 31st 2007 10:14AM]

Sweet! That's the gsm unit right?

[randy @ Aug 31st 2007 10:18AM]

Yikes, that's THICK.

[Nando @ Aug 31st 2007 10:41AM]

That's what she said...

[randy @ Aug 31st 2007 6:45PM]

who?

[Mike @ Aug 31st 2007 10:26AM]

Yup. Quite the chunky little monkey , it is.

[Nando @ Aug 31st 2007 10:42AM]

Has she been telling you about me? lol

[LegendZ28 @ Aug 31st 2007 11:22AM]

Chunky? It's got a 5MP camera, what did you expect it to be as thin as an iPhone?

[Mike @ Aug 31st 2007 5:05PM]

LegendZ28, ever heard of miniaturization? It's really neat.

[Jon @ Sep 2nd 2007 5:02AM]

Mike, ever heard of better cameras? There are really neat too.

[TrueDis @ Aug 31st 2007 10:45AM]

Availability date?

[feckineejit @ Aug 31st 2007 11:26AM]

WANT!

[Sean DL @ Aug 31st 2007 7:01PM]

And no matter how much you might HATE all the attention Apple got with the iPhone, I don't anyone is complaining how it got the phones out of the razr phase of it's life, and into a phase that actually means something more then how your phone looks(you know the UI actually being useable)

[blade417 @ Aug 31st 2007 7:09PM]

LG > apple

[flo @ Aug 31st 2007 8:28PM]

It looks cool, but after my Prada crapped out within 3 weeks I'm staying far, far away from LG's crappy phones!

[Pierluigi Rotundo @ Sep 7th 2007 5:24AM]

Ok...i love it..

[Paul @ Sep 11th 2007 12:15AM]

Add one more to the LG army.

http://www.photodump.com/photon01/090407_2045a.html

[Pierluigi Rotundo @ Sep 11th 2007 7:16AM]

Even if i was thinkin when my treo650 fall on the floor....touchscreen broke..

[Jon @ Oct 21st 2007 7:44AM]

...the phone looks so so cool, looked at loads of reviews, and placed my order for it last night. I'm in the UK so its available as of this week, So its coming in the post in 4 days...
need to rememeber to get an internet package, if I dont it costs 1 pound for every megabyte of data, or I could pay 10 pounds for 1Gb....

Cnet have got a good indepth review...and videos