LG's KC910 Renoir detailed in pics, is high art

Yeah, we've seen the PR, ogled the specs, but real honest-to-goodness pics are doing nothing but make our grins bigger. LG's KC910 packs everything under the sun into its newest and flashiest handset, from an 8 megapixel cannon to Dolby Mobile, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, this will be a tough review unit to return if we get our paws on one. Apparently still slated for an October release, we've no word on pricing, but you can expect it to sting dearly off-contract. We'll be following this set really closely, so do swing back and we'll be sure to tell ya what we find out. Follow the read link to get the pics.

[pt0ne @ Sep 21st 2008 4:09PM]

would be nice if we could get something better than 240 x 400 for a screen tho

[JohnTitor @ Sep 21st 2008 6:55PM]

HTC's spoiled us

[meta-fm @ Sep 21st 2008 7:20PM]

plus a 3x optical zoom.

[iEye @ Sep 21st 2008 4:12PM]

Another LG KE850 Rip off... oh wait...

[Mark @ Sep 22nd 2008 5:12AM]

It looks more like an Instinct to me.

[Juxtah @ Sep 21st 2008 4:13PM]

Yeah, LG has added more features, how dare they!

Seriously why do you keep bringing this up? The iPhone wasn't exactly the first touch screen phone, so stop making it out to be such and using it as an excuse to slag off any company that might just be able to come up with a better alternative.

[Simon @ Sep 21st 2008 4:14PM]

@flashpoint
anything that works better than an iphone cannot be considered a rip-off. at least not in my eyes.

[JohnTitor @ Sep 21st 2008 6:01PM]

that's incorrect, doesn't matter if a phone has more features, you have to be quite ignorant to not see the resemblance and it's an obvious move to get some attention, think about it, there's phones like the HTC Diamond and Touch HD that you can tell is quality and have their own design even though all fullscreen touch phones look somewhat similar, but then there's companies like LG that keep throwing out subpar proprietary phones and even though they were first with the LG Prada, their releases following that have not improved

[jesusss @ Sep 21st 2008 4:14PM]

don't attack me for this, but the design of this does look familiar to the iphone. But this phone does sound amazing!

-Jesus

[Juxtah @ Sep 21st 2008 4:14PM]

Looks fantastic, I just hope LG manges to pull off the UI as it's somewhere they usually stumble a little.

[jesusss @ Sep 21st 2008 4:17PM]

dont attack me for this, but this looks a lot like an iphone.... but the specs sound great!

[jesusss @ Sep 21st 2008 4:18PM]

sorry i thought my first comment didnt go through. :(

[swingin' dick hero @ Sep 21st 2008 4:44PM]

jesus...

[Johan S @ Sep 21st 2008 4:22PM]

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or are genuinely uninformed.

LG invented the all touchscreen phone. The LG KE850. Yeah so Apple ripped off MyOrigo's accelerometer idea http://www.engadget.com/2004/04/12/checking-out-myorigos-tilt-controlled-smartphone/ and LG's full touchscreen idea http://podcasts.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separated-at-birth etc.

[randy @ Sep 21st 2008 4:24PM]

Prior art, LG. Watch the hell out!

[satin @ Sep 21st 2008 4:33PM]

what the helll r u talking about

[Mark Anderson @ Sep 21st 2008 4:24PM]

He brings it up because he's looking to start a flame war.

Flashpoint. Do y'see?

Plus he's a fucktard.

[chris @ Sep 21st 2008 4:26PM]

From the front it looks exactly like the gen1 iphone. Hopefully they will just copy
the iphone ui and there shouldn't be any issues. I see lg knows about copyright.
"copy right the first time".

[Hamidxa @ Sep 21st 2008 4:41PM]

Well it worked for Apple, so why shouldn't it work for LG.

Life comes back at Apple full circle, if anyone should be berated, it should be Jobs and pals.

http://www.engadget.com/2004/04/12/checking-out-myorigos-tilt-controlled-smartphone/
http://podcasts.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separated-at-birth

[deyanimay @ Sep 21st 2008 4:33PM]

I'm no iphone lover but this looks too much like the iphone. Other touch phones like the touch hd are different in appearance therefor not a ripoff but this is pathetic.

[nicksa7xx @ Sep 21st 2008 4:40PM]

i wonder if its gonna be on alltel.
lol

[rento @ Sep 21st 2008 4:51PM]

Yep I do like this phone and it is coming at around end of October in UK.. The only drawback for me is the screen size.

[letstakeawalk @ Sep 21st 2008 4:54PM]

@ Johan S

The Simon was a touchscreen phone released in 1994...

http://cdecas.free.fr/computers/pocket/simon.php

[Flashpoint @ Sep 21st 2008 4:54PM]

Are this phone and the iPhone built in the exact same factory?

[Levi @ Nov 24th 2008 1:55AM]

Johan S: The prada was not the first all touchscreen phone. There were several out before it, nec had some back in 2004/5 and you could also argue that the p series sony ericssons (2004 onwards) were also capable of being fully touchscreen too.

And to be honest that phone in the picture does look like the iPhone with the chromed edges and bearing in mind its come out after the iPhone (albeit with higher specs) you can't say its not borrowing the style etc.

[Mike @ Sep 21st 2008 5:05PM]

It wouldn't be flaming if the design looked to be the same...black with metal trim around side.

He has a point for once dumbasses...I'm not gonna buy apple's design from another company, nor am I gonna buy an iphone.

Give me something better than the iphone with a DIFFERENT look and I'll get it....ohwait they already have like ten of those

LG fail.

[mr nagrom @ Sep 21st 2008 5:12PM]

i'm tired of the iphone party.. everybody is making the niphone.. will somone just make a better phone already..
...thanks.. ryan

[hitsthings @ Sep 21st 2008 5:16PM]

I hate touchscreens foam foam.


...wait, no I don't.

[Ashton @ Sep 21st 2008 5:24PM]

Okay, I understand why everyone is sick of all touchscreen phones being compared to the iPhone but it's never going to stop. The iPhone wasn't the first touch screen phone, but it was the touch screen phone that everyone knew about and it's the touch screen phone that made other manufacturers become interested in touch screen phones. The iPhone is the standard for touch screen phones and made them what they are now, so of course everyone is comparing everything to it.

[Steve Jobs @ Sep 21st 2008 6:11PM]

... but you have to agree, it looks like the Meizu M8...

[Martin @ Sep 21st 2008 5:18PM]

More pics here: http://dailymobile.se/2008/09/17/pictures-lg-kc910/

[weezy @ Sep 21st 2008 5:20PM]

amazon.de has it listed for 449€, quite reasonable compared to the 639€ Xperia and the 669€ Nokia N96.

[ShogunMaster @ Sep 21st 2008 5:27PM]

This is a total rip off of the Motorola DynaTAC8000X. It makes phone calls and everything....

[ukexzpat @ Sep 21st 2008 5:34PM]

High Art? Fine Art / High Fashion...

[cj @ Sep 21st 2008 5:31PM]

Something abot 14 year old apple fanboys...
When iPhone came out and ppl said it looked like a Prada, they all said "How many ways can you make a touchscreen phone"
Then they turn to LG and say iPhone knockoff...

Hmm...

[Steve Bryce @ Sep 22nd 2008 3:59AM]

It seems like these non Apple products are evolving more quickly than the iPhone.

[BlazeEagle @ Sep 22nd 2008 4:29AM]

Finally, Someone finally said it!!

While I'm not a Apple zealot, Apple could come out with something way better. It's an eternal back & forth battle. As soon as Apple makes an iPhone or whatever, that's new & improved, another company will like make a product that's better.

The eternal battle marches on!

[Flashpoint @ Sep 21st 2008 6:49PM]

THE PERSON WHO POSTED THE FIRST COMMENT WAS NOT ME.

TAKE A LOOK AT MY COMMENTS AND YOU WILL SEE THAT I AM NOT THAT PERSON.

[chorizo @ Sep 21st 2008 7:24PM]

anyone know what carrier is getting this?

[cesium @ Sep 21st 2008 7:29PM]

No, I'm pretty sure it is you

[MacGuroo @ Sep 21st 2008 8:02PM]

@letstakeawalk and levi

Actually, Johan is right in regards that the LG Prada being the first "muti touch" full screen touch mobile phone. Six months later the iphone came out. If you want to get technical...the touch screen was invented in 1971.

Yes, the IBM Simon was out in the 90's actually, a year earlier 1993. It was large, ugly and way expensive for 1993...around $900.00. But the Simon was not available world wide, only around 200 cities and 15 states. Of course later we get the first blackberries and then palm treo in 2002. But they were not full screen or muti touch.

The Nokia 7710 was suppose to be released in 2004. But Nokia never released it. So Nokia's first muti touch full screen will be the "tube". If it comes out.

Hey iphone fans...correction the iphone looks like the LG PRADA. o the iphone itself is a ripoff...live with it.

All this is on the web.

[KilgoreTrout @ Sep 21st 2008 8:23PM]

So what if it looks like the iPhone?
I like the iPhone's looks.
Actually is one of the few things I like about it.
I ditched the iPhone and went back to my old Nokia N95 8Gb not because of the iPhone bad looks but because among other gripes:
its camera sucks
its GPS sucks
Doesnt do video calls or MMS coz it's got only one (bad) camera
No copy 'n paste.
No bar code scanner.
Doesn't sync well with windows PCs
All problems that the N95 never gave me

But if LG give me an iPhone look alike that actually works decently enough, then why not?
The looks of the iPhone never disturbed me.

[randy @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:40AM]

Your N95 is nearly twice as thick as an iPhone. Even thicker, in fact, than a MacBook Air, at its thick end.

I'm sure your holster is sexy, but let's get real.

[CJ @ Sep 22nd 2008 9:41AM]

Guess what though, I bet my N95 has more features than your Macbook Air.

[ynp @ Sep 22nd 2008 2:42PM]

Yeah, a real camera tends to make things a bit thicker.

[Reader @ Sep 21st 2008 9:22PM]

Ha that's kind of funny, I just accepted it as another "idiotic Flashpoint comment". You have for the first time on Engadget been misjudged.

[KilgoreTrout @ Sep 22nd 2008 3:24PM]

To Randy:

Thinness is a good thing but not if it's achieved at the price of usability and decent specs.
It should be the opposite: one should be able to say: " great cam, great videocam , good GPS, etc. etc., AND it's ALSO thin".
Not "Yeah it's a bit crappy but it's very thin" .
At least that's not the major selling point for me.

[taylor @ Sep 21st 2008 9:37PM]

this phone is gay, iphone is gay, n95 is supergay, and the HTC Dream is boss. hope touch hd goes to tmobile and runs on android!

[Jubei @ Sep 21st 2008 9:48PM]

Another "me too" device. Worse since it even copies the first gen iPhone externally. Again Apple leads, all others follow. Just like the Zune players.

[Zeus.:God @ Sep 21st 2008 10:03PM]

Woah- didn't know the Zune was mentioned in this story... Oh... Wait... It's not...

Perhaps you haven't heard of the LG KE850? The iPhone is a "me-too" product.