LG's Viewty II rumored for June release, all 8 megapixels of it
By Thomas Ricker 
posted April 9th 2009 5:43AM
posted April 9th 2009 5:43AM
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posted April 9th 2009 5:43AM
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"understand out anticipation"
Looks like LG KC910 Renoir II
It won't stop me from purchasing the N97 when it, too, will be released in June.
Yaay... Fuck you iPhone!
Viewty 1 was rubbish. Grainy 5MP Pics, slow interface, LG have to improve ALOT to make me consider this over iPhone.
Yeah, I've got the viewty and while it has some good stuff like the 100 fps video which works really well, the UI is very laggy and inconsistent and the camera is only good in controlled situations. Despite all the gizmo's I only use it for texting, calling and occasionally using the internet (badly).
Currently my next phone will either be the Palm Pre, next gen iPhone or possibly an android phone if they ever release any decent hardware thats running it.
Yeah, i can't wait for the Nokia N97, you can't just beat the slide out physical querty or the awesome ovi service, plus S60 huge developer base.
...Has anyone checked out "Gravity" for Nokia 5800, best twitter client ever on mobile.
I thought the LG Renoir ) KC910 ) was the Viewtys successor?
So an LG Arena with a 8 mpix unstead of 5 then?
Am I the only one that thinks megapixels don't mean shit? If your sensor only produces grainy pictures in anything but direct sunlight than what good is it really? For instance, my Touch Pro, bless it's little heart, is only 3.2 megapixels, but even that doesn't mean anything. It's USELESS indoors; even with the joke of a "flash" which is really only an LED spotlight that does nothing but piss people off when I'm trying to take their pictures. This isn't sarcasm; but how hard would it be to incorporate the sort of camera flash you get on a Canon or Sony pocket digicam? They seem to work well enough, my Sony DSC-T1 has had fantastic pics since 2004, and that flash is considered very weak, by 2004 and especially 2009 standards. I dunno guys, all the megapixels in the world cannot make up for a subpar sensor and even worse LED flashes.
You are not the only one. Somehow I'm sure the pics from this will be terrible compared to a 10 year old Canon 3MP camera.
Megapixels are important but they are just resolution, a 2 Megapixel image is totally adequate for most applications, however the image clarity is deepens on the lenses. I have one of the first 2 MP cameras with really good optics - those images have been used in billboard posters and look great. (and yes your average 5MP camera phone doesn’t come close.)
So to qualify your statement Megapixels done make good images good / big camera lenses make good images and yes marketing have consumers comparing the wrong thing.
Megapixels, camera weight, operating system, GPS geo-tagging, etc don't mean shit if you're concerned about low-light ability. But maybe, just maybe, its ISO 1600 rating is more relevant...
Don't bother cleaning anything before the photo there, Edward Vaseline hands.
Sigh another phone we wont ever see in the usa
Once again I will say this.. that is not the viewty 2 to.. that is the new back of the black Renoir kc910... get it right!!!!!!!!!! back of viewty 2 is totally different.
Recent survey shows that since iPhone 3.0 rumor set for June 8, sales of all smartphones has dramatically decreased.
Could it v everyone stopped buying highend cells, and now aspiring to get iPhone 3.0,?
Insane!!!!
This thing had better have one heck of a processor to drive all that.
oh cool. A high-end phone with a proprietary operating system.
no thanks
As opposed to what?
Every phone in the world uses a "proprietary operating system". Unless you're using some definition of "proprietary" that nobody else understands...
Even Linux is proprietary. Nothing about it being open-source changes that.
Well call it whatever you want but what I'm saying is that its annoying to see all these different operating systems like blackberry, iphone, symbian, etc and then on top of that, a bunch of other ones found on dumbphones. I'm just saying that operating systems should be standardized so that developers can start doing something with them.
Why does Engadget always wet itself over Viewtys? ... so unjustifiably?
I remember reading of Engadget's excited 'anticipation' of the current Viewty before it came out.
I own it. It's gash. *Terrible* camera despite promising specs. clunky interface. Embarrassingly slow.
It's disappointing to see Engadget fall for the same gimmicks that i did ... DivX and camera specs do not make a good phone.
nice.