Okay,
now it's official. After a
misstep late last week, LG's ready to pull the trigger for reals on the
Viewty Smart, the follow-on to
one of its more successful high-end feature phones in recent memory. Pretty much every major feature has been improved or revamped over the original Viewty, including bumps to WVGA display resolution, an 8 megapixel camera with claimed ISO 1600 sensitivity (we'll see about that), DVD-quality video recording, LG's recently-introduced
S-Class user interface concept, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, integrated WiFi, AGPS, and 1.5GB onboard with microSD expansion theoretically to 32GB. What's more, LG has somehow smushed this all into a package just 12.4mm thick, which makes this just about the most desirable non-smartphone on the planet -- on paper, anyhow. Look for it to start hitting European carriers next month, with availability elsewhere to be announced later on.
[Via
Akihabara News]
posted Apr 20th 2009 1:26AM
Sounds great, so great in fact i bet att will never get it
engadget: OMG THAT LOOKS LIKE AN IPHONE SO IT MUST BE A KIRF!!!
/sarcasm
best non smartphone...
I don't know if I will ever go back to a non-smartphone..
The first Viewty was great, till the battery life was horrific a couple months in.
I think i'll give LG another chance with this one, since it looks oh so excellent ;)
dude in Aus they cost $300 its actually cheaper to buy TWO of the Viewty's then one of practically any other similiar touch screen phone, namely Omnia/Renoir or Crapple iphone.
You cant argue with that battery power...
European Carriers will receive it next month.
American Carriers will receive it in next time the planets align.
Love the enthusiasm!
Looks awesome, but... headphone jack or bust.
This phone looks awesome!
But I won't get it, though. Even if the supposed new iPhone being announced in mid-june isn't great (which it will be, but I've never had an iPhone), it probably (translation: definitely) won't come stateside.
Which is a damn shame. Phones like these would do really well in the USA. Instead, the majority (like 99.9%) of all phones sold in the US have 3.2 megapixels or less. Then people only use these pictures for MMS and MySpace and junk like that. If Americans could easily get 8-MP cameras without going to T-Mobile (Memoir), people would be a lot happier. Because nobody likes lugging around a phone, an mp3 player, and a camera all at one time.
I don't really understand why there aren't more smartphones in the United States. Once LTE starts being installed nationwide, I sincerely hope manufacturers will want to start putting their better phones on US carriers.
out of curiosity, is an iphone considered a smartphone or a feature phone?
Even though I am fairly anti-Apple, I feel it is definitely a smartphone, after all the updates (if it only had web-apps like when it launched, then it might be a different story for me), and especially after version 3.0, which addresses most of the complaints people (including me) had for it.
The definition of "smartphone" is very vague anyways.
I still define the iPhone as a media phone, at which it excells. As a smartphone, it's kinda dumb. Even the "lowly" Palm Centro can do MicroShaft Orafice docs.
I agree something is wrong that the usa does not get the high end phones. Its clear we want them, we spend 300 and 500 dollars on phones all the time. So whats the hold up? Cell phone companies don't like the american dollars?
Why sell them to us when they can sell them to the Europeans for next to nothing on contract? Who knows, it is kinda weird how we get screwed out of phone tech.
I so want that.
I'd love to use the S-Class UI. LG is one of the few cell phone companies which realize that the UI of the phone is just as important as the design of the phone itself.
I saw this at 'The Gadget Show Live' event in the NEC (UK) yesterday on the LG stand. Alongside the watch phone. Sadly, both were entombed in perspex.
"DVD-quality video recording" is a meaningless marketing term. The Nokia N95's low bitrate VGA video recording was also described as "DVD-quality video recording"...
Go Verizon/Alltel!
*your comment within 800 meters*
crap A-GPS!?!
can someone tell me if I am closer to the iphone fanboy comment or the "ha ha you americans get it later" comment?
It looks stylish. The features aren't bad at all, I just hope they are true. We'll see. Can't wait to see hands-on videos.
WHERE'S THE FLASH GONE?
That is actually a good question.
The press release mentions an LED flash, where as before in the original Viewty, I'm fairly certain it had a xenon flash?
Hmmm, I hope that's one bright LED.
Two questions:
1) If it has integrated WiFi, wouldn't it have the smartphone label slapped onto it here in America?
2) Would it be free WiFi, or do you think the carrier will charge you extra to use it in their "carrier-only" hotspots?
These are important to me, as my Alltel contract fizzles in September and I will be cruising for a non-smartphone with wifi and basic browsing capabilities. Can't afford a data plan, and even if I got one, I'd never use it as I have other outlets for communication readily available. I'm just looking for the random browsing once a week while in range of a router.
I prefer the LG KM900 Arena over this, it is more stylish, only prob is a lesser 5mp camera.
this phone looks awesome!!!
can't anyone be original these days
This phone looks good. But the Omnia HD is better...
i see the unlocked GC900 to come soon by puremobile.com but does any1 know how soon exactly till they get it?
link>>>
http://www.puremobile.com/LG-Mobile/LG-Mobile-GC900-Viewty-Smart-Black-GSM-Phone/
which carrier is this going to?
AT&T?
I cant wait I check on converter so the estimated price I reckon is about £150 I don't know wherever to save and buy it with all the amazing features or buy the LG Viewty1 without the features
such a good phone with 8m camera
http://www.zahipedia.com/2009/04/14/lg-gc900-viewty-2-exposed/
This question might sound stupid but I have to ask - do you like the name of this phone? Viewty - view and beauty?