http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/
I love the big screen. Viewing webpages on phones kind of suck. At least this will make it just a little bit easier.]]>Aug 6th 2009 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/
Don´t get me wrong, I do own a smart phone but this BL40 has a right for existence on it´s own
]]>Aug 6th 2009 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/yes you are right ...and I think I agree with you partially....the screen and flash support...DVD file playback...are pretty attractive features....in this case it beats my iPhone 3G...]]>Aug 6th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/
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I've got to disagree with you. I thought the same thing when Phillips announced their 21:9 TV. Then I looked through my movies, more than 70% of my DVDs and Blu-rays are 21:9. As HDTV becomes the standard, they're going to become even more common. ]]>Aug 6th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Now, with that said, it is a beautiful phone. ]]>Aug 6th 2009 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/
iPhone 3Gs.... 4.5 X 2.4 X 0.48 inches (115.5 by 62.1 by 12.3 mm) - Weight: 4.7 ounces (133 grams)
BL40 5.04X 2.0 X 0.43 inches (128 x 51 x 10.9 mm) (weight unknown) ]]>Aug 6th 2009 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/
in the same way it will take a while for people to get used to 21:9 on a mobile phone... :)]]>Aug 6th 2009 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/How exactly does this look a lot more pocket friendly than an iPhone? If you have pockets deep enough to handle this beast, then the slight width and thickness of the iPhone shouldn't be a problem. I bought an iPhone 3GS with the assumption that I would just keep it in my bag, but while on the go I slipped it into my pocket and the damn thing surprisingly fits really well. The issue that I see with the new Chocolate is in the length. With my pockets it would be an issue with walking and a major issue with sitting--don't even know if that last one would be possible.]]>Aug 6th 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/
comparing the size of phones it´s always best to look at the volumetric size, the LG is about 80% of the size of an iPhone; iPhone is 88 cc (cubic centimeters) and a BL40 71 cc

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get this iSheep of my internet...]]>Aug 6th 2009 3:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/
I will admit that the Korean legislature has enacted some laws (at the behest of the tech manufacturing and mobile communications lobbies) that have erected some difficult barriers to market entry for foreign companies, resulting in de facto protectionism, but trust me, it was never about Apple. It was always about Samsung and LG and how important they are to stabilizing a Korean economy that had seen some stumbles that were far from having been wiped from the memories of the citizens of Korea. If companies really wanted a piece of the mobile action in Korea, they would conform to the standards and laws of the land. Motorola provides a good example of getting their ducks in a row, and getting their products to market in Korea (whether or not that did them any good in the long term, is another story completely). Apple got into the mobile game and started making their own rules, and they don't like to play by anyone else's rules.

The only reason why the iPhone is not out in Korea, is because an entire countries legislature doesn't give a rat's a$$ about their phone and is not going to rearrange their legislative agenda to kowtow to the mighty Steve Job's turd of glory. The thing that prevented the iPhone from coming to market was on the books long before it was announced, and if they had done their homework they could have easily given their product the chance to compete among others in Korea. Since Korea was seemingly an afterthought to Apple, they apparently decided to put it on the back burner and focus their energy on negotiation with a bigger fish (China, who has some demands of their own that need to be met).]]>Aug 6th 2009 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/]]>Aug 6th 2009 6:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/this is getting old.]]>Aug 6th 2009 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/
Apple fan boys tend to think that Apple was first with everything about the iPhone but guess what the ONLY things that (AFAIK) were a first were that it was a phone from Apple and that it was a phone with a CAPACITIVE multi touch screen.

- Icons, video/mp3 playback, copy-n-paste, multitasking, downloadable 3rd part apps (non-censored) : all seen it on the Nokia 7650 in 2002 (but probably it was not the first either)
- Smart phone, IBM simon (1994), Nokia 7650 (2002), SE P800 (2002) and so on
- Touchscreen . At least, Ibm simon (1994, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon ), Motorola Accompli 008 (2002),Sony Ericsson P800 (2002), the Nokia 7710 (2004), LG Prada and HTC Touch (2007, before june) were available before the iPhone
- Touch gestures: HTC Touch (2007)
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GPS: Benefon Esc! (1999) Nokia N95 (2006/early 2007),Nokia 6110 Navigator (before june 2007)
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....and this is coming from a Windows user.]]>Aug 6th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 7th 2009 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 8th 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/ ]]>Aug 7th 2009 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/Aug 6th 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/lgs-lengthy-bl40-gets-the-hands-on-treatment-it-deserves/i love me some paltseorintirovannym!]]>Aug 6th 2009 10:19AM