Eternal archrivals-to-the-death Samsung and LG have a tendency to match one another tit for tat in virtually every consumer electronic category, but for whatever reason, LG's been far less interested in going for broke with Android over the past year -- though a
preoccupation with Windows Phone 7 Series is a solid guess at this point. Things may be changing, though, now that we've got news out of
Telecoms Korea that they're prepping a more brutal assault than the weakling
GW620 could ever provide in the form of a so-called LU2300 for the domestic market (we're assuming the actual thing will be a little more... well, "designed" than the snow-white mockup above). The site is playing up LG's announcement that the phone will bundle a bunch of popular apps in ROM (awesome?) but the real news is the impressive spec sheet, which is said to include a
Nexus One-like 1GHz Snapdragon and WVGA AMOLED display paired with
Android 2.1 and a 5 megapixel cam capable of 720p video. It certainly sounds like it's ready to give Samsung's
M100S a run for its money, but we'll need to wait until its second quarter release to know for sure.
posted March 2nd 2010 5:14PM
That looks cool but Samsung has an ace in its sleeve in the form of the Yuna Haptic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW2zBSv2kVk
@Virus Cannon
how about they actually release it, because if they think of bring it to the US, it will be outdated soon. plus, lg and samsung just dont have the android momentum
Wow, did engadget really remove all the jokes about apple? Or am I missing something?
@VaDivot Yes -- I want to keep this comment thread on-topic.
@Chris Ziegler :D
Very nice, but I only buy HTC phones because of xda.
@B3astofthe3ast you should check out alldroid.org. They have some good devs over there too.
@B3astofthe3ast
what is xda, if you don't mind me asking?
@Sad Sack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xda-developers
@Sad Sack It's the best freakin' website and community of people for all things HTC.
You can find cooked ROMs (versions of WinMo that have the bloatware ripped out of them and useful social networking features "baked in") for free (donate of course if you can), help, tips, how-tos, I mean just about any question you have for an HTC phone can be answered there.
Did LG forgot to include the back, home, search, and setting button? Perhave this might be a slider.
I've just realized the little android icon has a certain 'Terence and Phillip' quality about him.
If this ends up being like most over LG phones where the hardware is great and the software is crap then it will struggle.
Android is amazing, LG's version on the GW620 (Eve) is rubbish and what's worse is that its on v1.5 with only talk about at upgrade to v1.6.
An AMOLED screen on an LG phone?!? Welcome to the party, LG;-)
"Great artist don't copy they steal"