LG Ally to say 'aloha' to Verizon in mid-May?
By Donald Melanson 
posted April 30th 2010 6:10PM
posted April 30th 2010 6:10PM
Well, LG's Moorestown-based, Moblin-running GW990 may sadly be no more, but it looks like the company will be bringing another fairly impressive-looking handset to US shores: the Android-based LG Ally. According to Android Central, it will be landing on Verizon around the middle of May and, if it looks a tad familiar, it's because it's apparently simply a US version of the phone we've known alternately as the LU2300 or Aloha (though it does seem to have undergone a few design tweaks). Details are otherwise light, but it'll presumably pack the same 1GHz Snapdragon processor as the LU2300, along with a 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 5-megapixel camera, and Android 2.1.
[Thanks, Erik]
Update: Android Central has tracked down an Iron Man 2-themed commercial on YouTube clearly suggesting the Ally is coming soon (if you recall, LG had a big tie-in with the original Iron Man, too). Viewers are encouraged to head over to lg.com/ally to check it out, but there's nothing useful there -- yet. Follow the break for the full commercial.
[Thanks, Erik]
Update: Android Central has tracked down an Iron Man 2-themed commercial on YouTube clearly suggesting the Ally is coming soon (if you recall, LG had a big tie-in with the original Iron Man, too). Viewers are encouraged to head over to lg.com/ally to check it out, but there's nothing useful there -- yet. Follow the break for the full commercial.
My DROID has a higher screen res anyway, and any replacement must exceed its specs. This fails, but the Motorola Shadow/DROID 2 I've been hearing about sounds well worth waiting for
@LANjackal
Shadow and Droid 2 are two different phones! they are !=.
Shadow is a 4.1" slate, no keyboard
Droid2 has a keyboard and basically just a refreshed Droid with updates.
And by the way I tipped this article wooooo
If this phone is capable of Global Roaming I will make my move to Android. It's hard to believe Verizon is pushing Android so hard and hasn't popped one out with that feature yet.
Weird... I was pronouncing Ally as A-lee in my head...
it was A-lie... :/
Does this have camera flash?
And by coming to Verizon, you mean requiring me to sign my life away for another two years or risk a $350 charge. Yea. Fuck that. I'll take T-Mobile's semi-subsidized non contract phones thank you very much.
@kenny goo
ok cool!!!
make sure you go with the yr old mytouch... then again the cliq is awesome too. ohh wait the behold2 was a great seller lol. (sarcasm)
hope you like signing your life away to dated phones...
p.s. if a network is good then you probably wont have to pay the ETF anyways ;)
The CLIQ is so underrated. I'd say it's the best of the 1st gen Android phone out there. O! The D-pad is on the left too. =D
@Gold Mamba
its defiantly the nicest looking first gen. but it still cant touch this or anything after the hero
@HTCAndroidTre
I refuse to ever sign a contract for a phone again. Over the past two years the taxes and fees on my Verizon bill have increased, and the competition has noticeably decreased the price of their plans as a whole. I wanted to switch, but it's gonna cost me $200 to do so.
And I might suck it up and and do the early upgrade just to get rid of this piece of shit LG Voyager, but the ETFs on smartphones are $350 on Verizon, which is almost as much as some of these semi-subsidized smartphones on T-Mobile cost by themselves. So after I tack on the $100-$200 upfront fee it'd be even harder to drop my plan if I wanted to switch.
And there's that whole "every smartphone on every carrier requires a $30 a month data plan if you buy on contract that I don't need". Once I get my phone activated I'll never need to pay for data again because I wont be forced to, and I sure as shit can't afford to in the long term.
And seriously though, the My Touch 3G is a solid, mid-range phone and if you want high end you can get a Nexus One. As for me, I like keyboards, and the My Touch Slide is probably gonna be exactly what a need: a phone made by a top notch manufacturer (HTC), with a solid keyboard and just enough power, but nothing more then I'll need.
@kenny goo
lol look at my NAME!! Lmao we both agree on the HTC part of your post.
I believe i may be getting this to replace my LG Dare
This commercial made me chuckle.
so by "aloha" you mean "goodbye"?
@Lowest Ranks
That's what I was wondering, lol
Now that's some funny shit. And the only thing that pisses me off is that it's not coming to AT&T. NOT A GOOD ANDROID PHONE ISN'T COMING TO AT&T DUE TO THE CRAPP iPhone 4G.
Considering its for Verizon this will be called the Droid Ally.
Well this makes the Incredible not so Incredible any longer.
Physical keyboard FTW!
finally a good qwerty. i hate the droid keyboard. i might get this.
@kjsin1994 I love my Droid, but your right the keyboard does pretty much suck. It's just so stiff. The funny thing about it is, I ALWAYS thought I wouldn't be able to get by without a physical keyboard and the only thing I use it for now is for emulated games, and very rarely typing texts or emails in the car.
1. Create cool looking Android handset
2. Place in cool commercial with summer blockbuster
3. Sells boatloads of phones
4. Profit!
GAH! Why do all of these manufacturers insist on putting the Dpad on wrong side!!! How the heck is a normal sane person expected to play emulated games reasonably well with a right sided Dpad?!?!... Looks like I'll be sticking to my Moto CLIQ a little bit longer.
And.. another high-spec Android phone that will not be a T-Mobile phone.
*now takes his T-Mobile bill and papercuts his arms*
Nice to see Verizon put focus on phones as well as the network. Their old business model of crap phones and a solid network was frustrating.
lol if they move the d-pad to the left, then the space bar has to move all the way to the right, or some other disgustingly obvious mistake has to happen. There seems to be a general big book of bad button placement that most phone makers follow.
Not to burst anyone's bubble but engadget your specs on this are waaaaayyyyy offff.......this is nothing like the LU2300
Not a big enough upgrade yet from droid.
Aside from the keyboard being skewed this looks like a pretty slick phone. However, it's not quite as sleek as some of htc's phones, I still dig it. I've been waiting for a better looking phone with android and a physical keyboard than the droid on verizon.