LG's $100 Ally crashing Verizon stores on May 20th, pre-orders start tomorrow (update: now with specs)
By Darren Murph 
posted May 12th 2010 9:24AM
posted May 12th 2010 9:24AM
Update: Nothing in particular to write home about, but LG has just unveiled the Ally's nearly complete spec sheet. [Thanks, Rey E.]
Verizon Wireless and LG Mobile Phones Connect Customers to the Superhero Within
New LG Ally Smartphone Prepares Customers for the Adventures of Today and the Thrills of Tomorrow
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and SAN DIEGO, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. (LG Mobile Phones), today announced the LG Ally™ will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores beginning May 20. The first Android device from LG, the Ally is the perfect assembly of futuristic, stylish design and 3G Android power for customers looking to tackle life's most challenging feats and everyday ventures. Verizon Wireless customers can pre-order the phone at www.verizonwireless.com beginning May 13.
Key features:
* Ergonomic silver-and-black outer case
* Large 3.2" tempered glass touch screen featuring touch vibration for tactile feedback
* Full slide-out QWERTY keyboard with simultaneous touch screen capabilities
* microSD™ slot for up to 16 GB of memory
* Wi-Fi Enabled® (802.11 b/g/n)
* Bluetooth® 2.1 capabilities with unlimited pairing and support for the following profiles: headset, hands-free, object push, stereo, audio/visual remote control, file transfer, phonebook access, basic printing and instant sharing of photos and videos
* Built-in MP3 and WMA music player with music library, repeat and shuffle features, as well as stereo sound via headset or Bluetooth
* One-touch speaker phone and speaker-independent voice commands
Additional features:
* Five customizable home screens with shortcuts to text messages, e-mail, apps, favorite social networking sites and widgets
* Access to up to 38,000 apps from around the world in Android Market™
* Luminous sensor designed to adjust LCD backlight brightness depending on light conditions
* Proximity sensor instantly locks touch screen buttons while talking on the phone
* S-GPS support for enhanced location accuracy in addition to turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps™
* Access to updates on Twitter, MySpace, Facebook®, etc.
* 3D App launcher and Live Wallpaper
* 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera and camcorder with flash that includes:
o Five different camera resolutions and three different video resolutions
o Zoom up to 4.0 times
o Macro Mode for detailed, up close pictures
o Panorama for three guided sequential shots
o Scene mode for auto, portrait, landscape, sports and night settings
o Image editor with zoom, rotate, resize, crop, added frames and stamps
o Customize brightness, white balance, shutter sounds, color effects and use a self-timer
o Choose between mute and unmute to record video with or without sound
o Optimize video quality with normal, fine or super camcorder settings
o Video recording time up to 16 GB
Pricing and availability:
* The LG Ally will be available for pre-order online at www.verizonwireless.com beginning May 13. It will be in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores on May 20. Pricing will be $99.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.
* LG Ally customers will need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk Plan and an Email and Web for Smartphone plan. Nationwide Talk plans begin at $39.99 monthly access. Email and Web for Smartphone plans start at $29.99 for unlimited monthly access.
* For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.
@Tes
For this post and posisbly shutting him up finally, I give you +10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
It looks like my Samsung Impression. But I love LG products so I would give it a shot if it were on at&t or tmobile
When winphone 7 comes out, I wonder what will happen becAuse they gonna be competing against each other. Actually that why there so many android phone, there trying to get a head start against windows phones
@hated one
The ranking of your comments fall faster than iPhone's market share.
Hated One... making sure that "iPhone" is mentioned in every Android article ever since TheRogueFFAngel was banned.
zeee design is not the yellow from the egg
Super ugly phone this LG. Please Nokia, release your N8 soon!
For the price I think this phone is pretty nice. Id choose it over the droid.
@InfDaMarvel
Is the price the only reason you'd take it over the Droid? It seems apart from that the Droid has this device beaten in every single category.
@Tes
Ive seen the driod and it just doesnt do anything special. The only thing special that it had was Andriod.
@InfDaMarvel
I'm not sure what you mean by "do anything special". Are you talking features or looks? Most Android phones have pretty much the same feature set. Phone, photos, music player, GPS, sat nav, email etc...
What else were you expecting?
It just seems odd to take a phone that does EVERYTHING another phone does...but slower.
@Tes
I bought my Motorola Droid new for $75. So I don't know what this guy's talking about.
@beatsandmelody
And Im sure some people got theirs for free. Your cool.
@InfDaMarvel
No need to get defensive. It's just you said something that was rather strange on the face of it and now it seems you don't seem to b able to give a valid reason for it. I was actually sure you had one and was interested to know what it was, but given the opportunity to clear it up you only decided to engage in some snark with someone else.
You basically said, given the option of two phones running the same OS, therefore with the same features, you'd take the phone with the smaller screen, lower megapixel count camera, less memory and slower processor. All I wanted to know was why.
@Tes
Sorry, I dont find the Camera the impressive at all on the driod. So both phones arnt going to blow me away with picture quality.
The Ally has a better keyboard compared to the driod from what it seems.
And the normal consumer doesnt care about what processor a phone has, they care about the performance. I believe the processor is good enough for solid performance.
@Tes How in the world does the Droid have a faster processor than the Ally... Qualcomm MSM7627 processor running at 600MHz v. Arm Cortex A8 550 MHz Processor??? o_O Maybe I just don't know processors but ... not more powerful
@hybrd
thats true too, I knew the driod didnt have a snapdragon processor or anything.
The marketing department made a mistake with the simulated image on the phone.
1) 2.1 doesn't have those 4 persistant shortcuts.
I always thought that weird looking app drawer button was 1.5/1.6 but the only 2.0+ phone I've seen was a Droid. I would assume the Incredible has a launcher similar to the N1. So it might be two mistakes.
Weak looking phone. Don't see the appeal of physical keyboards really.
@TangledThorns
I'm pretty old school I guess (even though I'm 22). I actually like this style over like a droid eris....
how is the kin 2 supposed to compete with this? It has a bad quality 8mp camera, thats about it.
Not a bad price for a solid phone, just not for me.
AT&T users would kill for this mediocre Android phone compared to the craptastic Backflip
At&t users would kill for a mediocre android device such as this compared to the craptastic backflip
At first, I see an LG featurephone. Then I have to tell myself that this is actually a smartphone... still, not bad for the price. Better than the Droid if I am thinking correctly. Better than the Pre Plus... I doubt it. And I would definitely go for an Incredible. $100 more dollars in the span of two years for a better phone is worth it.