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We've yet to see anything roll across LG's official wire, but oodles of legitimate UK sources are now reporting that LG's hotly anticipated Viewty Smart is making its way out to Orange shops. Strangely, it seems as if pricing details are still being held captive (really? at this point?), but we fully anticipate at least a small premium for 8 megapixels in a phone. Oh, and if you really needed any more affirmation that a 12 megapixel smartphone was in the works from this company, LG also took the opportunity to nod its head and promise one for "later this year." Goodie, goodie.

[Via Pocket-lint]

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LG's Viewty Smart shipping this month, 12MP smartphone "later this year" originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 May 2009 07:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We've yet to see anything roll across LG's official wire, but oodles of legitimate UK sources are now reporting that LG's hotly anticipated Viewty Smart is making its way out to Orange shops. Strangely, it seems as if pricing details are still being held captive (really? at this point?), but we fully anticipate at least a small premium for 8 megapixels in a phone. Oh, and if you really needed any more affirmation that a 12 megapixel smartphone was in the works from this company, LG also took the opportunity to nod its head and promise one for "later this year." Goodie, goodie.

[Via Pocket-lint]

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LG's Viewty Smart shipping this month, 12MP smartphone "later this year" originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 May 2009 07:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After being officially unveiled (twice) for the European market last month, LG's GC900 Viewty Smart has finally arrived into the loving hands of those at GSMArena. The unit you see above is actually a pre-production unit, but it was baked enough to warrant a full-scale preview until review units start to ship. One of the biggest reveals was this line: "It's not a smartphone or anything, no matter how much we would have liked that; instead, it's a regular full touch feature phone, but one with a really polished UI and top-notch imaging capabilities." Critics spent a good bit of time checking out the still-novel 8MP camera, and while they were generally pleased with image quality and color, they weren't so stoked about the phone's ability to capture video. Overall though, they couldn't help but gush about the "gorgeous display" and "best-of-class user interface," which definitely leaves us even hungrier to wrap our own digits around a finalized unit.

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LG GC900 Viewty Smart gets coddled, previewed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 May 2009 08:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After being officially unveiled (twice) for the European market last month, LG's GC900 Viewty Smart has finally arrived into the loving hands of those at GSMArena. The unit you see above is actually a pre-production unit, but it was baked enough to warrant a full-scale preview until review units start to ship. One of the biggest reveals was this line: "It's not a smartphone or anything, no matter how much we would have liked that; instead, it's a regular full touch feature phone, but one with a really polished UI and top-notch imaging capabilities." Critics spent a good bit of time checking out the still-novel 8MP camera, and while they were generally pleased with image quality and color, they weren't so stoked about the phone's ability to capture video. Overall though, they couldn't help but gush about the "gorgeous display" and "best-of-class user interface," which definitely leaves us even hungrier to wrap our own digits around a finalized unit.

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LG GC900 Viewty Smart gets coddled, previewed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 May 2009 08:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Via Akihabara News]

Gallery: LG GC900 Viewty Smart, now more official than ever before


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LG GC900 Viewty Smart, now more official than ever before originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Via Akihabara News]

Gallery: LG GC900 Viewty Smart, now more official than ever before


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LG GC900 Viewty Smart, now more official than ever before originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: Oops! Looks like LG pulled the information -- good thing you looked here first.

[Via Phone Arena]

Gallery: LG GC900 Smart

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LG's GC900 Viewty II gets Smart, gets official originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: Oops! Looks like LG pulled the information -- good thing you looked here first.

[Via Phone Arena]

Gallery: LG GC900 Smart

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We caught wind of the supposed LG Viewty II last week at CeBIT, though weren't graced with photos til today -- a couple pics actually surfaced in comments, but lacked the xenon flash mentioned in the specs. PhoneArena has thrown a couple pics up of this 8 megapixel set and we're liking what we see: large display, uncluttered layout, and what appears to be a xenon flash. We've already seen the specs so now it's a waiting game as we get set for this to potentially waft our way -- provided it's loaded with bands we can use. Follow the read link for a shot of the other side of the device.

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LG's GC900 Viewty II subjected to smudgycam treatment? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We caught wind of the supposed LG Viewty II last week at CeBIT, though weren't graced with photos til today -- a couple pics actually surfaced in comments, but lacked the xenon flash mentioned in the specs. PhoneArena has thrown a couple pics up of this 8 megapixel set and we're liking what we see: large display, uncluttered layout, and what appears to be a xenon flash. We've already seen the specs so now it's a waiting game as we get set for this to potentially waft our way -- provided it's loaded with bands we can use. Follow the read link for a shot of the other side of the device.

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LG's enormously popular Viewty seems about set for a upgrade with the potential launch of the 3D S-Class UI toting LG GC900 Viewty II. The GC900 features all kinds of goodness with a 3-inch WVGA touchscreen, an 8 megapixel camera -- with autofocus, xenon flash, film speed up to ISO 1600 -- geotagging, DivX and Xvid video support, and memory expansion up to 32GB. No bands were mentioned, but the GC900 has 7.2Mbps HSDPA for somewhere, WiFi is onboard, AGPS, and the camera will record slow motion video -- which is a riot on other devices. No pics, prices, or dates are attached, but we're hunting it down and will update as soon as we can.

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LG's Viewty II set to take center stage at CeBIT? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG's enormously popular Viewty seems about set for a upgrade with the potential launch of the 3D S-Class UI toting LG GC900 Viewty II. The GC900 features all kinds of goodness with a 3-inch WVGA touchscreen, an 8 megapixel camera -- with autofocus, xenon flash, film speed up to ISO 1600 -- geotagging, DivX and Xvid video support, and memory expansion up to 32GB. No bands were mentioned, but the GC900 has 7.2Mbps HSDPA for somewhere, WiFi is onboard, AGPS, and the camera will record slow motion video -- which is a riot on other devices. No pics, prices, or dates are attached, but we're hunting it down and will update as soon as we can.

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LG's Viewty II about to take center stage at CeBIT? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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