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LG KP500 (budget) touchscreen announced |
amawanqa
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Taken from GSMArena:
http://www.gsmarena.com/enter[....]dable_touch_phone-news-611.php
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'Aiming at the midrange market, LG will be bringing full touch handsets to the masses, by introducing their latest LG KP500. Standing at 11.9 mm of thickness, the LG KP500 may be affordable but not at the expense of style.
Borrowing its design from the LG Renoir, the LG KP500 uses the latest reincarnation of the proprietary LG Flash-based UI. The user interface is thumb-optimized, but a stylus is also provided to assist handwriting recognition. Unlike the LG Viewty however, the stylus here is tucked into the body of the handset itself.
The LG KP500 is not a high-end device, but once again it's feature pack is optimized for affordability. The KP500 doesn't have 3G support, but there's quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE for a true world-wide use.
It also has a 3 megapixel fixed focus camera, but there's a 3-inch wide touch screen display with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels to poke around. A microSD memory card slot, stereo Bluetooth, FM radio and an accelerometer for auto screen rotation and gaming completes the tally. A virtual landscape QWERTY keyboard and office document viewer are also present.
Weighing only 89 g, the LG KP500 will land in Europe in October 2008. Its price will be announced later on, but we can't help but wonder what do they exactly mean by affordable - their most affordable touchscreen handsets are the LG KF700, which currently sells online for around 200 euro (285 US dollars).'
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285$ is very cheap for a full touch screen phone, so if this is any cheaper, then mission accomplished.
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MWEB
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Got one today, £99.95 O2 PAYG at CPW but of course it's SIM free 
Bloody marvelous at that price!!
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gforce23
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Looks like an elongated version of the original Touch with some buttons added for good measure.
And what's with the lack of a flash module at the back? QVGA recording at an absolutely incredible 12fps! ZOMG!! 
@MWEB: Is the performance any good?
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MWEB
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Hey Gforce, it's TS on a budget , Screen and UI is possibly the nicest from LG (i have them all), build is kinda rubberised plastic, nice and keeps the weight down, hell, what do you expect for under a Ton 
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gforce23
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Hmm.. £99 is bloody cheap for a new TS phone even if it's from a second rate manufacturer.. I'm feeling very tempted now. Gotta pick one up when I'm back in London.
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MWEB
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Well, imagine a Renoir, with all the exciting bits taken out, and bingo, you have a cookie!!
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gforce23
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On 2008-11-03 21:49:21, MWEB wrote:
Well, imagine a Renoir, with all the exciting bits taken out, and bingo, you have a cookie!!
At 78g, that's one heavy cookie. As long as LG's concoction for a delicious cookie is better than Tesco's, I'm sold.
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Bonovox
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LG are trying very hard to quickly gain ground and snatch a bigger market share. They are chucking out quality phones so fast now and the quality is still almost as good on the budget end now. Good on LG i say. I forget how many 8 mega pixel phones they got out now i cant keep up with them. Im tempted by this one but more tempted by the Viewty currently at 129.95.
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VJ27
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Just got this phone to last out my contract for 9 months with O2, (Long story) its brilliant, for 100 quid a decent touchscreen phone with all the basics so its great. Does anyone know any LG forums so I can get some stuff for it?
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Posted: 2008-09-30 20:01
