"GTPH" gives us a hands-on preview of the LG KE850, which looks very similar to the iPhone. Technical specifications have not yet been released, but we do know that it sports a 240 x 400 touchscreen display. Video after the jump.
That does look preety sweeeet. it kind of raises a few questions though...
1 - Are all the other phone companies rushing to produce phones as good, if not better than the iphone?
2 - Is touch screen tehcnology going to be the next step for all phones? or will hard buttons remain king?
3 - Will these other companies touch screens be as good or better than the iphone?
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Posted at 01/13/2007 05:43am by
ed
1. this was "out before the iphone
2. time will tell, but sony's been doin it for a while with camcorders.
3. resolution wise, prob worse initially
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Posted at 01/13/2007 08:16am by
sjaak
The control doesn't look very smooth :S
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Posted at 01/13/2007 11:26am by
Joe Tech » LG KE850 Touchscreen Phone Video Preview
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Posted at 01/13/2007 1:41pm by
Jay
"Are all the other phone companies rushing to produce phones as good, if not better than the iphone?"
Jesus Christ, "Nate The Revisionist", will you give it a rest? This was seen weeks before the ApplePhone* was even announced (but because it is an LG product no-one noticed or cared - until now). What, LG have a time machine do they, in order to rush out a copycat phone to beat Apple?
If I were LG I'd be security checking my mobile phone development team....
*As Apple constantly try to sue anyone using the term "pod" in any way, shape or form, I refuse to use iPhone to describe their product.
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Posted at 01/13/2007 3:59pm by
rosalt
phone seems rather sluggish compared to the iphone, though they both look great (i don't understand french, so i have no idea about that features he was talking about)
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Posted at 01/13/2007 11:02pm by
Eugenia
On his blog he said that it has microsd, bluetooth, 2mp camera and edge.
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Posted at 01/14/2007 07:02am by
Stephen
This is a very nice phone, and has a lot of what makes the iPhone cool and wonderful (in theory!) but it's touchscreen is of a different style, the big point of the iPhone is Multi Touch Screen, i.e. you can use more than one finger at a time to stretch things, thats something that just isn't possible with the current touch screen generation, as far as I can tell iPhone will be first to market with this, and possibly it has it Patented too - I say possibly because there is a video on you tube (and my blog http://applegarthblog.blogspot.com/) that shows a demo of this on a big screen and its spectacular.
Stephen
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Posted at 01/14/2007 07:08am by
boogie
this LG phone is not even close to what the ApplePhone has shown in the keynote....
it might have the same physical form factor, but that is about it.
no scrolling without scrollbars
no two finger zoom
sluggish interface
and so on...
it looks like the interface tries to emulate real buttons instead of using the real potential of a touchscreen
lame.
boogie
lame
Posted at 01/15/2007 2:57pm by
PLzAlliance » Blog Archive »
[...] Giorni fa abbiamo parlato dell’iPhone e di tutti i telefoni che sono simili, era spuntato il nome dell’LG KE850, che in effetti sembra molto simile al telefono di Cupertino. In questo video scovato in internet da TechEBlog illustra quello che (non) fa questo telefono! [...]
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