<![CDATA[Gizmodo: lg, touchscreen]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: lg, touchscreen]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/lg/touchscreen http://gizmodo.com/tag/lg/touchscreen <![CDATA[LG Renoir Surfaces; Shows Off Touchscreen, 8MP Camera, Fingerprints]]> We brought you a shiny stock image of LG's Viewty successor, the Renoir, back in August, and today we're bringing you the requisite fingerprint-laden in the wild photos (with watermarks!). They give a more accurate depiction of this puppy's 8MP monster, complete with Schneider-Kreuznach certified optics, xenon flash and ISO up to 1600. There's a phone in there too, with quad-band GSM, a 3-inch touchscreen, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, and Wifi. The Renoir will be available sometime in October. Maybe they'll take that plastic band off the outside by then. [Toys and Gadgets via BGR]

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<![CDATA[First Hands-on Pics of Verizon-Branded LG Dare Cellphone]]> We first mentioned the upcoming LG Dare, also known as the VX9700, back in March. But now over on Phone Arena more pics of the candybar touchscreen cellphone have emerged. They show it carrying the Verizon brand, a little more of the phone's UI, and confirm that the 3.2-megapixel autofocus cam will have a flash. The Dare will also sport a 240 x 400 pixel screen, browser, Bluetooth 2.0, 3.5 mm headset socket and supports microSDHC cards up to 8GB. Its release date has been pushed back to July—until then, cast your eyes over the pics. [Phone Arena]

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<![CDATA[Design LG's Touchscreen Phone UI Theme, Win $14,000]]> LG's in the midst of revamping their touchscreen UI, possibly because their previous touchscreen phones weren't all that great, but possibly because...ok that's probably the reason. Not only is the Korean company looking internally at their own designers to fix the problem, but they've offered a 14 million Korean Won prize ($14,364) to the community for someone to come up with a UI theme that's good enough for engineers to work with. The submission above, although quite nice looking, is a bit too cluttered to be useful in our opinion. What would you say to your grandma that's trying to make a call? "It's right there, next to the steampunk valve and the gear icon?" [LG via Unwired View via Crunchgear]

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<![CDATA[AT&T LG Vu Specs, Images Leaked]]> The chaps at Phone Arena have managed to gain some leaked press shots of AT&T's LG Vu, and it is looking tastier than before. The Vu will come in two primary versions; the CU915 will lack a mobile TV antenna, whilst the CU920 will be supplied with mobile TV antenna, which will support AT&T's new, streaming TV service. Checkout the gallery for some more great shots, then jump for the specs.

The features the handsets will share include a 3-inch WQVGA 262K color touchscreen, 2MP camera with autofocus, HTML web browser, HSDPA connectivity, 120MB internal memory, USB mass storage mode, and up to 4GB microSD card support. Standing in at 4.25"H x 2.16"W x 0.51"D, the LG Vu is slightly on the larger side, but we can look past its inherent big bones to the 1000mAh battery, which will supply up to 3-hours of talk time. The Vu is set to go on show at CTIA, which gets underway on April 1st, or is that whole event just a well planned joke? Oh, we just can't tell. Now, hit up the link to get your eyeballs filled to the brim with Vu goodness [Phone Arena]

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<![CDATA[LG Touch Web Cellphone Has 3-inch 800 x 480 Screen, Full Browser]]> LG are sending some serious touchscreen love to South Korea, all in the form of the Touch Web cellphone, a.k.a. LG-LH2300. The touchscreen wonder has a 3-inch display, with a staggering 800 x 480 resolution, as well as a 3MP camera with AF, MicroSD memory slot and a full internet browser, which has incorporated hot keys and a jog wheel for scrolling. The widescreen toting cellphone is expected to retail for 700,000 KRW ($693,) when it begins to ship this April. At present, the device is a South Korea exclusive and there is no word on a Stateside release as yet, but honestly, we wouldn't hold our breath. [Aving]

earch Icon providing direct access to main portals, Internet hot key and jog wheel.

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<![CDATA[LG's Glimmer Phone Has Touchscreen + Keypad, Heading to Alltel]]> LG's previously leaked Glimmer phone does something interesting that we haven't seen much of before—combine a touchscreen with a slide-out keypad underneath. The 2.8-inch touchscreen lets you control the 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and AGPS (assisted GPS), but if you've got ham hands and feel like touch-dialing is a bit of a chore, you can slide out the keypad and call from there. It's an interesting compromise, and definitely an worthwhile phone if you're an Alltel subscriber. No price or availability dates yet. [Electronista]

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<![CDATA[LG KF750, KF240, KF300 Phones: Apparently "F" Stands for "Fashion"]]> We have already seen some of the phones in LGs KF lineup, and now it seems that the company will be showing off a few more phones at next week's CeBIT show in Germany. The KF750 codenamed "Libra" appears to be a touchscreen slider with a 5 megapixel camera, VGA cam for video calls, and 160MB of internal memory with a microSD card slot.

As for the KF240 and the KF300, little is known other than the 240 is apparently a music phone with a 2 megapixel camera. At any rate, we should know more in the coming days. However, if you want to get your hands on the KF750 now, a Romanian auction site claims that they have one—and they appear to be selling it for 399 Euros ($600) [Unwired View and Auction Site]

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<![CDATA[LG-KS20 has Touchscreen, is HSDPA-Friendly and IFA-Bound]]> LG's new smartphone should be out in Europe by the end of the year, and we're expecting to get a look at it next week at IFA. Find out what else this touchscreen beauty has got, and see some pretty ladies handling it, all after the jump.

Runs on Windows Mobile 6.0
12.8 mm thich
2.8-inch touch screen display
Full browsing capability
HSDPA-supporting
3.6Mbps download speed
Push email service
2 megapixel camera
MP3 playback
Bluetooth 2.0
Cursive script recognition
Video call

Looking forward to it, LG. [Aving]

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<![CDATA[LG U990 has 5 Megapixel Camera, Touchscreen, Sexiness]]> Here's the LG U990, a new cellphone with 5-megapixel camera with Image Stabilizer, auto-focus and Schneider Kreuznach optics. The twisting collar around the lens doubles as a shuttle dial to get your way through its amazing high-speed 120FPS video footage. And there's 3G HSDPA, 170MB internal memory, a 240 x 400 touchscreen and a music player. No price yet, but we want. [Akihabara News via Ubergizmo]

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<![CDATA[LG Says 'Touch Me' With Touchscreen With MFFM37 MP3 Player]]> lgtouchme.jpgLG's touchscreen video player does look cool (and a bit like the co-branded VW one we saw last month), but who's going to know how to pronounce MFFM? People will think you're talking with your mouth full when you're trying to tell them about the 320x240 2.4-inch LCD, the 4GB memory, MP3/WMA/OGG/MPEG4/WMV9 playback, and the 90mm x 51.5mm x 9.9 mm dimensions. Good thing you called it the "Touch Me," which is marginally better than MFFM. Unless MFFM stands for the type of party that Fleshbot's familiar with, in which case we change our minds completely.

We're not sure how well this compares to say, the imaginary touchscreen iPod or even the iPhone, but it looks more in line with the Prada than anything else. Maybe if they combined the Prada and this into one package they'd be competitive after all.

LG's MFFM37 "Touch Me" touch screen video MP3 player announced [Tech Digest]

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<![CDATA[LG Planning Dual Touchscreen Clamshell]]> Now that the Prada phone is out, rumor has it that LG is planning another touchscreen cellphone. This time around the phone will be a clamshell with dual touchscreens (like this NTT DoCoMo phone). The touchscreens will function as one giant display, or they can act independently of one another, with the bottom screen acting as the control screen (kinda like the Nintendo DS).

Another cool feature is that the phone will have dynamic icons, meaning that the icons will move around when you tap on them, so you don't have to hit them dead-on all the time. No word on when we'll see the phone, but this one's looking even more intriguing than the Prada phone.

LG KE850 Prada Was Just the Beginning [Unwired View]

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<![CDATA[Laura Ocaña Spells iPhone's Doom, Prefers Prada Boots to LG Prada]]>

Yes, I know what you are asking: who is Laura Ocaña when she's not at home? To start with, she's the unofficial Miss Gizmodo Spain and Eternal-Goddess-at-large. But most importantly, she is a normal, non-geeky consumer and one of the few who has spent a few days actually using the LG Prada constantly. I talked with her for an hour, and as well as being funny, smart and charming, she uncovered a few new things about the LG Prada and something about touchscreens that Steve Jobs should take notes on. All, with a load of unpublished photos, in the interview right after the jump.

Laura Ocaña is the brave woman who, at Barcelona's 3GSM and with just one LG KE850 Prada in hand, fought against wave after wave of drooling geeks, blank-eyed engineers and vicious telecom executive hordes.

And Louis Ramirez too.

Jesús Díaz: Laura, we have seen you caressing a cellphone in the 3GSM... do you do that on a daily basis?
Laura Ocaña: Sure I do, not caressing it, but I use it constantly for work, family, friends... I am spanish and I live in Italy, so the cellphone is especially important for me to keep contact with the rest of my world.

JD: Which cellphone do you actually use?
LO: It's a Motorola... I can't remember the name... hmmm, it comes in different colors, rounded... like... like a rolling stone.

JD: Ah, the PEBL...
LO: Yes, that's it. To be honest, I like more the Shine and the Chocolate, but when I saw those I already had bought Motorola, so that was it for me.

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JD: And the computer? Do you use that a lot?
LO: Yes, that too, for the same reasons.

JD: E-mail, SMS or videoconference?
LO: Email and SMS. Videoconference doesn't work very well, it's jerky and it makes me want to throw away the computer. It makes me dizzy and, since I go to Spain a lot, I like to see my friends in the flesh.

JD: If you could get any cell number, who would you call? Almodovar for a role?
LO: Nah, not really. Hmmm... nobody, really. With the ones I have I am happy enough.

JD: And would you hang up on anyone? Any designer? One who's a very bad, bad person...
LO: [Laughs] Sure I would... or maybe not. I will just tell him a couple of things. So no, seriously, I wouldn't hang up on anyone, no matter how bad. Really.

laura-ocana-miss-gizmodo-1.jpgJD: You haven't hung up on me, so I trust you on that one.
LO: You? Why? You are not bad.

JD: Well, maybe I am bad too. I mean, like... ringtone or vibration?
LO: WHAT? [Laughs] Ringtone! OK, maybe ringtone and vibration. [Laughs] But only cellphones, ok?

JD: Did the LG people gave you a Prada?
LO: No, but I wish they had. The phones [at 3GSM] were all prototypes. As far as I know, there are not in the market yet [they will come out on March 22]. The software was not complete and sometimes the operating system got stuck and we had to reset the phone. But of course, it was in development...

JD: Of course.
LO: ... they briefed us on what to use and what not to use, because there was stuff that didn't work at all, so we couldn't show that.

JD: And if they gave you one... would you have preferred Prada boots instead of the Prada phone?
LO: [Laughs] Prada boots of course! I love shoes, it's one of my passions.

JD: I know, my wife is also full of lust. For shoes.
LO: [Laughs] Me too. That said, if I can choose, I'll pick both of them. I won't say no to the phone, that's for sure, but I prefer shoes to a cellphone. You enjoy the cellphone less.

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JD: I understand that, kind of. Shoes don't vibrate... anyway, after your time with the Prada, what do you think about it?
LO: I liked it. The phone is good... however, I think there will be people who won't like the touchscreen. I don't like the touchscreen myself. I want to touch real buttons, a traditional keyboard, real keys. [hey Steve, are you taking notes?] Maybe I am used to real keys and I have to get used to this...

JD: Why would you have to get used to it? People should be able to use whatever they like most.
LO: Well, I prefer the keyboard, but of course, the LG Prada is beautiful, the screen quality is great, it's well designed and it has functions which I like very much. However, the virtual on-screen keys make it less than perfect. I would choose another phone just for that. [Jon? Phil? Steve? Anybody home?]

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JD: You think people went to the LG booth to see the Prada or to see you?
LO: [Laughs] No, they came for the phone. They didn't stop, some came to see it several times [for sure, Louis belonged to that group - for work reasons, he says]

JD: OK, so lots of flies around - just to see you.
LO: [Laughs] No, no, but it was a continuous invasion of people. People kept arriving and everyone wanted to see the Prada and touch it.

JD: Yeah, that's what Louis told us. He also said that you were always cleaning it... how many times did you have to polish it per minute to make it shine? [no dirty jokes here]
LO: [Laughs] A lot, constantly. There was a moment in which I didn't stop polishing. The thing is that LG told us that there were going to get really dirty because they were prototypes. They also told us that the final version will have a screen with a special coating so it doesn't get dirty so quickly.

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JD: I should ask for one those coatings myself. So, what's your favorite gadget, then? iPod, camera, phone?
LO: I don't really have many, so I guess it's the cellphone.

JD: I guess work has you too absorbed to use silly gadgets like us... do you still model and do advertising?
LO: Sure, I model. I also organize fashion events. I'm preparing for Fall now, but everything is still up in the air.

JD: Well Laura, I wish you the best for that. Good luck and thank you for being so open and charming with us and our stupid questions.
LO: Thank you! And my best wishes for you and the readers of Gizmodo.

So there you have it. Laura likes the LG Prada but she prefers other phones with real keyboards. And Prada boots. This is something that seems quite common among normal consumers (not the boots, the real keyboards). Is Laura an indicator of the potential success or disaster of cells like the iPhone and the LG Prada? Will people sacrifice functionality for style? Perhaps this will be a problem with the LG Prada's implementation and not with the iPhone's?

It doesn't matter as long as Laura keeps so charming and purty. The answers to those questions will be revealed on March 22 for the LG and June for the iPhone.

Laura's photos property of Laura Ocaña

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