Earlier we reported on Nokia’s falling profits compared to last year. From most accounts it is predicted that the mobile phone market is likely to shrink in the near future. It is not all bad however. LG Mobile’s first quarter report shows good news.
The Korean based manufacturer reported that although their overall units shipped fell from last year, their profits from the same time as last year have risen by 22.6%. Their heavy hitters that are doing the best for them are the LG KP500 Cookie as well as the text-centric LG KS360. Not surprisingly, in this Global Economic Slowdown consumers are going more towards the mid-range priced phones.
LG plans to continue on on a strong note with their upcoming phones like the LG KM900 Arena and various other more higher line smart phone models.
With this happy news from LG is anyone thinking of opening up their portfolio? Maybe worth considering.
“We’ll very much be releasing a 12MP camera phone… However, it’s important that people realise when taking 12MP images, they’ll be using huge amounts of data, and it will be more difficult to do things like send such files.”
We’ve heard of rugged phones, but this is ridiculous!
The Mobile website mobile@mail.ru put the LG Renoir KC910 through some Bush-level, enhanced interrogation techniques recently. In addition to leaving it in a freezer for 12 hours, dipping into a lovely 2006 Bordeaux and stepping on it, they also ran it over with a car. And to it’s credit the LG Renoir survived the test.
So now current LG Renoir KC910 users and prospective buyers can rest assured that if you want to put your phone into a dryer and not have it break, you probably can.
PLEASE BE ADVISED: TimTechs in no way condones or recommends what you are about see in the following videos and encourages all mobile users to treat their phones with care and respect to enjoy a long lasting and enjoyable cellphone experience.
Oh LG! Thank you for catering to my childhood Dick Tracy fantasies. You’re sure to win over gadget and comic book geeks alike with your new, sleek high tech release.
The LG GD910 is the ultimate in cool. This phone/watch is wowing the internet. This little beauty features a TFT capacitive touchscreen that lets you dial, scroll through functions and operate this mobile device with ease. The screen, although small, doesn’t seem to be much problem for the demoer in the video below.
Talking can be done through Bluetooth pairing or using the speaker phone by talking directly into the device. I prefer to wear it on the inside of the wrist to give it that secret service feel.
Other features include 3G capability, MP3 player and a CIF camera for sneaking pictures of Russian spies at international black tie galas, where you’re feeling a little woozy after that vodka martini that you had with that blonde bombshell and that big guy with the eye patch has been looking at you funny all night and you don’t know if you remembered to bring your cyanide pills and… I mean, it’s great for taking a quick picture on the go!
This device was previewed at the CES 2009 show and is expected to go into production later this year. Check out this demo video below and tell us what you think.
Our friend BREW Ninja has just released a new internet video previewing some upcoming cell phone goodies recently. The video comes complete with his turtleneck ninja outfit. I think that is traditional wear.The quick video gives previews of 3 different phones. The HTC Coke, which is a modified version of the Touch Pro, the LG Lotus with a full QWERTY interface and the BlackBerry Thunder which is due out soon with Verizon.The video is pretty basic although the one complaint that is definitely interesting coming from the BREW Ninja is the touchscreen interface on the BlackBerry Thunder. In stead of the usual capacitive touch screens the screen on this device is an actual button. So to select icons and move around the screen you do have to apply quite a bit of pressure. This may be a concern for heavy handed users and it may make the screen more susceptible to breakage.Have a look at the video for yourself:
When Sony Ericsson announced the C905 as the first 8 megapixel cameraphone other manufacturer sat up and took notice and rumors are circulating that the LG KC910 will be the Korean’s response.
The rumored 8 megapixel device is said to be in readiness for an October launch and to feature Xenon flash, image stabilization, automatic face detection, record video at 720×480 pixels and 30fps, WVGA touchscreen all in a 14mm aluminum casing.
Forget Sony Ericsson, it sounds like the digital camera phone market is in for a surprise.
Well you Mitre’s well have the best if you going to buy a fashion phone this season it has to be gold, baby - like our friends the LG Secret and KF600.
Draped in 24 karats of excess the drippingly hot Goldstriker pimped LG phones are the ultimate in pointless extravagance and if you have too many chains and rings already and you’ve run out of places to bling why not this innocuous handset combo?
The Kf600 eeks in at a laughingly affordable £329.95 and the Secret will drop a mortgage payment at £529.95, but hey when the removalists take your last golden toilet seat at least you can phone a friend and tell them how you used to have it all.
Global Mobile Phones Shipments and Marketshare 2008 Q1:
Nokia is still on top with a constant growth in sales; 91.1 Million handsets in Q1 2007 to 115.5 Million handsets in Q1 2008. The clearest changes are seen in Samsung and Motorola ; Samsung has increased sales by 33% from the last Q1 and Motorola has dropped sales by 39.4%.
Sony Ericsson’s Q1 2008 is not a reliable sales estimate as most of their 2008 releases will only be released around mid of this year.
