LG has announced they have sold 310,000 units of the LG Viewty since it was officially launched 5 weeks ago. The cell phone is a touch screen with a host of innovative features including a 5.1 megapixel camera with video capture of up to 120fps (supports slow-mo playback), ISO 800, handwriting input (you can scribble on images and save it), onscreen video and photo editing, manual focus (a first in handset cameras).
The Viewty is a relatively under-hyped product. Tech blogs don’t seem to be very interested in its no-nonsense camera and multimedia support (it plays DivX videos) and other unique features like the stylus as a dongle. If you ask me, this is the real iPhone killer.
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- Tri-band GSM/GPRS plus HSDPA support
- 5.1 MP with auto and manual focus camera (takes 2592 X 1944 pixel photos)
- Camera strobe flash and focus assist beam
- 3-inch 262K color TFT touchscreen display with 240 x 400 pixels
- Secondary video camera
- VGA video recording at 30 fps and QVGA video recording at 120 fps
- TV-out
- Unique stylus dongle
- DivX video playback
- Haptic feedback
[via slashphone] Phonearena has made a detailed review of the user interface of LG Viewty. After the break.
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April 1st, 2008 at 9:11 am
[...] makes a good iPhone killer? Is it a big touch screen, a built-in camera with a huge megapixel count. Is it connectivity options like 3G and HSDPA? Is it the added GPS capability? The Samsung [...]
April 25th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
[...] release, is to be believed, is going to add 3G, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, Wi-Fi and slide-out QWERTY. The LG Viewty is quite nice, but lacking Wi-Fi and a QWERTY, the Prada II (if rumor be correct) will be the [...]
August 31st, 2009 at 5:56 pm
iPhone started the era of touch screen then LG announced the Viewty. Clearly the LG knew the weakness of the iPhone and where they should target the Viewty at - 5mp camera is equipped on the viewty along with excellent video recording since the iPhone’s camera is only 2mp and there is no recording. When it comes to design LG is as intelligent as it has always been. The Viewty looks great, equally beautiful and elegant with the Prada phone.