LG hope to counter Apple with a tablet
November 7th, 2007 by Giles SmithLg have announced the release of the their new KS20 which they hope will be able to compete with Apple’s iPhone, due for release on the 9th November.

This new handset looks suspiciously like the LG PRADA KE850 and is released today in the UK, cunningly a few days before the iPhone.
Cunningly released just a few days before the iPhone goes on sale in the UK, the KS20 has a 2.8in touchscreen allowing users to view web pages downloaded over 3.6Mb/s HSPDA 3G connections. The tri-band GSM handset also includes 802.11b/g Wi-Fi connectivity, with Bluetooth 2.0 for short-range communication.
The phone ships with a 128MB internal memory and accepts Micro SD cards for storing pictures taken on its two-megapixel camera. However, it also acts as a multimedia device and stores video and music files, including MPEG 4 and MP3 formats, respectively. An FM radio’s included too.
Running on the Windows Mobile 6 OS, the handset gives around four hours of talk time and a good 400 hours in standby, LG claimed.
I have never really liked LG phones, to me they always look like something was missing from their design, and I am afraid that this one does the same for me again. It just isn’t as sexy as the iPhone and if the interface is based on the KE850 then this is just going to be an iPhone rip off rather than a competitor…
Want More? Here is something related:
- 14 Mar 2008 -- iPhone 1.1.x Dual Boot / Jailbreak by the Dev Team
- 05 Feb 2008 -- Hit me if you need me, I’ll be on my iPhone
- 05 Dec 2007 -- Introducing the Microsoft Zunephone
- 17 Jun 2008 -- Survey: Programmers shunning Vista for Mac OS and Linux
- 05 Jun 2008 -- Mozilla going for Firefox 3.0 Guinness World Record!
December 4th, 2007 at 11:19 am
[...] new Viewty KU990 looks like the older Prada (KE850) phone but sports some nifty [...]