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Verizon turns Venus pink

Posted in LG, Mobile Phones, Verizon by Nino Marchetti on December 11th, 2007

Venus by LGVerizon Wireless and LG today added a new color to their Venus mobile phone: pink. This new LG by Venus phone is priced at around $200 after rebate and contract.

The pink Venus by LG is the same as the current model in Verizon’s line up except for the color. It is a slider design which provides you features like a two-megapixel digital camera, microSD expandable memory and support for mobile Web content. It can also play music files from formats like MP3, WMA and AAC.

Chocolate by LG gains new blue color

Posted in LG, Mobile Phones, Verizon by Nino Marchetti on November 30th, 2007

Blue IceVerizon Wireless and LG Mobile Phones are out today with word of a new Chocolate by LG phone color for all you fashion trend setters. This time around the color is dubbed “Blue Ice” and it is priced at around $80 and contract and rebate.

Verizon says this of this phone that “the silky-smooth slim slider design comes coated with a frosty blue finish.” Choke! Silly marketing language aside, what you do have here is a colorful slider phone for those looking for something a little different. This Chocolate phone, like others in the series, has your traditional features like vibration feedback, navigation wheel with red trace motion lighting and microSD memory card expansion.

LG brightens AT&T line up with Shine

Posted in AT&T, LG, Mobile Phones by Nino Marchetti on November 26th, 2007

AT&T LG ShineAT&T and LG want you to find a little extra something shiny in your stocking this year. The two have teamed to unveiled the exclusive LG Shine. It’s priced at around $150 after a two-year contract and rebate.

The LG Shine is described by AT&T as a mobile multimedia device. To that end it supports a variety of AT&T online services, including video sharing, mobile banking and mobile music. It’s a slider-style mobile which sports a silver exterior as well as a 2.2-inch mirror LCD screen.

LG reveals 32-inch plasma television

Posted in LG, Plasma, Television by Nino Marchetti on October 24th, 2007

LG 32PC5RVLG recently introduced to the global stage a smaller plasma television as it tries to target price-focused shoppers. The new 32PC5RV is available in Brazil right now and should hit other markets, including North America, in November.

The LG 32PC5RV sports a 32-inch plasma television designed to compete against 32-inch LCD televisions. It has a 16:9 aspect ratio screen and a 0.001ms response time. HDMI and component ports let one connect the flat panel display to a DVD player or home theater.

Verizon unveils flashy new phones for the holidays

Posted in LG, Mobile Phones, News, Samsung, Verizon by Darrin Olson on October 3rd, 2007

Verizon releases the LG Voyager, LG Venus and Samsung Juke and Blackberry Pearl mobile phones in a new lineup for the holidays to take on Apple’s iPhoneVerizon went ahead and unleashed four new phones all at once targeted at the fall shopping season trying to get a share of AT&T’s iPhone dollars. The new lineup includes the Voyager and Venus from LG along with the narrow Samsung Juke and the Blackberry Pearl sporting EV-DO.

The headliner of this Verizon release party is the LG Voyager looking very similar to the iPhone from the outside with a large touchscreen on the face. Once you get your hands on the Voyager you’ll see that it’s a little bulkier than the iPhone and that touchscreen face actually hinges open to expose another display inside that faces a large QWERTY keyboard, hence the thickness. The Voyager also has V CAST Mobile TV, a microSD slot and a modest 2 megapixel camera.

LG announces new Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player

Posted in Blu-ray, DVD, HD DVD, LG by Nino Marchetti on September 5th, 2007

LG BH200LG has unveiled the second generation of its dual format HD disc player, letting one enjoy both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. The LG Super Blu Player (BH200) is priced at around $1,000 and should be available in October.

The LG BH200 supports HDi Web-connected interactivity available for HD DVDs and also includes BD-Java interactivity. It can output video up to 1080p, including upscaling of standard DVD to this resolution. It also supports a wide variety of audio formats, including MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264 video, MPEG1/2 audio, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital+, DTS and DTS-HD.

LG’s Slim Portable, USB powered DVD burner

Posted in Burner, DVD, LG, USB by Reuben Drake on August 29th, 2007

LG Slim DVD burner GSA-E50N and GSA-E50L are USB poweredLG has a new non-high def DVD burner that should hit the market within days, sporting a very slim and portable design. The LG Slim DVD burner is completely USB powered requiring no additional cables to run, helping you to conveniently burn discs and drain the battery from your notebook when you’re on the go.

The device measures only .84 inches thick and weighs less than a pound making it very portable, housing the ability to burn DVD+R / RW, DVD-R / RW, and DVD-RAM discs as fast as …

LG, AT&T make tracks with trax phone

Posted in AT&T, LG, Mobile Phones by Nino Marchetti on August 13th, 2007

trax by LGLG got busy with AT&T today by exclusively unveiling a multi-purpose clamshell mobile device which is geared for multimedia users. The trax by LG is available beginning Tuesday for around $130 after rebate and two-year contract.

The trax by LG is around .62 inches thick and weighs around 3.55 ounces. Inside this thin phone you get support for 3G HSDPA data speeds, stereo Bluetooth support and a 1.3-megapixel digital camera. Its support of AT&T’s UMTS/HSDPA network also lets users of this phone access the provider’s online video service as well as share live video from the …

LG House Malibu

Posted in LG by Nino Marchetti on August 7th, 2007

lg-pad.jpgThe cool kids in Hollywood are finding a place to shelter themselves from the hot California sun while playing with tech toys from LG Electronics. The LG House Malibu is open for business for the movie star crowd.

The LG House Malibu is 3,500 square feet of electronic party space, said LG. The house, which has already hosted parties for Chris Brown, Nick Cannon and Emmy Rossum, also recently held a party for Universal’s casts of its Emmy- nominated shows such as Heroes, House and The Office. Upcoming events will include celebrity birthday parties, beach days and MTV’s premiere party for The Hills.

The Wave by LG

Posted in LG, Mobile Phones by Nino Marchetti on August 2nd, 2007

The Wave by LG from Alltel WirelessAlltel Wireless said today it was exclusively rolling out a new mobile phone developed by LG. The phone is called The Wave and its available for around $80 after a mail-in rebate and two-year sell your soul to the devil service agreement.

The Wave by LG is described as having a “rolling design that mimics the curl of a wave as the deep colors fade into black.” Beyond this trendy statement you find a lot of features similar to that of other cell phones, including a 1.3-megapixel camera with video recording, a built-in MP3 player with external controls, Bluetooth, GPS capable and expandable memory via a card slot.

LG FLATRON Wide Format M228WA

Posted in Displays, LCD, LG, Television by Nino Marchetti on June 4th, 2007

LG FLATRON Wide Format M228WA Monitor TVLG seems to think they have found the magical formula in the form of a 22-inch widescreen display which can serve as both home television and computer monitor. Enter the mighty LG Flatron Wide Format M228WA.

What you say? Why is this the replacement for your big screen plasma? Well, we weren’t exactly saying it was. Rather the LG M228WA, with its 1680 x 1050 viewing resolution and 170-degree viewing angles, will serve as a nice LCD display for television when you tire of crunching numbers in Excel. The monitor, optimized to …

LG Unveils Color E-Paper

Posted in Digital Imaging, LG, News by Chetz on May 14th, 2007

LG develops electronic ink e-paperThe day when you will be able to flip pages on your newspaper while watching full motion video articles and ads may be sooner than you think. Yesterday LG Philips announced that it has successfully manufactured the first A4-size color electronic-paper capable of displaying up to 4,096 colors. The e-paper, which is a flexible thin sheet, measured 35.9 cm (14.1 inches) diagonally and is just 0.3 mm thick. LG also said that it had made its e-paper to be power smart and uses energy only when the image needs to change on the …

LG Kompressor Vacuum

Posted in LG, Vacuum by Chetz on March 20th, 2007

LG Kompressor VacuumPerfect for those of us that like to make things from spare parts lying around the house comes LG’s Kompressor vacuum cleaner.

Looking like it’s six degrees of separation from being related to R2-D2, the Kompressor not only sucks up all the crud and dirt found on your floors but, true to its name, it smushes it all down into the shape of a brick. The idea behind this isn’t that you can make an extra guest room out of your dirt but that it gives the user up to four times as much space …

Contests

First-ever national text messaging contest

Posted in Contests, LG, Text Messaging by Darrin Olson on March 20th, 2007

First national text messaging contest by LGIf you own an LG enV, are fast with your thumbs and have some time to kill, LG is putting on the first-ever National Texting Championship competition with a chance to win a total of $25k.

You must own and use an LG enV or V phone for the competition, and the contest involves you texting phrases that appear on a screen and sending them to a specified recipient. The first to send the correct message with no errors wins.

There will be basically two chances to let your apposing digit help …

LG’s VCAST Phone Prices?

Posted in LG, Mobile Phones, Services, Television, Verizon by Chetz on March 10th, 2007

VX9400 VCAST mobile phoneThe rumor du jour is that LG is prepping to release its VX9400 handheld phone/TV on March 23. As we reported this past January, Verizon is soon to launch a service that allows for live television to be beamed and picked up by mobile phones.

Samsung is the other company with plans to release a phone, the u620, that works with the service, but we’ve been waiting to see what LG’s entry looks like in action especially since it has a neat looking pivot screen. According to a tipster that whispered in …


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