Friday, January 19, 2007

LG Comes Out with Touch Phone

It seems that the big cell phone companies aren't waiting around to go after the IPhone.

The new phone has no traditional keypad but instead sports what LG
terms "the world's first advanced touch interface". This is said to make he
overall user experience a highly tactile one. It's a new design, said to be the
result of fashion legend
Miuccia Prada, in charge of the
eponymous luxury goods producer, and LG.


The PRADA (KG850) looks like a black, Lucite covered, brick though. And this has to be one of the dorkiest looking displays I have ever seen on a consumer electronics product. It looks like something that should retail for $20 in the toy section and not something that can compete with the Iphone's elegant design. I think LG needs to hire some design gurus from Japan or something to make their products look less generic.


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