LG Booth Tour : Mobile World Congress 2009
The number of sites that were unaware of the LG ‘hero’ handset at this year’s Mobile World Congress could be named on one finger, nevertheless the LG Arena was pretty exciting to finally see after such a long wait and all those teaser images!
Fortunately, LG knew this and let the Arena take centre stage at their booth.
As good as this was, the worst decision they could have made was to also have a touch-driven interactive table powered by magic blocks. Each one, when placed on the surface, triggered demos illustrating the LG Arena’s features. It was so amazing that many people were ignoring the handset purely to play with the cool interface (ourselves included!).
Eventually, we composed ourselves and got a decent demo of the LG Arena, and the intuitive new 3D touch-driven interface dubbed “S-Class”.
All very impressive, and the user interface takes some interesting changes in direction from touchscreen leaders like the iPhone.
Well, it wasn’t all about the Arena and S-Class, the slightly under-performing LG Renoir has received a revamp to court consumers a bit more. Now sporting an exciting ‘i’ addition to the KC910 model number, the Renoir now has lost the camera lens cover and bulked up slightly.The software running the 8 megapixel camera has also been brought up to date, and they had a cool miniature village on hand to test out the phone’s rebooted camera credentials…
Fashion phone lovers were well catered for, as the LG Prada II had a suitably ostentatious display straight out of Harrod’s front window, as well as an unveiling of the LG Crystal GD900 complete with sexy transparent keypad.
We did also spot the Prada ‘Link’ Bluetooth watch adorning the pretty booth lady, which syncs up to both the Prada II and Crystal, enabling you to read SMS messages as well as answer and reject phone calls from the comfort of your wrist.
We wanted to take a picture of her showing off the watch, to which she curtly replied ‘no’. We made a compromise, in which she allowed us to photograph her arm, provided that we didn’t take a shot of the rest of her (and capture her soul or something, I don’t know). So we complied.
Spoilsport.
If you want to know what she looks like, she’s the sullen one in front of the Prada booth in the picture before last (ha!).
Actually, on the subject of watch phones, LG did make the effort to wheel out their watch phone crowd pleaser (behind glass), the GD910.
I feel that the impressive nature stems from just how normal it looks, in that it is a watch that wouldn’t be an embarrassment to wear, and yet makes and receives both voice and video calls. The future is now!
Not ones to miss a trick, the GD910 was also showing off some fancy new colourways to attract the masses. There is no doubt in our minds that the pink watch phone alone will sell well enough to put the kids of every LG employee through university. They. Are. Gorgeous.
They had some other phone that did a thing which was probably solar power, and one that had Windows in it (the GM730), but we wandered off and played on the Microsoft Surface again.
True story.
See? That was the LG stand!
Tags: arena, GD910, KC910, kc910i, km900, LG, Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress 2009, prada II, renoir, Watch Phone
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