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01 February 2007, 15:58
LG KE850 Slim Touchscreen Phone. IPhone and the LG KE850 Could Be Identical Twins.
 Apple's iPhone may have a twin, or a doppelganger, the LG KE850.The similarities are undeniable. The LG KE850, also known as the "Prada phone" in some circles, received a Product Design Award for 2007 by International Forum Design, but don't you think it's a little too much like the Apple iPhone? Both phones eschew any sort of physical keypad, opting completely for a full touchscreen display on the front. The LG offering is a touch on the smaller side, however, as its screen is only three inches, compared to the 3.5-inches found on the iPhone. Both phones have some similarities that cannot be overlooked.
First, neither are available to the public yet, so a hands-on comparison is not possible.
It's slick, it's slim, and it's got some sort of camera on the back, megapixel count notwithstanding. Just like the hugely popular Chocolate Phone before it, the KE850 "Prada" phone is quite svelte in appearance, making use of "highly glossy black and metal texture deco" to create "a sense of luxury." And as an added bonus, it will come with a free leather case. The rest of the specs -- like whether it's got an accelerometer, proximity sensor, and ambient light sensor too -- remains to be seen. But I'm reasonably confident that it'll do MP3s and videos. Next, both the Apple iPhone and the LG KE850 are small, slim and sleek. Both the Apple iPhone and the LG KE850 are black, at least right now.
 They both have wide screens with a touchscreen interface, and no keyboard. The touchscreen interfaces themselves both have large number displays, have the same bright blue background, and look incredibly similar at a glance.
Apple iPhone
The Apple iPhone on the other hand, was unveiled at the MacWorld Expo 2007 in San Francisco earlier this week. The iPhone was in fact the big announcement of the Expo, and with the recent Cisco lawsuit continues to be at the top of the news.
 LG Electronics, a pioneer in consumer electronics and mobile phones, and PRADA, one of the world?s leading brands in the luxury goods industry, unveil the first completely touch screen mobile phone. We know that the Apple iPhone has the following technical specifications, or specs:Screen size is 3.5 inchesScreen resolution is 320 by 480 at 160 ppiStorage is 4GB or 8GB
The PRADA Phone by LG (KE850) is a real breakthrough in the industry, as it is a unique, sophisticated and elegant mobile phone with the first complete advanced touch interface. The Apple iPhone runs on OS X, boasts Wi-FI, Edge and Bluetooth 2.0.Battery: talk time/video/browsing is up to five hours and includes, with an audio playback of 16 hours.
LG and PRADA have worked closely together on every aspect of the product, from handset development to marketing combining the attention to detail and uncompromising quality of PRADA design with the trademark technological innovation of LG mobile. The Apple iPhone measures 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches and weighs 4.8 ounces.
 LG KE850
Unlike the Apple iPhone very little is known about the LG KE850 except that it looks like the iPhone. In fact, the technical specifications of the LG KE850 have not even been released yet. Besides some photos and the fact that the LG KE850 won the iF Product Design Award 2007, very little is actually known about the phone.
PRADA?s involvement extends beyond exterior aesthetics to the key elements of the user experience such as the advanced touch interface, ring tones, pre-loaded content, mobile phone accessories and the exclusive leather case, inspired by the classic Italian craftsmen tradition. The display screen of the LG KE850 is said to have a "resolution is as high as 240 x 400 pixels".
The LG-KE850 PRADA Phone by LG introduces the world?s first advanced touch interface which eliminates the conventional keypad making the overall usage experience a highly tactile one. An extra wide LCD screen maximizes visual impact, allowing the user to benefit from several key features of the phone, including the 2 megapixel camera featuring Schneider-Kreuznach lens, video player and document viewer capacity. Above all, these features contribute to the phone?s beautifully sleek and simplistic appearance. It appears, from poorly translated information from an originating source that the camera is 5.0 megapixels, compared to the Apple iPhone's 2.0 megapixels.
Early speculation among the gadget and tech communities is that the LG KE850, with it sleek and dark design, will be marketed and nicknamed to reflect its place in the Chocolate product line of phones.
Race to Market
With an announcement to have the iPhone available by June 2007, LG is being pretty quiet about their plans to release their similar LG KE850 phone. The iPhone will be for Cingular only, which may leave the LG KE850 to Verizon.
Glowing icons on the face of LG KE850 disappear when not in use to reveal a pure, un-adulterated black exterior. The phone is ultra thin (just 12 mm), nonetheless it hosts an array of additional multimedia functions, including an MP3 player and a music multitasking function for messaging. It also boasts an external memory slot, allowing the user to increase memory capacity for images, music and film clips. The final choice about the nearly identical phones may not be Apple versus LG, it may have more to with their current, or even available cell phone service provider.
Features- Capacitive Touch Screen
- Music Player (MP3, ACC, ACC+, WMA, RA)
- Music Multitasking (Messaging)
- Video Player (MPEG4, H.263, H.264)
- Macromedia Flash UI
- Document Viewer (ppt, doc, xls, pdf, txt )
Specifications- EDGE Tri-Band (900/1800/1900)
- 98.8 ? 54 ? 12 mm
- 2M CMOS Camera / LED Flash
- External Memory Slot (Micro SD)
- Innerpack Battery 800mAh
- Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, USB Mass storage
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