Known in Europe as the LG KF600 with touchscreen, 8 dynamic graphic interfaces and the famous InteractPad, and as LG Venus in the United States, the cool cell phone will be launched in Korea under the name LG Bikini.
This InteractPad was developed to make it easier to type and find what you need faster without using standard buttons. Each of the 8 dynamic graphic interfaces comes with its specific virtual buttons.
Besides these cool technologies, the cell phone also has a built-in 3MP camera, music player, video recorder, FM radio and Bluetooth wireless connectivity.
According to Aving, in Korea, the LG Bikini will be available at prices around $530.
Skyworks Solutions has announced that 10 Samsung UMTS models will feature its front-end modules for EDGE, and power amplifiers for WCDMA and HSDPA.
Also, Samsung’s P960, the first cell phone with support for mobile TV that will be released in Europe, will feature Skyworks’ technology.
The 16.7 mm thin cell phone is supporting digital video broadcast-handheld standard as well as the new open mobile alliance mobile broadcast service enabler suite. It is known as a model sporting a 2.6-inch large QVGA TFT display, Bang & Olufsen ICEPower technology for high-quality sound, a built-in 3MP camera, music player, and FM radio with RDS. Skyworks’ SKY77519 FEM solution is the world’s smallest in the industry for open-polar EDGE architectures, permitting OEMs to optimize power usage solution and to offer best performance which increases talk times by 10%, saving 30% of power, these leading to up to 5 hours of mobile TV on the enabled handset.
"Skyworks congratulates Samsung on achieving the milestone launch of Europe's first DVB-H handset, and is pleased to support their family of compelling mobile TV platforms," said Liam K. Griffin, Skyworks' senior vice president of sales and marketing. "Our participation in their P960 design reflects our multimode design-win momentum and UMTS market share gains at Samsung and other OEMs."
Aving has published the first details about a new cool handset from LG with support for DVB-T.
It has a clamshell-styled design called LG HB620T will bring mobile TV right in your hand and HSDPA connectivity for high-speed transfers of up to 7.3Mbps.
The display is not large enough, measuring just 2 inches, so you can’t say it’s a good solution for web browsing and TV if you didn’t read the specifications first.
While we are waiting for a new press release from LG with some more information about availability and price we can tell you only that the new TV-enabled cell phone doesn’t look too cool as we are always expecting from one of the leaders in handsets design.
Remember the recent video demonstration from M80 of the GPS capability of Samsung Instinct and Apple iPhone? Here are the next 4 showing the Internet connectivity, live TV, how to shoot a video and how fast you can download a song with both handsets:
The problem with the Internet connectivity at Apple’s iPhone is explained like this:
Working on AT&T’s Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution, a 2.75G standard, iPhone proves high-speed transfer rates but there is a delay specific to packet-switched communications, which consists of routing blocks of data (packets) between nodes over data links shared with other traffic, and in each of these network nodes the packets are queued or buffered, which produces the variable delay, leading to transfer speeds of up to 236.8 kbit/s for 4 timeslots.
With 3G EV-DO Rev A at Samsung Instinct, things are a bit different because this type of connectivity is based on Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access techniques, which increase the user’s throughput and the system’s throughput, by allowing several data transmitters to send simultaneously via the single communication channel. Transmitters have codes assigned and they have to take turn in sending information with the access divided by time.
The EV-DO channel has a bandwidth of 1.25 MHz and the Revision A standard improves the latency increasing the rates on the forward link up to 3.1 Mbit/s and on reverse link up to 1.8 Mbit/s.
About the other aspect, music download, to be able to get music with the Samsung Instinct you’d have to get it from Sprint’s Power Vision Network.
With the iPhone you have to tap the iTunes icon to go on iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store and browse, preview, buy and download what you like for your collection, but for this to work you have to be in a Wi-Fi hot spot and it seems that it doesn’t work every time...
Engadget has published information about one of Nokia’s main design contractors, the Finish company Provoke Design, which has unveiled three new cell phone concepts, maybe the coolest models I’ve ever seen!
Representing the company’s view of the 2012 generation cell phones, Express, Fell and Share are different fully-functional prototypes with unique design and features, which can amaze anybody.
They will be presented at HARDCORE New Finish Design exhibition starting May 17 during New York Design Week 2008.
Express concept’s color, visual contrast between states and other characteristics can be changes electronically and the user can customize the cell phone look anytime.
Feel is a pair of two mobile phones dedicated to couples, featuring a special user interface and tactile touch simulation, while Share is rich in communication functionalities and inspired by skateboarders fashion. With Share, the users can geotag content and share media with other group members.
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