Today LG officially confirmed
their upcoming LG Prada phone. Featuring a full
touch-control design, the new handset is the result from
the collaboration between
the Korean manufacturer and the Prada design team.
Yesterday at the IF
product design awards the LG Prada mobile was first seen
designated as the LG KE850. The unique thing
about it is the large touchcreen
menu interface which eliminates the need for a conventional keypad
whatsoever.
We cannot help but think about the newly announced iPhone by Apple which though
would
much larger and would run under the OS X. The LG KE850 Prada phone on
the other hand would be only 12 mm
run with a Macromedia Flash user interface.
LG Prada phone
The Prada
phone by LG (KE850) would feature a large 3" LCD touchscreen
display with yet unknown resolution
and would also have a 2 megapixel camera
with Schneider-Kreuznach optics and a microSD memory card slot.
The most interesting
thing about the display itself is that it's made using the capacitive touchscreen
technology. What that means is that the screen uses electroconductivity to sense
your touch - much
like the touchpad on the popular LG Chocolate. This technology
is made to be used with fingers only, so
the use of a stylus is out of the question
whatsoever.
LG
Prada phone
The PRADA Phone by LG will be available with prices starting from 600 EUR in
the
UK, France, Germany and Italy as of late February, 2007, followed by countries
in Asia such as Hong
Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore from late March, 2007. The
Korean version of the phone is scheduled to
launch in the second quarter of
2007.
