Live Images of LG Renoir, the Viewty successor, emerge
Back in August, LG officially announced the new LG KC910, the successor to the LG Viewty. Officially given the name LG Renoir, the phone has made its appearance in a few pictures snagged from it168.com. A short review of the specs will remind you that it has Quad-band GSM, UMTS (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps), 3 inch WQVGA 240×400 touchscreen display, 8 megapixel camera with Xenon flash & Schneider-Kreuznach lens, GPS with geotagging support, Bluetooth 2.0, and WiFi. The Renoir is expected to be available sometime in October. We have another touchscreen phone with a huge beautiful 8MP camera and some more cell phone eye candy for you all. Hit the jump for the rest of the pics.
This thing is ugly.. Unbelievably ugly.. Seriously, could all these companies employ someone with some taste and good ideas? Pay them through the roof and get a good, solid product.. But no, they just use their developers to come up with ugly UIs.. What is so special about Apple that they have such good UIs? They are not from a different planet, I guess..
I’m not an Apple fanboy, quite the opposite, actually. I will never buy Mac, will never buy music from iTunes, BUT I bought iPhone after playing with it, after seeing how much thought has been put into the UI and tight integration of everything there is in the phone. Yes, it does not have good camera and does not record video, does not have A2DP and BT file transfer (which sucks), does not have GPS and good software for it (I have an unlocked 1G iPhone). And I hate iTunes and the crappy way of backing up and synchronizing my data. But guess what? Only few times in the last year I thought about using GPS and BT file transfer. Other things like video or 10MP pictures I never use and don’t care about – I prefer devices that do that well – cameras and camcoders. I barely listen to the music and barely play movies on it, but it’s a nice way to entertain yourself on a plane. I use it as a phone and to send SMS, to keep my calendar and e-mail, sometimes web.. That’s about it. I wish it had more little things here and there, but I’ve installed bunch of 3rd party apps after jailbreaking it and they work pretty good – I’ve got games and themes and few useful apps. Sometimes they crash, but I don’t care – I’m used to intermittent crashes on devices anyway and I know that it’s impossible to have bug free software.
Would be nice to see someone coming out with “the next thing”, not a copy or variation of something that exists..
P.S. Few of my friends, real hardcode WinMo fans decided to move to iPhone after trying latest HTC devices and seeing how bad UI works, how many glitches it has and how annoying it is.. I guess until MS comes out with a product that allows great UI with less custom apps built on top, HTC, quite a great company, will keep having issues.. That’s sad.
We all know the biggest weakness of the Iphone is AT&T, but the device as a phone is not the best either. Sure, Apple cornered the touchscreen market since Palm dropped the ball, but true business users at the end of the day have not been fooled, nor have the execs that decide what device its management and employees should be using. I agree with “Likeabite”, loyal Apple users attempt to fool us about Apple products. Windows may have its share of problems, but Apple products still restrict the distance you can travel. Consumer wise you can browse the internet with ease; business wise you can’t copy and paste! Makes not sense which is why I stay away from most things apple. Since the invention of the micro SD card, my Ipod is virtually useless.
Ipod was successful mainly due to it’s hip marketing skills of the product, where they created an image where ipod users are hip and cool… Some products are not arguably better (but with heftier price tag too). Iphone had a long line up because of it is ipod’s very first/second phone and there was a great hype for most people to showcase it off. Their UI and OS is great, but it is horrible for third party programs that is not approved since they want people to only use software designed by them to juice more money out of the user. On the other hand Windows Mobile phones sure are more complicated, but they too get the work done. As of current day the hardware for newer WinMo phones such as the HTC Touch Pro, Samsung I900 Omnia has superior hardware (imo) than the iphone. Only thing that I see iphone is better than any WinMo phone is all the useless functions and settings in there where 95% of it’s users will not even touch….
I wonder how Android is going to compare to the Mac’s OS and WinMo in the long run…. lol
1. Is this a toy or a phone?
2. A phone is not always of excellent features,it must also include a sleek design,high resolution,excellent GUI. this phone doesn’t have anything except for the camera!!!!
3. This is no way a competitor for iPhone
These are some of the things you can tell about this piece!!!!
This is to Nathan who said “I think this is the first time I will actually agree with anyone who says “ZOMG IT LOOKS LIKE AN IPHONE!!!11″”
um the LG Prada(which is what the iPhone looks like) came out way before the iPhone so if anything LG was building on a previous model and the iPhone is the copy cat
U all are kinda of iphone maniacs…We can see clearly this picture and headlines says: LG Renoir…not iphone! so no need any iphone maniacs here.
Go put comment at your iphone products!
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hi!, I know it’s been a while since the last comment, but I was wondering… mmm.. what if where I am there’s no wifi?… I’m used to check internet anywhere with the gprs intstead of the wifi… So my question is: Is it possible to enter the www when there’s no signal… something like… to use the gprs and then when there’s wifi use it??..
I don’t really care that much about speed, as long as I can browse!… so… I’m thinking about choosing the renoir or either the cookie… quite different… and similar… what would you recommend?! thanks!
not 2 metion the DIVX PLAYER !!!! MAD CLEAR !! WAT WAT !!!