LG gets pissy at Motorola over KRZR design

by Conrad Quilty-Harper posted Oct 8th 2006 at 2:31PM

In a world of 18-30 month development times for the average cellphone, it's understandable that the nerves of company executives get a little frayed when it comes to touting their latest creation. That's why we feel a degree of vague sympathy for Lee Hyoung-kun, a spokesman for LG Electronics who landed the enviable task of announcing to The Korea Times that his company thinks of Motorola's KRZR as a straight-up copy of LG's KV2300. Usually we're down with a little smack talk between companies, but this accusation doesn't leave us in an accommodating kind of mood. The point behind the whole accusation is very muddled, in particular the statement "we are very flattered that a company of such caliber followed our design policy." Besides, those 18-30 month development times mentioned earlier make copying cellphone designs practically impossible and especially unlikely for a phone we've known about for ages. LG, in future, leave the snarky digs to us, mkay?

[Thanks, RandomStranger]

Filed under: LG, Motorola

Tags: Culture, KRZR, KV2300

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Luis Martinez @ Oct 8th 2006 3:43PM

Sounds like it could be the other way around. Still I've held the LG and its not really the same finishing. A lot of electronics are going this route too like the DS Lite & PS3. Motorola should watch out though rivals are catching up. Competition for the KRZR will be more intensive than it was for the RAZR.

I don't think KRZR will match RAZR on till an assortment of colors comes out. Hell, the GSM version is barely out on carriers as it is. The RAZR enjoyed a full debut across a lot of carriers and the price point had been lower when racketing up the 50 million. Motorola is also expanding its line as the KRZR won't be the only phone. The RIZR, RAZR Maxx, L7c, and the CDMA PEBL phone are also coming out.

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