http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/ Engadget Mobile Comments for http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Dec 15th 2006 6:33PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Dec 15th 2006 6:37PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Dec 15th 2006 8:57PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/perhaps this is what the iphone will be based on?]]>Dec 16th 2006 8:55AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Dec 16th 2006 10:03AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Dec 16th 2006 12:41PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Dec 16th 2006 12:46PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Dec 16th 2006 1:32PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Dec 18th 2006 1:55AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Dec 18th 2006 1:27PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 11th 2007 1:05PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Feb 7th 2008 1:05AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://apple.com/iphone/).]]>Jan 11th 2007 1:42PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 11th 2007 2:12PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/
And to win an award as well. Wow, there is a stong sense of litigation in the air on this one, yes... Is it just me, or doesn't this Steve Jobs announcement of the iPhone have all the hallmarks of a rushed decision. Something pushed him to suddenly announce this product, before they finished negotiations with Cisco etc.. Or is it just me?

I'll blog about this too now at my blogsite - www.communities-dominate.blogs.com - and link here. At my blogsite I also have an open letter to Apple and I've handicapped the iPhone's chances in the American, European and Asian markets if anyone is interested. The analysis has received a lot of praise and was selected as the Featured Media site's blog of the day etc.

Tomi Ahonen :-)
4-time bestselling author on 3G mobile
lecturing at Oxford University on 3G and convergence
www.tomiahonen.com]]>Jan 11th 2007 6:19PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 11th 2007 6:40PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-japanphone11jan11,0,6424968.story?coll=la-home-headlines]]>Jan 11th 2007 11:20PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/
Japanese and Korean phones are miles and miles ahead of every American phone, not just in design but technology. The real ones, not the crippled garbage that makes it over here. True. But while the Iphone didn't make that big of a splash There, it did make a splash. And it is also nearly in the category of these Japanese and Korean phones. It absolutely destroys American phones. Part of the problem however is not Apple. Its America and its terrible communications industry and also its insane size. Sure japanese and korean phones are regularly used to watch live TV and as credit cards and all sorts of other incredible things. If apple had the ability to set up country wide broadcasts of this sort then of course that feature would be on the IPhone. The problem is not the phone manufacurer. Perhaps the reason it doens't come out until 2008 in asia is to tackle some of the tech available there.

Furthermore, despite how nice some of these Japanese and Korean phones look thier design and interface (while still better than American garbage) are not all that amazing. If the Iphone actually works like it looks like it will, then it is far better and more versitile and good looking than these. Apple understands simplicity, which most tech companies do not.

Finally, it didn't make that big of splash in asia, because apples got practically zero percent market share over here. This is not all thier fault but a lot of it is (it feels like they dont' even try.) however the people that you would probably dub "macfan boys" over here are anticipating it as small as thier number is. and some other people think its looks cool too.]]>Jan 12th 2007 6:14AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 12th 2007 6:16AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/
All the touch-screen phones will be as similar as key-phones or MP3 players. No smart manufacturer will innovate with the basic layout because it's too easy to get wrong (remember Nokia's circular keypad? Seen it recently?)

These two phone's aren't nearly the same...]]>Jan 12th 2007 11:47AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 12th 2007 10:44PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/LG has had, well, one somewhat successful design with the Choco. Otherwise, take a look at every other product they've ever made (yes, even going back to the Lucky Goldstar days).]]>Jan 15th 2007 11:31PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/
where should I start? the screen background is a TOTAL OSX rip off. The icons are a TOTAL OSX rip off. And finally, the whole device is a total Ipod rip off with the shiny rounded metal back case and the polycarbonate face with rounded edges and corners.

Anyways, this is no surprise as we all knew the iphone would be cloned, just not so fast.

As for this being competition for the iphone, I don't think so. There is no way this device will have50% of the capability of the iphone. Yes this device will have a market, but it is not the market of the iphone so it will not hurt iphone sales.

All this is of course if Apple legal does not stop it from being sold.]]>Jan 16th 2007 5:58PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/what u on about, any thing looks nice is a osx ripp off!!??!! please think sensibly..
also, are you getting paid as a defendant for apple or wot? you too crazy man..
get a life..

thanks

ohh sorry.. my name is apple ripp off too :D]]>Jan 18th 2007 11:22AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 18th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 18th 2007 6:45PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 19th 2007 1:24AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/
Microsoft has showed us time and time again that all this legalese stuff doesn't hold too much water anyway ;-)

Don't worry, there will be many similar-looking phones for you to choose from in the not-too-distant future.]]>Jan 19th 2007 8:51AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 19th 2007 11:15AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 19th 2007 3:17PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 20th 2007 5:10PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/How different a mobile phone with extended options and a touch screen can look from another one? Neither one of them reinvented the touch screen, 3G services, or interactive menues. Besides the trend in the design now is to stress upon round edges and shiny surfaces. But do you see the power of persuasion? The only reason for you to know about IPhone before KE850, is the mountains of cash being thrown away by Apple to promote their products. And either one of them (Apple or LG) had to say they are the pioneers. Otherwise the rival would do it. We have to admit that Apple are more persuasive. At least to the general consumer, who is waiting. The rest will be proven when you hold them both at hand for a while. ]]>Jan 21st 2007 5:43PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/
Having said that, given how litigious Apple is, there would be some sweet irony in them being sued by LG, although I would claim it to be extremely unlikely. ]]>Jan 21st 2007 9:17PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/
http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2007/01/the-iphone-will-not-sync-with-microsoft-outlookexchange/

And here are some FAQs
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/the-ultimate-iphone-frequently-asked-questions/]]>Jan 22nd 2007 3:42PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Jan 22nd 2007 5:58PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/Dec 10th 2007 3:41PM