LG goes insanely retro with Franklin Planner branding on SU100 phone

by Chris Ziegler posted Dec 7th 2008 at 9:01PM

What do an old-school paper day planner and a phone with a 3-inch OLED have in common? If you answered "absolutely nothing," you'd be correct -- but LG apparently didn't get the memo, because they've decided to grace their latest domestic superphone, the SU100, with the rather unusual Franklin Planner branding. Besides the presumably gorgeous display, other totally un-Franklin features include a 3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and an S-DMB TV tuner, which should all make for a nice, smooth transition for anyone still committing appointments and contacts to paper in the year 2008. The SU100's launching on South Korea's SKT for about 700,000 won ($475) with a white version following on next month.

Filed under: Handsets, LG, GSM

Tags: franklin, franklin planner, FranklinPlanner, korea, lg, sk telecom, skt, SkTelecom, south korea, SouthKorea, su100

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Kirk @ Dec 7th 2008 9:49PM

It's not *quite* as bizarro/unprecedented as you're making it out to be: I remember the Franklin Planner folks selling Franklin Planner-branded Palm Pilots (err... "Palm Handhelds") about 10 years ago. I think they sold them in Sharper Image stores, and they came with some special "Franklin Planner" app.

Clearly, given the history of Palm and Sharper Image, this might not be the best road for LG to be going down....

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