LG GC900 Viewty Smart, now more official than ever before

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LG GC900 Viewty Smart, now more official than ever before

by Chris Ziegler posted Apr 20th 2009 at 1:26AM

Okay, now it's official. After a misstep late last week, LG's ready to pull the trigger for reals on the Viewty Smart, the follow-on to one of its more successful high-end feature phones in recent memory. Pretty much every major feature has been improved or revamped over the original Viewty, including bumps to WVGA display resolution, an 8 megapixel camera with claimed ISO 1600 sensitivity (we'll see about that), DVD-quality video recording, LG's recently-introduced S-Class user interface concept, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, integrated WiFi, AGPS, and 1.5GB onboard with microSD expansion theoretically to 32GB. What's more, LG has somehow smushed this all into a package just 12.4mm thick, which makes this just about the most desirable non-smartphone on the planet -- on paper, anyhow. Look for it to start hitting European carriers next month, with availability elsewhere to be announced later on.

[Via Akihabara News]

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Frostblade10 @ Apr 20th 2009 2:18AM

I like this. OLED, capacitive screen, and under $400 USD and im sold.

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KilgoreTrout @ Apr 20th 2009 4:12AM

Non smartphone? If it uses the S-class UI means it's running Win mobile OS, does'nt it?
Moreover how does this compare to the Arena? Specs wise it seems just about the same thing, is'nt this a silly move from LG?

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aoi tsuki @ Apr 20th 2009 4:58AM

i'm not familiar with LGs, but if this is using a capacitive screen, it's unlikely it's running Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile doesn't support capacitive screens.

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R@pHyE07 @ Apr 20th 2009 12:26PM

It isn't runing any OS (it's not a smartphone), it's runing only the S-Class UI. It doesn't have an OLED screen, it's LCD and I think it's capacitive

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m3tric @ Apr 20th 2009 7:11PM

I wonder how the picture quality is on this, compared to say the LG Renoir, which imo takes GREAT pictures:

http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=178069&start=30

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zahid @ Jul 2nd 2009 3:04AM

http://www.zahipedia.com/2009/04/14/lg-gc900-viewty-2-exposed/

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