Sunday, August 24, 2008

LG launches CDMA LG 10000 with Reliance India Mobile to take on iPhone

The competition for the Apple iPhone seems to be going hotter and hotter day by day. After a few releases by GSM band competitors now LG Electronics has announced the launch of LG 10000 CDMA mobile phone in association with Reliance India Mobile. The handset has a stylish finish, and offers a customised bend of multimedia and business applications.

The phone has been in the US markets for some time now and is being sold as Voyager. It has been one of the main competitors to iPhone. The war for market share has shifted to India with this launch. LG 10000 is targetted exclusively at the premium segment CDMA users.

LG 10000 has a full touch screen as well as a QWERTY keypad, dual applications which is the first of its kind, in its segment of phones, including the iPhone. Office mail for corporate mail access, HTML enabled browser and high speed internet connectivity- these are other features of the handset.

The phone also has a 2.0 mega pixel camera with video recorder. With a latest full touch screen, the CDMA handset can play MPEG 4 videos and has dual stereo speakers. The phone also features an external memory card of 1GB, which can be extended up to 8 GB.

The device has a battery life of up to 240 minutes talk time and up to 480 hours stand-by time, the handset also has a call memory of up to 270 calls and phonebook memory of up to 1000 entries with 4 phone numbers, fax number, 2 email ids, picture id and also a ringer id.
LG 10000 is cheaper than iPhone. It is likely to be priced between Rs 22,000 and Rs 25,000. The handset is being launched across India and will be available in all reliance exclusive and retail outlets.

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