MAC 07: LG Shows Off The Viewty and KS20

LG's 5 megapixel camera phone the KU990, called the Viewty, has made an appearance at this year's GSMA Mobile Asia Congress 2007 held in Macau. The KU990 follows in the footsteps of the popular iPhone-like LG Prada. This candy bar styled phone has a large 3-inch LCD touch screen with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels and sports 256K colors. The Viewty has a Flash UI (user interface).

The LG KU990 has an inbuilt memory of 100MB and also supports external memory through microSD cards. It’s also 3G enabled with HSDPA for faster connectivity. Speaking of connectivity it’s also Bluetooth v1.2 enabled with A2DP compatibility and USB v2.0. The main feature of course is the 5 megapixel, auto-focus camera with a Xenon flash. The KU990’s camera is also equipped with anti-shake image stabilizer and face-tracking software and even manual focus should you wish to get a bit more ‘professional’ with it. What the Viewty also incorporates is an application that allows users to upload videos to the net to sites like YouTube and there’s another photo editor application for making changes to images shot through the camera. The best part about the camera is its ability to capture 120 frames per second. There’s also a VGA camera located in the front for video calling.


LG also showed off their KS20 which seemingly appears to another Prada-style touchscreen mobile except that this one runs on Windows Mobile 6 OS. It’s equipped with a 2.8 inch TFT touchscreen, with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 256K colors, a 2 megapixel auto-focus camera and a secondary VGA camera in front. It also supports audio and video playback with DivX file support. It’s also fully equipped for all types of connectivity from EDGE, with 3G and HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP compatibility and USB v2.0.

The KS20 and the Ku990 are expected to be in stores in Europe sometime at the end of this year at undisclosed prices though.