 scampering around the smartphone section. LG, the fourth-largest mobile phone maker, and Microsoft are expected to make it official next week at 3GSM.
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LG has plans for at least two new smartphones with the first handsets hitting the market in the second half of 2007. Expect to see touch-screens on these devices, too, ’cause buttons suck.
LG’s move into the smartphone market with Microsoft will undoubtedly launch them even closer to the top of mobile-device heap. Hopefully we get a glimpse of things to come next week in Barcelona.
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“Expect to see touch-screens on these devices, too, ’cause buttons suck.”
I bet you $50 you or one of your colleagues will write an article two weeks after the iPhone is released wishing it had buttons! :)
HA! Paul, you’re such a Button fanboy….
Buttons? We don’t need no stinkin buttons!!!
i love buttons - wholly agree with paul m on this one
Motorola and Samsung will run a linux OS because they are part of the LiMo Foundation.
Ah, LG, how I love thee. LG + Crossbow = My New Phone
LG has cool designs, but I’ve never owned one of their products…. O_o