Monday, July 18, 2011

LG officially announces two affordable Gingerbread phones – the Optimus Pro and Optimus Net

Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) has been a high-end affair until now with almost no cheap budget phone out there having the latest Android version. But not anymore as LG recently launched two new affordable Gingerbread smartphones. Both of these are of the popular Optimus series – the Optimus Pro (LG-C660) and Optimus Net (LG-P690), to be precise.

As was already known Optimus Pro is a candybar QWERTY, 2.8inch-touchscreen phone, looks like a BlackBerry and is described here in this post. It offers the best of both a physical keyboard and touch display. There are dedicated keys for email and scheduler. Optimus Pro will be available in white, titan and black colors.

While Optimus Net is a full-touch phone featuring “Next Generation of Social Communication” - the “LG Social+” combining all the popular social networking portals in one widget right at the homescreen. With a single click, it enables users to update their status on Facebook and Twitter while reading friends’ social media feeds at the same home screen. This widget also enables one-click photo sharing with multiple social media accounts from the home screen. There is also a “LG SmartShare” feature which makes it easy to share content with other DLNA-enabled devices. Following are its others specs in brief -

3.2inch HVGA (320 x 480) capacitive touchscreen display
800 MHz Qualcomm processor, 512 MB RAM,
150 MB internal memory, 2GB MicroSD Card supplied (Expandable upto 32 GB)
3 Megapixel camera with Geo-tagging support, VGA @24fps video recording
HSDPA (3.6Mbps), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, A-GPS
Standard Li-ion 1500mAh battery
Both LG Optimus Pro and Net will soon (Next month) be available all over the world.

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