14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is set to make the LG Optimus Black smartphone available for purchase on the UK market before the end of the next week, if some of the latest reports on the Internet are to be believed.
Apparently, the company's product manager for the Optimus Black has already confirmed the move, through no additional info on the release was made available.
Although LG did not offer details on the wireless carriers that would bring the LG Optims Black on shelves in the UK, rumor has it that Orange would be stocking it next week.
The Android-based mobile phone “should be in stores by the end of next week,” the company's representative reportedly stated.
The new device was unveiled to the world during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January, with LG's Optimus UI 2.0 on top.
Based on Google's Android operating system, the device does not sport exceptional features, part from its 4-inch Nova display, which offers far more brightness than any other smartphone on the market, and which eats only half the battery juice standard displays to.
At the moment, the device runs under Google's Android 2.2 Froyo OS, but the company promised an upgrade to the newer Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform as well.
On the back, the new device sports a 5-megapixel photo snapper, with auto-focus, LED flash and video recording capabilities, complemented by a 2-megapixel front facing camera for video calling.
The handset also includes a TI-OMAP 3630 1GHz application processor, complemented by 512 MB of RAM, WiFi and Bluetooth, GPS receiver, and microSD memory card slot for expanding the available memory space.
When launched, the new device was touted as being the slimmest handset in the world, at only 9.2mm, but other smartphones were already launched with thinner bodies, including the Samsung Galaxy S II, which measures only 8.9mm thick.