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Wherify LG Overseas Sanyo Concepts  

Besides the two new phones for the U.S., (the VX-4500 and VI5225,) LG's booth also included some slick new phones for other parts of the world.

The only overseas model that will work here in the U.S. is the G7200, a feature-packed tri-band GSM model with twisting display, camera with flash, and Bluetooth. Pretty much everything here is top-of-the-line, including the VGA camera and 262,000-color TFT display with 176 x 220 pixel resolution.

It also supports video recording and playback, and 40-chord polyphonic ringtones. About the only thing missing is an external display, but you can leave the display folded facing out if you like.

The camera is mounted on the hinge, facing to the left. This is a first outside of Japan and Korea. For a viewfinder, the idea is to twist the display facing sideways like a camcorder (see photo).

A very similar phone was also shown that included a color OLED external display, but lacked Bluetooth - the G7110. Unfortunately, it's a dual-band model that will only work in Europe and Asia.

The other model shown below is the KP2100. It's a Korean model, but it's impressively small and thin, and very stylish, in my opinion.

 

LG was also showing off a couple of slide-style models. The first one is the G7050, a model with a rather unique slide design that hides part of the display instead of the keypad. This is another dual-band GSM model that won't work in the U.S.

The second model shown below is the Korean SC8000, which, at the moment, could probably claim the title of King of all cell phones. It's a Pocket PC phone with a slide design, megapixel camera with flash, and 1xEV-DO high-speed data. There's nothing this baby can't do.

According to an LG executive, the company is seriously contemplating a U.S. version of the SC8000, but hasn't made a firm decision yet. Such a phone would be quite expensive, and LG isn't sure there's a big enough market for $1000 PDAs in the U.S. ($1000 is my price guess, not LG's).

 

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