Omio, the mobile phone comparison site have unearthed a cool video of a hands-on demo of everyone’s favourite LG Arena. It’s not just your common or garden, “click here to send a message”, oh no, it’s much more than that. The video goes to show you how to set an alarm, set favourite contacts and images and sync music from your PC. The LG Arena seems as intuitive and easy to navigate as everyone hoped, great news!
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T-Mobile recently announced that they will be stocking the LG Arena in “titan black”.
The new moodier hue will be exclusive to T-Mobile UK customers and should be available to buy at the end of the month. The rest of the networks will have to make do with mediocre silver.
The V Dubya Beetle is a design classic, its stood the test of time since the first one was sold way back in 1953.
The tenacious car’s proved itself to be thoroughly recession proof and now you can get your own miniature version on your LG Arena phone.
The themes will fit the resolution of your phone and all you need to do is to pop over to Know Your Mobile and click on the link to get free the themes. Result.
Omio, the mobile phone comparison site, has just published a post detailing the exact details of the release of the latest LG handset. But hold on there are conflicting accounts with eXpanys and mobiles.co.uk both announcing different dates! eXansys has the date of 10th of April while mobiles.co.uk announce the KM900 release on the 27th. Either way, assuming one of these is the right date, then we’ll be able to get our hands on the Arena at long last.
The LG Arena’s two biggest retailers are fighting over who has the correct release date for the phone. Expansys.co.uk and Mobiles.co.uk both have contradictory information about when the LG KM900 is available for purchasing.
Expansys’ “expected release date” is 10th April for a SIM-free handset costing £425. Mobiles.co.uk are offering to ship the phone on the 27 March (that’s this Friday) but you’ll have to sign with a network provider to secure an order.
Ordering your phone from Mobiles.co.uk works out cheaper than buying through Expansys but there are, of course other options if you want to get your phone through a specific contract.
You can get the phone for free on O2 if you sign up to a 24 month contract and through T-Mobile you can get the phone for £180 on a 12 month package.
It may be available in March but some folk in the know are predicting the KM900 being available in UK shops as early as this week.
Unfounded presumption or spot on guess?
There’s only about a week left in March so if LG want to keep their fans happy they’ll have to stay within that promised March release date.
On the other hand pinning down any precise release date is still a tricky undertaking. There’s still confusion about which networks will be carrying the device; Orange has a ‘coming soon’ sticker attached to the KM900 on the website and the LG section of T-Mobile’s online shop appears to be down, for some reason.
Whatever LG are up to, we’ll be posting specific launch dates and prices as and when we get them.
We showed you the promo site a while back but here’s one better: an LG Arena emulator. So instead of just gawping at videos from various press shows, or meandering speculative blog posts you can try it here and now.
It’s battle of the touch screens, it’s an old refrain, one that we will no doubt continue to hear as handset manufacturer battle it out for the smart phone top spot. Hot on the heels from the LG Arena vs Samsung Tocco Ultra S8300 battle, here’s the latest grudge map, Samsung’s i8910 Omnia HD verses our favourite Arena.
Touchscreen
LG Arena - 3 inch TFT touchscreen and S-Class UI
Omnia HD - 3.7inch OLED touchscreen, acceloremator and proximity server.
Band
LG Arena - Tri
Omnia HD - Quad
Air Interface
LG Arena -GSM/HSDPA
Samsung Omnia - GSM/HSDPA
Dimensions
LG Arena - 55m x 106mm x 12mm
Omnia HD -58mm x 123mm x 12mm
Weight
LG Arena - 105g
Samsung Omnia - 149g
Connectivity
LG Arena -GPRS, 3G, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth, USB, GPS
Omnia HD -32-48 kbps GPRS, 3G, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, v2.0 Bluetooth, GPS with A-GPS support and Xtragps navigation
Camera
LG Arena -5 meagpixel, autofocus
Omnia HD -8 megapixel, autofocus, blink shot, face/smile recognition, geotagging, flash, high def video camera
Messaging
LG Arena -Push email, MMS, email
Omnia HD -MMS, Email
Music
LG Arena - Audio player, FM radio, 3.5mm audio output jack
Omnia HD - DvX/Xvid/WMV/MP4 audio and video player, 3.5mm audio output jack
Internal memory
LG Arena - 8 GB internal memory
Omnia HD - 8 or 16 GB internal memory
The Omnia is a superior media phone with a better audio player and camera. The Samsung Omnia has more potential internal memory as it can be upgraded to 16GB whereas 8GB is the highest level of memory available on the LG Arena.
The Samsung Omnia is slighter larger than the LG Arena and weighs more. However the Omnia has a much bigger screen than the LG Arena.
The LG Arena has superior HSDPA and Wi-Fi, meaning over all internet connectivity is better on the LG Arena.
Although the Omnia HD beats the LG Arena in certain areas it is no means a clear victory for the Omnia HD. The LG Arena still is superior to the Omnia in certain ways, most noticeably its design which (in my opinion) is superior to the Omnia. The only area where the Omnia truly tounces the Arena is with its camera. However, the camera is not often a priority for all mobile phone users and although the Arena can’t match the Omnia HD in terms of its megapixels, 5 megapixels is still an impressive amount for the Arena to have.
All quiet on the LG Arena front. There was such a fanfare of excitement when the phone was unveiled in February but since then it’s all but dried up. The LG Blog hasn’t even updated its page since the 27th of February. Come on guys all I want is a crumb of news, just a new video, anything. We’re desperate here! So unfortunately there’s no new news but there is another informative video about how the KM900, straight from the LG Blog itself. It is over 2 weeks old though. Sad face.
I do like the fact that all LG staff, no matter how high up have to include the grey/pink palette into their outfits making them all look like past-it air stewards on a Latvian Airlines flight circa ‘97.
Until we get our eager mitts on the LG Arena we have to rely on hearsay, speculation and the occasional video. Well, here’s a turn up for the books, an actual review of the LG Arena KM900 with photos from 3G.co.uk.
Interesting points:
