Mobile phone comparison site Omio has done a comparison of two killer smartphones our favourite the LG Arena and the Samsung Tocco Ultra.
Its a pretty tight race. The LG Arena is smaller, lighter and slimmer than the Tocco. However the Tocco is a slider, so is by default a bulkier phone. Take away the slider and it would be one of the slimmest handsets out there.
Even though the Arena is a smaller handset its screen is far bigger (3″ vs 2.8″) and it trounces the Tocco’s 240 x 400 pixel display with a massive 480×800 WVGA .
The Tocco has a superior battery life and talk time than the LG Arena. But the LG Arena has that famous S-Class UI which must drink up battery like a camel.
There seems to be a running theme with the Arena and the Tocco. The Arena is far more powerful evinced by the 8GB solid state hard drive. The Tocco has a pitiful 80MB of internal memory.
The Arena has the S-Class UI while the Tocco has a slide out keyboard which is actually a selling point for all those late adopters to touch screens. The Arena comes with a 5 megapixel camera while the Tocco comes with a huge 8 megapixel camera with flash unlike the Arena.
Undoubtedly they are both excellent phones, but I think the Arena just tips the balance what with its smaller size, larger screen, superior resolution and S-Class UI. My money’s on the Arena as the one to buy.
LG are really pulling out all the stops in promoting their new KM900 handset. This very, very slick LG Arena website is proof of it. Have fun waving your cursor over the white cubes and see them pop out in all their 3D glory. Plus it’s quite informative as well.
It’s all quiet on the LG Arena front today, so I’ve decided to post up another video, this time from MWC, to help you all remember why we’re all so desperate for this handset.
It’s a slow news day, so here’s the official LG Arena KM900 promo video. Makes sense why so many people have already ordered the beast, it’s a very convincing ad.
LG have developed a really cool UI for the KM900, the 3D S-Class but why confine it to only one handset? Well, those kind folks at LG are trying to spread the 3D S-Class love by bringing out a whole raft of new handsets that include the S-CLass UI. The new Viewty 2 will include the S-Class UI, and LG have just announced that their Cookie handset, the KP500 will also come with it.
This is one of the best reviews of the LG I’ve seen.
It’s not the newest of clips but the guy doing the commmentary takes you through the phone’s menus and operating systems. There’s some great detailed coverage of how the widgets work aswell as some pretty impressive video of the unique scrolling system in action.
As a brief overview the comparison is very useful but does not address the overall experience of either phone. The UI of the LG Arena blows the Viewty out of the window, making it a much more sophisticated phone. However the Viewty 2 will comes with S-Class UI, narrowing the field between both phones.
The Viewty II was announced this week in a LG event held in the Netherlands. Unfortunately there were no photos but there was a handy press release. That’s not enough to sate the apetitie of tech journos. There was considerable interest as the Viewty was such a popular phone, as Ernest Doku Of Omio.com wrote of LG Viewty KC910:
The KC910 is a phone of firsts for LG, as it sports an 8 megapixel camera with Schneider Kreuznach optics and a xenon flash, it’s their first handset to take advantage of Dolby Mobile technology and Wi-Fi, and is puported to be the thinnest super cameraphone on the market at a sliver under 14mm thick.
The new LG Viewty II will include all the great features of the Viewty as well as some surprisng new ones such as the 3D S-Class UI, the one that has got everyone all excited about. To recap, the 3D-S Class Interface gives the user a true 3D experience. Instead of navigating flat screens, a user can acess points on a three dimensional cube and can even spin the cube on its axis to access different areas of the menu.
The LG Viewty II is bound to be even more popular than its original incarnation especially with the addition of the much anticipated 3D S-Class Interface which will set it apart.Can’t wait to finally see one when it’s released.
Even though it was only officially announced less than a month ago, LG Arena KM900 is already the most popular kid in class. More than 1 million KM900’s have been pre-ordered, worldwide.
LG have developed a really cool UI for the 
