LG Arena’s New TV Ad
April 3rd, 2009
Check out the new LG Arena TV ad.
It features a freaky dancing toddler in a red tracksuit and man using the touch screen UI while walking down the street. The music’s quite good too.
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Orange and T-Mobile Get The LG Arena This Week
April 2nd, 2009
This is it, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The LG Arena KM900 is out and now on O2 and will be released on Orange and T-Mobile as well. Thanks for Omio, the mobile phone site for the heads-up. All the LG Arena fans out there should be very excited indeed.
Monsters vs. Aliens Free Themes On LG Arena
April 1st, 2009
Get the characters from the film onto your LG phone.
It’s the first film to be made entirely from 3D and now you can get the characters onto your phone with this free theme for the Arena.
The themes has lots of wallpapers of the movie, promotional posters and character artwork.radioactive meteor lands in California, right on top of a woman on her wedding day. This turns her into a giant. Captured and labelled by the military as a monster, she’s locked away with the film’s cast of monster outcasts.
The animated caper is about a radioactive meteor landing in California, right on top of a woman on her wedding day and hence her turning into a giant, as you do. Captured and labelled by the military as a monster, she’s locked away with the film’s cast of monster outcasts and roll on the ensuing high jinks.
All you have to do to get the themes on to your KM900n is click on the link here to download the monster_arena.zip file onto your computer. Unzip these files and transfer to your LG Arena KM900 using Bluetooth or the cable provided in the box.
Enjoy.
Nifty Tricks With The LG Arena
March 31st, 2009
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 UK Gets LG Arena In Titan Black
March 26th, 2009
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.
Firms Fight Over LG Launch Date
March 23rd, 2009
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.
LG Arena debuting in the UK this week?
March 19th, 2009
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.
LG KM900 - 3G Review
March 12th, 2009
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:
- It’s so lightweight that the phone feels as if it should be quite low-tech
- The S-Class UI is a tad disappointing but makes navigating the phone tremendously easy
- Thumbs up for 5 megapixel camera and 8GB internal memory
- Battery life is an improvement on previous models
- A first rate media phone
LG Arena Vs Samsung Tocco Ultra
March 11th, 2009
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.
3D S-Class UI on LG Cookie
March 9th, 2009
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.