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It seems like jumping on a bandwagon works if you’re a company on the scale of South Korean giants LG and Samsung. Apple might have forced the industry to accept that touchscreens were the future, but these two manufacturers certainly took the idea and ran with it.

From the original top sellers like the LG Prada and 6 million selling LG Viewty, up to the present with the bargain LG Cookie, S-Class UI-driven LG Arena and forthcoming LG Viewty Smart, these handsets broke records due to their mass market price points and intuitive user interfaces.

Between LG and onslaught of the Tocco, Omnia and Pixon and recently released Samsung i8910 HD and Samsung Tocco Ultra, the two Korean giants have gone on to sell 20 million touch phones.

It’s worth noting that Apple has sold 13 million iPhones alone, and with a revamp around the corner the pioneers of mass market touch phones are set to stay ahead of the game!

Source: Tech Radar

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OK, so you’ve got your Arena, you’re still getting to grips with it; creating menu short cuts and fiddling with the ring tones and things but it’s the email that I find the most tricky to sort out. It can be a pain in the a$%e to set up, in my humble opinion, and always takes the longest of all the features in your phone to organise.

If you’re looking for some tips on how to sync up your email accounts on your KM900, check out Knowyourmobile.com. They’ve got an all-encompassing, how-to on the subject.

You’ll be able to have your server and web based email trussed up in their relative accounts in no time.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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