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LG 3D game-phone

Juniper Foo | Jan 26, 2005

LG Electronics has developed what it claims is the world's fastest 3D game-phone, capable of playing games with realistic 3D graphics and at five times the speed of currently available chips. Before you get all fired up, 1) it's likely to be a CDMA phone since Korea will enjoy it first for the early half of the year; 2) LG has said it will later put it on the North American and European markets, which still leaves the rest of Asia way back in the Q; and 3) LG is going to position it as a "high-priced, premium product". Whoopee. On a more positive note, we can at least look forward to the Sony PSP coming to Singapore.

Click here to see the LG game-phone closed

Price: N.A.
Availability: South Korea
Device: Game-phone
Basic specs: QVGA (320 x 240) 2.2-inch LCD display, 1.3-megapixel camera, 1 million polygon per sec graphics accelerator chip, "acceleration sensors" that allow users to control the game by moving the handset up, down, left or right

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Samsung SCH-S310 3D motion phone

Juniper Foo | Jan 18, 2005

Ever felt like showing a certain finger and cursing at the other party for an unreasonable demand? Nothing like a phone that now lets you thwack it any which way to end a call. Or even shake it vigorously in frustration to mute it while you accompany your animated gestures with equally animated language. Samsung, by now a master of innovation in the mobile battlefield, has rung up a handset using 3D motion detection as its user interface. The next generation is reportedly going to be far more advanced, with games controlled by movement of the phone instead of a joystick, and automatic adjustment of photos taken with a shaky hand. Simply lovely, save for the fact that, like its Japanese neighbors, this Korean is keeping its best and coolest ideas at home. No fair.

Price: N.A.
Availability: Korea, from March
Device: Cell phone
Basic specs: 3D motion interface, 1.3-megapixel camera, mobile banking features, GPS, music-on-demand