TV Goes Mobile on LG's New Phone

The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show doesn't officially open until tomorrow, but LG already announced a new cell phone with plenty of entertainment features.

The LG VX9400, which will be available from Verizon Wireless in March (pricing has not yet been determined), includes both music and video players--and is one of the first handsets to support Verizon's new V CAST Mobile TV service.

The VX9400 sports an unusual swiveling design: when closed, you see only the color screen and a few basic navigation controls (including a button for accessing the Mobile TV service). The screen twists open to reveal the numeric keypad. When opened, the screen sits perpendicular to the rest of the phone, creating a "T" shape.

In addition to the Mobile TV service, which will allow users to watch live broadcast TV on the handset's screen, the VX9400 includes access to the V CAST music service, which offers over-the-air music downloads. It also includes a 1.3-megapixel camera, a camcorder, and a microSD card slot for storing images and music downloads.

Stay tuned for a full review once we can get our hands on the new phone.

Comments

I really hope that LG has made this a better device then the Chocolate. It seems that companies are forgetting that the things first priority is as a PHONE. I was upset the phone on LG Chocolate was so hard to use, and uncomfortable.

LG makes some decent products, I just hope that they aren't thinking too far out of the box.

firecracker37

January 08, 2007

2:51 AM PT