LG lets loose WiBro-equipped LG-KC1 in Korea

We've known this gem was looming, but word on the street has the LG-KC1 finally hitting the hands of eager South Koreans. Amongst the niceties are a potent 806MHz Marvell Monahans CPU, 512MB of NAND Flash ROM, 128MB of SDRAM, WiBro connectivity, T-DMB mobile TV, integrated Bluetooth, a two-megapixel camera, and a 2.8-inch QVGA screen to boot. Unfortunately, it looks like this otherwise fantastically spec'd device is still running Windows Mobile 5 from yesteryear, and of course, the chances of it ever making it to US soil in the near future are essentially nil. Regardless, feel free to click on through for another picture if you enjoy the tease.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 4th 2007 5:46PM]

I like that keypad layout! and CPU and RAM amounts are vast!

what a shame that we'll never see it over here.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 5th 2007 9:54AM]

Would it be possible to bring to country of choice and flash with your proper language of WM5?

[Draper Posted Aug 5th 2007 8:36PM]

As to WM5, Koreans are very sensitive to buggy software. So much so that the national government issued a warning to the nation about everyone upgrading to Vista, all willy-nilly. They cautioned the public to wait until the kinks had been worked out, and M$ released SP1.

They probably chose to go with something less featured, but more stable with a longer track record. I can't say that I'm happy with it, but I'll still have mine before the week is out.

I'm totally excited about the "all-you-can-eat" WiBro for $20/month, and how that will allow me to access files (even streaming) from my home PC and work PC, from anywhere in the city.

It's at least 33% faster and 33% cheaper than the 3.5G HSDPA (old news) that I'm rocking, right now. I'm ready for 4G.