LG gets into natural materials, announces LB2500H wooden Shine
By Sean Cooper 
posted Oct 29th 2007 7:14PM
posted Oct 29th 2007 7:14PM
LG has tried just about every angle we -- and apparently they -- can think of with its enormously popular shine and seem to now be stretching as they get into faux wood grain. LG has tossed in a helping of DMB TV, a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and of course a retractable antenna to focus all that mobile TV fun. While we dig the LG Shine, we miss the original sliding form factor and even though the wood isn't real -- and seriously, since when is a wooden handset cool? -- we think this new aesthetic is a bit scary, so please LG, even gem-encrusted pink is a better direction. Pricing seems set at about $500, but don't expect to see this on these shores for a long time to come, if ever.
So Ventu makes half of their phones out of leather & no one bats an eye but LG steals woodgrain paneling out of my parent's 1975 Polaroid photo background shots & suddenly they're jejune?
I'm sure someone from Korean can buy the bare shell and swap in a Verizon or Alltel board into it.
last time I saw this was on a Primeco phone!!
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2290046
Nope, just a fat Mexican...
Why couldn't they have done this with the Verizon version? Oh well, it's only a bit of work to swap out the internals (certainly a bit harder to deal with the DMB tuner vs what Verizon uses, but it's doable).
I actually find it quite different and elegant.