LG celebrates 5 million Viewtys in 14 months

Touchscreen, 3.5G, 5-megapixel autofocus camera -- what's there not to like? It's a winning formula, obviously, as evidenced by LG's announcement that they've managed to push some 5 million Viewty handsets around the globe since the series' launch a little over a year ago. North America sadly excluded, variants of the Viewty have graced large swaths of Europe and Asia, and if we had to guess, LG's tasteful application of color to the different models probably has something to do with the rousing success. And heck, if they wanted to bring it to the States, we'd wager they could sell a few more before this craze has run its course.

[Via Unwired View]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 5th 2009 7:54PM]

Helped by selling them pre-paid here in Australia for $299

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 5th 2009 9:11PM]

i live in the usa and im proud to own a viewty over an iphone. this june i'm getting the viewty's successor the renoir!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2009 12:19AM]

is this SOLD or SHIPPED

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2009 2:03AM]

ive used this.,is def a good camera cell,will never replace my sony t300 cam though,browser on it blows hard though,email is just ok, n music player is barely ok..,maybe reason why never got off the ground in usa.not to mention iphone broke sales records here in last 18 months.and now for the REAL reason it tanked in the good ol' us of a$600!!!!!!thank u ,im sure u all agree.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2009 10:51AM]

The story mentions that the phone is sadly not sold in North America, but Rogers has been offering it for months on Canada.