LG Arena KM900 hangs onto limelight, reveals multitouch capabilities

At this rate, LG isn't gonna have any secrets left about the Arena KM900 when it takes the stage for its Mobile World Congress press conference on Monday. The company's released a few more snippets via its Korean site, chief among them being multitouch capabilities for image and web page zooming. Other details include a dedicated multimedia chip and designations for each of the four sides of the interface's 3D cube: phone, widgets, shortcuts, and multimedia. One of our favorite lines, which is almost certainly made funnier by the machine translation, is that this UI is the culmination of 100 years of interface research. We'll have more on the KM900 -- assuming they don't reveal everything before then -- next week in Barcelona.

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[(Unverified) Posted Feb 10th 2009 3:49PM]

I like it a lot.
I have a Samsung Omnia , which is practically identical in the looks departement, but this baby is probably be even better (although it seems it will miss the Omnia's genial mini mousepad & mouse).
The LG Dare (which I have seen only in print) impressed every reviewer, apparently causing more than one Apple fanboy to ditch their iPhones, and this Arena seems to be a perfected and refined edition of the Dare.
I will need a new smartphone next summer and this Arena will surely be in the shortlist for my next device (together with the new Toshiba, The new Archos/Android, the Garmin/Acer Nuviphone and the Nokia N97).