LG Arena launches in Europe

Well, that didn't take too long, now did it? LG has announced that its high-end touchphone du jour, the KM900 Arena, is starting to ship in Europe after a February announcement at MWC. The 7.2Mbps HSDPA, WiFi, WVGA display, 3D UI, and 5 megapixel cam are all lustworthy specs for a device in this class, and it shows -- LG proudly proclaims that carriers around the world have already pre-ordered a million units. Americans can keep on dreaming for the time being, but Europeans should look for the Arena to start filtering into stores any day now in their choice of silver and black.

[Via SlashPhone]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 16th 2009 7:51PM]

bollocks! spotted dick! God save the queen and all that rubbish!
ill shall remain adhesively bonded to my G1 for the time being!
But but... ding ding... no more fares please.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 16th 2009 7:59PM]

Oh I get you, the British say that right? Yeah, you're totally out there.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 5:06AM]

I feel tempted.
But I'm not sure that it would be worth giving up either my Samsung Omnia or my HTC touch HD to get one of these Arena.
To tell the thruth I'm already a bit bored by both of my phones , but my plan was to wait for the Nokia N97; now this Arena comes along and I dont know anymore if to keep on waiting or taking the chance, specially considering that here in Scandinavia the period you are tied to a carrier after buying a subsidized phone is only 6 months, so if I would buy one of these Arenas now, by the end of august I could already get it unlocked and sold.
I just wander if this Arena would be noticeably better than my Omnia and Touch HD or if its gonna be just another run of the mill win mobile 6.1 phone with all its inbuilt bugs and hassles.
Any Idea?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 8:55AM]

Actually, LG never said the device was available. They merely pointed out that they had 1 million pre-orders and that it was planned to be available during March - which is exactly what they said at MWC.