RSSAT&T to offer LG's next Windows-based 'iPhone killer'
By Jacqueline Emigh | Published November 18, 2008, 3:34 PM
On the eve of availability from Verizon Wireless of the BlackBerry Storm, AT&T -- the exclusive provider of Apple's iPhone in the US -- has announced a Windows Mobile-based phone from LG with a now-familiar profile.
Korean phone maker LG Electronics today bore out industry rumors about internal development of an "iPhone killer." But in an unusual twist, the Windows Mobile-based Incite phone will be available through AT&T, the company which is also the exclusive wireless service provider for Apple's iPhone in the US.
While LG had previously sold touchscreen phones into the US market, the Incite will be the company's first major US release to run Windows Mobile, and also its first major US release to provide iPhone-like features such as Wi-Fi and location-aware driving directions.
LG had previously issued a Windows Mobile-based smartphone called the KS20 into the European market. A US edition of that phone made an initial appearance on the FCC site late last year, feeding rumors among bloggers of an impending Windows-enabled "iPhone killer" from LG for the US.
Meanwhile, unlocked versions of the KS20 have also been available on the Web and in stores, at pricing ranging from about $275 to $340.
But AT&T will offer the Incite phone at a more attractive $199.99, after rebate, with a two-year contract -- the exact same deal it's offering for Apple's iPhone.
The pairing between AT&T and LG comes barely two weeks after LG issued a statement pledging "continued strategic collaboration" with Microsoft during a trip by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to South Korea. LG and Microsoft had also collaborated in the past on projects such as a Windows Mobile-enabled version of a Chocolate phone for the Korean market.
Verizon Wireless, a major rival to AT&T, is expected to soon start selling a different "iPhone killer" -- the BlackBerry Storm from Research in Motion (RIM) -- at a similar price point.
Ordered one this morning, should have it tomorrow. I have been a die-hard RAZR user for at least 6 years (yes I know I'm not very exciting). I have been itching for a smartphone and almost jumped on the IPhone 2G, but that seemed like a step back then the 3g didnt really have what I wanted. Some of the lacking IPhone features turned me off (BT data connectivity) The other phones that I have considered have been the HTC Touch HD (not in US) and the new BB storm. I have a very old Media Net unlimited internet plan that I pay 22.00 / month that I would have lost with the IPhone, but this phone will utilize that plan fine. When I saw this phone is housed in a metal case (like my RAZR Platinum) and had the features I feel I will use. I decided to give it a try. I got it for almost nothing with my corp upgrade discount and I get 30 days to try it. If I don't like it, no harm, I still love my reliable simple RAZR.
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|Hate to say it, but I'd never pick a WM device over my iPhone. I had an 8125 and an 8525...never again. Too slow, too little battery life, and not seemless in call/web search/navigation/email functionality. Unfortunately the iPhone has yet to get a free RDP client..which is absurd. We'll not even talk about copy/paste functionality ;-)
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|"too little battery life".
Can't be much shorter than iPhone's battery life.
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|Crapple iPhone sucks!! There are much better phones out there. HTC Touch Pro is one of the best phone (more than a phone) out there though it's battery life...nonetheless much better than Crapple iPhone
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|My iPhone has 70% of its battery every night when I put it on the charger. It's running wifi, BT most the entire day. And GPS now and then.
It's off the charger from 9am to 12am.
Worst I've seen is 35% after massive usage in low signal areas.
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|"iPhone Killer"
BBAAWHWAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAH
Anyone who would even consider this fugly turd over the iPhone should be committed to a mental institution.
Windows Mobile is horrible. LG builds cheapo, low quality hardware. When you add that up....one turd plus one turd, you end up with a bigger turd.
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|Y'see, that's where Apple wins.
Get a nice sexy looking piece of junk, build an elitist marketing strategy and the idiots fall over themselves to buy it.
Apple is indeed an awesome marketing company.
Too bad they build crap.
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|LG = Lucky GOLDSTAR
"GOLDSTAR"
Remember them? Personally, I do not like any LG phones because the quality of all of them blows. Every time someone (using a LG phone) calls me, I would always hear static.
Anyway... iPhone killer? I think not!
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|Different phones, different infrastructures, different environments, different uses.
But all sold through the same major carrier, offering substantially greater choice that let's you choose what works best for you - be it for purely emotional reasons or for enterprise compatibility requirements.
The fact is AT&T is offering a much broader product mix offering selections from all of the major platforms, where their competition is not.
That is what matters here - not which model you drool over.
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|"The fact is AT&T is offering a much broader product mix offering selections from all of the major platforms, where their competition is not."
True, except their pathetic statement of not supporting Android because it is not open enough...
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|Bottomline, the statement is "true" Eurofanboy.
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|I don't know why these phone companies are wasting their time releasing "iPhone Killers" through AT&T! LG had might as well take that money outside, set it on fire, and pee on it.
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|iPhone 3G has, GPS, WiFiG, BT 2.0 AND the biggest thing...the most streamlined, fastest intuitive interface on the planet.
We have geek-phone-Olympics at work and no one has yet to beat an iPhone when it comes to...
Adding contacts
Map a location
Driving directions
Google search
Facebook post
Email a picture
Browse to a page
Play a slideshow
iPwNGe
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|Adding contacts- Ok
Map a location- Probably
Driving directions- regular GPS or the new Nuvi Phone coming out will obliterate it in this category.
Google search- Toss up
Facebook post- Ok
Email a picture- keyword being "e-mail" considering the fact that you can't send pictures via MMS which SUCKS!
Browse to a page- I will agree it is by far the king here.
Play a slideshow- I have a hard time believing that there isn't something that can match it here.
I'm not saying the Iphone is not an amazing device, but don't try to play it off as the be all end all of phones because it has some quirks such as no text forwarding and no MMS that will severely turn some people off.
I actually use an Iphone for myself and love it, but I would be lying if I said I don't hate the thing every time someone sends me a picture and I haft to enter in codes on the internet to look at it. Also I would be lying if I said I didn't hate it every time I get a funny text that I would like to forward.
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|If you want high quality turn by turn GPS in a mobile phone there's no smartphone on the market that can beat a Windows Mobile phone. As for web browsing, Skyfire (even though it's in beta) beats the iPhone's web browser easily.
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|"iPhone Killer"?
Don't make me laugh! The incite is pathetic.
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|No, you are.
built-in aGPS and Wi-Fi(R) (802.11 b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0(R
Beats the iPhone.
a crystal-clear 3-inch touch screen and a 3.0 megapixel camera and camcorder
Beats the iPhone.
with haptic keys that provide vibration feedback.
Beats the iPhone.
microSD Memory Port with up to 16GB of support.
Rips out the iphones heart, throws it on the floor and then stomps on it 'til it dies.
also supports Microsoft's System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, an enterprise-grade mobile solution for managing and protecting Windows Mobile 6.1 phones. Mobile Device Manager helps companies provide its mobile workers with software updates and applications over the air, as well as security-enhanced access to company data.
Yeah, you get the picture.
So, what exactly about the Incite is pathetic? How exactly is the iPhone superior?
Right, it's just you talking out of your inbred, dimwitted, mentally challenged a** again.
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|You forgot MMS and probably *gasp* message forwarding support as well.
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|Built-in GPS is always good for the drive to work you take every day or any of those other times you just forget where you are.
3.0 megapixel camera/camcorder in a phone? WOW! I can just toss out my 10 megapixel camera and buy this beautiful hunk of $h!t instead.
Haptic keys? Really?! I bet you'd buy a TV remote if it, too, viberated everytime you touch it; maybe since you wife doesn't respond to your touch you need your electronics to instead.
I've got my iPhone which I wouldn't downgrade to another one of LG's giant turds with a Microsoft Mobile OS. Thanks.
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|Talk about a troll...
And sales are...how much you wanna bet the forum is not subsequently comparing everything that comes out as an "LG Incite - or whatever its called- killer"?
For someone who touts Windows as being great because most use it, despite its significant shortcomings, you sure worry about Apple products that dramatically outsell the competition despite your whining about its shortcomings. Hahaha, So much for logical consistency!
But then you do the same regarding the iPod and the Zune too, don't you.
Of course, if we listen to apologist MS fanboys like you, we should ignore the fact that the current issues of trade mags such as CRN.com is featuring articles entitled "Microsoft Partners Kicking Dirt on Vista's Grave" and Computerworld is featuring opinion pieces entitled "Apple's Stealth Business Notebook" regarding how the MacBook is making significant inroads into the enterprise space.
Gee, what do they know that you don't? A lot.
Yup, you and a few others can buy the LG and whine that the hype and the sales still go to the pathetic iPhone.
Sad.... LOL!
The biggest point that almost all here miss is that AT&T offers a complete selection of a myriad competing Steely Dan phones from Apple, RIM/Blackberry, LG and so many others. And each model supports a variety of infrastructure admin services. Bu your comparison is rather moot is the phone you want is not supported by a particular infrastructure, isn't it?
But why approach it from that position where increased choices afford increased opportunity in a heterogeneous marketplace, while so many other major carriers offer only one choice!?
Why indeed, when you so easily miss the point and so easily slip into fanboy mode.
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|A troll..
Again, look in the mirror, moron.
He said it was pathetic, he's an Apple fanboy. I compared the specs.
Oooh...scary.
I can see why that would throw you into a tissy...
Shut up, retard.
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|Poor Tool...
He likes his phone and not the LG.
Compare the physical resources all you like.
Does it have the same functionality in terms of apps? Ah...no. Does it ellicit the same usser experience, regardless of how juvenile it may be? Ah...no. So he reacts emotionally to it.
Sort of sounds like you and your Zune - or Windows for that matter, despite its lousy design. ..But it plays games...
Looks like the little fanboy reacts on the same level as you.
He reacts emotionally regarding which personal phone he likes best, and you do the same regarding which desktop OS or puny mp3 you like best. But you use logic...right.
Yup, you're soooooo different.
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|idiot!! just shut up!!
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|Agreed, he is a troll and gay :P
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|Gawd, you're full of s*** today.
Zune? When have I ever stated I was a fan of it?
I don't own one, nor would I ever buy one. In fact, I have said, several times, I would buy an iPod Touch first.
But keep making s*** up. It's a dead give-away when you've run out of anything rational or useful to say...so we can happily ignore your retarded ass.
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|Nope, isn't it your wife who owns one, and about which you waxed poetically?
And how the brown unit was actually attractive!
You have repeatedly gone to bat for the Zune! And now you feign indifference?
What a load of crap!
The irony is that the ENTIRE overpriced low-fi mp3 player market niche is an amazingly lucrative market dominated by form over substance as the hordes walk about listening to overpriced source material on overpriced hardware featuring anything but low-fi quality.
Arguing which low-fi piece of crap is best is hilarious.
The MS fanboy just can't give it up. You must be enjoying MS's dilemma of just what to do now that Vista has been declared a disaster in the trade press and watching as MS seems to think it was simply a failure of marketing. LOL!
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|Go try to write a functional printer driver, fanboy. And Yup, Windows has such an elegant scripting environment! LOL!
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|My *wife* owns one, idiot.
Not *me*.
There's a difference.
Waxed poetically? I have *never* waxed poetically...except for maybe fishsticks. I *love* fishsticks.
You have repeatedly gone to bat for the Zune! And now you feign indifference?
Wow. Pure, unadultrated BS. How cute.
What a load of crap!
...indeed.
You can shut up now. Really. You keep making this BS up and I'm sick of defending myself against your delusions.
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|who cares it's not a apple..
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|+1 to the LG then.
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|[Insert Blog Name here], the latest "BetaNews Killer"?
Can we stop with the iPhone Killer crap? :)
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|One word: ugly.
The only thing that saves this device is the fact that it's WM-based.
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|Yeah, the LG Incite could use a lot more shine.
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|Looks good, wish the screen filled up the surface more...
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