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December 29th, 2009, 10:05
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_lg-lotus.jpgYes, your eyes are deceiving you, LG's not licensed the StarTAC design. Phew. That telescopic antenna doesn't just harp back to ye olden days though, it also receives a digital TV (http://gizmodo.com/tag/digitaltv/) signal, one of the first US DTV devices.
Joining the Lotus clamshell is the DP570MH portable DVD player (http://gizmodo.com/tag/portabledvdplayer/), which will play DVDs and over 800 channels of live digital TV thanks to the LG2160A ATSC-M/H chip, which LG's offered to Dell for use in its laptops, and manufacturers of in-car receivers such as Kenwood. The DVD player has a four hour battery life when playing TV, which is only two hours less than the iPod Touch.
I'm all for DTV devices, but surely LG could've picked a better handset to introduce to the US market, considering the Lotus has been floating around since the end of 2008? [LGE (http://www.lge.co.kr/cokr/pr/pr_news/FrontBoardDetailCmd.laf?mncode=NEWS&actcode=NEWS&seq=10656) via Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/lg-goes-nouveau-nostalgic-with-first-us-mobile-dtv-devices/)]
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Joining the Lotus clamshell is the DP570MH portable DVD player (http://gizmodo.com/tag/portabledvdplayer/), which will play DVDs and over 800 channels of live digital TV thanks to the LG2160A ATSC-M/H chip, which LG's offered to Dell for use in its laptops, and manufacturers of in-car receivers such as Kenwood. The DVD player has a four hour battery life when playing TV, which is only two hours less than the iPod Touch.
I'm all for DTV devices, but surely LG could've picked a better handset to introduce to the US market, considering the Lotus has been floating around since the end of 2008? [LGE (http://www.lge.co.kr/cokr/pr/pr_news/FrontBoardDetailCmd.laf?mncode=NEWS&actcode=NEWS&seq=10656) via Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/lg-goes-nouveau-nostalgic-with-first-us-mobile-dtv-devices/)]
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