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February 8th, 2010, 14:40
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The Arena Max is a 3.5-inch screen handset with all the iron you'd expect, including a Wi-Fi, GPS and a five-megapixel camera, and a little you wouldn't, like a 1GHz Snapdragon processor—the same brain you'd find in the Nexus One, the HTC Touch HD2, and the Sony Xperia X10. In other words, it's a monster.
But if it's anything like its predecessor (http://gizmodo.com/tag/lg-arena)—and these early shots seem to indicate that it is—it'll be treated to (burdened by?) an in-house OS and UI, most probably LG's flashy-but-limited S-Class experiment (http://gizmodo.com/tag/s-class). If you're the kind of person who doesn't fret over your phone's spec sheet this probably won't matter; if you are, you'd probably just buy a real smartphone anyway.
Anyway! The Arena Max is expected to launch in Korea soon, with a wide—including stateside—release following right after. [All About Phones (http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allaboutphones.nl%2Fn ieuws%2F4393%2FLG-Arena-Max-poseert-in-Azieuml.html%3F&sl=nl&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8) via Slashgear (http://www.slashgear.com/lg-arena-max-lu9400-spotted-in-wild-0873107/)]
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The Arena Max is a 3.5-inch screen handset with all the iron you'd expect, including a Wi-Fi, GPS and a five-megapixel camera, and a little you wouldn't, like a 1GHz Snapdragon processor—the same brain you'd find in the Nexus One, the HTC Touch HD2, and the Sony Xperia X10. In other words, it's a monster.
But if it's anything like its predecessor (http://gizmodo.com/tag/lg-arena)—and these early shots seem to indicate that it is—it'll be treated to (burdened by?) an in-house OS and UI, most probably LG's flashy-but-limited S-Class experiment (http://gizmodo.com/tag/s-class). If you're the kind of person who doesn't fret over your phone's spec sheet this probably won't matter; if you are, you'd probably just buy a real smartphone anyway.
Anyway! The Arena Max is expected to launch in Korea soon, with a wide—including stateside—release following right after. [All About Phones (http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allaboutphones.nl%2Fn ieuws%2F4393%2FLG-Arena-Max-poseert-in-Azieuml.html%3F&sl=nl&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8) via Slashgear (http://www.slashgear.com/lg-arena-max-lu9400-spotted-in-wild-0873107/)]
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