Gadget site Engadget first picked up details of LG coming out with a top of the line Android phone in its home market, a month ago, but overnight mobile blogs everywhere are now touting specs that have come out of its Korean launch, with LG’s current love of all things Microsoft, giving way, at least for one handset, to Google’s Android.
The device is called the LG LU2300 and it is a classic top off the range Android device, being favourable compared with the Motorola Milestone and other recent Android devices.
The device is powered by a Qualcomm 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, and features a side slider Qwerty keyboard. It comes with a 3.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen which makes it far sharper for video viewing. It has a screen resolution of 800 x 480. The screen had to be AMOLED because LGs great rival Samsung dominates AMOLED and provides all of its top phones with these screens. The LU 230 uses Android 2.1 and can record and playback 720p HD video, using DivX, it has a 5 Megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, and in the Korean market comes with a T-DMB digital TV tuner.
If it was to swap out that tuner in the US for an ATSC M/H tuner (LG and Samsung are the only companies that makes these so far) then it may well use this phone to drive mobile broadcast TV which is just coming out in the US. Given the strength of LG phones in the US (this week Comscore reported that it was the number 2 phone supplier in the US, behind Motorola) the LU 2300 is likely to land there next.