Posts Tagged ‘LG Arena’

The LG Walkers introduce the new LG Optimus phone to Lady GaGa’s fans at the LG Arena Birmingham

June 3rd, 2010 by Dave@LGUK
 
The LG Arena in Birmingham is a great place to go and see some excellent touring acts in a wonderfully intimate arena venue. Last Friday night the LG Arena was host to Lady GaGa for the second UK leg of her Monster Ball tour, and some GaGa fans were surprised to find some interestingly dressed people telling them all about LG’s latest technology innovations. The futuristic looking LG Walkers paraded around the LG Arena prior to and during the breaks of the concert, interacting with fans using their screens to showcase new and upcoming technology. The LG Walkers were accompanied by...
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Live the High Life with LG and Westlife

May 4th, 2010 by Dave@LGUK
 
Pop legends Westlife are playing one of two concerts at the LG Arena in Birmingham on the 16th of May and we are offering four lucky winners the chance to experience the ultimate celebrity night out with a VIP Westlife concert package. This is the chance to live like a VIP with LG as the winners plus three friends receive return travel to the LG Arena and dinner in the VIP lounge before being led to the best seats in the house in LG’s VIP seating area. As if this prize wasn’t good enough one of the winners and their friends...
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Mobile World Congress latest: LG and Dolby team up for 5.1 surround sound on the go!

February 18th, 2010 by Dave@LGUK
 
LG and Dolby have teamed up to bring Dolby 5.1 surround sound to your phone. “Dolby Mobile is designed to give consumers a full-impact audio experience for movies, videos and music,” says Rolf Schmitz, marketing director, Mobile, Dolby Laboratories. “This version includes Dolby Digital Plus technology, which provides realistic surround sound for headphone playback, as well as 5.1-channel surround sound playback on home entertainment systems from the mobile device via high definition multimedia interface (HDMI),” he added. LG and Dolby first collaborated in June 2008 and have been producing smartphones with Dolby Technology since then, but this latest offering is the first to...
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LG Arena wows the mobile world with over a million sales

August 26th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
LG Electronics  today announced that the LG Arena (LG-KM900) multimedia phone has exceeded one million sales worldwide. The handset reached the milestone in just five months after debuting at Mobile World Congress 2009 in February. Even prior to the official launch, LG was deluged with pre-orders and requests for early release from various carriers and distributors in Europe. The handset is currently being sold in 53 countries across the globe and is seeing intense interest and orders from new carriers in France, Portugal, Romania and other countries. The device is the first to include LG’s 3D S-Class user interface (UI) ,...
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Cnet Videos for the LG Crystal, Arena and Viewty Smart

August 20th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
We got hold of some new videos produced by Cnet, in association with LG, which discuss the merits of LG's newest handsets, the Arena KM900, Crystal GD900 and ViewtySmart GC900: Visit LG's Arena KM900 microsite for more information on what the phone has to offer. Visit LG's GD900 Crystal microsite for more information on the handset and it's unique touchpad. Visit LG's Viewty Smart GC900 microsite for more information on the Viewty Smart's cutting edge camera and software. And if that wasn't enough Stuff.tv have done a piece on the LG 3D S-Class UI which all three handsets...
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LG win 4 EISA Awards including the Green Mobile Phone Award for the Arena KM900!

August 18th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
LG Electronics has won four awards in the 2009 EISA Awards. LG took top honors in four categories winning European Best Value LCD TV 2009-2010 for the SL8000, European Best Value Blu-Ray Player 2009-2010 for the BD390, European HT System 2009-2010 for the HB954PB and European Green Mobile Phone 2009-2010 for the LG Arena. This is not the first year that EISA has recognized LG innovations; we took home three awards both in 2006 and 2007 too. “Receiving this award provides credence to LG’s strong commitment to maintaining sustainable business practices,” said Dr. Skott Ahn, CEO of LG’s Mobile Communications Company. “We...
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LG Arena KM900 – More reviews from around the web

June 11th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
When we last looked, back in April, there were a fair few fans of the LG Arena (KM900) on our blog roll - Gaj-It, GadgetLite and ShinyShiny were all impressed, but some of our fellow bloggers weren't quite ready to commit themselves on a phone which hadn't hit the shelves, so lets check in with them now they've had time to really put it through its paces! Coolest-Gadgets UK considered verdict matched up fairly well to his pleased first impressions and showed the phone is as hardy as the Secret: The Arena’s been in my pocket with no cover or screen protector...
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The LG Arena KM900 photo competition – win £250!

June 1st, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
Last week on our Official LG KM900 Arena Facebook Fan Page we launched a new photography competition: Have you ever been to Italy and taken a picture of yourself holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa?To celebrate the touchy-feelyness of the LG Arena KM900 we want to see your 'Touch Everything' photos. The idea is to take a 'forced perspective' photograph - if you need inspiration, there are plenty of great examples to be found on Flickr or this stunner, a former winner of the 'Life's Good' competition on LG Loop: then upload it here, get your friends to vote by 'liking' the...
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The LG Arena KM900: Your thoughts and reviews

April 17th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
I saw an Arena in the window of my local phone shop this morning, which hopefully means they're in - or coming to - a shop near you now! Seems like an ideal time to do a bit of a round up of feelings so far about our new favourite handset, with a look at some of the reviews and initial/unboxing reactions of some of the bloggers who attended our exclusive launch event on April 1st - while the city was under siege we had canapés and civilised conversations and played with new toys! (I know, I know.. My life...
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LG Arena blogger event

April 8th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
Last week we held an exclusive bloggers event to preview the LG Arena KM900 handset before it hit selected UK shops this week - out nationwide in the next few weeks! At the event we were lucky enough to grab Shaun from the LG training team to give us a thorough run through of the handsets many selling points: Now we have lovingly crafted a Facebook fan page for the Arena, with all our photos, event footage and other information and videos for your viewing pleasure. So if you're one of the eager beavers who have already got their mitts on...
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