The USA based CDMA operator, Verizon Wireless and LG Mobile Phones have announced the February 1, 2005 availability of the LG VX8000 phone, the first handset in the United States for consumers that runs on Verizon Wireless' EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) 3G network. The VX8000 will provide access to VCAST, the operaotrs 3G consumer multimedia service, allowing Verizon Wireless customers to be the first in the nation to use their handsets to view video clips from major news, sports and entertainment brands and play three-dimensional games.
The VX8000 also features video messaging capabilities - customers can take up to 15 seconds of video with the VX8000's integrated 1.3 mega-pixel camera and send their clips to any email address. The VX8000's integrated camera features flash and a macro mode feature with four digital zoom settings for shooting close-up video and still images. In addition to next generation EV-DO access and mega-pixel digital camera, the VX8000 also includes all the must-have mobile phone features that users have come to expect from LG, including speaker phone, a 500 contact phone book that stores up to five phone numbers and two email addresses per contact, MIDI sound, personal organizer and more.
"The launch of the VX8000 signals the arrival of the next generation of mobile handsets," said Mr. Juno Cho, president, LG Mobile Phones. "Verizon Wireless' EV-DO network and its new VCAST service gives mobile phone users the power to bring the world to their phones with high-speed multimedia access, and the flagship VX8000 handset offers the advanced capabilities necessary to support this new world of instantly accessible entertainment and information."
Posted to the site on 10th January 2005
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