The Optimus Black GSM/HSPA phone is only 0.36 inches thick at its thickest point and tapers down to 0.24 inches at its thinnest point, making it the world's slimmest cellphone, the company also claimed.
It's upgradable to Android 2.3. It's also the world's first smartphone with Wi-Fi Direct capability for direct transfer of phone content to other mobile devices and PCs, and it also features the world's first front-facing 2-magapixel camera for video chats.
LG this morning announced the Optimus Black, a new, slim Android smartphone with a super-bright LCD screen. The Korean cell phone maker also showed off the LG Optimus 2X, the world's first dual-core mobile phone. (Check out the slideshow below for hands-on images of both phones.)
The Optimus Black is today's genuinely new phone, as the Optimus 2X was announced a few weeks ago. That comapres to 500 nits on the iPhone 4 and 300 nits on the Super AMOLED screen on the Samsung Galaxy S.
When I took a picture of the Optimus Black and a Galaxy S next to each other in a dark room, the brightness of the Optimus Black's screen blew out on my photo; it's noticeably brighter than the other phone. The Black's 2-megapixel front-facing camera is billed as a world's first, although that's a little less impressive. The Black is also the first phone I've seen to support Wi-Fi Direct. That means awesome video and gaming: the phone has an HDMI port that can mirror the phone's screen on an HDTV or play 1080p HD videos, and it's supposed to play immersive, high-def games better than any other handheld.
LG didn't announce North American release plans for either phone