LG GC990 Louvre Cameraphone Shoots 12MP Photos, 720p Video

For crying out loud, stop with the "this looks like an iPhone" crap.
Pretty much EVERY all-touchscreen handheld device looks the same: a rectangular screen with rounded corners.
This one actually has 3 thin buttons below the screen and you still think it looks like an iPhone. It's a motherfucking CAMERA on the back and you still think it looks like the iPhone.

I guess this is why every netbook looks like the Eeeeeeeee to me.

Bassem B.

@pixelpushing: I don't have an LG phone or an iPhone, so I don't have a dog in this fight. But he said "as far as UI and form factor," and it's simply not true that that UI and form factor were invented by the iPhone designers.

Usability? Yes, the iPhone is way ahead in the "Could my mother use it?" game. But it certainly wasn't the first to have that form factor or to use a bunch of icons in a grid. Whether LG influenced Apple (doubtful) or not, it's just the simple truth that LG had touchscreen phones that looked much like this before the iPhone was released.

CSX321

Wait, if this story is about LG, then why is there a picture of an iPho... oh.

@Eruanno: What are you talking about?

Look at those category titles! Yeah, the ones in the small lettering that you can barely see. Yeah, right there...obviously, completely different! lol.

DPeezy

@CSX321: No, he's talking about the iPhone. I mean, you don't really think that Prada phone had any significant impact, I'm sure. The Prada phone, whose singular claim to fame is that Apple dissenters bring it up as a tattered placeholder every now and then, as though it really influenced Apple? C'mon. Otherwise it would be hated for it's price and features. It was everything people loath about what they think Apple products are: expensive with too much emphasis on looks.

It was the software, silly. That's why the iPhone was different and influential. It definitely changed the landscape of mobile phones.

pixelpushing

That is one ugly-ass iPhone

ralfhutter

@saycarramrod: I read that sentence and my eyes felt like they had sped off a cliff when they missed a turn...

pixelpushing

@LangleyAlcyone: You mean how it looks a lot like the LG Prada that was released a couple of months before the original iPhone?

CSX321

@Genjinaro: "featurephones" dammit a 30 second edit option interval would be nice...

Genjinaro

Ahh the OS, its needs an smartphone OS... Andriod would've sealed the deal. Hell I'll take Windows Mobile too... Faeturephones/dumbphones need to die an immediate death.

Genjinaro

As far as UI and form factor, can someone please point out and shoot the elephant in the room?

LangleyAlcyone

@saycarramrod: I thought I left my intelligence at home this morning but now that I know I wasn't the only one to see it, I can breathe easier.

@USB_Humping_Dog: I couldn't agree with you more.

Yeah, he missed a few words on that sentence for sure. I came into the comments just to see if I was the only one that noticed.

Ravlen

"The sliding point where cameraphones and point-and-shoot cameras seems to keep moving towards the latter." Is this a complete sentence? I've read and reread it like 10 times and I swear there should be another word after "point-and-shoot cameras". Like "The sliding point where cameraphones and point-and-shoot cameras meet seems to be moving towards the latter".

I don't know, maybe I'm crazy.

saycarramrod

I like it a lot. Can you act like your talking and take pictures at the same time?

mikegriffin

Hey, that phone looks like that other phone that is so popular these days!

I'm sorry, but the Meizu interface beats this one to hell and back.

And we're talking about LG here, shame on them.

TheAlmeida

It looks like the Samsung I900 Omnia.

@Jack of all Tirades R.O.A.C.H.: better than people snatching your iphone?

i wonder how much this device would cost

taking_this_easy

@Inception: You mean it looks the same as the previous 8-10 LG "smart"phones?

Knirfie

The UI looks ugly as f*ck....

So cluttered (?) It just doesn't look right....

Imagine holding this thing up to your ear, with the "camera" side out. How odd will that look.

"Mom, why is that man talking to his camera?"

@Inception: I was thinking the same thing about the menu, Reminds me of some other phone,but can't put my finger on it (probably not a sucessfull one as I expect I'd remember)

That menu looked oddly familiar..
But really, silver finish? How 1999 is THAT? :(
I don't know with the camera, anything is better than my iPhone one..

Inception

12MP with a tiny sensor. Yup, this will surely replace my point-and-shoot.

Seriously, this is all just a pissing contest for companies (and consumers who actually give a damn).

USB_Humping_Dog