LG is not going to rest as it loses mobile device market share. They have plans to development more Android smartphones, Tablets, dual-core smartphone and be LTE 4G ready.
LG plans to launch 10 more smartphones and sell 5 million devices by the end of the
year. They also plan to launch an Android tablet with the ability to create content such as wordprocessing and video editing.
"Our tablet will be better than iPad," said Chang Ma, VP of Marketing for Mobile Devices.
In order to go so smartphone, they are increasing the research and
development budget by a third and ramping up its spending on marketing.
LG
is betting on Android, beginning in September, LG will relaunch its
Optimus line of smartphones with its flagship Optimus One through 120
carriers.
The LG will launch devices using Nvidia Corp.'s dual-core processor
in the fourth quarter as well aso be aggressive with
fourth-generation, or 4G, technology, and build a phone compatible with
long-term evolution technology by early next year.
The Tegra 2 packs a lot of power and features including a dual ARM Cortex-A9
MPCore processors running at 1GHZ, 1080P HD video encoding/decoding,
HDMI out, su 12MP camera support and adisplay res of
1680×1050. Competing processors in the Droid X, Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy are 1GHz but only single core.
Specs and Features of the NIVIDIA Tegra:
- Enhanced NVIDIA graphics technology, enabling full Flash acceleration for an uncompromised HD web browsing experience
- Next generation 3D rendering performance for the most compelling user interfaces and advanced mobile games
- Up to 1080p video encode/decode and support for HD Web streaming formats, such as YouTube HD.
- Complete HW accelerated HD multimedia engine for visually stunning movie playback at lowest possible power.
- Effective power management techniques, such as dynamic voltage
and frequency scaling, for ultra-efficient power consumption across all
use cases. - Low-power design delivers over 140 hours audio and over 16 hours of HD video playback.