The LG “Arena” KM900 gets official

pretty much a samsung omnia ripoff which was an iClone….

yeah, what Joe said…..

Awesome. Another phone we’ll never see here. Why waste our time? Ugh hate seeing cool phones available overseas

original ideas are tough

Isn’t the iphone a ripoff of the Prada phone, which is made by LG?

I guess everything now is a ripoff of the ipoop.
LG, Samsung, Nokia were making phones long before apple appeared with the ipoop.
So who’s ripping who here?

If it’s connected to att then no matter what it is it isin’t worth owning.

I agree with Mr. Fingers. AT&T gets a lot of cool phones but they’ve got a crappy network.

In terms of style “ipoop” is not a ripoff of the lg prada. Put the two phones together side by side and you can easily tell the difference. Don’t get me wrong, the iphone isn’t the end all be all, but in terms of form factor, everyone and their mother are trying to copy it’s sense of style. This isn’t to say that it was the first all touch screen phone (prada and htc touch are two biggies that were out before it), however, in terms of providing a capacitative touch screen with an actual functional on screen virtual keyboard, it is the best. And almost all candy bar touch screen phones have been trying to match the iPhone’s form and usability. I can think of a few ripoffs off the top of my head:

Samsung instinct
Samsung omnia
Lg Renoir
Htc touch hd
This phone.

Problem is, they have the form down…they haven’t gotten the usability down. The samsung omnia was on my wishlist for so long, and when I got my hands on it I was extremely disappointed. Sure it is a powerhouse….but try typing all of this on an omnia…like I just did with my iPhone. And punnnnt.

You can’t possibly say that the iphone’s what people are trying to mimic…that in and of itself makes no sense. The iphone’s entire concept came from other phones so no matter what precedence it has set no one is copying it since they did not do it first. This seems like a nice phone…I just want to know what the 3-D glass is all about.

Bet that second camara won’t be in the americian version if there is one

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@likeabite,

which phones in particular are you talking about???

@Likeabite

The iPhone’s entire concept came from other phones? Which one’s in particular if you don’t mind me asking (besides the ones I have mentioned like the LG Prada and the HTC Touch, which do not have an almost identical form factor to the iPhone). You put the iPhone, the LG Prada (Vu and Dare in the US) and the HTC Touch next to each other, and you can see major differences in the form factor (size (length and width), screen size, shape, thickness). If you put the other phones I referenced, including the Omnia, Instinct, Lg Renoir, Lg Arena, and HTC Touch, you can see notable similarities between the phones. Pretty much the only differences are the addition of call and end buttons on the bottom of the screens (and front facing cameras which will most likely NOT be coming to the USA).

plz b verizon

The “ipoop” is the first multi touch screen. The lg vue is the American version of the of prada and the omnia has been around for a while in Asia. The only reason why we get hand me down phones that euope and Asia poops down on us are the FCC regulations and it’s also why we don’t have 4g yet.

exo