LG C710 "aloha" outed in official documents

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We’re starting to get a very good idea of what one of LG’s next Android offering will be all about thanks to the recent unearthing of both its Wi-Fi certification documents and User Agent Profile. Known by the codename “aloha” and assigned model number LG C710, the device will be LG’s first high-end Android smartphone capable of working outside of a TD-SCDMA network. Specs for the aloha include a capacitive WVGA display in addition to 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and HSDPA connectivity. Curiously enough, LG has again opted to install a physical QWERTY keypad at a time when every other manufacturer of Android devices is more or less giving up on them due to consumer obsession with the sleek stylings of full-touchscreen devices. As it stands no one seems to know when the aloha will officially surface, but as history has so often proved, once a handset has been outed on paper people will go through extraordinary lengths to bring images of them to the surface.

[Via Phandroid]

Read [Wi-Fi Certification (.pdf)] Read [UAProf]

13 Comments
  • Imposter

    I like the name, I’m going to get this forsure.

  • Snooz

    LG phones suck

    • Steve

      Agreed, I had 2 and both were complete garbage. Bluetooth….forget it!

  • Wankstick

    Looks interesting

  • windontree

    who’s giving up on the physical keyboard? Motorola Droid is doing very well thank you. There’s a SHORTAGE of options finding real good ANdroid 2.1 phones with physical keyboard out there.

    I wanted one from AT&T but it only has the 1.5 Backflip and T-Mobile has no 2.1 available with this form factor.

  • 3 Phones Jugglin

    Hey HTC, sumone is making a high end Android phone with QWERTY and it isnt you….Watch your sales.

    All the similar ass phones You guys rearrange buttons to yall could easily put Android on a TP2 and call it a day. I guess LG wants my money more than you and i havent had an LG phone since the Fusiq.

  • ICON

    “Giving up on physical keyboards”…

    …didn’t we just see a story about the Samsung Galaxy S coming in a “Pro” version, with a keyboard…?

  • skyy_flyer

    I think it’s safe to say that physical keyboards will never go away. Some will prefer a physical keyboard and some will prefer a touch keyboard. I know me personally having tried both that I can text much faster and more accurately than on a virtual keyboard. Others are the other way around and are better with a virtual keyboard. I just wish that phone manufacturers would appease both preferences and make a version with and version without the keyboard(just hope they do a better job than that atrocity known as the Versa was).

  • Joseph Gomez

    My friend has an LG Aloha. It’s a flip phone on Virgin Mobile.

  • Mik

    Seems that the name has already been used, on a Pos.

    As Joseph pointed out, its a flip phone.

  • Ross

    Once upon a time in the early to mid 2000s, LG was making some really good phones. Lately, their line up has been very unimpressive in my opinion. Perhaps building some high end Android phones will help. I am not impressed thus far with the Android offerings by Motorola and Samsung.

  • Keith

    Will the LG C710 Aloha be released in the USA for Verizon Wireless at any time or soon ???

    If known or not, plz contact me and how to verify ok.
    kphlipot@nktelco.net

    • Joe K.

      HSDPA mean no Verizon, that’s for GSM networks.

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