LG’s still convinced that the one thing you really want from your smartphone is 3D, eye-popping imagery. Despite poor uptake on these shores of both the LG Optimus 3D and the HTC EVO 3D, the company has just announced the LG Optimus 3D Cube for the Korean market. How long before it lands in the UK?
The Cube knocks a few millimeters off of its predecessor, the LG Optimus 3D. Its 4.3-inch frame is now a more pocketable 9.6mm, despite the fact that the processor has ben bumped up to a 1.2GHz dual-core number.
That extra muscle is needed for the LG Optimus 3D Cube’s new special trick: 3D video editing right on the glasses-free display.
The Cube is launching for the Korean market within the next month or so, with a UK launch primed under the name ‘LG Optimus 3D Max’ not long thereafter. Of course, the real question is: does anyone actually want 3D in their smartphone?
Read our full LG Optimus 3D review
LG’s playing an odd game at Mobile World Congress. First it launches the Optimus Vu – the weird, 4:3 aspect ratio’d smartphone – and now it continues to pour money into 3D, which by all accounts is ‘sooo last year’.
If LG is aiming to position itself as the purveyor of odd, left-field smartphones rather than the quad-core, flagship mainstream then it’s going the right way about it, but that’s certainly a gamble when every other manufacturer is sticking to what it knows.
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