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LG, Samsung Android phones come in Korea with AhnLab's V3 Mobile antivirus

We heard reports on LG and Samsung competing in domestic market for Android/smartphone market share. What we rarely heard, because of recent incident with malicious code on Windows Mobile smartphone, those Android phones will come with built-in antivirus made by AhnLab. LG will inject V3 mobile antivirus to Andro-1 and upcoming LG -LU2300, while Samsung will include this antivirus into their first Android smartphone in Korea.

This V3 Mobile antivirus previously available for Symbian and Windows Mobile platform, now available for both Android and iPhone. According to its official explanation:

‘V3 Mobile for Android’ detects and repairs malicious codes in Android-based smartphones and provides real-time scans of all running processes, manual scans for executable files and general files (like SD card sector and built-in memory (UMS)). It also detects applications that possess excessive authority that allows access to personal user data with ‘behavior detection’ methodology.

‘V3 Mobile+ for iPhone’, also unveiled today, detects the jail break. In case of iPhone, the security threat in normal phone is extremely low, as it allows only approved application from App store. Therefore, ‘V3 Mobile+ for iPhone’ guarantees safe mobile internet environment by detecting jail-broken phones.

Well, I have never heard any issue with malicious code in Android and iPhone so far, but if your handset has been jailbroken or rooted, it's better to include this antivirus into your phone as precaution.

[via JoongAng Daily]

The first DMB 2.0 phone from LG

LG presents the world’s first DMB 2.0 phone, DMB is stand for Digital Media Broadcast. This LG mobile phone comes named as LG Cafe. The LG Cafe Phone comes with lots of entertaining features. The entertaining features include an integrated mobile TV receiver which would give you the best entertaining feature.

This LG gadget is an interactive Internet-based television service that allows the user to take up the access of the data-based services such as e-commerce, stock updates, etc. The LG cafe phone comes with few attractive features that are listed below, check them out.

• 3-megapixel camera
• 3.2-inch WVGA touchscreen
• Built-in Wi-Fi
• 3.5mm audio jack
• MicroSD card slot
• GPS

[via Slashphone]

LG launched Andro-1, local version of GW620

LG brings successors to popular Cookie series

About more than a year ago, LG Cookie was a quite big hit in Indonesia. Being mid-to-low touchscreen phone -- I dare not to say smartphone -- without any direct competitor (until Samsung unveiled theirs), LG gained much love from beginners in this segment.

This year, LG brings Cookie series successors [link in Korean], dubbed as Cookie Plus and Cookie Fresh. Those phones will be available this March to most areas, including Asia.

Korea's KT to provide free Android smartphone

The smartphone war is heating all over world, and Korea is no exception. While KT, second largest operator, has taken lot of profits from iPhone sales, they need to take Android market too to compete with their competitor. This time, KT is to provide a budget Android smartphone, possibly for free, if the term is met.

Indonesia's Indosat will bring tons of Android handsets, including Sony Ericsson X10!

Coming Soon: LG's Snapdragon-powered CDMA phone for Korea market

Korea's LG will be the first in the world to apply Snapdragon's QSD 8650 chipset, making it to be the first CDMA phone powered by almighty 1 GHz Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor, reported by Telecoms Korea. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, the phone (at least when it come initially) will only available for Korea market through LG Telecom -- the smallest operator.

The QSD 8650 chipset supports CDMA2000 1x and EVDO Rev 0/A/B, in contrary of QSD 8250 chipset that is designed for GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, and HSDPA network. No further information for now, but we will cover this story when updated. Beside CDMA phone, LG will also reveal new Android phone with Snapdragon for all carriers in Korea.

These phones from LG will add more phones supported by Qualcomm's Snapdragon (see the rests at above picture), christened as the fastest mobile chipset as of today. The first phone powered by Snapdragon was Toshiba TG01.

Here's the technical specs of Qualcomm Snapdragon's QSD 8x50 chipset:

• 1 GHz CPU
• 600MHz DSP
• Integrated 3G mobile broadband
• Support for Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® connectivity
• Built-in seventh-generation gpsOne®  engine with Standalone-GPS and Assisted-GPS modes
• High-definition (720p) video decode, and multiple video codec support
• High-performance 3D graphics – up to 22M triangles/sec and 133M 3D pixels/sec
• High-resolution up to WXGA (1280x720) display support
• 12-megapixel camera support
• Multiple audio codecs: (AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, FR, EFR, HR, WB-AMR, G.729a, G.711, AAC stereo encode)
• Support for mobile broadcast TV (MediaFLO™, DVB-H and ISDB-T)
• Support for Windows Mobile®, Android, and a number of Linux®-based operating systems
• Qualcomm’s hybrid mode alternative solution

LG confirms half of smartphones line up in 2010 will use Android

Android, Android, Android everywhere. This week surely a bless for Android and its supporters. It's not our fault too that the 10 last posts are dominated by Android news. Previously we covered that LG will launch 20 smartphones in 2010, now we get confirmation from its CEO himself that half of them will run on Android. Nam Yong, LG's CEO spoke about it during CES 2010 event in Las Vegas. It means from 5 big companies of phone maker, only Nokia that doesn't involve in Android euphoria.

LG will have Windows Mobile model and its own Moblin based, but the Korea company has realized that Android is the gold mine with tons of potential in the future. The one who doesn't follow the trend will be leaved out of market. Cited from Yonhap News, Nam said "Handset markets will be polarized between low-end phones and smartphones in the future. We have a sense of crisis that if we don't prepare within the year, we could be left out of the market."

LG currently is owning third largest market share of phone, behind Nokia and Samsung. Last year, it overthrown Motorola and Sony Ericsson to gain the spot. As analyst predicted, smartphone's proportion is getting bigger and bigger every year. 2010's outlook of phone makers lies on the ability to adapt to this situation.

[image via phandroid]

LG to unveil 20 new smartphones in 2010, starting with Android

Yes, that's what been told by LG Thailand's Product Group Head to Bangkok Post. He predicted that 2010 will be the year of smartphones and mid-to-high end phones due to the need of 3G connectivity. That's the sign of the growth of mobile Internet too, I guess. The first smartphone to be in the market this end of January is none other than our hype these days, Android. I am not really sure what the model is, but we expect to hear more revealed information.

Beside Android, LG will also stick its own LG OS (being used in Black Label series) and Windows Mobile OS. Earlier this month, LG launched two new line up in Black Label, BL40 and BL20, targeting multimedia market with great display and better camera. Currently LG sits in 4th place of global market share with 7% and enjoy massive increase compared to last year's sales.