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You desperately want to attend Katy Perry's raucous San Antonio concert, but your kid sister has absolutely zero interest in tagging along, and the mere thought of going stag strikes fear into your heart. All seems lost, but worry not -- because Ticketmaster and Facebook have just joined forces to create a new feature that weds concert-going with social networking. As of today, users purchasing tickets to select events can easily find out whether any of their Facebook friends are also attending and where they're seated. All you have to do is connect to Ticketmaster with your Facebook account, find your concert of choice and use the interactive venue map to tag your own seats, or to see those of online friends who've already tagged themselves. From there, you can buy tickets right next to your intended targets and act totally surprised when you bump into them at the show. For now, the feature is only available for 300 venues (encompassing some 9,000 events), but you can find more information in the video and press release after the break.

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Ticketmaster's interactive seat map brings Facebook stalking to concert venues originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>arenaconcerteventfacebookinteractiveinteractive seat mapInteractiveSeatMapmusicpurchaseseatseat mapSeatMapsharesocial mediasocial networkingSocialMediaSocialNetworkingtagtaggingticketticketmastervenuevideowebWed, 24 Aug 2011 17:57:00 EST<![CDATA[Klipsch unveils AirPlay-enabled Gallery Studio, Forum and Arena soundbars (hands-on)]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/klipsch-unveils-airplay-enabled-gallery-studio-forum-and-arena/http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/klipsch-unveils-airplay-enabled-gallery-studio-forum-and-arena/http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/klipsch-unveils-airplay-enabled-gallery-studio-forum-and-arena/#comments Klipsch managed to unveil a black-and-white version of its high-end Image X10i earbuds as well as something referred to as a LightSpeaker at last CES, and this year they're doing the inevitable: unveiling a trio of iDevice-friendly sound systems. All a part of the new Gallery series, the Studio, Forum and Arena are all making their debut tonight in Vegas. Each of these units are AirPlay certified, meaning that each one will wirelessly ingest smooth jams and fusion metal from a nearby iTunes library. The Studio and Forum each have slots along the front edge where you can rest your iPhone / iPod / iPad, while the high-end Arena actually has a 30-pin Dock Connector port as well as a video output. The unit's the company had on display this evening were far from being production quality, but the overall design was nice, if not a touch understated. To remedy that on the Studio, the outfit plans to offer well over a dozen faceplates with various graphics -- if sales are strong, we're told that it could create similar plates for the higher-end siblings.

To go along with those, Klipsch also unveiled a trifecta of slim, passive speakers: the G-12, G16, G-28 and G-42. These range from $299 to $599 per speaker, and are obviously aimed at the more affluent crowd. One thing of note -- the backs of these speakers have clever cutouts along the bottom and rear, enabling you to better manage your wires. Yeah, wires. These units definitely aren't wireless, but here's hoping for 2012, right? As for the iPod sound systems? Those are slated to ship in Q2 or Q3 with prices set for $399 (Studio), $599 (Forum) and $799 (Arena).

Gallery: Klipsch Gallery speaker launch at CES 2011

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Klipsch unveils AirPlay-enabled Gallery Studio, Forum and Arena soundbars (hands-on) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>airplayarenaaudiocesces 2011ces2011forumG-12G-16G-28G-42Gallery ARENAGallery FORUMGallery seriesGallery STUDIOGallerySeriesGalleryStudiohands-onipod dockipod sound systemIpodDockIpodSoundSystemklipschmusicsound systemSoundSystemspeakerspeakersstudioThu, 06 Jan 2011 02:33:00 EST<![CDATA[LG Arena officially lands on AT&T for $199]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/lg-arena-officially-lands-on-atandt-for-199/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/lg-arena-officially-lands-on-atandt-for-199/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/lg-arena-officially-lands-on-atandt-for-199/#comments No surprise the LG Arena has finally arrived on AT&T after we saw those spyshots earlier this year -- although it is packing AT&T Mobile TV, so that's a nice touch. Everything else is as predicted: 3-inch WVGA screen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, GPS, and WiFi. Of course, you will be spending $199 on a two-year contract for a poorly-reviewed year-old featurephone when this hits on February 26, so that's probably a mistake, but at least the gratuitous spinny-cube effects of LG's S-Class UI will keep you distracted as you wander aimlessly through the wreckage of our once-proud civilization. There is also a web browser.

LG Arena officially lands on AT&T for $199 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>arenaattatt mobile tvAttMobileTvflo tvFloTvgt950km900lglg arenalg gt950lg km900LgArenaLgGt950LgKm900mediaflomobile tvMobileTvFri, 19 Feb 2010 11:53:00 EST<![CDATA[LG Arena GT950 leaks out with AT&T branding]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/lg-arena-gt950-leaks-out-with-atandt-branding/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/lg-arena-gt950-leaks-out-with-atandt-branding/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/lg-arena-gt950-leaks-out-with-atandt-branding/#comments Looks like AT&T is about to get a version of the LG Arena -- these shots of a GT950 with the carrier's branding just hit the tubes. The phone hasn't been officially announced by either AT&T or LG, but the safe bet is that the 950 is just a bespoke variant of the familiar Arena KM900, so look for a three-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen with LG's S-Class UI, a five megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, and 8GB of storage. We'll have to see whether this hits at CES next week or MWC in February -- but until then you can get a feel for this thing by checking out our KM900 hands-on video right here.

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It should be no wonder Mark Cuban (got some Jerry Jones envy?) is promising the first NHL & NBA arena with 1080-line digital scoreboards. While 1080p has been well entrenched in scoreboards for the outdoor sports (like the Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees) it appears the winter brethren has been slacking, but with the Mavericks and Stars not competing in tonight's finals action, plans to upgrade American Airlines Center ahead of the 2009-10 seasons are already underway, with four 18- by 30-foot video scoreboards coming to the center display and two 24- by 72-foot video walls at the north and south ends. If that's not enough, the sounds are getting a makeover too, with a "state-of-the-art concert quality sound system" bring a digital six speaker linear system to next years attendees, though we should all get a (3D?) look during the 2010 NBA All-Star Game next February.

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LG KM900 Arena hands-on with video originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 May 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>arenaedgefeaturedvideofeaturesgsmhands onhands-onHandsOnhsdpaLGlg arenalg arena aka lg-km900lg arena km900LgArenaLgArenaAkaLg-km900LgArenaKm900mobileumtsvideoThu, 07 May 2009 14:30:00 EST<![CDATA[LG Arena destroyed, just because it was fun]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/15/lg-arena-destroyed-just-because-it-was-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/15/lg-arena-destroyed-just-because-it-was-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/15/lg-arena-destroyed-just-because-it-was-fun/#comments It doesn't matter how many times we force ourselves to sit down and watch them -- torture tests of the newest, hottest phones always make us flinch (and ultimately vomit, if we endure them for long enough). As tough as it is on us, though, it's ten times tougher on these poor miracles of modern mobility, getting run over, left in puddles of rainwater, frozen, stepped on repeatedly, dropped, submersed in wine (for some reason we don't fully understand), blasted with dust, and tumbled in dryers. mail.ru hasn't published its full report on the Arena's ability to survive the insane battery of worst-case scenarios, but they've published a preview video -- and it doesn't look pretty for our S-Class friend.

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We didn't think the LG Arena KM900 was any great shakes when we briefly got to play with it at Mobile World Congress, and it sounds like our initial impression was right on the money -- GSM Helpdesk just reviewed the touchscreen handset and more or less called it a weak iPhone clone. Ouch. The S-Class 3D UI drew particular scorn for being "cumbersome," and the browser was "sluggish" and "uncomfortable," taking some 30-40 seconds to render pages. There were some positives, though: the camera was solid, and the Dolby Mobile-enabled media player impressed, but overall the phone scored a 7 out of 10 on potential alone -- let's hope LG can improve things next time around.

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We didn't think the LG Arena KM900 was any great shakes when we briefly got to play with it at Mobile World Congress, and it sounds like our initial impression was right on the money -- GSM Helpdesk just reviewed the touchscreen handset and more or less called it a weak iPhone clone. Ouch. The S-Class 3D UI drew particular scorn for being "cumbersome," and the browser was "sluggish" and "uncomfortable," taking some 30-40 seconds to render pages. There were some positives, though: the camera was solid, and the Dolby Mobile-enabled media player impressed, but overall the phone scored a 7 out of 10 on potential alone -- let's hope LG can improve things next time around.

[Via Slashgear]

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Just ten days after the LG Arena (or KM900, if you're the proper type) launched officially in Europe, T-Mobile UK has already moved in to snag some thunder with an exclusive color: black. Not like black handsets are hard to find or anything (in fact, we already knew this phone was shipping to someone in black), but we all know how giddy the world gets when something gets labeled as rare. Reportedly, the formal color name will be Titan Black, and outside of the new hue, everything else will remain the same. Check it later this month for free on Flext 40 and Combi 40 plans.

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T-Mobile UK nabbing LG Arena KM900 in black originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, that didn't take too long, now did it? LG has announced that its high-end touchphone du jour, the KM900 Arena, is starting to ship in Europe after a February announcement at MWC. The 7.2Mbps HSDPA, WiFi, WVGA display, 3D UI, and 5 megapixel cam are all lustworthy specs for a device in this class, and it shows -- LG proudly proclaims that carriers around the world have already pre-ordered a million units. Americans can keep on dreaming for the time being, but Europeans should look for the Arena to start filtering into stores any day now in their choice of silver and black.

[Via SlashPhone]

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We already saw every angle of LG's newly launched Arena (or KM900, if we're being formal) at Mobile World Congress last month, but there's just something calming about witnessing an unboxing free of nearby gawkers and devoid of spiraled cables tethered to alarm systems. Seriously, you can't grasp the significance of it without giving the read link a visit, so here's what you do: click, indulge, then return and admit that we told you so.

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We already saw every angle of LG's newly launched Arena (or KM900, if we're being formal) at Mobile World Congress last month, but there's just something calming about witnessing an unboxing free of nearby gawkers and devoid of spiraled cables tethered to alarm systems. Seriously, you can't grasp the significance of it without giving the read link a visit, so here's what you do: click, indulge, then return and admit that we told you so.

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For most, the fact that LG's Arena has 8GB of internal storage space is enough. It holds just under eight full gigabytes of miscellany, and it does so without complaining. But for us -- the nerds in the crowd -- knowing that those eight luscious gigabytes are actually on an 8GB iNAND embedded flash drive just makes getting up out of bed a great deal easier. Said drive can act as both the boot and data storage drive, eliminating the need for a separate boot device and mountains of stress. Mmm... NAND in a cellphone, how calming is that, broseph?

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LG Arena rocking SanDisk's 8GB iNAND flash drive originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>arenaflash driveflash memoryFlashDriveFlashMemoryiNANDKM900lgmobilemwcmwc 09mwc 2009Mwc09Mwc2009othersperipheralssandiskstorageWed, 18 Feb 2009 02:42:00 EST<![CDATA[LG Arena KM900 hands-on with video interface tour]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/lg-arena-km900-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/lg-arena-km900-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/lg-arena-km900-hands-on/#comments We've been waiting to get our grubby mitts on the LG Arena KM900 and try out the S-Class 3D UI for ourselves, and well -- it's a nice featurephone interface, but it's not exactly revolutionary. The widget interface is nice, and we're into the picture-based contacts screen, but the icon-based home screen just feels cluttered, especially when viewed in the expanded horizontal orientation. It'll be interesting to see how LG refines these elements in its upcoming onslaught of Windows Mobile phones -- we wouldn't drop back to a featurephone for this stuff, but we'd be plenty interested in seeing more phones like the GM730 with this interface. Video after the break!

Read - Engadget Spanish coverage of the KM900
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Gallery: LG Arena KM900 hands-on

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LG Arena KM900 hands-on with video interface tour originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>arenaarena km900ArenaKm900featuredfeatureshands onhands-onHandsOnkm900lgmobilemwcmwc 09mwc 2009Mwc09Mwc2009Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:47:00 EST<![CDATA[LG Arena KM900 hands-on with video interface tour]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/lg-arena-km900-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/lg-arena-km900-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/lg-arena-km900-hands-on/#comments We've been waiting to get our grubby mitts on the LG Arena KM900 and try out the S-Class 3D UI for ourselves, and well -- it's a nice featurephone interface, but it's not exactly revolutionary. The widget interface is nice, and we're into the picture-based contacts screen, but the icon-based home screen just feels cluttered, especially when viewed in the expanded horizontal orientation. It'll be interesting to see how LG refines these elements in its upcoming onslaught of Windows Mobile phones -- we wouldn't drop back to a featurephone for this stuff, but we'd be plenty interested in seeing more phones like the GM730 with this interface. Video after the break!

Read - Engadget Spanish coverage of the KM900
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Gallery: LG Arena KM900 hands-on

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Are you the type who falls deaf in the presence of the latest gadget? Add a girl and your mouth falls agape from the loss the muscle control required to speak? Good, we've got the video for you. A site in Sweden is showing off LG's new Arena KM900 flagship phone along with a first peep at its dynamic 3D S-Class UI. While we're not seeing any of that promised multi-touch here, the cubic interface is interesting and makes good use the KM900's 3-inch, 800 x 480 pixel WVGA display and dedicated media chip. It's also expected to hit in April for 4,500 Swedish Krona or $535 US if our translation of that image (lower-left) is correct. Worth it? Hit the read link for the video (in Swedish) and let us know.

[Thanks, Martin]

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LG's flagship KM900 S-Class UI caught on video originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Are you the type who falls deaf in the presence of the latest gadget? Add a girl and your mouth falls agape from the loss the muscle control required to speak? Good, we've got the video for you. A site in Sweden is showing off LG's new Arena KM900 flagship phone along with a first peep at its dynamic 3D S-Class UI. While we're not seeing any of that promised multi-touch here, the cubic interface is interesting and makes good use of the KM900's 3-inch, 800 x 480 pixel WVGA display and dedicated media chip. It's also expected to hit in April for 4,500 Swedish Krona or $535 US if our translation of that image (lower-left) is correct. Worth it? Hit the read link for the video (in Swedish) and let us know.

[Thanks, Martin]

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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>Arenakm900lgmobile world congressMobileWorldCongressmwcmwc 2009Mwc2009swedenThu, 12 Feb 2009 05:42:00 EST<![CDATA[LG Arena KM900 hangs onto limelight, reveals multitouch capabilities]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/lg-arena-km900-hangs-onto-limelight-reveals-multitouch-capabili/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/lg-arena-km900-hangs-onto-limelight-reveals-multitouch-capabili/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/lg-arena-km900-hangs-onto-limelight-reveals-multitouch-capabili/#comments At this rate, LG isn't gonna have any secrets left about the Arena KM900 when it takes the stage for its Mobile World Congress press conference on Monday. The company's released a few more snippets via its Korean site, chief among them being multitouch capabilities for image and web page zooming. Other details include a dedicated multimedia chip and designations for each of the four sides of the interface's 3D cube: phone, widgets, shortcuts, and multimedia. One of our favorite lines, which is almost certainly made funnier by the machine translation, is that this UI is the culmination of 100 years of interface research. We'll have more on the KM900 -- assuming they don't reveal everything before then -- next week in Barcelona.

[Via Unwired View]

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LG Arena KM900 hangs onto limelight, reveals multitouch capabilities originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG Arena KM900 hangs onto limelight, reveals multitouch capabilities originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rather than waiting for the KM900 to get lost amongst hundreds of other handsets set to vie for attention at Mobile World Congress, LG has decided it best to go ahead and make its newest touchscreen handset official a few days early. The so-called Arena, which will take the crown as LG's "flagship phone for 2009," is hoping to wow onlookers with its dynamic 3D S-Class user interface. According to Dr. Skott Ahn, president and CEO of LG Mobile: "The direct, intuitive and dynamic S-Class UI will be unlike anything that has appeared on a mobile phone before." We're not quite sure we believe all that just yet, but there's little doubt this bugger will be keen on multimedia. Other specs include integrated Dolby / DivX technology, support for HSDPA 7.2Mbps, WiFi, Assisted GPS and "far more" amenities that should be uncovered in Barcelona. Excited yet?

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LG Arena (KM900) pops official, brings along 3D S-Class UI originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rather than waiting for the KM900 to get lost amongst hundreds of other handsets set to vie for attention at Mobile World Congress, LG has decided it best to go ahead and make its newest touchscreen handset official a few days early. The so-called Arena, which will take the crown as LG's "flagship phone for 2009," is hoping to wow onlookers with its dynamic 3D S-Class user interface. According to Dr. Skott Ahn, president and CEO of LG Mobile: "The direct, intuitive and dynamic S-Class UI will be unlike anything that has appeared on a mobile phone before." We're not quite sure we believe all that just yet, but there's little doubt this bugger will be keen on multimedia. Other specs include integrated Dolby / DivX technology, support for HSDPA 7.2Mbps, WiFi, Assisted GPS and "far more" amenities that should be uncovered in Barcelona. Excited yet?

[Via UnwiredView, thanks Staska]

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LG Arena (KM900) pops official, brings along 3D S-Class UI originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Guess LG UK apparently can't wait to show the world the new Arena KM900 -- it's published a high-quality press photo on its corporate blog ten days before the official reveal at MWC. This is also our first glimpse of that "S-Class 3D interface," and it's... definitely a spinning 3D cube with some icons on it. No further confirmation on those details we'd heard, but we'll see if this thing is more than just another touchscreen dumbphone wannabe when we get our hands on it.

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LG Arena KM900 press photo leaked... by LG originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Guess LG UK apparently can't wait to show the world the new Arena KM900 -- it's published a high-quality press photo on its corporate blog ten days before the official reveal at MWC. This is also our first glimpse of that "S-Class 3D interface," and it's... definitely a spinning 3D cube with some icons on it. No further confirmation on those details we'd heard, but we'll see if this thing is more than just another touchscreen dumbphone wannabe when we get our hands on it.

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LG Arena KM900 press photo leaked... by LG originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We've already gotten a pretty good look at LG's curiously familiar Arena KM900 phone, and we're now starting to get some more details as well, although LG is still managing to keep a few things under wraps for the presumably imminent announcement. Apparently, this one will boast GSM/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity, along with a high-res 3-inch 800x480 display (no word on resistive or capacitive), and some form of mobile TV, although specifics on that are a bit light at the moment. The phone also apparently measures just 11.5mm thick, which makes it a smidgen slimmer than the iPhone and, as we had heard before, it could be out in Europe as soon as next month -- on T-Mobile Germany for starters, it seems.

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LG Arena KM900 gets further detailed originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We've already gotten a pretty good look at LG's curiously familiar Arena KM900 phone, and we're now starting to get some more details as well, although LG is still managing to keep a few things under wraps for the presumably imminent announcement. Apparently, this one will boast GSM/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity, along with a high-res 3-inch 800x480 display (no word on resistive or capacitive), and some form of mobile TV, although specifics on that are a bit light at the moment. The phone also apparently measures just 11.5mm thick, which makes it a smidgen slimmer than the iPhone and, as we had heard before, it could be out in Europe as soon as next month -- on T-Mobile Germany for starters, it seems.

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LG Arena KM900 gets further detailed originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We got a whiff of this one last month courtesy of the FCC, but it looks like LG's new Arena KM900 touchscreen phone is now fully making its way out into the open, with the above image and some specs to go along with it surfacing in advance of MWC. As you can see above, this one bears a little resemblance to the Samsung Omnia, and boasts a 5-megapixel camera (plus a secondary one for video calls, it seems), built-in GPS, WiFi, and what's described as an "innovative S-Class 3D interface." Unfortunately, complete specs are still a bit of a mystery, but the phone is apparently on track to hit Europe as soon as March, and it seems a pretty safe bet that LG will have more to say about this one at MWC later this month.

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LG Arena KM900 touchscreen phone shows itself in print originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We got a whiff of this one last month courtesy of the FCC, but it looks like LG's new Arena KM900 touchscreen phone is now fully making its way out into the open, with the above image and some specs to go along with it surfacing in advance of MWC. As you can see above, this one bears a little resemblance to the Samsung Omnia, and boasts a 5-megapixel camera (plus a secondary one for video calls, it seems), built-in GPS, WiFi, and what's described as an "innovative S-Class 3D interface." Unfortunately, complete specs are still a bit of a mystery, but the phone is apparently on track to hit Europe as soon as March, and it seems a pretty safe bet that LG will have more to say about this one at MWC later this month.

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LG Arena KM900 touchscreen phone shows itself in print originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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QuantumPhonic QR wildly claims to nix echo and reverberation in arenas originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Haven't you heard? The Seattle SuperSonics are packing up and heading down to Oklahoma -- er, sort of, anyway. Said franchise will have to be renamed once situated in Oklahoma City's Ford Center, but whatever they end up being called, they'll surely be looking sharp on television. Reportedly, said arena will be getting an overhaul that will focus on improving the lighting and "capabilities for broadcasting games in high-definition." Eventually, management is hoping to pour some $100 million into renovating the venue, with the project mentioned here to suck up around $450,000 of that. There's no mention of details just yet (they're still waiting for bids), but fans of the to-be team will certainly want to tune in to see just how impressive the end results are.

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Oklahoma City's Ford Center upping HD abilities originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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FOX and TNT headed to Germany originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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