Chocolate phones

Friday, February 9th 2007 - 00:30 CET - Comments: 0

S kyworks Solutions, Inc., an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, announced that LG is leveraging its Helios power transceiver, the highly integrated SKY74400, across its family of GPRS Chocolate phones launched in Europe and expanding to around the world later this year. Skyworks previously announced support for LG’s suite of CDMA Chocolate phones in April 2006.

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LG KG800 GPRS Chocolate phone

LG's KG800 GPRS Chocolate tri-band handset, one of several models, has a touch-sensitive navigation, and features a hidden display and touchpad that glows when activated, thus becoming ‘invisible' when not in use. Its award-winning design has proven very popular with consumers, having already sold six million units around the world since it debut in early May 2006 and achieving record sales in many countries. Other features include a high-quality MP3 music player, a multi-megapixel camera with flash and video recording, Bluetooth technology for wireless transmission of voice and data between compatible devices, 128 MB of onboard memory, and a high-resolution liquid crystal display (LCD) screen.

 

LG Chocolate phones

"Skyworks is pleased to be extending its relationship with LG to now include GPRS radios for their highly popular Chocolate family," said Brian M. Daly, Skyworks' vice president of marketing. "Given our capabilities across virtually all air interfaces, we are delighted that our integrated solutions enable LG and others to deliver feature-rich phones with sleek designs and innovative technology for today's demanding consumers."

 

Chocolate phones - Mobile Choice Consumer Award

The Chocolate has won multiple design and customer satisfaction awards including Europe's Reddot Radius Trophy for the 2006 Design Team of the Year; Germany's iF Product Design Award in 2006 for innovation; the 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Award for Subscriber Technology Innovation; and the 2006 Mobile Choice Consumer Award. Through its innovative and proprietary technology, Skyworks is providing radio architectures to several of today's leading OEMs and is the industry's only high-volume supplier across all key air interfaces, namely CDMA, GPRS and EDGE.

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