LG Optimus One Hits 1 Million Sales Worldwide
LG today announced that worldwide sales of its Optimus One smart phone have hit one million units just 40 days after the phone’s initial launch. Now available in the Middle East after the global roll-out last month, the Optimus One is the fastest selling mobile handset in the company’s history.
Powered by the Android 2.2 “Froyo” OS and optimized for Google Mobile Services, the LG Optimus One has been a big hit with first-time smart phone buyers looking for high performance and useful applications in a handset priced very competitively to feature phones.
“The versatile, powerful LG Optimus One was designed to provide an easy transition into the world of smartphones and as these numbers demonstrate, there is obviously a strong demand for this type of device,” Mr. Kevin Cha, Managing Director of LG Electronics
Levant “Optimus One seems to be what many customers were waiting for, proving that smartphones aren’t just for early adopters anymore.”
One of the first smartphones to launch with Google’s latest operating system, the Optimus One allows for up to three times faster internet browsing, web-page loading, and multi-tasking. The Optimus One also incorporates a unique LG-designed user-interface (UI) along with a camera that features face tracking and smile shot, a 3.2″ wide HVGA screen and a long-lasting 1500mAh capacity battery.
With a nod to style-conscious users, LG’s new smart phone comes in a wide range of color schemes including black, wine, titan, blue, silver and purple. Exact color availability will vary from market to market.
With the global roll-out still under way, the Optimus One will soon be available via 120 carriers and partners. LG expects Optimus One to be its first 10 million-seller smart phone.
UN official urges regulators to help increase broadband penetration worldwide
The head of the United Nations telecommunications agency urged regulators to build on massive recent growth in mobile cellular penetration worldwide and try to repeat that success with Internet and broadband.
Speaking at the opening of the Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) in Dakar, Senegal, Hamadoun Tour© called on participants from around the world to embrace regulation that will help the world does for the Internet and broadband what we have now so successfully achieved with mobile.â€
Mr. Tour©, the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), said that two things needed to change in order to repeat the ‘mobile miracle’ with broadband deployment.
Firstly, governments need to raise broadband to the top of the development agenda. Secondly, we need to ensure that Internet access – and especially broadband access – becomes very much more affordable.
This is where the GSR can play an important role,†he added. Affordability is dramatically improved when competitive forces are brought to bear, and when there are clear incentives to increase capacity.â€
This year’s Symposium features a special focus on broadband, looking at the challenges faced by regulators in stimulating nationwide broadband deployment.
Mr. Tour© noted that this was the first time the GSR was held in Africa and praised the continent’s progress in information and communications technology (ICT) development. Mobile cellular penetration is now 44 per cent across the continent as a whole, up from just 15 per cent four years ago.
Also addressing the meeting, which continues until Friday, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade stressed that everyone should share in the so-called ‘digital dividend.’
The aim of regulators can be stated quite simply: A computer for all, digital for all.â€
One of the main results of the GSR is a set of guidelines, based on contributions from participants, which are designed to assist regulators in promoting open access to ICT worldwide.
