The LG-GD900 (codenamed and retroactively called LG Crystal) is a fashion-focused slider with high end specifications phone from
LG Electronics
LG Electronics Inc. () is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea. LG Electronics is a part of LG Corporation, the fourth largest '' chaebol'' in South Korea, and often considered a ...
that was publicly unveiled at
Mobile World Congress
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The event is held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain at the Fir ...
2009. It is claimed to be the world’s first transparent design phone. It comes with a dedicated
Bluetooth
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headset that is also transparent in parts.
The transparent part of the GD900 is the sliding keypad, which is designed to glow when in operation. The main casing material is metal and the phone is 13.4 mm thick. LG decided to ship GD900 with a tempered glass keypad like a screen.
In terms of features, the phone supports 7.2 Mbit/s
HSDPA and has a rear-mounted 8 MP camera with flash.
LG released most of the phone's specification at the launch event in London on 28 May 2009.
The GD900 was released in mid-June in Germany, and in 40 other countries worldwide on 1 July 2009.
References
External links
Official LG press releaseGD900 photo gallery from MWC09
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Mobile phones introduced in 2009