Nel sempre minore fetta di dispositivi dotati di tastiera QWERTY, la koreana LG ha annunciato il lancio in Korea del Sud dello smartphone Optimus Q2. Dotato di processore nVIDIA Tegra 2 con frequenza di clock di 1,2GHz e schermo Nova da 4″ basato su tecnologia IPS con luminosità pari a 700 nit, l’Optimus Q2 si pone come assoluto top di gamma tra i terminali dotati di tastiera fisica. Più sottile e leggero del predecessore, il modello LU2300, esso porta in dote uno schermo più grande ed una tastiera più ampia. Il lancio in Korea del Sud è previsto per questa settimana, anche se non sono ancora noti prezzo e disponibilità nel resto del mondo.

[spoiler title=”Comunicato stampa (tradotto dal koreano in inglese)”]LG Electronics, thin and lightweight QWERTY smartphone dual-core

2011-09-19

LG Electronics the ease of use, further volunteer opening night performance design will showcase a full QWERTY smartphone.

LG Electronics LG from next weekend, to be released exclusively through yupeulreoseureul ‘Optimus Q2’ which caused a frenzy last year, a QWERTY smartphone ‘Optimus Q’ is the successor.

After changing the perception of a full QWERTY smartphone, and ease of follow-up model for the response from the spread of a highly reflecting consumer demand for the inconvenience of traditional QWERTY smartphone has greatly improved.

‘Optimus Q2’ 4-inch WVGA display with IPS-grade form of a horizontal slide, be doing a combination of the QWERTY keyboard, though, the entire thickness, 12.3mm, weight 147g thin and light.

In particular, compared to existing products thickness 2mm, weight 10g reduces the country’s thinnest, lightest and most of the same family for sale, more spacious keyboard layout is easier to enter.

1.2 gigahertz (GHz) dual-core processor, the brightest of the existing 700 smartphone knit (nit, luminance units) of the IPS display, gingerbread and the operating system to mount the high performance is achieved.

Also, apply touch-sensitive front panel buttons, highlight the clean, elegant design and black / white, two species will be released.

In addition, up to 22 times faster compared to Bluetooth to implement the ‘Wi-Fi Direct (Wi-Fi Direct)’ support, authentication and ease of content sharing between devices, 5.0 megapixel camera and video call front camera, was mounted only.

LG Electronics nayoungbae MC (Mobile Communications) is responsible for Korea, “one step further with a full QWERTY smartphone QWERTY chulsihae 20-30 hit the preferred customer focus,” said “as a distinctive design and performance of the predecessor, will lead the success story,” he emphasized.[/spoiler]