LG makes the Optimus Net and Pro official in India

While these phones have been in the market for sometime, LG officially announced them today. The Optimus Pro is available for Rs.9,599 and the Optimus Net is priced at Rs.10,999. Both the phones will go up against the Motorola Fire and the Fire XT.

LG’s new offerings

LG Optimus PRO brings the popular combination of touch and QWERTY and features a unique “Portrait Touch Screen” of 2.8-inch display that allows user to read and write up to 16 lines as compared to 8-10 lines in the conventional landscape display screen. This supported with the ergonomic QWERTY keypad with dedicated shortcuts will enable smartphone users to multitask with ease and enhance their productivity.

Here are some of the highlights of the phone:

• 2.8-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with a 240 x 320 pixel resolution

• 3G, EDGE/GPRS, Wi-Fi with hot spot creativity

• GPS with A-GPS support

• Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP and USB 2.0

• 3.1 megapixel camera, video capture up to VGA resolution

• 3.5mm earphone socket

• Expandable memory up to 32GB

The Optimus Net takes the place of the Optimus One P500 and comes with a new Social + feature. The Social + is a unique social media aggregator, which enables smartphone users to converge the updates, events of popular social networking portals into one convenient widget on the homescreen. With automatic updates and streaming, users can multitask between updating their status while reading their friends’ social media feeds on the same screen simultaneously. You can read the review of the Optimus Net right here.

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Some of the highlights of the phone include:

• 3.2-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with a 320 x 480 pixel resolution

• 3G, EDGE/GPRS, Wi-Fi with hotspot creativity

• GPS with A-GPS support

• Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP and USB 2.0

• 3.1 megapixel auto-focus camera, video capture up to VGA resolution

• 3.5mm earphone socket

• Expandable memory up to 32GB