LG receives industry accolades

Global and regional digital leader LG Electronics has won 16 prestigious "2005 CES Innovation Awards" at the International Consumer Electronics Show, the world's largest annual consumer technology show, held in Las Vegas, USA.

LG has won more awards than any other company worldwide across multiple categories, including Digital Display, Home Theater, Video Components and Computer Components This high-profile industry recognition is consistent with the company's growing global leadership positioning in consumer electronics, home appliances, information technology products and mobile phones. Sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the International CES Innovations Awards highlight product advancements in technology design and engineering. More than 800 entries from 347 companies compete for the awards.

"The explosion in consumer technology will continue in 2005 and this win reiterates LG's commitment to design and technical excellence. As products are evaluated on a number of criteria including user value, aesthetics, innovative design, quality and contributions to the quality of life, the CES Innovations Design and Engineering award programme provides manufacturers and developers the opportunity to have their products judged by an independent panel of journalists, designers and engineers," said K H Kim, President, LG Electronics, Middle East and Africa Operations.

Gadgets are becoming more about lifestyle choice and fashion and personalisation is increasingly the key to gadget design. In keeping with the portable technologies theme at the Show, LG unveiled a range of high definition products including a unique new 17-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor received top honors with a "Best of Innovations" award in the Computer Components category.

Other products that received awards include the Flatron L1730S LCD Monitor with LG's revolutionary f-ENGINE technology to produce sharp, bright and true-to-life images and the world's quietest projector the RD-JT91. The 60-inch Plasma TV has a built-in digital video recorder for recording programming and provides consumers with better overall picture quality and viewing experience.

The 55-inch LCD TV provides crisp, brilliant images and incorporates LG's proprietary Super In-Plane-Switching (Super IPS) to provide a 176-degree viewing angle, the widest in the market. This quick response time decreases blurred fast motion images often seen on LCDs during sporting events. The LDA-511 is a high definition DVD player that has the ability to convert all DVD signals to 1080i (more than a thousand lines of horizontal resolution) via HDMI output.

"In line with LG's reputation for innovation, several new mobile phones were unveiled at CSE. The LG A7110 model phone is capable of high-speed data transmission, mobile instant messenger, two-way short messaging services and photo caller-ID. Its integrated camera and advanced messaging features allow users to send photos and videos with personalised text, voice and/or sound," said Kim.

The VX8000 mobile phone features video and music on demand for streaming, downloading and playing video and audio clips, video messaging capabilities and an integrated CCD 1.3 mega pixel camera with macro mode with four digital zoom settings for shooting video and still images. Users can compose and view their shots with large internal and external 262K TFT color LCD screens.
With the VX4700 Push-to-Talk mobile handset, LG has integrated this practical feature into their most advanced and high-tech handsets. The VX4700 also features complete voice command and driving modes, for a truly hands-free and safe way to operate the mobile phone while driving.

The successor to LG's best selling VX6000 camera phone is the upgraded version, VX6100. This model features an integrated VGA camera with flash, a one-touch dedicated camera function that lets users take pictures even when the phone is closed, and the image adjustment features that let photographers perfect their photos, including white balance, color effects and resolution and file quality options.

The LG VX7000 embodies all the latest trends in mobile phone technology and elevates the camera phone to a new level with video capability and rotating lens. The phone is also armed with LG standard features that no mobile phone user should be without, including speed dialing, personal organizer, large address book (500 entries), voice dialing and MIDI sound.