BUSAN ― LG Electronics introduced its vision for the fifth-generation mobile communications era, showcasing a variety of high-tech products ranging from televisions to wearables at the World IT Show Monday.
South Korea’s second largest tech company displayed its 77-inch Ultra OLED TVs, Web operating system-based smart TVs and the LG G Watch R smartwatch in line with its 5G vision aimed at boosting the products’ user-friendly interfaces “beyond imagination.”
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Models pose with LG Electronics’ LG G Watch R smart watch aligned with the company’s new vision for 5G communications in Busan on Monday. (LG Electronics) |
Under the four themes of “Connect Things, Deliver Feeling, Read Minds and Create Reality,” LG Electronics also introduced a new concept smartphone, AKA, short for “Also Known As,” whose animation functions can be customized to consumers’ taste.
Its G Pad, offering a differentiated user-experience connected to smartphones, and Tone Plus headsets are part of its core products displayed at the exhibition under the 5G vision.
The tech giant introduced another concept technology enabling smartphone users to send Ultra HD visual content, and a connected automobile service through gigabit Internet connections.
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A model poses with LG Electronics’ new concept smartphone, AKA, at the World IT Show in Busan on Monday. The phone, which can be customized to the individual consumer’s taste in animation functions, will hit the local market next month. (LG Electronics) |
It said that LG Electronics aims to realize its 5G-based technology and service by making them a hundred times faster than the existing 4G Long Term Evolution.
“Its next-generation appliances and services will allow users to work and interact with others in real-time, such as transmit data through hyper broadband and consumer-tailored networks,” the company said in a press release.
By Park Hyong-ki (
hkp@heraldcorp.com)
