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A Touchscreen of Class

T-Mobile announces exclusive on the LG GT500

T-Mobile LG GT500 “ key features:

  • Exclusively available on T-Mobile
  • High performance 3¯ touchscreen
  •  5 Mega pixel camera with autofocus
  • High speed downloads and uploads with internet on your phone
  • High quality sound with built-in Dolby Mobile 2.0
  • Full range of multimedia entertainment, including Mobile TV and T-Mobile Mobile Jukebox
  • Built in GPS
  • Free on a £25 per month tariff.    

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1 July 2009:  The new LG GT500 will be exclusively available on T-Mobile, the mobile network announced today. The handset offers a high quality touchscreen, and a whole host of multimedia features, all at an affordable price, and in a sleek design.

 

For customers who expect more from their phone’s camera capabilities, the LG GT500 boasts a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, and image stabilisation and digital zoom features. For keeping in touch with news and e-mails, it offers high speed internet on your phone, and it can even be used as a modem with a laptop.  Its pre-installed quick links give you instant updates from favourite sites such as Twitter or Facebook whilst on the move.

 

For those who love music, it has a top quality Dolby sound system for listening to all your favourite tracks, and coupled with the phone’s large, high performance screen, it’s perfect for watching YouTube clips.  What’s more, the LG GT500 is also a useful navigation device, with in-built GPS technology.

 

Daniel Meredith, Head of Handset and Device Marketing, T-MobileUK: We are delighted to have the exclusive on the LG GT500. We expect its huge range of features will appeal to a wide audience, interested in both style and function. Music lovers will enjoy its top quality sound, and its high performance camera will not disappoint photo fans. Meanwhile, the T-Mobile internet on your phone service will ensure customers can stay connected.¯

 

Jeremy Newing, LG Head of Marketing Mobile, added: We are committed to bringing phones to market which genuinely meet the consumer’s needs. The LG GT500 boasts both social networking and GPS features that genuinely deliver a rich user experience, all within a sleek touchscreen handset¯.

 

The LG GT500 will be available from T-Mobile stores from today, with prices starting from free on a £25 a month tariff.  For more details please visit: www.t-mobile.co.uk.

 

 

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Contacts:

Sophia Parviez, T-Mobile PR Manager                          +44 (0) 7908 208 417

Brands2Life                                                                          +44 (0) 207 592 1200

 

About T-MobileUK

 T-Mobile is one of the world’s largest mobile operators with more than 125 million customers worldwide and is the service provider of choice for 16.7 million customers in the UK. T-Mobile offers a range of innovative products and services, such as Solo, the SIM-only plan Combi, a traditional minutes and text package, and Flext, the UK’s first flexible tariff. T-Mobile continues to innovate with new devices such as the UK’s first Androidā„¢-based smart phone, the T-Mobile G1, now with over 1,000 available applications. . T-Mobile has pioneered the mobile internet, and operates an award-winning 3G network with speeds of up to 4.5Mbps. As a pioneer of deep network sharing in the UK, T-Mobile plans to deliver close to complete population coverage for 3G services in 2010.

 

For more information about T-MobileUK, please visit www.t-mobile.co.uk