LG unveils new premium cell phone with voice-activated power camera.

LG's phone business, which was slow to advance into smartphones and has largely did not win consumers from sector leaders Apple and Samsung, hopes the revolutionary 'Optimus G' will also help it compete against Google's Motorola, Taiwan's HTC Corp and China's ZTE and Huawei.

LG's Optimus Gary the gadget guy, which uses Google's Android podium, will go on sale in a few days in South Korea for 1 zillion won ($900), and later in Japan and north america.

The Optimus G boasts any 13 megapixel camera which a user can instruct to consider snaps by talking to this, plus a 4. 7-inch screen which has a sharper picture quality than the iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy Ohydrates III.

Powered by Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon brand, the Optimus G will focus on superfast mobile networks and also carry out several functions simultaneously, such as showing a television broadcast and simultaneously texting or searching the web.

Among its rivals would be the Droid Razr models unveiled by means of Google's Motorola earlier this month, and Lumia 920, a flagship handset created by Nokia and Microsoft Corp which uses the newest Windows Phone operating software.

Apple unveiled its iPhone 5 yesterday, and said on Monday this had booked orders for in excess of two million iPhone 5 models in the first 24 hours it was for sale, evidence of stronger than anticipated demand for the new model in front of the October-December holiday quarter.

Reflecting expectations how the new model will help LG turnaround its money-losing smartphone business, LG Electronics stock has risen 20 percent previously three months, beating a 7. 8 percent rise in the wider market and Samsung's 8 % rise.

($1 = 1115. 9500 Korean won)

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