LG Announces Its Budget Sat Nav Phone

It looks like the Apple iPhone is not the only device that’s getting covetous gazes with Nokia finally announcing global release dates for the N95. Well, instead of wishing ill to its fellow cellphone manufacturer, LG has come out with its own GPS phone to compete with Nokia’s high-end GPS device. The LG SB190 SatNav is not as fully featured as the N95 but it does come a lot cheaper at KRW 400,000 or $425.00 USD. As I never use satellite navigation myself I can’t tell if a lower feature GPS phone is worth paying 400 bucks for, but the interface of the phones being held by the Korean models seem good enough to replace a man’s native ability to find his way in alien land. Coming with the GPS and the phone are a 1.3 megapixel camera, a little too down-to-earth what with LG bumping into 2.0 MP in their most recent Chocolate, and an MP3 player.