Isaiah's Tech

LG is holding their press conference at CES right now and the first thing they announced is their Optimus Black smartphone. This one is the "world's slimmest phone" at 9.2mm all the way across (not like the XPERIA Arc which has a curved body so it's kind of unfair). This handset sports a new (4-inch) NOVA display which is "designed to be the brightest, clearest and most readable among mobile screens with 700 nits of brightness for optimal visibility." LG is also claiming that it's the world's first smartphone to use a 2MP front-facing camera so that's pretty impressive as well. No official spec sheet was announced but we do know that there's WiFi Direct and a 1,500mAh battery. That being said, it's only running Android 2.2 and should be globally available in the first half of this year.

[Phandroid]