{"id":18209,"date":"2011-02-02T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:32:00","slug":"3d-smartphone-in-sa-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/18209-3d-smartphone-in-sa-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"3D smartphone in SA soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LG recently sent out a press release to tease the unveiling of their new <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/18169-Optimus-mobile-phone-unveiled.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Optimus 3D handset\">Optimus 3D handset<\/a> at the Mobile World Congress to be held in Barcelona later this month.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, the device will feature a display capable of displaying 3D images without the need for glasses, as well as a dual-lens camera that will allow for stereoscopic 3D recording.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phandroid.com\/2011\/01\/31\/lg-optimus-3d-pictured-live-for-first-time-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phandroid<\/a> reported that the device&#8217;s 3D display will probably measure 4.3&rdquo; diagonally based on photos sent to them by an &ldquo;anonymous tipster.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>They also said that the device will have a dual core system-on-a-chip (SoC, commonly called a &ldquo;processor&rdquo; when referring to smartphones or tablets) such as the Nvidia Tegra 2 which is to be used in the Optimus X2, as well as multi-channel RAM.<\/p>\n<p>LG South Africa has since confirmed that the Optimus 3D will be coming to South Africa in June 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The recommended pricing of the device wasn&#8217;t available by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307891-LG-Optimus-3D-smartphone-in-SA-soon\" target=\"_self\" title=\"3D smartphone in SA soon\"><strong>3D smartphone in SA soon<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently announced LG Optimus 3D has been confirmed for South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}