LG has disclosed their plans to unveil several luxury phones, with the inclusion of a new Prada design that is apparently positioned to dethrone Samsung from its current number two mobile phone maker in the world position.
According to SlashGear, LG’s mobile business president, Ahn Seung-kwon, says that although LG is currently at the number three position, they are going to reach the second place by 2012. The first step to make this plan a reality is by launching a new ‘Black Label’ series phone in Q4 2009 to compete with Apple’s iPhone 3GS.
Seung-kwon has also added that a new Prada phone is being created. The existing Prada phone had a new addition to the original phone’s capacitive touchscreen in the form of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and also introduced a limited-edition matching Bluetooth watch which was launched way back in November, 2008.
Seung-kwon also stated that LG was going to launch a rival to the Nokia Vertu range with ‘extreme premium’ devices.
There are no release or price details about the Prada phone or the extreme premium phone.