LG's Prada phone rather upset the Apple-cart. Until the slender fashion-handset stepped into the limelight, analysts were happily joining up the dots between Synaptic's Onyx concept and Apple's iPhone, and fully expecting to see the capacitive ClearPad technology appear in Cupertino's long-awaited handset. Then out struts the LG, and all of a sudden the catwalk is decidedly more crowded than perhaps Apple expected it to be. Of course, in time each was slotted neatly into its niche: Apple as smartphone, Prada as over-designed fluff, and yet the promise of those initial Onyx concepts kept teasing us with just what might lurk inside the 12mm thin handset.




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