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Ironwalt · 10-10-2007, 2:32 PM

Press Release Source: Rogers Communications Inc.; ROGERS WIRELESS INC.

Rogers Wireless and LG announce the sleekest and best looking yet: the LG Shine Slider with video calling
Wednesday October 10, 12:09 pm ET

The perfect match of style and technology lets you see and be seen on wireless video calls
TORONTO, Oct. 10 /CNW/ - Rogers Wireless and LG Electronics today announced the exclusive availability of the new LG Shine Slider in Canada. The LG Shine Slider is the phone that will get you noticed with a slider form factor, a sexy stainless steel body and a brilliant 2.2 inch mirror-like screen. Moreover, the LG Shine Slider is a unique HSPA model enabling wireless video calling. Rogers remains the first and only wireless carrier in North America to offer wireless video calling.
"As the leading wireless carrier in Canada, Rogers Wireless continues to offer the latest innovations today's youth want in mobile technology," said John Boynton, SVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Rogers Wireless. "The LG Shine Slider came up in consumer research as the hands-down winner for its design and features. This is LG's better looking Shine model and we are confident it will be the most sought after phone of the season by Canadians who want to see and be seen."

"After over six months of anticipation, we are thrilled to launch the elegant LG Shine Slider phone as an exclusive with Rogers. This will be the first LG Shine Slider in the world to offer video calling making it more than a phone with a camera - it really is a camera with a phone," said Andrew Barrett, vice-president of Marketing, LG Electronics Canada. "Loaded with features including an HSPA feature set, a video phone, two cameras and a thumb joystick, the LG Shine phone is unparalleled in technology and style."

The LG Shine Slider also features:

- Wireless Video Telephony enabled
- Mobile entertainment on-the-go with access to one million tracks on
Rogers MusicStore
- 2MP camera
- MP3 player, microSD memory slot and stereo Bluetooth

The LG Shine Slider will be premiered at the LG Shine event at the Birks Yorkville store in Toronto on October 11th at 7 p.m. Media can attend the event and be the first to see and try Canada's most beautiful phone by RSVPing to the LG contact listed below.
The LG Shine Slider will be available exclusively at Rogers on-line and at retail locations at the beginning of November.

About Rogers Wireless

Rogers Wireless is Canada's largest wireless voice and data communications services provider with offices in Canadian cities across the country, with 7 million customers, and two powerful brands: Rogers Wireless and Fido. Rogers Wireless, which operates Canada's largest and most reliable integrated wireless voice and data network, providing advanced voice and wireless data solutions to customers from coast to coast, is Canada's only carrier operating on the GSM/GPRS technology platform, the world standard for wireless communications technology and the only technology that enables roaming around the world in 200 countries for voice and 127 for data. The company is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI - News; NYSE: RCI - News), a diversified Canadian communications and media company. For further information, please visit Rogers.com

About LG

The LG brand was established in 1995. The company is a global force in electronics, information and communications products, with more than 82,000 employees working in 77 countries around the world, and annual total revenues of more than US $35-billion (non-consolidated). LG Canada has offices in Toronto and Vancouver. LG Canada is focused on delivering award-winning products known for blending style and technology. These innovative products include cell phones, flat screen TVs, laptop computers and digital appliances. For more information please visit LG :: Canada.

For further information

Odette Coleman, Rogers Wireless, (416) 935-6441, Odette.coleman@rci.rogers.com
Brenna Eller, High Road Communications (for LG), (416) 644-2277, beller@highroad.com

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Source: Rogers Communications Inc.; ROGERS WIRELESS INC.

Fred333 · 10-18-2007, 2:09 PM

Sounds like a very nice phone. Are there any pictures out there?

Ironwalt · 10-18-2007, 2:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fred333

Sounds like a very nice phone. Are there any pictures out there?

Go here for photos Photos: LG Shine - Slide it up - CNET Reviews

RJB · 10-20-2007, 3:10 PM

Basicaly a 8700 in a slider form

10-10-2007, 2:32 PM	#1
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