LG to Release Handset with OCR Capabilities

LG Electronics announced a new soon-to-be released handset, the LG-KP3800, that recognizes and reads characters and numbers on business cards, reports Seong-ju Lee for Telecoms Korea.

"LG-KP3800 can read and convert name, telephone, fax and cell phone number and e-mail address written on business card via a 1.3megapixel CCD camera and store the information in Phone Book menu.

The model, which will be supplied to KTF, also features GPS, fingerprint recognition and 17 φ 3D dual speaker, mobile banking, 3D games, stereo ring tone and flash light. In addition, it can download 15 songs and record digital video for up to 80 minutes."

My goodness.

emily | 2:36 PM | New Camera Phones of Note |
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