Today, South Korean consumer electronics maker LG debuted a full-touch featurephone called the Mini, which would have otherwise been unremarkable had it not been tied into a still-in-beta service called LG Air Sync which also was announced today.
LG Air Sync is a three-way sync service for feature phones (currently only works on the Mini) that syncs contacts, calendar data, memos, and photos and Web browser information with the user's PC and his related Air Sync Web account.
Air Sync's banner features are the following: "History Sync," which updates the phone's browser with the 100 most recently viewed Web sites from the user's PC; "Personal Information Manager (PIM) Sync," which syncs contact details and daily plans between the phone and the PC; and "R-Click" which instantly sends right-clicked images from the user's Web browser to his phone. It's a novel feature that hasn't been done elsewhere.
LG has not said if this service will open to the rest of its featurephones, and the beta testbed is currently Europe only. Interested LG device owners can still sign up for the service, however, despite current handset or region incompatibilities.
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