Enlighten: Smartphone for Verizon Wireless

LG has just announced the Enlighten, its newest smartphone for Verizon Wireless. It features Android 2.3 Gingerbread and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. 

The Enlighten appears to be a successor to last year's entry-level Ally. It sports a 3.2-inch, HVGA (320 x 480 pixel) resolution display and an 800MHz processor, and has a full QWERTY keyboard with large keys for typing. 

The Enlighten supports Adobe Flash Player 10 as well as Verizon's mobile hotspot function. It also has a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with camcorder. 

LG has installed Android 2.3 Gingerbread along with its custom user interface on the Enlighten. It will lighten wallets by $79.99, after rebate, when it launches online on September 22 and in stores on September 29.

Verizon, AT & T and T-Mobile invests 100 million dollar

Verizon Wireless, AT & T and T-Mobile USA have invested more than $ 100 million in ISIS, a payment system, Google Wallet and promise in the battle.

100 million dollars could be just the tip of the iceberg, because it could invest more. The mobile payment market expected to reach 670 billion dollars by 2015, according to Juniper Research, is expected to milardi 240 dollars this year alone.

The launch of ISIS is scheduled for the beginning or middle of 2012, the project companies currently have partnerships with Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express Financial Services.

It will be interesting to see how ISIS thwart Google Wallet, which will be launched soon available on mobile especially with the most popular platform. The plans of the three companies will surely the idea of ​​producing phones with application presinstallata ISIS. We will see what will happen in the near future in the U.S. and if any of these payment systems will never share from our own.