{"id":408502,"date":"2010-03-09T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/fd3a24d526d71540b553e2806f7cea24"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:30:00","slug":"article-att-experiencing-supply-constraints-with-lg-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/408502","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: AT&amp;T experiencing supply constraints with LG eXpo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/3\/96121-93635-lg-expo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Announced in November 2009, the LG eXpo was intended to be the &#8220;phone with a projector.&#8221;&nbsp; As it stands today, it has become the phone that is out of stock.&nbsp; According to industry insiders, &#8220;production hurdles&#8221; are keeping the device off of retail shelves.&nbsp; LG and AT&amp;T claim that the device is out of stock due to &#8220;strong  demand,&#8221; while Ari Stewart, Vice President of wireless products at  AuthenTec, claims that the eXpo suffered from &#8220;antenna issues.&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;We  shipped thousands of [sensors] to LG&#8230;but there has been a delay,&#8221;  Stewart said.&nbsp; When pressed about the issue, LG said &#8220;We are working with all our partners to address this issue and expect  to have product available soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The eXpo is the manufacturer&#8217;s second smartphone (after the Incite), and in a competitive smartphone environment, the manufacturer is working hard to move into the No. 2 spot by 2012 (as it stands, LG is the third largest phone manufacturer in the world).&nbsp; LG is rumored to be the first to launch a device with Windows Phone 7 Series installed, so should that come to fruition, it could translate into a sales boon for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/velocity\/2010\/03\/05\/the-mystery-behind-lgs-expo-smart-phone\/\" >Forbes<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprint.com\/4G\" ><em><br \/>Powered by Sprint 4G<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vW14DwiA3Mz9MkxgA5uXbQV4lPA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vW14DwiA3Mz9MkxgA5uXbQV4lPA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vW14DwiA3Mz9MkxgA5uXbQV4lPA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vW14DwiA3Mz9MkxgA5uXbQV4lPA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/Iwlg9wyvptY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced in November 2009, the LG eXpo was intended to be the &#8220;phone with a projector.&#8221;&nbsp; As it stands today, it has become the phone that is out of stock.&nbsp; According to industry insiders, &#8220;production hurdles&#8221; are keeping the device off of retail shelves.&nbsp; LG and AT&amp;T claim that the device is out of stock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}