BONN, Germany-T-Mobile Germany said it reached a two-year agreement with LG Electronics Co. Ltd. to exclusively sell selected LG cell phones.
The latest device is the LG L5100 camera phone, which will only be offered in Germany by T-Mobile and T-Mobile sales partners. Further GPRS- and UMTS-enabled devices are to follow.
LG Electronics said it intends to use the cooperation to firmly position its brand among German customers: “Thanks to our partner, T-Mobile, we can now tap a larger customer group in Germany with the creativity and innovation power that has made us the world’s No. 5 in the cell-phone market within only a few years,” said Weon-Dae Kim, managing director of LG Electronics Deutschland GmbH.
Under a previous agreement, the first LG cell phones offered exclusively by T-Mobile to its customers are the prepaid model LG C1200 and its successor, the LG C2200.