2010 &LG &LG Mobile World Cup &new york city 15 Jan 2010 04:15 pm
Fastest Texters in the World come from South Korea
At this year’s LG Mobile World Cup in New York City Yeong-ho Bae, 18, and Mok-min Ha, 17, of South Korea defeated a host of challengers to become the world texting champions at the LG Mobile World Cup in New York City. The fruits of their labor was a $100K check- not too shabby if you ask me. All contestants texted in their native language using two of LG’s current mobile phones: the LG BL20, which has a numeric keypad, and the LG GW520, which features a QWERTY keyboard. Morgan Dynda and Kate Moore from the United States placed second, winning USD 20,000, and Juan Ignacio Aufranc and Agustina Montegna from Argentina took third place and USD 10,000.
In addition to the main competition, the players attempted to set a new Guinness World Records® record for fastest texting, using the LG enV3 handset on the Verizon Wireless network. Pedro Matias, 27, from Portugal set a new record by typing a 264-character text in just 1 minute 59 seconds, shaving 23 seconds off the previous record set by Finland’s Arttu Harkki in 2005.
[via LG]