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LG GC900-Verdict

Emaily — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:53:02 +0000

The LG Viewty Smart is priced at Rs. 27,500. Considering the performance on offer, I’d say straightway that the phone is not worth the price it is asking for. Sure it has got some good things such as the beautiful design, the display quality when indoors and the audio quality and there are also quite a few features available. But there are many areas where the phone falls short of expectations, especially in the camera department. As such I’d suggest readers to go for the Samsung Ultra Touch instead if you want an 8 MP phone with a touchscreen… Read the rest

LG GC900-Battery Life

Emaily — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:50:46 +0000

The LG Viewty Smart has a 1000 mAh Li-Ion battery. With standard usage, which included a bit of calling, messaging, music playback, camera usage (with some shots taken with flash ON) and web browsing using EDGE the phone lasted for a day and half. This figure is expected to go further down south when you use features such as 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi. As such the battery life of the phone can only be called average.

LG GC900-Web Browsing & GPS Navigation

Emaily — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:45:24 +0000

The LG Viewty Smart comes with a pretty standard web browser built-in. The browser is disappointing in its features as well as performance. The page loading was slow, many elements on the page did not load correctly and the worse thing was that after opening a couple of heavy pages the phone runs out of system memory and then you have to close the browser down. Scrolling around the page was quite slow and the default font was ridiculously tiny, making it hard to read or click on something without zooming in. Overall the browser was pretty unimpressive in terms… Read the rest

LG GC900-Images & Videos

Emaily — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:41:27 +0000

The images and videos on the phone can be viewed from the Gallery menu. The images and videos appear in a grid view in portrait mode and horizontal sliding view in landscape mode. You can zoom into images by pinching gestures like on the iPhone. The phone also supports slideshows with various transition effects. The phone can open high resolution images fairly quickly and even zooming or panning is smooth and fast.

The phone claims to have DivX and XviD support built-in. Unfortunately, I found that the only DivX… Read the rest

LG GC900-Music

Emaily — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:11:45 +0000

The music player on the LG Viewty Smart is pretty good. Similar to the Arena, the music player does not have a separate Now Playing screen and the tracks start playing in the playlist itself. Just press the play button next to the track title and the name will expand and display the track info and you’ll see the playback controls pop-up below on the screen.

There are a couple of annoyances related to the interface though. Firstly, the player never shows the track title but instead shows the file name unless you click on the name. Now, at… Read the rest