LG KU990 Viewty

Guide price: £350.00

Compact, touchscreen enabled mobile with a 5 megapixel camera. To be perfectly honest when I first got this phone I was disappointed, I had just been reviewing the iPod Touch and so was use to the incredible 'Touch screen' technology used on that model. The Viewty also features a touch screen, but it is not in the same league as the iPod. Now you would think that this all sounds very negative against the LG, but it isn't I have now accepted that the LG is different and actually incredibly good at what it does and can do. The touch screen really isn't as responsive as the iPod, but it still works very well and features finger stroke scrolling and quick selection without the use of the included scribe, plus 'Haptic' vibration feedback on selection. There is a very nice crisp, 3" screen and in widescreen mode it blows most other mobiles away! Photos and movies look really good and the playback is completely stutter/lag free with great colour.
As to what this mobile is capable of doing, it would be easier to tell you what it can't and that's not a lot! Every feature is on this phone, with the exception of WiFi!

* Camera Megapixels: 5 MP, 2592-1944 pixels, autofocus,
* Camera Video: (VGA 30fps, QVGA up to 120fps),
strobe flash: secondary VGA videocall camera
* MP3/MPEG4/WMV/AAC/DivX player
* FM radio with RDS
* Ringtones Type: Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3
* 3G: HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
* GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
* EDGE: Yes
* Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML
* Bluetooth: Yes, v1.2 with A2DP
* USB: Yes, v2.0
* Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email
* Vibration Alert: Yes
* Built-in handsfree
* Memory: 100 MB shared memory
* Memory Slot: microSD (TransFlash)
* Weight: 112 g
* Dimensions: 103.5 x 54.4 x 14.8 mm
* Display Type: TFT touchscreen, 256K colours
* Display Size: 240 x 400 pixels, 3 inches
* Organiser
* Voice memo

Hilary's Conclusion: Fully featured convergence device! You really can leave the iPod, PDA, digital camera at home and just take this one amazing mobile out with you. Touchscreen not as good as Apples superb effort, but it still works well. A really fantastic mobile!

Pros: Attractive and slim
Small and lightweight with a huge screen
Five megapixel camera with all a digital cameras features, including anti-shake!
Proper flash, manual focussing as well as full auto focus
Very loud speaker
Widescreen QWERTY keyboard
Handwriting recognition
Haptic vibration feeback
Fully customisable
Bluetooth with all the latest functions including music streaming
Very easy to use

Cons:
Battery plate easily dislodged
Very easy to damage - buy a crystal case immediately!