LG Viewty Review
The LG Viewty U990i combines a touch screen user interface, with the most recent technology and gadgets, to create a mobile phone that today’s consumers have come to expect.
If you have been thinking about buying an iPhone, you may want to consider looking into the LG U990i. With this phone you’ll get the touch screen technology that you are looking for, but you may find that it is even a better deal than the iPhone. LG has proven that they know how to create touch screen phones, as they’ve shown with the LG Prada.
With the LG Viewty U990i, you get a lot of the great features of the Prada, and even more. Some extras that you’ll find with the LG Viewty that you won’t find with the Prada include 3G, a 5-megapixel camera, and a better video camera, more memory, as well as longer battery life.
With the touch screen technology, the buttons and menu are accessible directly through the screen by touch. In addition, there are also standard buttons located below the screen for making and ending calls. On the side of the phone are buttons for the music player and camera.
Using the touch screen for composing text message may be a little slow if you are used to typing out text message fast, but the LG Viewty U990i does feature T9 predictive text, and a stylus pen that may help speed up sending text messages. In addition to these options, this mobile phone also features handwriting recognition.
The camera that comes with this mobile phone is the best that LG has come out with to date. The 5-megapixel camera features a high quality Schneider-Kreuznach lens, and autofocus, as well as a SmartLight that makes low light pictures come out clearer than those taken with most other phone cameras.
Along with a superior still camera, the LG U990i phone features a great video camera with high resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The phone has built in picture, as well as video editing tools, additionally you’ll find a front facing camera that uses 3G for video calling.
The music player on the LG Viewty U990i supports a variety of different file formats, including MP3/AAC/AAC+/AAC++/WMA, in addition to FM Stereo.
This phone isn’t skimpy on memory either; as it’s internal memory is a huge 90 MB with the option of adding up to 2 GB of additional memory with a micro SD memory card.
You’ll find that with 3G connections, you’ll have extra fast download speeds with the U990i phone. This phone also supports web browsing and email, in addition there is a document viewer that supports several different document types, including PDF, and Word.
The only real problem with the LG Viewty U990i may be the life of the battery. It does tend to drain the battery more quickly than some phones. The battery life of this phone is perhaps comparable to the battery life of the iPhone.
There is no doubt that the LG Viewty U990i is in the same class as the iPhone, and in reality, it is probably the better phone in many ways.
