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LG U990 (VIEWTY) SILVER

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LG U990 (VIEWTY) SILVER

LG has produced a little gem (103.5 × 54.4 ×14.8 mm) with the LG U990 Viewty (sometimes also known just as the KU990) - a highly intuitive mobile phone with outstanding camera capabilities, easy navigation and operation and many additional excellent features. These include on-screen editing and drawing, MPEG4/Avi file playback, tactile feedback, tight mobile Google applications with YouTube integration and high-speed data transfer.

The front screen is a large (3-inch) 400 x 240 pixel touchscreen; there is an impressive 100 MB plus a microSD memory card slot extendable up to 2 GB. It weighs 112 g, but you are getting a large number of toys in the box, so a little pocket drop is understandable. The highlight, though is the 5.1 megapixel camera with Schneider Kreuzenach optics, Xenon Flash, manual/autofocus modes, image stabilzer, ISO800 SmartLight, face tracking and high speed 120 frames per second video recording capability.

Shooting options include autofocus, panorama, burst shots (9 fps) and a frame shot. Moreover, the save speed is fast: conventional cameraphones take between five and 10 seconds between the click of the picture being taken and when it appears on screen. The sleek black LG Viewty does this almost before you can say cheese a second time - within two seconds.

A circle around the camera lens is actually a Jog Dial. You use it to (digitally) zoom in and out in camera mode or to focus the camera in manual focus mode. It doubles as a volume control when you are talking on the phone and a scroll wheel to scroll through music tracks. In video camera mode, in addition to shooting VGA resolution clips at 30 fps, the Viewty also allows you to take pictures in 120 fps fast video recording mode and then play video in slow motion at up to 15 fps. LG Viewty also has a dedicated microphone to capture sound during video recording.

As a multimedia device, in addition to all traditional formats (MP3, AAC, 3GP and others) the LG U990 Viewty has the media player that supports MPEG4/Divx video file playback, so you can watch downloaded clips, TV shows and movies on your phone.

It incorporates Immersion's VibeTonz technology, so the problem of "tactile feedback" that plagued early touchscreen devices is more or less solved: nice one, LG.

The phone has an on-screen drawing/handwriting recognition feature too. You can draw pictures on a touchscreen, and Viewty will even recognize the

The LG Viewty KU990 is not a smartphone, but it is a lovely phone to use, with an excellent feature set, fast Internet browsing and arguably the best camera features on the market.

- Remarkable 5 megapixel camera with Xenon Flash and zoom facility.

- Video records at up to 120 frames per second - the highest frame speed ever for a camera phone.

- Ensure your, indoors and even at night, are correctly lit with the ISO and SmartLight technology.

- Handwriting recognition software to write notes.

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Specifications

Weight: 112g
Standby battery time: 2 weeks, 3 days and 22 hours

2G

2G phones are digital phones

3G or UMTS

Works in UMTS frequency channels 800/850/1900/2100 or 850/1700/1900/2100 MHz

5 Megapixel

The smallest single component of an image is the definition of a pixel. This camera has 5 Megapixel or 5 million pixels. The more the pixels the clearer the image.

Autofocus

This phone has an autofocus function allowing you to take pictures without the need to focus

Bluetooth

Bluetooth allows users to pair with other Bluetooth devices. This allows a wireless connection to a Bluetooth headset or carkit so that you can carry out a conversation without the need to hold your handset. Particularly useful for conversing whilst driving.

Built-in handsfree

You can use this phone's built-in speaker to listen to incoming or outgoing calls and music handsfree.

Camera

This phone has a built in camera

Document viewer

Allows you to view Documents

EDGE for high speed data access

High speed data access

Email

This phone is capable of sending and receiving email

Flash

This phone has a camera with an in-built flash

Flight mode

A safety feature, flight mode allows the user to switch off the mobile function of the phone whilst retaining power and usability of the other functions of the phone such as the organiser or MP3 player

FM Radio

Allows you to tune into FM Radio channels, the headset is used as the antenna.

Game

This phone has games

GPRS

Stands for General Packet Radio System. This basically allows you to browse internet websites using your phone. GPRS is mainly used for text based information - getting football results, checking train timetables, reading the news etc. GPRS is not bad at downloading pictures, however it is slower than 3G. You can use GPRS to received and send Multimedia messages such as a text with a picture.

It is advisable to choose a 3G handset for decent download speeds of videos and pictures rather than GPRS, however GPRS is pretty good for text based information and pictures with lower definition.

Memory expandable via MicroSD card

This allows you to expand the phone's memory using MicroSD cards. MicroSD cards are available in various sizes, the most popular being 1GB or 2GB which can hold thousands of songs and hundreds of pictures.

MP3 Player

The phone includes an MP3 player which allows you to play and store music. Works in a similar fashion to normal MP3 players in that you can upload Music onto the phone's memory or onto an external memory stick (size of memory slot dependent on phone). Once the music is loaded you can listen to it either on the phone's speakers or using a pair of headphones that is compatible with the handset.

MP3 Ringtone

You can choose an MP3 song from your MP3 player on your phone and set this as your ring tone on this phone

MP4

MPEG4 is most commonly used to store digital and digital video streams, including those defined by MPEG. It can also be used to store other data such as still images. MPEG-4 Part 14 allows streaming over the Internet and carries an officiall filename extension of .mp4, thus the container format is often referred to simply as MP4.

Multimedia Service MMS

Allows you to send and receive picture messages

Organiser

To do list, Calendar, Memo

Polyphonic ring tone

Polyphonic ringtones are ringtones that play several types of tones at a time (up to 70 in recent phones)

QVGA

320 × 240 resolution

SMS - text messages

Short message service - allows you to send and receive texts

Touch sensitive

This phone has touch sensitive keys

Triband

900 MHz (Europe/Brazil/Asia (ex Japan and S. Korea))
1800 MHz (Europe/Brazil)
1900 MHz (U.S./Canada/Latin America)

USB

A USB port allows you to connect your phone to your computer

Vibra alert

This function causes the phone to vibrate to alert the user than someone is trying to get in touch. Users sometimes use this function when they are in meetings instead of their ringer.

Video calling

This phone has a video calling function. When calling someone that also has a video phone, you will be able to see the person if you are in 3G coverage.

Video player

Plays videos

Video recorder

Records videos

Voice memo

You can save a voice memo on this phone. This is useful if something springs to mind and you son't want to forget it. You can also use the voice memo function to record a small conversation.

WAP 2.0