The name may mislead some into thinking that the Viewty Smart is a smartphone. Well, it isn't. Also known as the GC900, the Viewty Smart picks up where the earlier Viewty left off, with a higher-resolution 8-megapixel camera and spruced-up user interface.
Upside The Viewty Smart uses the same 3D S-Class user interface as the Arena. We like the striking visuals and fancy animations on the Arena, so the experience is likely to be similar on the Viewty Smart. What is different is the camera interface. There's now an onscreen dial to switch between shooting modes and a finger gesture interface that lets you zoom in by drawing a circle in a clockwise direction on the display. You can also pinch and stretch to resize images, plus there's a thumbnail viewer that displays recent snaps.
Aside from a higher-resolution 8-megapixel image sensor and manual focusing feature, LG claims that its Intelligent Shot mode is a first for camera-phones. This is capable of analyzing shooting conditions and matching it to pre-programmed scene settings. Taking it a step further is a live histogram, a common feature on dedicated digital cameras, that measures exposure to guide users when snapping. In terms of design, the Viewty Smart is a break from the earlier Viewty. In fact, it doesn't resemble the latter at all. The angular edges give the Viewty Smart a futuristic and trendy look, so it's likely to catch on with the design-conscious crowd.
We're not sure what the footprint of the Viewty Smart is, but given that it has the same 3-inch, WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen as the Arena, we expect it to be rather similar in size. The Viewty Smart is slightly thicker (at 12.4mm) than the Arena, but slimmer than competing touchscreen models like the LG Renoir and Samsung Pixon.
On connectivity options, the Viewty Smart has HSDPA, Wi-Fi and Assisted-GPS for geotagging images. There's also 1.5GB of onboard memory and support for microSD flash media up to 32GB.
Downside While we prefer to see a Xenon flash module on camera-phones, there have been LED offerings that have delivered decent light output, so we'll see how the LED flash performs on this LG before passing judgment. A 3.5mm audio jack would also have been a great feature to the handset.
Outlook The Viewty Smart looks like a good addition to the current crop of 8-megapixel touchscreen camera-phones, though how intuitive the new shooting interface is remains to be seen. We'll definitely run this through thoroughly when we get hold of a unit for evaluation. Meanwhile, the phone is expected to be available in Asia Pacific after CommunicAsia in June.
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The BlackBerry 8120 is very similar to its predecessor, the 8100, and overall it's not a very different phone--but there are a few differences worth mentioning.
The most significant addition to the BlackBerry 8120 is Wi-Fi, which allows you to quickly access your emails and the Internet via Wi-Fi hotspots. We tested it out and it works well. It's particularly useful if you're indoors and can't get a good GSM signal, although we would have liked to have seen 3G too.
The next most noticeable update is the camera which has now been bumped up to 2-megapixels instead of 1.3, and can now shoot video. Although we'd like to say there's a massive difference, it's really not that superior and the video quality is okay on a small screen but don't expect to shoot a short film on it.
Interestingly the two improvements that pleased us most weren't exactly headliners, but they do make a difference to the overall user experience, and they are the 3.5mm headphone jack and external microSD slot.
Adding a 3.5mm jack means that you can plug in your favorite pair of headphones straight into the 8120, and the external microSD slot means you can swap memory card without needing to take the back cover off and remove the battery.
Overall, we still think this is a great email phone and recommend it to people who want to straddle the consumer/business line, but we'd really like to see 3G, or even HSDPA (3.5G) on the next iteration and some more onboard memory.
Design There's very little to distinguish the Pearl 8120 from the original Pearl in terms of looks. The attentive will notice that this new device has a deep blue casing with chrome edges and highlights compared to the original Pearl's black and chrome. The two devices have identical dimensions — 107mm tall by 50mm wide by 14.5mm thick — but the Pearl 8120 is very slightly heavier than its predecessor (91.5g versus 89.5g).
The Pearl 8120 resembles a normal candybar-style phone and feels very comfortable in the hand. The feature that lends the device its name is a small trackball located beneath the screen. This replaces the jog-wheel seen in earlier BlackBerry devices, and has a press-to-select feature. It can be used effectively with either the left or the right hand, which will please left-handers.
Flanking the 'pearl' are Menu and Back buttons, and outside these the Call and End buttons. Beneath this row is the QWERTY keyboard, whose keys are ranged on a slightly u-shaped curve; this doesn't offer any ergonomic benefits, but makes for a distinctive appearance.
For the most part, there are two QWERTY characters per key, along with sundry other characters including the 0-9 numbers and various symbols. As you start to type, alternative words appear in a vertically scrolling menu. You can type the complete word, or choose from the list using the ‘pearl’ button. This takes a little getting used to, but with perseverance it can become a relatively speedy data-entry system.
RIM has enhanced this SureType system by adding a spellchecker, which you can configure to check all emails automatically before sending them; you can also opt to run the spelling checker manually.
The top of the device has a mute key that will silence the speaker or, if held down, push the device into standby mode. On both the left and right sides are what RIM calls the 'convenience keys', which can be assigned to launch your preferred applications. There's also a volume rocker on the right and on the left a USB slot for mains power, a microSD card slot for memory expansion and a 3.5mm headset jack.
The ability to expand memory and attach a wired headset have featured on previous BlackBerry devices, but RIM has improved both with the Pearl 8120. The use of a 3.5mm headset connector allows people to substitute their own headset for that provided by RIM without the need for bulky 2.5mm converters. Since the 8120 has music playback capabilities, some people will find this very handy. Meanwhile, the decision to site the mciroSD card slot on the edge of the device rather than under the battery cover (as it was with the original Pearl — itself the first BlackBerry to have a memory expansion slot) makes swapping cards much easier.
The screen measures 2.2in. across the diagonal, has a resolution of 240 by 260 pixels and displays 65,536 colours. RIM claims that new font rendering makes text more legible: we didn't have the old Pearl available for a side-by-side comparison, but there's no doubt that the 8120's display is sharp and clear.
In its O2 incarnation, the Pearl 8120 ships with a mini-USB cable, an AC adapter, a desktop software CD, a stereo headset, a 1GB microSD card and a leather carrying pouch.
Features The primary focus of the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 is mobile email. Like other BlackBerry devices, it can receive corporate email (Exchange, Domino or GroupWise) via RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server, or use the BlackBerry Internet Service to access POP3 email accounts.
We had no issue with mobile email delivery itself, but the relatively small screen makes it harder to read messages and view attachments than on the BlackBerry 8820, which we've been using for a couple of months.
The browser now offers a 'page view' that allows you to select an area of a web page to zoom into for detailed viewing. This is potentially useful, but again the small screen size is not ideal for serious web browsing.
The Pearl 8120 has a 2-megapixel camera with an LED flash unit and a self-portrait mirror. This is a big advance on the 1.3-megapixel camera in the original Pearl — especially considering that video support has also been added, at resolutions of 240 by 180 and 176 by 144.
Businesses may not aprove of RIM's inclusion of a Facebook application that allows you to do some — but by no means all — of the things you can do with the social networking site on a desktop PC.
As far as music playback is concerned, we have already noted the 3.5mm headset jack; the player also allows you to create playlists. However, there are no hardware controls for music playback apart from volume control, so to pause or skip tracks, for example, you'll need to navigate the menu system or hardwire one of the convenience keys to the music player.
The Pearl 8120 has 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, which was absent in the original Pearl. Bluetooth 2.0 is also present, but unfortunately there's no 3G connectivity. The Pearl 8120 has quad-band GSM with GPRS and EDGE support, which is enough for mobile email, but 3G may still be missed some users.
The Pearl 8120 uses the same 312MHz Intel XScale PXA901 processor that powered the original Pearl. It has 64MB of flash ROM and 16MB of RAM. On our review sample there was 16MB of free space in the device itself. If you need more storage the good news is that the accessible microSD slot supports SDHC, which currently caters for card capacities up to 8GB.
Performance & battery life If you're not used to it, the BlackBerry Pearl 8120's SureType text entry system presents a (not insurmountable) learning curve. Also, anyone with stubby fingers may find the keyboard rather cramped.
Those used to a larger screen for web browsing may want to steer clear of the Pearl 8120, and the same caveat applies to email attachments: the screen is definitely not suitable for reading PDFs or viewing spreadsheets, for example.
RIM claims 4 hours of talktime and 15 hours on standby for the Pearl 8120. When we asked it to play music non-stop from a microSD card with the screen set to turn off after 30 seconds and the SIM left active, the device delivered just over 12 hours of music. Impressive.
Conclusion More than a year after the original device shipped, it's good to see a range of updated features on the Blackberry Pearl 8120. Still, we'd have liked more — 3G connectivity and hardware-based music controls, for example. But if you're looking for a sleek, phone-like BlackBerry, the Pearl 8120 does a competent job.
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LG Dare (Verizon Wireless) Review : Best & cheap LG cellphones
One of the most notable fallouts of the Apple iPhone launch last year is the ever-growing trend of touch-screen phones. LG was one of the first manufacturers out of the gate with phones such as the LG Voyager and the LG Vu dazzling us with features that we couldn't get on the iPhone, like live mobile TV and 3G connectivity. Samsung then came blazing out with the Instinct, a phone that directly targets the iPhone with visual voice mail, integrated GPS, and corporate e-mail support. Yet, many of these phones still walked on familiar ground with its design and features.
LG's latest handset, however, dares to take things in a different direction. The appropriately named LG Dare presents a few tricks we haven't seen before in the touch-screen phone genre. For example, you can drag and drop icons to make your own customized shortcuts on the home screen, or you can use a drawing pad to sketch ideas or draw a map, which can then be sent via MMS to a friend. The Dare also has one of the most advanced cameras we've seen on a touch-screen phone--its 3.2-megapixel camera has settings like face detection, noise reduction, panorama photo stitching, and a SmartPic technology designed for taking photos in low light. The built-in camcorder can even record high-speed video and play it back in slow-motion, which is a first for U.S. camera phones. We certainly wouldn't want to call this an iPhone killer since it doesn't have features such as Wi-Fi, and its Web browser and media player aren't as good. However, the Dare is a very appealing alternative for Verizon customers who want a touch-screen phone with a difference. The LG Dare is priced competitively at $199 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year service agreement.
Design Like all touch-screen phones, the LG Dare's design is dominated by a large display covering almost the entirety of the phone's front surface. Indeed, the only visible keys on the front are the Call, Clear/Voice command, and End/Power keys at the very bottom. The Dare is quite a bit smaller than both the iPhone and the Samsung Instinct, measuring only 4.1 inches long by 2.2 inches wide by 0.5 inch thick. It has a stainless steel border along its sides, and a black soft touch surface on the back that gives it a nice grip in the hand. It weighs about 3.76 ounces, which gives it a light yet solid feel.
The smaller size of the Dare also results in a smaller space for the 3-inch-wide display (compared with the 4-plus-inch displays on the other two phones). Though we were fine with it for most applications, we'll admit that it deters us from enjoying the full HTML browser (which we'll get to in the Features section), since it means we have to do more scrolling than usual. The display supports 262,000 colors and a 240x400-pixel resolution, which results in a stunning and colorful screen with vibrant graphics and clean text. You can adjust the backlight time, the menu fonts, the dial fonts, the display theme, and even the image of the charging screen. You can also choose animated wallpaper if you like.
The LG Dare has an innovative drag-and-drop menu interface.
Along the bottom row of the display's home screen are five shortcut icons to the messaging in-box, the phone interface, the main menu, the phonebook, and a favorites menu (which is a customizable graphical layout of up to nine favorite contacts). There's also a small arrow icon on the far right of the display (about a third of the way down), which leads to a list of 11 shortcuts that you can select from 51 possible applications. You can drag and drop these shortcut icons to change the order in which they appear. However, the coolest thing is that you can also drag and drop them directly to the home screen. Simply tap on an icon and drag it toward the home screen, and let go. You can then arrange the icons anywhere on your home screen as well.
Going back to the Favorites menu, not only do you have a graphical layout of your favorite contacts, but you can also drag and drop them around the screen. After selecting a contact, you can either have instant access to a new text message or an immediate phone call. You can also edit that contact information on the spot.
Another innovative aspect of the Dare's touch screen is the option for a "scattered" menu interface layout. You can then drag and drop the scattered icons to new positions in the menu. We found this to be quite fun and intuitive, but can't help but think it's rather unnecessary. We would have been just as happy with the traditional grid menu layout (which is a menu style option as well). Throughout the menu interface, you will see a back arrow on the upper left, which will lead you back to the previous screen, and a Home button, which will lead you back to the home screen.
Like the Instinct, the Dare offers haptic tactile feedback, which gives tiny vibrations when tapping on the screen. It's very helpful when selecting menu options, since it provides a physical confirmation of the selection. You can go through a calibration wizard to adjust to the screen's sensitivity, and you can adjust the vibrate type (short, double, or long) and vibrate level (low, medium, high, or off altogether). You can also turn on "vibration when scrolling," which sets off tiny vibrations when scrolling up and down lists. We actually recommend this, so you know you're scrolling through a list and not accidentally selecting something.
The LG Dare has a virtual QWERTY keyboard.
This brings us to the touch interface itself. While we largely enjoyed the touch interface experience, we have to admit there is still a slight learning curve. Often we would select something without meaning to, especially when scrolling up and down lists or dragging icons around. The touch interface is certainly more sensitive than we thought it would be, even after going through the calibration wizard. After a day or two of fiddling around with it though, we learned to adjust.
We found dialing and texting to be quite easy, even with the touch-screen interface. The phone interface consists of the standard numeric keypad, a voice command button, a handwriting button that will let you "write" the numbers instead of using the keypad, plus two shortcuts to the recent calls list and the contacts list. The keypad features nice big numbers, and after you're done dialing, you can hit either the green Call button, or the physical Talk button on the lower left. There's also a Save key for storing new phone numbers. During a call, a few shortcut icons appear to activate the speakerphone, call mute, send a text message, add a note, connect to a Bluetooth headset, and even voice record.
There are several input options for texting. You can either use the virtual T9 keypad, or you can twist the phone 90 degrees in the counterclockwise direction and a QWERTY keyboard will automatically appear. We're then able to tap on each key with our thumbs. Tapping each key will magnify that key momentarily, just like on the iPhone. The keyboard has a dedicated space bar, return button, period, and alias (@) keys, plus a Shift button to switch between capital letters and other symbols. Unlike the iPhone, you can indeed copy and paste text, simply by highlighting with your fingers and hitting a Copy button. However, the Dare doesn't correct your spelling.
Another method for entering text would be via handwriting, or a graffiti method. The handwriting recognition works quite well, but we did have some problems with it. For one thing, we had to keep switching modes between capital letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols--it wasn't smart enough to figure out the characters on its own. Also, it's a lot easier to handwrite with a stylus, or if you have long fingernails--using just our fingertips resulted in more mistakes.
The Dare also has a proximity sensor that will automatically turn off the LCD while in a call to prevent accidental touch input, similar to the iPhone. It also has a light sensor that adjusts brightness automatically to conserve on battery life. As mentioned above, the Dare has an accelerometer that will rotate the display 90 degrees counterclockwise for certain applications like the browser, the texting keypad, and other applications. For the picture view screen and the music player, the screen can be rotated 360 degrees.
On the left spine of the Dare is a Hold key, a microSD card slot, a speakerphone key, and a USB charging jack. On the top is a 3.5mm headphone jack, while the volume rocker and dedicated camera sit on the right spine. On the back of the phone is the camera lens and LED flash. There's no self-portrait mirror though.
Features The Dare comes with a generous 1,000-entry contacts list with room in each entry for five numbers and two e-mail addresses. You can also save callers to groups, and you can pair them with a photo and one of 26 polyphonic ringtones. Other essential features include text and multimedia messaging, a vibrate mode, a speakerphone, a calculator, a tip calculator, a calendar, an alarm clock, a stopwatch, a world clock, and a notepad. More advanced features include full Bluetooth support with stereo A2DP, the capability to use the phone as a modem, and file transfer. There's also mobile e-mail, mobile instant messaging, a USB mass storage mode, voice command and voice dialing, voice recording, and GPS functionality via Verizon's VZ Navigator service. Mobile e-mail is restricted to popular Web mail services such as Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL, so it's not nearly as robust as using a smartphone.
A nice bonus feature on the Dare is a drawing pad. This pad lets you sketch little doodles or draw a rough map with a variety of pen sizes and colors. You can then send this image to your friends via MMS if you wish.
The Dare has a full HTML browser. It won't support Flash, but that's fine for a phone such as this. As we mentioned earlier, you can rotate the phone to display the browser in landscape mode, which makes entering URLs a lot easier via the QWERTY keyboard. However, the browser experience is nowhere as clean as the Safari browser on the iPhone. Zooming in and out is a pain--we had to use either the onscreen controls or the volume keys to do so. Panning the browser page with our fingers took some time, as the screen responded slowly. Also, since the display is small, we often had to do a lot of scrolling to see everything. Alternatively, if we zoomed out to see the browser page in full-screen mode, the text would be too small to read (The camera key can be used to see the full screen overview as well). You can bookmark pages as well as send URLs to your friends via e-mail, which is a nice touch. However, the overall experience left us cold, and we almost would rather opt for the stripped-down mobile versions of the Web sites instead.
Of course, since the Dare is on the Verizon EV-DO network, it also has access to Verizon's broadband services in the form of V Cast Video and V CastMusic. The V Cast Video and V Cast Music experience is the same as that on other phones. However, the music player interface is quite improved over what we've seen before. There are shortcut icons to Play All, Shop, and Sync, which correspond to the full playlist, the V Cast Music store, and USB syncing respectively. Songs are automatically categorized by genre, artist, and album, and settings include repeat and shuffle. When playing a song, you get the typical play, pause, and track shuttle controls, plus you get to see album art as well. There's even a pseudo Cover Flow that lets you flick through songs by moving your finger across the screen. The Dare also has something called Background Mode Music that lets you listen to music in the background while doing other things--the music pauses when you receive calls, and when the call ends, the music will resume where you left off. The Dare has a microSD card slot that supports up to 8GB of additional storage.
The LG Dare has a 3.2-megapixel camera on the back, plus an LED flash.
Arguably, the best feature of the Dare, however, lies in its 3.2-megapixel camera. You can take pictures in five resolutions (2,048x1,536, 1,600x1,200, 1,280x960, 640x480, and 320x240), five white balance presets, five color effects, four ISO settings (Auto ISO, ISO 100, ISO 200, and ISO 400), and six preset scenes. Other camera settings include spot or average photometry, multishot, three shutter sounds (with a silent option), auto focus, a self-timer, flash, and four different shot types (Normal, Panorama, Split, and Frame). It even offers face detection to ensure someone's face is in focus and noise reduction, which reduces the amount of artifacts in an image. Most notably, however, is something called SmartPic technology, which enhances images with face color compensation (dubbed Smart Beauty), as well as light compensation (dubbed Smart Light)--especially in low light situations.
The LG Dare has excellent photo quality.
The Dare has an excellent Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens that promises excellent photo quality, and it delivers. Images looked sharp, with accurate colors, and everything looked in focus. After you take your picture, you are presented with an array of image-editing options, such as zooming, rotating, cropping, changing the contrast, sharpening, and blurring. You can even use your finger to doodle over the image, or edit it with frames, effects, and stamps.
The built-in camcorder isn't too shabby either. It's one of the first camera phones to record up to three resolutions (176x144, 320x240, and 640x240 VGA)--the VGA format is only for storing on the device, since MMS can't support files that large yet. You can record videos up to 470KB for MMS. Settings are similar to that of the still camera. Another bonus option is the ability for high-speed video recording. You can record videos in 120 frames per second (fps) and then play it back with 15fps slow motion. This is the first phone in the U.S. that has this functionality. Video quality was surprisingly decent. The action movements looked blurry with some jerkiness, but it's not that bad for a camera phone. You can trim videos plus add fade effects as well.
You can personalize the Dare with lots of wallpaper, graphics, sounds, alert tones, and more. The Dare doesn't come with any games, but you can download them, as well as more graphics and sounds, via the Web browser.
Performance We tested the LG Dare in San Francisco using Verizon Wireless service. Call quality was absolutely excellent. Voices sounded loud and clear, with almost no static and echo. Callers said we still sounded like we were on a cell phone, but other than that, there was no distortion. Even when we used the speakerphone, callers said there was little to no difference in sound quality. On our end, callers sounded great as well. Speakerphone quality was a tad on the tinny and hollow side, but we could still hear them just fine. We also paired the Dare with the Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth headset without a problem.
We were very impressed with the EV-DO Rev. A speeds. Web pages loaded in mere seconds, and it took about a minute to download a 1.5MB song. V Cast videos loaded without a lot of rebuffering, though streaming video quality still looked pretty pixelated. Sound quality was very good as well; the speaker has decent sound output, but we would rather use a stereo headset instead.
The LG Dare has a rated battery life of 4.6 hours of talk time and 15 days of standby time. Our tests revealed a talk time of 4 hours and 57 minutes. According to FCC radiation tests, the LG Dare has a digital SAR rating of 1.09 watts per kilogram.
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