E-Tech

Review Of The LG Crystal GD900 Cell Phone

Thumbs up:Insane transparent touchpad, good voice clarity, luxurious and dainty appearance, high sound quality, S-CLASS 3D interface.

Thumbs down:Bad camera quality,Limited DivX/Xvid playback features,The S-CLASS 3D interface is sluggish when opening certain menus.

Inside the trunk:
Band / mode: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900 ; Talk time: 360 min ; Combined with: With two digital cameras / digital player / FM radio

THE WHIZ KID SPEAKS:LG has always already come up with LG ARENA KM900 and the Viewty Smart CG900, which include the S-CLASS 3D interface. The Crystal is the third one in the list. What we gotta see is ,whether this one is better than the other two like its true in most of the fairy tales… the third son is always best, lets go ahead with the review to see if this comes out to be true for the Crystal as well.

Razzle-Dazzle: The designing of the Crystal is insane to say the least. The brilliant transparent touchpad just blew me off ma chair. Killer looks is something LG always comes up with, but with this one… I have to say they have come up with a masterpiece atleast as far as the designing is concerned. It’s a slider with 3-inch display  which is also touch sensitive and allows you to control the other functions of the phone as well. Also the display is equally fascinating with a support for 16 mln colours it comes up with awesomely amazing animated images.

The phone looks strikingly stunning when the transparent touch keypad is opened. It’s a nice relief from the conventional riggety keypad, innovation at its best I must add. The only drawback of the transparent touch pad being that it loves fingerprints. Its got edgy lights on the sides which just add to the plethora of colours.

The back cover off the Crystal though made up of plastic has a classy feel to it, plus it ain’t solid.

Inside dope:

The crystal touchpad supports many astounding features like multitouch and gesture control. Thanks to the brilliant sensitivity of the touchpad even the handwriting recognition feature works well as compared to its counterparts. The S-CLASS 3D interface is pretty much enticing to say the least. It’s execution is bloody brilliant.

The accelerometer didn’t impress me much though, it does accurately well most of the times but displays some lag at times.

The messaging menu is really simple and is kind of similar to that of the iPhone. Probably even a kid can get easily accustomed too the messaging system of the phone. Also the email settings are quite simple and more so if you use dominant email providers like gmail, yahoo because the settings are already preloaded.

There are certain changes in the phone browser in this one as compared to its other two siblings. The browsing app does display some amount of lag and needs too be worked on. Though browsing with the Crystal touchpad is an experience nothing else can match. Bluetooth 2.1 provides local connectivity and supports the following profiles – HSP, HFP, DUN, FTP, OPP, GAP, SPP, SDAP, SDP, BPP, GAVDP, A2DP, AVRCP, SAP, AVDTP, AVCTP and PBAP. Aside from it, you can simply connect the device to your computer with USB 2.0 cable.

It comes along with a  8 megapxiel camera… whooaaa.. I was tempted to try it out, and lo behold now I really wish I hadn’t tried it out… the image quality isn’t all that great. The colours were kind of unsaturated and nothing like what is expected out of a 8 mp camera. Even the overall video quality isn’t that impressive. The music player is quite a relief from all the clones that we have seen of late. The loudspeaker is kind of tiny but it the sound quality is not bad. Its functionality takes a backseat when it comes to the DivX player which codes movies being played at a resolution of less than CIF (352×288 pixels), with less than 30 frames per second and bitrate lower than 1 Mbps.The battery life is outstandingly amazing and can provide about 300 hrs in a standby. Last but not the least the in-call quality was good enough with no static and no echo isssues.

Nitty- gritty: I got the answer to the question I framed  in the introduction. This one definitely stands out of the three and is the best amongst them. The fantabulous design adds a lot to its weight. The pretty face has a lot of brilliant features behind it. LG has hit it bang on with this astounding marvel that it has come up with. All in all, I would say just go ahead and give it a shot… definitely a head turner.