LG GD900 Crystal transparent phone in India
LG has launched the LG GD900 Crystal transparent phone, in India.The slider phone, that is more of a design and style showcase than anything else, is available at a price of Rs 26,000 in retail outlets across India.
Photo: LG GD900 Crystal phone, in India.
The LG GD900 Crystal is said to be the first LG phone to incorporate LG’s next generation touch features. We have to say this is a good-looking phone alright, and a bunch of girls would probably line up outside stories – once LG advertises this on TV in India.
It also sports LG’s S-Class User Interface that comprises a rotating cube layout on the home screen. Users can rotate a cube that appears on the main screen to go to the different sides of the cube, that correspond to four different home screens.
These are contacts, widgets, a customizable home screen, and gesture shortcuts.
Photo: LG GD900 Crystal transparent phone S-Class UI
The gesture shortcut feature allows users to assign symbols to nine multitasking applications. Users can open any of these apps by drawing the symbol on the touchpad.
The LG GD900 Crystal touchscreen phone has a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. The phone measures 105mm x 53mm x 14mm, and weighs 127g.
The phone offers a decent 8-mega pixel camera with auto focus, LED flash, digital 4x zoom, and video recording for a maximum resolution of 720×480 pixels.
The defining feature of the LG-GD900 Crystal phone is a transparent, scratch-resistant Crystal touchpad that can be used as a numeric keypad, touch wheel, mouse pad, and multi-touch zooming tool.
The touch wheel feature allows users to control music and photo viewing functions by drawing circles on the Crystal touchpad. With the mouse pad, users can browse through the net without covering up the main screen.
Photo: LG GD900 Crystal transparent phone back view
The LG GD900′s multi-touch zooming tool enables users to zoom in and out, simultaneously, using two fingers.
The phone also offers a Finger Writing Recognition feature that allows users to compose complex text messages using minimum keystrokes.
The LG GD900 features quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) support and dual-band UMTS (900/2100MHz or 850/1900MHz) with HSDPA for high-speed connections.
Music and video features include FM Radio, MP3 player, and support for MP3, AAC/AAC+/E-AAC+/AMR-NB/WB/WB+, WMA/WMAPro, Ogg-Vorbis, AC3, MIDI audio formats.
The LG GD900 Crystal phone supports H.263: 4CIF(704×480@30fps, 704×576@25fps, upto 10Mbps), H.263+/MPEG4/H.264/WMV9(VC-1): D1(720×480@30fps and 720×576 25fps, upto 10Mbps) video formats.
The phone comes with a standard 1000 mAh Lithium-Ion battery with talk time up to 6 hours (2G) and up to four hours (3G).
Users can avail of 1.5 GB internal memory expandable to 32GB via microSD card.
Connectivity features include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, and USB v 2.0. The LG GD900Crystal also offers a document viewer, speaker phone, two embedded games, WAP, and voice recording.