VC’s Techie CockTail

After my last post on viewty, and its claim to be a “Iphone Killer” …I thought I would put a Head - Head on some of its features and see which comes out on tops…. if u feel different or have your own points to make your comments are always welcome….

Let the fight begin

Round 1: Design wise - Iphone 1 : Viewty 0

Even though the viewty is a shade lighter and finished well, the iPhone wins with its refined look and finish

Round 2: Phone wise - Iphone 1 : Viewty 0

I think this is a tie

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written by Vignesh \\ tags: iphone, Viewty

At a time when the “iPhone” fever has been hitting fever pitch (seeing the cost , some people’s fever might have cooled down) ..I came across a LG Viewty (i.e KU990R) …supposed to be one of the “iPhone Killers” in the mobilephone market.

From the time I saw the box , a black one which slides out and dimensions reminding vaguely of a “iPhone box”, i thought may be its supposed to be a iPhone killer, but from now on in the remaining part of these posts I will forward the features and some comparisons to “what many people crave for around this world at this moment” …(sorry I am not one of them)

• Phone Wise : At a dimension of 103.5 x 54.4 x 14.8 mm and weighing 113g its somewhat chunky but the metal finish gave it a solid look. With only three buttons at the front its 3″ 256K TFT screen 240 x 400 pixel screen with its flash based touch UI is the main focal point of this phone. The flash based UI with haptic feedback was nice but it takes a time to get used to and in some areas the UI is slightly laggy.Network reception and sound quality was good. Battery life was the only thing i couldn’t test out and from what i’ve read on the web it could be a sore point of this phone.
• Multimedia Wise : Fitted with a 5 Mpx camera and Xenon flash it made some ok shots indoors but outdoors and lighted conditions should turn out some pretty decent photos. Another major selling point of this phone is its VGA video recording @ 30 fps and QVGA @ 120 fps. It also had a decent mp3 playback with good sound and also a FM radio with RDS. Another “ace” up its sleeve is the divx movie playback, Watching on the 3″ screen was nice but it wasn’t as vivid and bright as a iPhone (But in the above mentioned areas Viewty holds all the aces).It seems it can only accept upto 2 GB micro SD card. It also had a muvee editor and picture editor.It can play Java games and one nifty feature is that all standard 240 x 320 Java games play full screen with the remaining 240 x 80 screen displaying a virtual d-pad.
• Business Wise : Address book with 500 contacts, Organizer and Document viewers are some tools which can be useful tools for your business. On the connectivity front it has GPRS, EDGE, 3G (HSDPA) with front facing camera, Bluetooth with A2DP and USB. I didn’t test out the browser, but there was options like GMail, Blogger and YouTube pre-installed in the phone. EMail account can also be configured but I am not sure whether this has any sync support.

So at a competitive price of 18,000/- bucks (405$), its a nice touch screen multimedia phone.

written by Vignesh \\ tags: LG, Mobile Phone, Viewty