LG Viewty is a phone similar to Samsung Memoir with elegance and power of 5 megapixel autofocus digital camera that never lets you down.The mobile camera is certified by Schneider-Kreuznach for distinct clarity.The provided Xenon flash is really powerful to take snaps in low light conditions provided it is configured properly.The mobile handset by LG is available in Black, Dark Silver, Purple, Pink, Hot Red, White colours.
The phone also has nice video recording capability with DVD-like quality in VGA resolution at 30 frame per second.The 120 fps speed at QVGA resolutions gives it super recording speed that is even absent in most digital cam's.Sadly , XviD and DivX 6 videos are not supported on this mobile phone which is a disadvantage.
The camera with jog wheel is a nice feature to control digital zoom in Viewty.But the absence of protective cover for camera lens is a drawback for LG Viewty.There is also a bit problem when your are zooming the jog wheel as it blocks the lens of LG Viewty to some extent.
Maximum resolution supported on this 112 g LG mobile TFT resistive touchscreen phone is 2592 x 1944 pixels and it uses full display as viewfinder.The Smart Light feature works nice on under exposed images.LG KU990 support various usual camera settings like landscape, beach, party, portrait, night in addition to some new additions like continuous shot, panorama and frames.
The Viewty's front panel's 3 inch touchscreen display with 240 x 400 pixels resolution makes viewing video or pictures a great experience. Top right corner above the screen features a secondary VGA camera for video calls in the handset.
The handset of LG Viewty has no physical keyboard other than three hard keys green and red for Call and End and a Cancel key.Your dialling act brings the virtual keyboard on Viewty screen.A handwriting recognition software for writing text. The stylus with the mobile phone is equally comfortable to use as with fingers.But the outside dangling stylus is not convenient to carry.A gentle vibration called haptics is accompanied by every keypress in Viewty.
The left side of the Viewty phone has a universal port for charger / headset / data cable concealed with a sliding cover. The right side of the phone hosts camera shutter key, the hard keylock button that is also used for image stabilization and a slider key, that changes camera modes between still, video and image gallery.
Viewty SIM card slot and the microSD memory card slot are accessible only after you remove the battery which uses 1000 mAh Li-Ion .The 103.5 x 54.4 x 14.8 mm dimension phone's loudspeaker is among the loudest.
The user interface which uses Flash UI (User Interface) is pretty good with a task manager that adds up all open applications in the Multitasking list once they are launched.
LG KU990 supports both POP3 and IMAP4 protocols for sending emails. The maximum size for attachments in incoming mail is 400KB in handset.There is also a TV-out support in this handset by LG.Unfortunately , Wifi feature is not present in LG Viewty so that is another minus point.
You can view MS Word documents, MS Excel and PDF files using the Picsel viewer.The handset is able to play shock wave files which is popularly used in flash applications.
The KU990 MP3 player is nice but without an equalizer which is a drawback.It has FM radio and RDS support.The mobile phone has a very good web browser.Viewty has pre-bundled Google search, Gmail, Blogger and Google Maps for Mobile application.It also lets you upload your video files to YouTube directly from the file manager in an easy fashion.
The LG KU990 has 100MB internal memory and a microSD memory card slot hidden below the battary.The provided memory is insuffient for the camera pics storage of KU990 so you need to expand via external memory if you need to be productive.