LG Viewty Smart
The basics
Despite its name, the LG Viewty Smart is not a smartphone. Forget any hope of adding apps galore or expanding its gaming abilities. What it does do is dish up quality cameraphone photos, thanks to seriously clever software inside.Around the back, there’s an 8 megapixel camera, and up-front you’ll find a multitouch screen to control your shots. Best of all, it’s wrapped up in a frame just 12.4mm thick. Super shots with supermodel good looks? That’s what you’re in for with the LG Viewty Smart.
The good
The LG Viewty Smart’s camera software is far and away the most impressive on the market. Intelligent Shot mode lets the phone analyse the scene in front of it, balancing focus, aperture, shutter speed and white balance to give good results in almost all conditions. The only downside is a slight delay while the phone does its calculations, but the increased quality is immediately obvious and a fair trade-off. LG has also given the Viewty Smart face detection technology to keep people in sharp focus, as well as a bunch of other photo modes, including Smile Shot to snap pictures as soon as your subject grins, and Beauty Shot to reduce blemishes and make your mates seem better looking than they actually are. Video recording is similarly neat, recording at DVD quality and with an option for high or low speed to give Benny Hill-style effects, or impressive slow-mo action. Footage can also be edited on the camera itself, before sending on to friends through MMS, e-mail or by uploading direct to YouTube.
The bad
However, once you’ve torn yourself away from the LG Viewty Smart’s camera function, the phone becomes less impressive. Sure, there’s the latest S-Class interface, which makes customising home screens and whizzing between functions a breeze, but the lack of 3rd party apps is immediately obvious.
The bottom line
The Viewty Smart feels slightly impotent. Its power is obvious, and the design is an absolute beauty. If it could be extended with new apps and software, we’d proclaim it a must-own. Without them, it’s one strictly recommended for photo-obsessives...
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jamiehunt15 February 2010
this is the best phone but the only down fall is where sometimes it freezes but all you have to do is take the battery out and then put it back in . many people have said that the games are rubbish but they are not ok , if you say that you dont have this phone ok deal with IT :) also the camera is brillant and you can fog up to pictue and draw on it like condenshion on the window after a shower love this phone and hight recommend it :)
Report as inappropriatejoel100025 March 2010
this is the best phone i've ever had and its great, alough it's a bit slow sometimes and the lack of apps from orange let it down. on mine the camera lens has smashed so i have to put a piece of tape over it
Report as inappropriateAshleigh Ridgewell29 May 2010
Well I dont have this phone, well not yet, well if I get it or not. The thing with the phone when I look at it is that it has a option between 2G and 3G internet for a wider choice between performance and effientcy but sttill the battery dosen't sound very effient to the phone I have now(Alcatel ot - 708) still the 2008 lg veiwty I had less than a year ago before christmas holidays in 2009 leading up to 2010, well the phone still sounds more positive than mine still I like mine a lot. Still I would get a cheaper phone which is brand new, well I think so, looks proper thin to the 2008 lg veiwty and the other lgs except for the chocolate, still it sounds tempting the lg veiwty smart does but then again so does that new alcatel ot - 880 which is coming out this year, lg well done again but costs a bit to much for the average phone, still good, well to what I know about the lg Veiwty smart.
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