I bought the the LG Viewty

Time to recontract, and with student funds, decided to go for the LG Viewty over the Nokia N82. I like to touch touch :D

 

Yes it's the dark silver edition. I've been using it for a few days now, and it feels great. It works great.

My friend's gf's sister (now that's confusing) complains that hers is laggy. But I haven't experienced such terrible lagginess in my set yet, well the interface is A BIT laggy (there's no perfect phone, come on!), but the smsing speed matches to that of the standard Nokia keypads. 

Picture and video clarity's great. If you want to post-process your images, you can even do it in the phone itself. This can also be done for videos. Note that you can also slow down your videos so that they appear in slow motion! Yeah cool, you never when you'll need that kind of feature.

One thing I dislike about it is its flash though. There's no way to activate it manually. It's either off, auto or red-eye reduction mode. I can't set the flash to switch on permanently.

Another thing I don't like is the location of the 'C' or Cancel button. It's located towards the bottom of the phone, in the centre. So if you make a mistake in typing, long-thumbed people like me would have some trouble since you hafta acutely bend your thumb.

Google Maps works great too. Initially I had troubles because it wasn't set properly. If you need to solve this:

1. Go to 'My Games and Apps'

2. Choose 'Settings'

3. Go to the 'Options' icon (the one with 3 bars), then 'Add New'.

4. Type a service name. For me, I typed "Kaki". Hahahaha.

5. Under 'Connection mode', choose 'TCP Without Proxy'.

6. Under 'Access points', choose 'Gee! 3G GPRS'. (Note this is for Starhub users)

7. Save your settings and you're done! 

I wonder how expensive the GPRS data rate charges are…because loading Google Maps is so heart wrenching. I see so many 90-100+kb loaded per movement of my cursor. Whoa I'm so dead lah. I'm not gonan touch Google Maps already.

Starhub! Why can't you make GPRS data rates free? Sigh, I guess the phone's working alright for now. I'll post up pictures of captured images soon. If there are problems, pretty sure I'm gonna bitch about it in here.

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15 Responses to “I bought the the LG Viewty”

  1. Deen Yusoff said:

    Wah! Nice big screen you have there. Can I touch touch also? I feel like changing to another phone too! =x

  2. Ifah said:

    N82 is wayyyyyyyyyyy better please!! :)

    I tried N82 and that viewty, I still prefer N82.
    That viewty is quite a boring phone. =P

  3. Anna said:

    Hey! It’s been a while since I dropped by. I love gadgets, and I’m glad u posted one here. Always wondered how da viewty works, though I’m not really big on LG…

  4. khairul neezam said:

    Deen: Yeah baby, come touchhhhhhhhhhhhH!!! OOoouuuhhh…

    Ifah: Ye lah ye lah. N82 better kayyy? I already told you what N82 rulez. Viewty SUXORS. Heh. And don’t bluff lah you tested the Viewty! Hahhhha

    Anna: Ever wondered how it works? You can pay a visit to LG shop down at Vivocity to try out the interface. It’s really cool, much better than the iPhone IMO, though without the huge memory.

  5. Ifah said:

    “And don’t bluff lah you tested the Viewty! Hahhhha”

    wtf?

    dengar2 singapore takde LG shop peeee…

  6. LLY said:

    i would rather get the N82 loh…

  7. Ifah said:

    Yayness to LLY! :)

    And Yayness to N82!

    Teeheeee!! =D

  8. khairul neezam said:

    LLY: Then get la, nabei. At least make your comment sound a little more constructive, not the typical cheena-beng-lian.

    Ifah: Yes giker :)

  9. LLY said:

    lol… u happy can already

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  11. Sekhar said:

    Nobody bothered to mention abt its standby time. Its damn low and I’m forced to charge everyday & at times twice too, when I use WAP browser. Otherwise …. its great

  12. Sekhar said:

    Do anyone think, it has some kinda software problem to post such low charge levels?

  13. khairul neezam said:

    Sekhar: I think you should get your set/battery checked. I’m not very sure, I don’t use WAP/GPRS because it’s so effing expensive.

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