Time to recontract, and with student funds, decided to go for the LG Viewty over the Nokia N82. I like to touch touch 
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.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Wah! Nice big screen you have there. Can I touch touch also? I feel like changing to another phone too! =x
April 9th, 2008 at 12:16 am
N82 is wayyyyyyyyyyy better please!!
I tried N82 and that viewty, I still prefer N82.
That viewty is quite a boring phone. =P
April 10th, 2008 at 8:20 am
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…
April 10th, 2008 at 11:35 am
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.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
“And don’t bluff lah you tested the Viewty! Hahhhha”
wtf?
dengar2 singapore takde LG shop peeee…
April 11th, 2008 at 5:47 am
i would rather get the N82 loh…
April 12th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Yayness to LLY!
And Yayness to N82!
Teeheeee!! =D
April 13th, 2008 at 12:58 am
LLY: Then get la, nabei. At least make your comment sound a little more constructive, not the typical cheena-beng-lian.
Ifah: Yes giker
April 13th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
lol… u happy can already
May 17th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
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
May 17th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Do anyone think, it has some kinda software problem to post such low charge levels?
May 18th, 2008 at 11:54 am
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.