Review is the best option to know about
a product before purchasing it. You can easily get the performance
report of all the features presented in a mobile phone through them.
That also provides a detailed user experience with the handset,
enabling you to make the best choice while purchasing a mobile phone.
Such a product is LG Viewty Snap GM360 Black which is one of the most
affordable touchscreen mobile phones available in the market at
present.
LG is well known to provide a unique range of low
cost mobile phones, each one different from the other in terms of
look, feel and functionality. The handset is basically targeted at
youngsters and present decent features overall. LG has even managed
to give it a premium touch by presenting the unique LG-Style with
Life's Good approach.
Major sources of attraction
Sleek
and stylish design
5 megapixel camera with LED flash and
Schneider-Kreuznach optics (Optic-all)
3 homescreen support
Good
battery life
3 inches touchscreen with handwriting
recognition
Social networking integration
Good music
player
Push Email support
Expandable memory support upto 16
GB
Overview and Design
LG Viewty Snap GM360 Black is a
small good looking phone with a weight of just 87g. The sleek
dimension of 108 x 53.1 x 12 mm provides it a stylish and attractive
approach and fits in all pocket sizes. Within the low cost, it has
managed to include a 3.0 inches touchscreen (though of resistive
nature) with 240 x 400 pixels resolution and 256K colon support.
Beneath the display, three physical buttons, Call, End and Menu (also
used for your favourite applications) are presented which can be used
for quicker access.
The mobile phone also presents better
build quality. Even a thin silver strip against the black coloured
plastic chassis is provided. While the right end houses the volume
rocker and camera shortcut, the left end concentrated on the USB
charging port under a hinged cover. A thicker silver trim is provided
at the bottom of the product. The power button and the 3.5 mm audio
jack sit on the top of the handset. Underneath the back plate lies
the battery, Sim card slot and a micro SD card slot which enables
increasing the storage power of the phone upto 16 GB apart from the
internal 60 MB phone memory.
Interface
The interface is
almost similar to the one presented with LG Town without any such
attention seeking features. Three homescreens are supported and each
one of them provides a different function. Even widgets can be
customized as per your preferable settings. The first screen provides
the facility of setting four widgets from the list presented at the
bottom of the screen. The next one enables your favourite people from
contacts while the third one presents the LiveSquare system from LG
which adds your friends and also provide them little avatars which
generated animated effect whenever an update, call or message from
the added friends arrive. Communication, Entertainment, Utilities and
Settings are the four group of apps presented with the handset.
Moreover a simple horizontal finger swipe enables you to navigate
through the homescreens.
Calling and Messaging
A quick
tap to contacts, calling and messaging is provided at the bottom of
each of the homescreens. LiveSquare is also present to get updates
from your favourite contacts. Call quality is also good without any
dropped calls in between the conversations. It even supports 1000
contacts along with photocalling abilities.
The alphanumeric
onscreen keyboard in portrait mode can be changed to QWERTY keyboard
in landscape view for better typing. Even handwriting recognition is
supported with the handset. Email and Push Email is also supported
apart from the standard SMS and MMS capabilities. Even SNS
integration provides access to social networks like Facebook,
Twitter, Flickr, MySpace and others, though they are not upto the
level supported with Android phones. Even predictive text input
method is facilitated for easier typing.
Internet and
Connectivity
The most disappointing aspect of LG Viewty Snap
GM360 Black mobile phone is that it lacks both Wi-Fi and 3G
connectivity. As a result, internet access on the phone is only made
possible through GPRS and EDGE technologies. That makes the speed
very slow compared to many others.
Opera Mini is hidden
between in the app section and zooming also becomes a bit difficult.
Moreover, the resistive touchscreen makes internet experience a bit
low on the handset and takes up a lot of your precious time.
Moreover, Bluetooth and USB port is also presented for data
transferring abilities.
Camera
One of the brighter
aspects of the mobile phone is the smart and stylish 5 megapixel rear
snapper. It even comes with Optic-all zooming technique from LG which
provides improved image quality while zooming the clicked image, but
only supports clicked images upto 1 megapixel. Even macro mode, color
effects and shooting multiple images together are supported. You can
click three, six or nine images at a time and select the best one
among them. Moreover, the LED Flash makes clicking better images on
all occasions. Even QVGA video recording is supported with the
camera. You can also share the photos and videos with friends on
various social networks.
Multimedia and Applications
LG
Viewty Snap GM360 Black mobile phone possesses an embedded music
player which works pretty well. You can also create playlists of your
own choice and access them from homescreens via the music player
widget. Even a sleep mode is provided which makes it handy whenever
you go off to sleep while listening to your favourite music tracks.
Moreover, the 3.5 mm audio jack assists in hearing the songs through
earphones. It presents a passable music quality without much
hype.
Videos are limited to MPEG4 and WMV formats but overall
they provide better playback with wide and tall screen modes. The FM
radio also scans the tracks and supports upto 48 slots and fills them
up with the saved channels. Even manual tuning is supported with a
roller button in between the radio screen interface. Recording from
the radio is also supported.
Java enabled games are provided
with the handset to provide other entertainment options. The
organizer, voice memo and document viewer is also presented for
supporting all your official work.
Battery life
All the
battery draining resources being absent, LG Viewty Snap GM360 Black
proves to give out a good and acceptable performance even with just
900 mAh battery backup. That simply provides a pretty decent approach
while considering the affordability associated with the handset. It
provides a talk-time of around 5 hours on heavy usage of the
available features.
Verdict
LG Viewty Snap GM360 Black
provides a simple and stylish look with better camera, pleasing apps
and easy to use interface. It comes with nicely designed visuals and
better battery life. It presents a pretty decent approach to the
affordable line of LG handsets with a unique style and presentable
features.
