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LG Venus
Continuing the LG phone craze is the LG Venus VX8800. The LG Venus is a beautiful phone that showcases innovation in design, featuring a touch-screen dual screen, 2-megapixel camera and a lot more. Additionally, this smartphone is relatively cheaper as compared to other units in the market.
LG Venus is a sleek, slender phone measures 4.0 x 2.0 x 0.62 inches, offering comfort to users through its curved corners and leather covering on the back. LG Venus is easily comparable to the LG Prada, with the emergence of at first glance a 3-inch display, which is actually two separate screens: a regular QVGA display on top and a touch screen on bottom. The top primary display measures 2 inches and displays 262K colors. Texts and images are displayed brightly and legibly.
The lower screen measures 1.5 inches and serves as a navigation interface, displaying touch-sensitive navigation controls according to applications such as the menu button that offers shortcuts to message, calls and contacts, music player, camera and more.
Although the new navigation technique is an innovation on its own, a number of critiques have questioned its usability concerning the sensitivity of the touch screen, the use of the unlock button, among others. A number keypad, which includes Send, Clear and End/Power buttons, can be revealed by slide opening the LG Venus handset. The alternating colored-keys are well-spaced which made pressing easier. The left side of the LG Venus is where the volume control, voice recorder button, headset and charger jacks while the right side is where the microSD card slot, music player key and a camera key. The camera lens is on the back side.
While LG Venus’ design has enamored a number of users, the phone’s list of features is truly lovable as well. Among the phone capabilities include a 1,000-entry contacts list, vibrate mode, speakerphone, SMS, MMS, alarm clock, notepad, voice recorder and a lot more. The list of connectivity options showcases USB, e-mail, web browser, stereo Bluetooth. It also comes with 3G and built-in GPS.
An important multimedia feature that will never be absent in the Venus is the music player. The player has a simplistic and nice interface with easy-to-use controls. Users can easily sort songs according to artist, genre ot album and they can also create their own playlist which can be controlled via the shuffle and repeat options. Multitasking is also an important feature of the music player, allowing the player to continue even while doing other tasks such as text messaging and web browsing. Supported formats are MP3, WMA, AAC, and AAC+. With an internal memory of 64MB, users can add up an additional 8GB with the microSD card.
The camera phone can take pictures in four resolutions and offers settings for brightness and night mode. It also takes videos in two resolutions with editing options, although 30 seconds is only allowed for video recording. While the camera can take commendable pictures, the video is shaky, blurry clips. Such mediocrity aside, the LG Venus remains a beautiful slider phone.