LG Smartphones

LG Smartphone: Buyers’ Review

While many LG smartphone models have generally got good reviews from critics and consumers alike, some industry observers feel that the company is failing to keep with fellow smartphone manufacturers such as Nokia, Apple and HTC in terms of innovation as well as market share. To make up for the slow start, LG has made ambitious plans and has an aggressive pipeline of smartphones. While smartphone manufacturers have benchmarked the iPhone as the product to beat, LG smartphones are fast improving and could challenge the leaders soon.

With so many smartphones in the market, buyers have a tough time making a comparison and deciding on the best phone to buy. Every manufacturer offers some unique selling points and as a buyer you need to carefully decide whether the features and performance of the phone match your requirements. Here are some of the factors that you should keep in mind if you are considering 3G phones from LG.

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Value for money

Whether they are cheap or high-end, LG phones almost always offer good value for money. The impressive design, specifications, decent performance and reasonable prices of LG mobile phones make up a good mix of benefits. Even in compact phones, LG has squeezed in five megapixel cameras with face detection and auto focus while some budget touch screen phones come with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and microSD card support.

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User interface

The bigger touch screen phones from LG offer impressive clarity and resolution. LG smartphone interface is intuitive and integrated, helping you manage all your social interactions on Twitter and Facebook with a single touch. Five line QWERTY keypads on some models provide comfortable typing. Instant messaging and threaded SMS functions aid in keeping track of SMS conversations in a convenient IM format, while push e-mail support alerts you every time you receive a new e-mail.

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Multimedia and other applications

LG touch screen phones have high resolution cameras with features like face-recognition, autofocus, and flash, resulting in high-quality photos. The more expensive models have enhanced camera operation, offering greater flexibility while taking pictures. Audio and video playback is also impressive.

Some of the recent LG smartphones are Android based, which means you can download and install any Android app that you want to. Google maps, Google translator, Wikimobile are some of the interesting applications you can choose from the several thousand available. Most LG 3G smartphones offer Google mobile services and a good social networking environment. There are many personalisation choices as well. You can change your home screen according to different themes to keep it more interesting, arrange widgets, including social networking sites, news, and your weather report location.

A smartphone can be quite expensive, so carefully compare different touch screen mobile phones and then choose one that best suits your needs. Even though LG mobile phones offer good value for money, you should read up detailed product reviews and search for the cheapest deals from leading UK operators - 3 Mobile, Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2, and Orange.

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