After being officially
unveiled (
twice) for the European market last month, LG's
GC900 Viewty Smart has finally arrived into the loving hands of those at
GSMArena. The unit you see above is actually a pre-production unit, but it was baked enough to warrant a full-scale preview until review units start to ship. One of the biggest reveals was this line: "It's not a smartphone or anything, no matter how much we would have liked that; instead, it's a regular full touch feature phone, but one with a really polished UI and top-notch imaging capabilities." Critics spent a good bit of time checking out the still-novel 8MP camera, and while they were generally pleased with image quality and color, they weren't so stoked about the phone's ability to capture video. Overall though, they couldn't help but gush about the "gorgeous display" and "best-of-class user interface," which definitely leaves us even hungrier to wrap our own digits around a finalized unit.
posted May 5th 2009 8:48AM
At a first glance, I thought this belonger to the KIRF section, however, it seems like a nice phone...
i got a belonger in my pants
Haha, exactly, the thumbnail for this post looks like a KIRF iPhone.
Why do so many companies flat-out refuse to innovate? Trying and failing is worse than ripping so completely off Apple, IMHO.
All our hopes for a non-Apple mobile computer are in Palm... and in Palm we trust!
damn... "belonged", Edit comments, when?????
Too late, the damage has been done. Please insert 25 cents to continue.
If it's cheap, it's good.
wtf the same icons of iphone
troll
In the future please know that we all hear you say the iPhone comparison comments before you actually say them. So don't bother. We get it. iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, etc...
wow, there are a lot of apple haters out there to low-rank that comment.
come on, at first glance of the image - i instantly thought 'those icons look awfully similar'. you guys can't deny you didnt see that.
I don't know Mike, I've seen square thumbnails arranged in a grid against a black background on phones countless times before the iPhone came into existence.
I saw the similarities too. Just sayin'. Who cares nowadays, I'm sure if Apple is annoyed enough they will sue.
I'll pick one up if it's under $150 with contract for Verizon this coming Fall...and if Verizon doesn't pick up the iPhone...
Hold up, this is Verizon right? Im confused about the new Verizon hardware, what GOOD phones are coming out, the lineup right now is so shitty. Basicly my verizon contract runs up soon, should I stick with verizon or switch to at&t
First of all, it's not even out yet.
Secondly, it'll probably take a while to come to any carrier in America (If it even gets to any at all), so it'll be unlocked GSM for quite some time.
well is there any good hardware coming out for verizon?
wow S-Class user interface...
...i thought it refers to some kind of automobile
I did play with it, the homescreen is not exactly iPhone like, you can scroll one line at a time - unlike 1 page at a time with iPhone. The other thing is, the cube interface that work like the original TouchFlo, switching between photo, application and music - the browser is quite good, with multitouch capabilities - not as smooth as iPhone though. But the camera with Schneider lens make taking picture more serious.
A good phone, nice screen, nice dolby speaker, nice camera - a near perfect phone i can say.
Looking at the side-by-side shots, contrary to what the reviewer say, I find the old Viewty still looks pretty good and not that bulky. I miss the nice black finish that made it look like an actual camera and I wonder where did the flash go?
Thankfully you can stuff a lot more memory in it than you could the original Viewty, which was its major shortcoming at the time (IMO).
Nice iPhone Knockoff... I meant Viewty
Shame on you Andy! Now M$ paid trolls will low rank your comment for stating the bloody obvious. They hate the iPhone so much, yet never can explain, why EVERY DAMN COMPANY IS FOLLOWING THEM.
im apparently a huge asshole because i think these new phones look like Iphones....
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/03/cincinnati-bell-lands-nokias-xpressmusic-5800-149-99-on-contr/comments/18639651/
@Dax
I'm sure you meant every company is following LG, Palm, HTC, or any of the several companies that had touchscreen phones before Apple invented it.
WoW exactly like the iphone icons...they couldnt be a little more productive(owns a nokia 5800 so shut up)
OMFG you're right!!!! Look at that Bluetooth icon!!!! Totally ripped from Applez!!!!
Look at the icons on your desktop. Thumbnails arranged in a grid with text below them. Are they stolen from the iPhone too?
OMG THEY TOTALLY RIPPED OF THE PRADA1!!@!!~~!!!!!!!
Damn This just makes me want to get a sweeeeeeeeeeeeet ol' Iphone
THISPHONESUX!!!
WINMOFTW!!!
"really polished UI"
"best-of-class user interface"
I can only assume that because this is not a smartphone (their own words) that's how they can get away with saying "best-of-class". I don't think you can get any closer to ripping off an iPhone than this. And of course that would also explain the "really polished UI".
Seriously, is even a tiny bit of innovation just too much to ask these days? Apple shows you all how to do it and then companies like LG figure all the work is already done so why bother? It's pretty pathetic.
Apple invented black
Apple invented Icons
Apple users= One step closer to the loony bin.
Oh yes, way to prove how this phone is NOT a ripoff of the iPhone. Thanks for clearing that up for everybody. I'll just assume that you're legally blind, since you can't seem to see the similarities that every other non-visually impaired person can easily see.
"Oh yes, way to prove how this phone is NOT a ripoff of the iPhone. Thanks for clearing that up for everybody."
You're welcome.
Now let's tighten up that straight jacket.
@Zak:
Are you stupid on purpose?
I bought an LG renoir recently and would be very pissed of if this had a better touchscreen, a better menu and in general better software. Man why does technology grow old so quick? =D
KIRF no. ???
if only the LG OSes didn't run like sh** rolling uphill
@Zak
Ya know what else this LG touchscreen phone looks like? The LG Prada that was released before the iPhone.
So LG can't even release similar products to their own without being accused of copying the iPhone by crazed fanboys? Your dedication to Apple is impressive.
Hey, Look_Around_You, you hold him down and I will tighten the straight jacket a bit more.
sweet greggo already pointed it out. and every one who says @ zack learn to use the comment system .