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Product Features

Type Candy Bar
3G Yes
Touchscreen Yes
Camera Resolution in MegaPixels 5
Band Tri
EDGE Yes
WiFi No
Bluetooth Yes
USB Yes
XHTML Browser Yes
WAP Yes
FM Tuner Yes
SatNav No
MP3 ATRAC Playback Yes
Operating System Proprietary OS
Memory Card Slot Yes
Games Yes
Camera Yes
Video Recorder Yes
Java Yes
Mobile TV No
Instant Messaging No
HTML Browser Yes
Dimensions (mm) 103.5x54.4x14.8
Weight (g) 112
Screen Resolution (pixels) 240x400
Phone book capacity (names) 500
Talk Time (hours) 4
Standby Time (hours) 430
Colour Multi
Release Date 15 Oct 2007
Integrated Radio Yes
Colour Screen Yes
Email Yes
Polyphonic Ringtones Yes
Networks Orange
Networks O2
Networks Vodafone
Networks T-Mobile
Networks 3 Mobile

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Impartial Reviews

461 shoppers have reviewed this product.
79% of people would recommend it.

out of 10
Features8.0
Design8.3
Value for money (at time of purchase)8.2
Battery life6.1
Ease of use7.6
Overall rating7.7
Score: 9.6/10

Jonty, Edinburgh

Compact. Quality Camera, Good Videos Looks Sleek

Only one protective cover!

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596 people found this review helpful

21 Nov 2007

Score: 7.2/10

Lauren, Surrey

Looks great, is small and smart, pictures are fab

Battery not great, not easy to download songs

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126 people found this review helpful

06 Jan 2008

Score: 9.0/10

Anonymous, “I love gadgets!”

This phone is brilliant. It has everything that you could possibly want, as well as some really smart features. The camera is 5.0MP and is fantastic. It is easy to use and as touch phones go, it is up there as one of the best.

The navigation can be a little slow, and sometimes when you press a button, it can take a little bit of time to get to the menu you require. In all fairness, it is not slow, it's just that you need to get used to the fact that it is responding to touch on the screen. The only other bad point and this is probably nothing to many people, but if I change the text sound to silent, so that I don't get disturbed at night, but want to hear the phone ring if someone urgently needs me, it doesn't allow this. Its one setting for every aspect of your phone, which also includes the Alarm clock. I used to have a Samsung D900 which allowed the Phone, Text and Alarm volume settings to be different and I do miss that!.

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114 people found this review helpful

14 Mar 2008

Score: 8.6/10

Kevin, Standish

It looks good and is easy to navigate and the 5m pixel camera is fantastic - much better than its immediate competition Apple iPhone

Slightly bulky and the battery life isn't as good as it should be

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105 people found this review helpful

26 Jan 2008

Score: 8.8/10

Elizabeth, Cardiff

i love this phone! it looks great, has loads of brilliant features and the camera/video quality is awesome. who needs a camera anymore when phones are this good?

sometimes the touch screen is a little too sensitive

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66 people found this review helpful

23 Jan 2008

Score: 7.0/10

Asima, West Midlands

Looks good, has many features, good sound

Texting is a nightmare even after 2 months,

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54 people found this review helpful

16 Apr 2008

Score: 7.2/10

James, Stafford

the touch screen and camera is very good the best ive ever seen

the batery is realy bad i think lg should make a more powerful battery like walkman phones

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48 people found this review helpful

22 Jan 2008

Score: 5.8/10

Tracey, Guildford

Looks good - nice camera

Hard to use, the stylus should be able to fit in the phone rather than dangling about - this is very annoying when you are making a call. Hard to find out how to change tones and not much in the way of ringtones, games, features to choose from.

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47 people found this review helpful

18 Jan 2008

Score: 8.6/10

Simon, Essex

There are many good points to this phone, the main good points for me is the Web Browser and Email to keep me connected, the featured camera is also very good and give nice clean crisp images

mm has to be battery life (and thats the only one i can think of. :)

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44 people found this review helpful

18 Jan 2008

Score: 8.0/10

Alex, Nottingham

cant access internal memory or syn with pc - as firmware is not up to date (available in the US!)

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43 people found this review helpful

22 Jan 2008

Score: 8.2/10

Mary, Brighouse

size, and good camera

scriber not attached to phone and could easily get lost

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43 people found this review helpful

24 Feb 2008

Score: 7.0/10

Anonymous

The phone looks good and it is easy to use the instructions

The phone has to be charged every night and it is hard to get hold of accessories. i.e the stylus pen for KU990 LG Viewty.

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40 people found this review helpful

17 Jan 2008

Score: 9.6/10

Les, Glasgow

touchscreen qwerty keypad

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36 people found this review helpful

17 Jan 2008

Score: 7.2/10

Anonymous

easy to use, simple layout, camera is fantastic. lots of cool effects with the camera to

battery life bar is very miss leading as whn it shows that it has half battery bar (2 bars left out of the 4) the phone only has a couple of hours left till it is completly flat (stand by time) were as you think it has at least a day left in it. other than that the battery life lasts for a good amount of time. the phone does not have as many of functions as some other phones e.g no games etc

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31 people found this review helpful

28 Jul 2008

Score: 8.2/10

Mark, Gt.yarmouth

VERY GOOD LOOKING EASY TO USE

NONE.

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34 people found this review helpful

27 Mar 2008

Score: 9.2/10

David, London

It's a great phone, fantastic design, a better version of the LG chocolate

Getting used to the touch-screen

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34 people found this review helpful

17 Jan 2008

Score: 8.2/10

Charlotte, Chesterfield

Touchscreen. Looks good.

Locks too quickly, no decent games are compatible.

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34 people found this review helpful

23 Feb 2008

Score: 3.2/10

Imogen, Swansea

very good camera and it stylish

not many features bad battery life andd hard to use touch screen

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33 people found this review helpful

22 Jan 2008

Score: 7.8/10

Anonymous

Really nice looking phone with brilliant camera functions. This is the main reason I wanted it. Easy to navigate to the areas you want with clear menu screen. With a memory card in it, its a great phone and a great camera. The internet function is great too as you can view landscape. No quite iPhone quality but nearly! Haven't done music yet but syncs with computer absolutely fine with disc that comes in pack.

Because there is no keypad (it comes up on the screen) you have to get used to the fact it will take you longer to text. I also find scrolling up and down a bit sensitive as you scroll down and it wizzes past the one you want or won't move at all. With practice I am getting used to it

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29 people found this review helpful

01 Jun 2008

Score: 5.2/10

Julia, Solihull

It looks smart, easy to use when you get the hang of it...

bad battery life, says low battery- most phones hold out a bit longer, this goes in like 3 minutes. nothing special about it, not modernised enough for todays technology. Could of made it so much better- just a standard phone from about 3 years ago- but with a good camera...could make it more fun to use- have more themes available other than black, white, and fish. To be honest i think this phone is over rated A LOT. i read reviews before i got it, a few bad ones but i thought id still go for it, wish i didnt now!

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28 people found this review helpful

01 Aug 2008

Score: 9.6/10

Johan, Bournemouth

Everything

Batery life

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30 people found this review helpful

18 Jan 2008

Score: 8.4/10

Nicole, Essex

Camera is very god quality and the viewing of photos is also easy.

Touch screen can get quite scratched and camera lens is uncovered so you need to be careful if you just throw your phone in your bag!

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26 people found this review helpful

11 Aug 2008

Score: 7.4/10

Stephen, Wakefield

Excellent camera, good for checking e-mail, good screen size, easy to use for web browsing, reasonable battery life for all the features, good graphics, good touch screen responsiveness, reasonably easy to use

Annoying lock feature,

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20 people found this review helpful

10 Sep 2008

Score: 8.8/10

Peter, Cambridge, “kind”

very good camra and features

not so good on the navagation i.e finding your way round the phone scrolling down and up virtually impossible unless u know how

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25 people found this review helpful

07 Apr 2008

Score: 5.6/10

Anonymous

Good Looking. Easy to use menu options.

Bad ringtones. Touchscreen begins to stick so you constantly have to press option for it to cmoe open even though it vibrates. The little touch stick is no good and you need small fingers to type. Doesnt always pickup the letters you have inputted into a text.

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21 people found this review helpful

12 May 2008

Score: 4.8/10

Andrea, Oval, London

looks good; can put on silent easily; easy keypad lock

sound quality with blue tooth; predictive text messaging; inability to retain more than 10 text messages (have to delete regularly)

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16 people found this review helpful

07 Sep 2008

Score: 9.8/10

Leonie, Ipswich

looks good and very easy to use (my dad is nearly 60 and he can use it lol)

no bad points

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07 Sep 2008

Score: 9.6/10

Andrew, Alva

looks good and the touch screen is amazing.

the battery life is not the longest.

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19 Aug 2008

Score: 8.8/10

Anonymous

Overall, the LG Viewty is a 'must-have' phone. everything about it is just awesome! the camera is just brilliant, u can pretty much do anything with it.

The only real bad point about the LG Viewty is its battery life, it is really poor. I would expect that a phone that has all fancy party pieces on would also have a battery to sustain the life at the party. If someone creates a battery that lasts longer than the current one, i will buy it.

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23 Oct 2008

Score: 8.0/10

Andy, Cornwall, “Andy, a mechanic yall!”

awesome camera, with good video quality. and excelent battery life

you have to remove battery to gain access to the memory card and scrolling can be abit of a mission sometimes.

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29 May 2008

Score: 9.6/10

Anonymous

Excellent camera

Can't delete messages in bulk

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04 Jun 2008

Score: 7.2/10

Elaine, Ashford, “I love music”

Good camera. Nice design. Easy to use. Touch screen. Easy lock button. Screen size. Multimedia station. Music store. Colour

Battery life. Sound volume. Bad for music

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07 Aug 2008

Score: 9.2/10

Matthew, Nottingham

This phone is really easy to use, the LG operating system they used is well thought out and streamlined to make it faster. Texting is a breeze with the onscreen qwerty keyboard, the regular keypad layout is also good one handed and the hand writing recognition gets it right about 90% of the time when using a finger, not even a stylus.

Battery life doesnt match up to my last phone if the screen is set to 100% brightness, this is probably due to the large size, however when on power save and 20% brightness, the screen is still perfectly visible and the battery lasts far longer.

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24 Jul 2008

Score: 9.8/10

Mark, Ledbury

Very nice looking, very well featured, sound and video superb. Ability to play DivX a masterstroke

Scroll function works backwards to how you would expect. Menu system a bit confusing at first

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15 people found this review helpful

05 Sep 2008

Score: 6.0/10

Anonymous

the camera is very good considering it is a mobile phone. the design is good, and i like that different ways you can text

battery, once it starts to go, although i try not to use it as much it will go quite quickly, otherwise the battery isn't that bad, just when it gets to the last two bars also the touch screen does take some time, i do text quite quickly, and it doesn't keep, up, this isn't really a bad point as it wouldn't kill me to slow down when i text

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16 people found this review helpful

19 Jun 2008

Score: 7.6/10

Julie, Sheffield, “Just a simple girl”

Easy to navigate, very clear screen, excellent camera, very reliable.

Battery life scores low. Lock feature activates too quickly.

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18 people found this review helpful

15 Apr 2008

Score: 8.6/10

Anonymous

Pretty much everything is good about the phone, it is easy to use looks good and does what it says on the box.

The only bad thing about the phone is the Handwriting Recognition. It really does struggle sometimes

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24 Apr 2008

Score: 5.0/10

Anonymous

i got this phone for internet access and i have to say it is useless for this purpose, extremely slow and wont even open my email server. also, phone signal generally is very iffy.

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15 people found this review helpful

19 Aug 2008

Score: 6.6/10

Anonymous

Texting is sometimes difficult because you tend to hit the wrong keys being touch screen and close together.

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04 Aug 2008

Score: 2.2/10

Steve, Newton Abbot, Devon, “Father of 3”

Not much to recommend it - that I like anyway. My son has one and is not that impressed either. I got mine as a free upgrade - not a good choice.

Fiddly phone. Synch software is absolutely useless. Locks too quickly. Doesn't handle music files well. Menus are challenging. Battery life is good as long as you don't make calls. has to be positioned exactly right to hear. Volume and zoom are fiddly. Micro SD limited to 2GB. Screen needs protection and is then insensitive to finger control.

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15 people found this review helpful

28 Jul 2008

Score: 7.8/10

Anonymous

the camera and look of the phone is excellent. you can use the camera just like a good quality digital camera.

the battery isnt as long as other phones but i appreciate that with so many features, if they are in use a lot it will drain the battery.

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15 people found this review helpful

30 May 2008

Score: 7.2/10

Colin, Horley, “No”

Big screen Camera features

No keypad Screen gets scratched

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03 Jun 2008

Score: 9.2/10

Jade, Yeovil

i found that the picture qualitly was really good, being a 5MP

i didn't really find any bad points it was just a bit hard to do everything by touch but that's just nomal

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30 Jul 2008

Score: 6.8/10

Shane, Bridport, “Fair play, nice fella”

touch screen, sound, camera

Only Last about 1 day on battery

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29 Jul 2008

Score: 6.6/10

Anonymous

The camera is great, especially the video, although i havn't yet found a use for the 120fps recording feature yet!

The touchscreen is a bit of a pain, it can sometimes be quite inaccurate an ive found myself missing proper buttons.

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26 May 2008

Score: 9.2/10

Neil, Aylesbury

Great camera with the option of expandable memory. Nice touchscreen. A good looking phone.

Turns itself off at least once a day and needs to have the battery taken out and then put back in to turn back on, which also takes about half a minute. Has very little capacity for songs unless you buy a memory card.

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29 Jul 2008

Score: 6.8/10

Corrinne, Kidderminster

battery life is terrible. Having to charge it every night, so when staying over at friends have no charge come morning!!!!

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06 Aug 2008

Score: 8.8/10

Matthew, Liverpool

very stylish and light. Fantastic camera quality.

volume isnt great for playing tracks.

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08 Sep 2008

Score: 8.2/10

Jay, Newport, South Wales, “Welsh Techie Geek”

Great design, touch screen is very accurate and precise and the camera is absolutely outstanding.

Unfortunately the phone lacks wifi

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24 Apr 2008

Score: 7.6/10

Lyndon, Birmingham, “Windows server technical analyst”

touch screen works very well. Like the querty keyboard for texting. camera good. Overall quick and easy to use.

Not compatible with Windows Vista. LG website useless. Manual too small. no full games. battery meter not accurate

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02 Oct 2008

Score: 8.8/10

Anonymous

The navigation of the phone is easy, lovely to use and looks good for anyone.

The battery life if not very good in respect that I moderately use the phone unyet after 3 days the phone needs recharging and not a lot of notice is given

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03 Jun 2008

Score: 7.2/10

Anonymous, “Reliable and honest”

Amazing phone with amazing camera, easy to use and clear menus. Navigation and texting is really easy. There is four ways to text, and despite the actual touch writing being near impossible to use, the speed with the stylus is fantastic. It is expandable to a 2GB card so 500 songs available and inbox is capacble of storing 300 messages so more than enough if you ask me. Cheeky feature I thought was most fun was the picture editing. It is like a cut down version of "MS Paint" on your phone to doodle and draw on yall you favourite or least fave piks :D:D great laugh. Navigation couldn't be easier to. with very clear menus. Overall its an amazing phone and i would never change it!!!

Only a few themes available so limited changes can be made but in honesty the themes avaliable are fun. Shock reduction is only good if your moving slightly, i think my pictures come out better with shock reduction off, the shock reduction cannot function properly if you move fast. Battery life is awful i charge atleast once every two days Stylus broke in a few days of getting it and i look after my phones i have a cover foir it which is reccommended as the camera sticks out a fair bit and is a major risk of scratches

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24 Jul 2008

Score: 10.0/10

Anonymous

like everthing about it

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29 Jul 2008

Score: 8.4/10

Anonymous

great camera, touch screen, video editing is good and photo editing

the locking button the symbian pen is detached from the phone

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27 Apr 2008

Score: 8.8/10

Sharon, Lincoln

Pleasing to use. Looks good. Excellent camera, with good flash.

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23 Oct 2008

Score: 8.2/10

Lynne, Somerset

looks good, stylish, impressive touch screen.

sound quality on videos not brilliant, never used the stylus.

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11 Sep 2008

Score: 7.8/10

Kenneth, West Lothian Livingston, “ am an average guy ”

very easy phone to use i would recomend it to all my friends infact two of my sons have one and my best mate got one this week keep up the good work lg

more battery life cover for camera lens

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29 May 2008

Score: 9.2/10

Anonymous

the touch screen is one of the best i used to have an iphone and i can tell you this out classes it. Very good phone and will be one of the best for a long time.

The only bad thing i can think of is that the memory card slot is under the battery but thats about it.

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27 Jul 2008

Score: 9.0/10

David, Middlesbrough

You have no problems with buttons breaking, and the camera is excellent quality. The phone is smart and compact, overall a good choice.

This phone is not easy to use, although once u get use to it is ok. If you like downloading music from a pc on to your phone theni wouldnt recommend this handset as it is not easy to do. The same applies if you wanted to put your photos on a pc.

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02 Oct 2008

Score: 6.8/10

Anonymous

the camera is very good

the touch screen doesn't always work. i have to turn my phone off then on again.

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28 Jul 2008

Score: 7.6/10

Carlyn, Sheffield

looks good, very easy to use, lots of useful functions.

very low battery life.

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05 Aug 2008

Score: 6.6/10

Anonymous

its really easy to use once you have the hang of it

it doesnt hold battery very well and doesnt have much music memory

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31 Jul 2008

Score: 7.0/10

Anonymous

easy to use, camera is great

battery life isnt long, and the screen scratches quite easily

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25 May 2008

Score: 9.6/10

Anonymous

looks good, sounds good, takes awsom pics, volume good. all in all am very pleased.

unless i am doing wrong, having to erase text mesages one by one, other than that, i am glad i switched from samsung

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08 Oct 2008

Score: 8.0/10

Anonymous

Like the idea of the hidden key pad

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27 Jul 2008

Score: 6.6/10

Stephen, Liphook, “love going out ”

text messaging is fun and simple. Touch screen pad and controls are fun and exciting to use.

Can be damaged rather easily. There isn't many great features that wow you. Stylus was great but then easily lost.

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28 Jul 2008

Score: 8.8/10

Mattias, Bristol, “30 yera old professional”

Camera is very good and takes excellent pictures though not that good with night photos

keypad lock when making calls and getting an automated response makes it more difficult to complete the call

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04 Aug 2008

Score: 1.4/10

Anonymous

The camera is very good.

The touchpad isn't sensitive enough and really slow. Texting is a nightmare and painfully slow. The software is slow and not very high tech. Overall the worst phone I have had in the last 5 years.

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31 May 2008

Score: 8.6/10

Craig, Leicester, “Professional, smart, ”

Clear screen User interface Camera

Battery life a bit short

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05 Sep 2008

Score: 6.8/10

Keith, Darlington, “I love multimedia gadgets.”

Great camera,& touchscreen design. Good video playback when loaded with appropriate files.

Terrible battery life compared to Sony`s. Lack of stopwatch or timer a letdown. Also sick of having to clean camera lens from fingerprints.

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25 Apr 2008

Score: 4.2/10

Aly, Doncaster

navigation screen does not scroll smoothly and often opens applications when you dont want them to battery life is very low having many problems with phone due to text messages not being received or sent

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05 Sep 2008

Score: 6.2/10

Amanda, Hayle, Cornwall

its quite easy to use once you get used to it.

the keypad is not consistant, it seems to have a mind of its own, if trying to scroll it always takes about 6 attemps before the screen will move.

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05 Sep 2008

Score: 8.2/10

Anonymous, “Fashionable young lady”

Great phone, looks the part!! Easy to use.

Battery life.

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23 Apr 2008

Score: 9.4/10

Anonymous

Everything