Mobile phones have entered a new age of development, as the smartphone arena has heated up considerably in the last few years. Mobile developers and manufacturers have taken advantage of the evolution of modern technology to produce a new type of sleek, compact and versatile phone model, superior in many respects to all that have come before it and certainly a step ahead of the clunky, chunky call-making and –taking blocks of plastic that mobile phones used to be known as. Now phones are pocket-friendly, stylish and flexible enough to hold their own with the best and the rest of modern technology.
One manufacturer that has faced ups and downs in the quest to put together the perfect mobile offering is LG. While certainly not without their share of lumps and shortcomings at times, the company is similarly not without its notable successes in reaching out to consumers and catering to their mobile needs. For instance, LG have put together a solid model in the LG Wine, which is an attractive phone with great typing features and a good display. Its low-end status, however, means that LG has had to streamline and cut corners in some areas, resulting in less than optimal call quality and somewhat mediocre photo quality. Still, it’s a solid phone otherwise, and it must be considered that these features may not be in that much of a high level of demand for the target market.
The LG Wine is a fairly standard flip-phone, although the spun metal finish on the front makes it look sleeker and more sophisticated than one would immediately expect. Whether bought in red or white, the Wine is 3.,89 inches long by 1.93 inches wide and is 0.66 of an inch thick, making it a good handheld phone that is also very light pocket-friendly. On its front is a 1.3-inch external screen as well as the lens for the 1.3-megapixel camera, which the external screen can be the self-portrait viewfinder for. Flipping open the phone reveals the 2.2-inch color display with 240×320 pixel resolution, supported by the opposite panel’s easy-to-use, quick-access navigation and shortcut keys.
The high-capacity phone book can hold up to 1000 contacts and give each up to 5 phone numbers, 2 email addresses and a note. Contacts can each be given a caller ID photo, grouped, or paired with any of the phone’s 34 polyphonic ringtones. The usual gamut of features gives the Wine a very diverse range of capabilities for its low-end market, especially when one takes into account the mobile Web browser and mobile email access. However, one is reminded that this isn’t a top-level phone when one encounters the 1.3-megapixel camera. While it does take mediocre photos, it nevertheless comes with a good range of photo settings for quality, color effects and white balance, as well as camera settings like night mode, self-timer, multi-shot mode, brightness and zoom.
The 48MB internal memory forces LG to forego a music player and video camcorder for this go-round, although the phone’s central focus – making calls – is still serviceable. Call quality is somewhat metallic and vaguely robotic, but otherwise clear and with relatively low levels of static.
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