Similar to how media technology – and most modern technology in general – has undergone the bulk of its evolution in only the last few hundred years or so, mobile technology has undergone a growth spurt of sorts in its continued progress over the last couple of years. Indeed, while mobile phones have consistently changed and improved since their entry into the public eye – and hand and pocket – the last couple of years have been banner years for innovation, as mobile phones became “smart” with the introduction of new players in the mobile manufacturing and content provision and with various developments in more versatile operating systems and software and more well-integrated hardware.
Longtime mobile manufacturer LG has put together a new entry into the competitive mobile market. The LG Lotus Elite is a new form for LG’s original Lotus, which was itself a unit that broke ground in the mobile landscape as far as looks and functionality went – its square design was notable among an ocean of rectangular candy bars and sliders, and it managed to deliver in spades. While faltering somewhat in its delivery of a good web browsing experience, the Lotus Elite does indeed improve upon the original with a more polished look and more solid overall design, as well as great call reception and quality.
The improvements over the original begin with the Lotus Elite’s overall design, which is more streamlined and refined than its predecessor. Maintaining the fairly wide build of the original, the Elite packs an external 320×240 resolution touch screen, from which users can access most of the phone’s built-in applications – camera, video, music player and Sprint features – via touch control. The internal display isn’t a touch screen but does feature a full QWERTY pad and a good number of buttons for various functions. It’s notable, though, that certain applications will only work on the keyboard – web browsing and games are foremost, and social networking is among them as well – and not on the touch screen.
The phone features support for the standard variety of messaging formats – text, picture, and video – and also supports internet instant messaging via AIM, Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger, in addition to POP3 email support via AOL, GMail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. The actual internet browsing experience, while powered by v3.5.1 of the Access NetFront browser, is somewhat hamstrung by the phone’s display – while web pages can be read on the default font setting, the browser compresses page width in order to fit the whole thing into the 320-pixel width of the display. Columns are thus crammed into extremely long, narrow and tedious-to-scroll frames.
The Lotus Elite provides users with good call reception and quality, with full bars at best and about 2/3 of full strength at the very least. Call quality is very clear and audible, both for incoming and outgoing voice levels, with background noise cut to a minimum. This makes the Elite a convenient and ideal choice for calling any of one’s 600 stored contacts [with up to 98 on speed-dial], each of which can have up to 7 numbers stored for them. This, coupled with the phone’s excellent voice command and versatile music player, make the phone a good purchase for those in need of a solid 3G CDMA phone and not looking to do a lot of web browsing.
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