Mobile phone technology has taken us a considerable distance from its early days to the ever-quickening modern days. Since their inception, mobile phones have progressed appreciably from large mobile handsets that didn’t do much more than let you take calls on the road [if their battery power lasted that long]. Then text messaging hit, and mobile phones raced to outdo each other in that sense and provide better and better services. Soon technology had allowed more specialized features like music players and cameras – not to mention more sophisticated core hardware platforms – to be integrated into the new mobile phones seeing release. This progression has led us to the current state of smart mobile phones, which keep outdoing their predecessors with each release.
Mobile phone manufacturers keep working on making new models to include new levels of functionality or new combinations of features, typically for varying market sectors. Variations include combinations of features that coincide in their moving toward a specific purpose, or fit within a specific budget range while providing basic and even advanced mobile phone functionality. Sometimes manufacturers direct new models toward specific accounts, as longtime mobile manufacturer LG has done with its new LG Sentio. This new handset is a good midrange multimedia phone with a 3.0-megapixel camera, a good HTML Web browser, 7.2Mbps-speed 3G support and music player and even a touch screen released by LG under T-Mobile.
The Sentio shows itself off well from the get-go with a slim, stylish 4.2” length, 2.1” width, and 0.5” thickness frame – making itself one of the slimmest touch screen phones around now. With no steel or glass in this frame, it also clocks in as one of the lightest touch screen phones at 3.3 ounces, with a curved, ergonomic design that grips well thanks to its sturdy slate-gray plastic construction. The 3.0-inch touch screen display supports 262,000 colors, which results in bright, vibrant and colorful images and easily-read menu fonts and screens. The basic menu is reminiscent of LG’s Vu Plus and other offerings, with a main menu divided into Phone, Media, Organizer and Settings.
Speaking of which, the home screen is customizable and can accommodate your choices of widgets or app shortcuts. Widgets can be dragged onto the home screen from the slide-out tray, and any phone function or feature can be assigned a widget shortcut icon. This makes for easy access to virtually everything your phone can do. The resistive touch screen doesn’t offer as much responsiveness as a capacitive screen, but once you figure out its pressure requirements – and/or use the optional, adjustable vibration feedback – you’ll get the hand of it. The virtual phone dialer works well with a roomy key area, as does the virtual QWERTY, although the latter might give some people trouble with the relatively small text input area [most of the screen is taken up by the onscreen keyboard].
The Sentio has a good range of features, such as an HTML Web browser, GPS with Telenavc Navigator support, and Social Buzz, a social-networking site organizer and manager. A music player [songs are loaded onto the player through a USB cable or microSD card], YouTube app and 3-megapixel camera head up the multimedia features, which are rounded out by customizable graphics and sounds and the included games – the classic Pac-Man as well as demos for Guitar Hero 5 Mobile, Millionaire 2010, and Need for Speed Shift. Call quality is good, with minimal distortion and hiss countered by audible volume and relatively clear reception.
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