Much has changed in the world of manufacturing mobile phones, but much has remained the same for both manufacturers and users. While mobile phone manufacturers have worked hard round the clock to integrate as much new technology as possible into their mobile phone models – and even as mobile phone users eagerly snap up and support these new developments – the core call and message functionality of the mobile phone remains its central feature. However, this doesn’t stop mobile phone manufacturers from putting out more and more advanced mobile phones that continue to push the envelope and establish new ways of doing old things.
LG has consistently prided itself on releasing handsets that accomplish the mobile phone’s core objectives well while pushing the envelope and trying new things. The Rumor Touch is a great new model that overcomes a somewhat mediocre camera and slightly problematic keyboard layout to provide an interesting interface that’s great for text messaging, with a 5-row QWERTY and a variety of great connectivity options that help provide easy access to a number of social networking sights. In keeping with providing both old-school and all-new features, the Rumor Touch has great call quality. All told, the LG Rumor Touch manages to put a new spin on an old function, and brings everything else to the table.
The large 3.0-inch touch screen display is immediately noticeable, especially when it’s showing off its 262,000 colors and 240×400 pixel WQVGA resolution. The images and text show up crisply on the rather vibrand and sharp display, and the touch screen’s resistive display – although not as smooth as a capacitive display – responds well to a stylus or your fingertips. Haptic feedback allows the phone to vibrate when you select something onscreen, and a calibration wizard allows for fine-tuning of touch precision.
The Rumor Touch’s user interface is fairly unique and somewhat identifiably influenced by instant messaging interfaces. Incoming text messages are displayed as a bubble icon on the upper right hand corner of the screen with a number indicating the number of new messages, and tapping the bubble icon displays the new messages as floating bubbles that fill up the screen; they can then either be closed or replied to. This innovative twist on text messaging allows for greater immediacy and a more visually appealing interface. Also interesting is the way that the Hello UI [Hello User Interface] allows intuitive grouping of contacts. Up to six contacts can be grouped and accessed quickly.
The Rumor Touch’s main stumbling points are its somewhat Plain Jane camera and its somewhat cramped keyboard. While the 2.0-megapixel camera boasts 4 resolution settings for its images, its photos are fairly mediocre. Its keyboard, on the other hand, is an impressive 5-row QWERTY, although its typing is hampered somewhat by its large Enter, Back and arrow keys.
LG is known for having started making solid full-QWERTY feature phones before the messaging trend even really took off, and the Rumor Touch is the newest step in making bold strides in innovation. The 2.0-megapixel camera doesn’t exactly wow, but it doesn’t disappoint either, and it’s notable that the feature set includes GPS and EV-DO Rev 0. LG have made their first-ever touch screen Rumor a solid package with an innovative user interface that handles text messaging extremely well, and matches that with great call quality that make the phone especially good at handling old functions in a new way.
No related posts.
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
