LG Prime GoPhone – With full QWERTY keyboard
LG Prime GoPhone gives you a full QWERTY keyboard in the landscape mode for typing messages. In the portrait, there is the alphanumeric keypad which is not that comfortable to type on. The phone book is limited to 1000 entries. A single entry can take in memo, anniversary, birthday, three postal addresses, Web addresses, display name, company name, four IM handles, three –email IDs and six phone numbers.
Feature set on the LG Prime GoPhone include speakerphone, vibrate mode, multimedia and text messaging, calendar, alarm clock, notepad, world clock, calculator, tasks list, tip calculator, stopwatch, and unit converter. Some of the advanced features on the handset include voice command, voice recorder, FM radio, AT&T’s mobile e-mail for checking your personal e-mail, instant messaging, and Bluetooth. AT&T Social Net application gives you access to Web sites of social networking like Twitter and Facebook. Mobile e-mail service is really cool but it comes at a price of $5 a month.
LG Prime GoPhone is a touch screen phone and it comes with a HTML browser. I won’t recommend you to go for the full HTML one because the display is quite small and it has a resistive interface. There is no 3G either which makes matters worse. I could still use mobile versions of the Web sites quite well.
I was glad to see AT&T Mobile Music on LG Prime GoPhone. You can buy and download tracks from eMusic and Napster. Just like other packages of AT&T Mobile Music, you get a music fan community site, MusicID (song ID app), and other such music apps. Tracks can be transferred to the phone through microSD card or USB. Supported music formats are WMA, MP3, AAC+ and AAC. The internal memory is just 48 MB and the external slot can take up to 16 GB.
You get plethora of settings on the LG Prime GoPhone like five resolutions, three color effects, three quality modes, five presets for white balance (along with an auto setting), 10 seconds self timer, manual or automatic ISO, three shutter sounds along with a silent option, 2x digital zoom, etc.
Finally, I tested the LG Prime GoPhone for call quality and it was quite pleasant. On my side, the other party sounded quite good and the volume too was loud enough. But occasionally my friends sounded fuzzy and robotic. On their side, my friends said that my voice was machine like. They could still hear me clearly and the conversation was carried out without any problems. There was some static skip and occasional hiss but it is not a deal breaker. Speakerphone calls were below par though. My friends had to speak loudly and my voice sounded as if I was far away from the phone. On my side, the voice was clear and loud.
The LG Prime GoPhone has a 3.5 mm headphones jack which is always great as it lets you put in any standard headphones. When tested for the music quality, the tracks sounded brash and very loud. The bass and nuances were absent.
