Sexy looks have officially taken over ease of use, and a cell phone has to look sexy if it is to compete in the stiff gadget market. LG are desperate to do something out of the box with this cell phone and we were stunned at the transparent keypad of this handset. The keypad can also be used as a touch sensitive controller. For scrolling through the items on the phone, all you have to do is swipe your finger on it. This is just like a laptop’s trackpad. You can also ‘pinch’ on the keypad to zoom in and out of photos. All this seems too good to be true. We don’t know what the secret is but we surely must congratulate LG for this. We really liked the LG Crystal GD900’s touch sensitive keypad. You can swipe on the keypad and look at the screen. Your view isn’t blocked while you swipe either. The phone has a slider interface, which means you can convinientaly slide the keypad out of sight when you don’t need it. The keypad supports  [...]

LG Crystal GD900 is a beautiful phone but once you get used to it and the novelty wears off, you will wish it had better performance. It will make heads turn when you flaunt it on your college or office campus but then on the inside you will realize that it is not as good. LG has taken pains for the phone to look good and haven’t cared much about the performance inside. We couldn’t get enough of the looks though; we were staring at it for long time when it landed in our test centers. The display of the LG Crystal GD900 is 3 inch, 800 x 480 pixels resolution and support for 16.2 million colors. The display is as big as iPhone and performs equally well. The text is clear, the photos and videos look lively on the phone. Beneath the LG Crystal GD900 is a keypad that we seldom see in a mobile phone. It is a touch sensitive keypad which lets you scroll through your web pages even with a swipe on the finger. Yes! Can do swiping even on the  [...]