LG GD910 – For All The Fashionistas

Sum n substance:

Thumbs up: combo of a watch and a phone,  dandy designing, surprisingly lightweight, high endurance, excellent touchscreen responsiveness.

Thumbs down: the VGA camera, low resolution display.

Inside the trunk:
Price at launch £500.00
Dimensions 49 x 39 x 13.8
Features Videocalling / VGA camera
Weight (g) 84.00

THE WHIZ-KID SPEAKS: Finally the much awaited watchphone from LG has seen the light of the day. Though it was expected that this one would cost around 500 euros, this one has been launched for a lesser price than what was being assumed. Well, I am pretty excited to review this one just for the fact that it is loaded with a touchscreen, Bluetooth and yeah not to forget a camera too. What waits to be seen is whether this one is just a imposture or if it truly stands true to the claims that it is making. Anyways I guess by the end of this review the answer to this one would be crystal clear… so moving ahead…

This one is quite a sleek one, considering all the features that it encapsulates this one for sure is worth all the talk. Its got a leather strap which has to be strapped around the wrist using a clamp in kind of a fit. The major drawback with this one is that the clamp keeps on getting loose again and again and has to be tightened regularly. Its got a small 1.4 inch touchscreen which I guess is small for all those who have been using the regular 3 inch touchscreen, but then again I must add that working with the smaller one is quite more comfortable.

The SIM card slot has been placed behind the battery at the back of the watch. And trust me, I wouldn’t advice anyone using this one to keep on fiddling with the SIM card plainly because it is quite a difficult process to remove it again and again and plus it would require a coin or something like a coin too actually blow the lid off the battery.

This one has 3 buttons on the side, the talk button, the end button, and the navigating button. Using the talk button the menu page can be opened and it can be used for selecting the other applications. The end button simply takes you back to the main screen and the toggle button helps you scroll back and forth. The glitch being that at times you might just pull out some of your arm hair while trying to get your fingers on the tiny buttons. LOL.

It’s quite a lightweight number considering all the stuff it has been loaded with. I could easily just use it as a watch without even bothering about the weight of it. Plus to add  to the set of the features, the charging facility provided with this one is quite fascinating. The charger has an absolutely astounding design which fastens the phone to a metal plate and then even connects it to a USB charger for computer compatibility.

If you are expecting any thing more than calling, texting and possibly listening to some music then I am sorry to say this one isn’t for you. But y would anyone want a watch to do anything more than this?? Anyways the interface of this one is quite a basic one. The reason being the size of the screen. I mean c’mon… how much do you want on a 1.4 inch touchscreen?? Obviously no one would want a mess right on their wrists.

Well, it’s quite difficult to imagine talking through the phone… I mean imagine talking through the phone and shuffling it between your mouth and ears just because the speakerphone isn’t all that great. By the way, I must add that thankfully this one has a not so great kind of a speaker just because talking in public with the angle of the watch near you struggling to talk would do nothing, but just make you look like a complete whack-job. I would recommend using a Bluetooth headset. Any Bluetooth headset syncs in perfectly with this one. And the quality of voice with this one using Bluetooth is also pretty much clear. With hardly any static or interference and also the callers had no complains.

You could use the phone when making video calls. But I suggest taking it off your wrists and then using it for the video calls. The video quality isn’t all that great but its quite distinctive and that’s all you could expect from the VGA camera that this one comes along with.  The 3G coverage on this one is pretty exceptional as well, I hardly had any problems no matter where I was.

Using the messaging service on this one was quite damn easy, unlike what I expected it to be. I hardly faced any problems using it with the T9 option that comes along with it. It also has the regular multi tap option. One teeny weeny complain that I have with this one is that the message doesn’t start with a capital letter so I kind of had to fiddle around a bit to get that fixed.

Before I move on to the camera, I just need too add that the camera surely is just a piece of add-on. I think it was placed there just because there was some more space to be filled and what else better than a camera to fill in a few blank spaces. LOL. Anyways the clarity of the camera is hardly anything to talk about, plus you could hardly use it just to probably click pictures of your own self, nothing much or nothing less. This one surely wasn’t placed in there as a highlight or probably one of the reasons to buy the phone. Obviously this small device can’t live up to al your whims and fancies.

The music payer that this one comes equipped with is quite a decent one. The sound quality is also quite clear and also navigation through the music player is quite a pleasant experience thanks to the superbly responsive keys.

It doesn’t have much of multimedia features to like keep you really busy or possibly even entertain you when you are bored, but then again its got some really nice organizational features like the calculator, to do list, alarm clock and a memo function. On a lighter note I would recommend this one to all the mathphobic kids out there. What could possibly be more fascinating than having a calculator right on your wrists. LOL.

Coming to the battery life, this one was alive for about three days in a row without having to be recharged. Yeah I did use a bit of the music player and yeah the Bluetooth connectivity for making calls. And its endurance is pretty much impressive for me atleast.

Nitty-gritty: The most astounding fact about this one is that it’s a combo of a watch and phone which makes it a killer on itself irrespective of the other features it comes along with. Yeah some of the people might find it quite ridiculous to have a phone on your wrist, paying a huge amount for it, when you could easily buy a separate watch and a phone with better features at almost the same price or even less than it.

But then this one is a real cool find. And probably if you’re Paris Hilton… go ahead splurge on this one. LOL…

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