LG Glimmer

The LG Glimmer, released earlier this year, has been doing a great job in the mobile market. It is also on of LG’s more finer handset to date. Its design combines the touch-screen display, which is popular in todays market, and has the convenience of a slider phone. But that’s not all. LG made sure that the Glimmer carried high-end features to attract users and gadget fanatics in the market. It offers features such as a 2-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, EV-DO support, and GPS navigation. Disappointing features though are its web browse and the absence of proper e-mail and instant message support.

As far as its design is concerned, the Glimmer looks so much like a cross between the LG Shine and the LG Prada. It has a slider keypad and a beautiful touch screen, which is present in both models. The Glimmer sports a gun metal chassis with a brushed stainless steel finish as well as an incredibly vibrant touch screen. It measures at around 2.05 inches by 0.59 inch, and weighs at 4.48 ounces.

First, let’s talk about its touch screen. The Glimmer’s display measures around 2.8 inches diagonally and supports display of up to 262,000 colors with graphics and icons that simply pop from the screen. It shows basic information like the date, time, battery life, signal strength and photo caller ID. It also acts as the camera viewfinder

Phone navigation is done with the phone’s touch screen. Four icons in front lets the user go where he wants to go. These are the access to the main menu, activates the phone functions, opens the messaging menu, and opens the contacts list.

The phone’s touch screen is very intuitive and very easy to use. Simple taps and scrolls will most definitely get you where you want to go. A slightly firm touch is required, plus there’s a bit of a vibrating feedback when something is selected.

Next we go to its slider keypad. Slim and elegant. The Talk, Back, and End/Power keys are along the top followed by the dialpad underneath. Like most slider keypads, the keys are pretty flush to the surface, but thankfully LG had the forethought to have raised bumps in between each key

This design by LG is very convenient. Not all users would like to use a touch screen to dial or type a message, especially those people who are always on the go and can’t be bothered with trying to type on the device’s screen.

Next we go to the phone’s features. It is equipped with high-end multimedia capabilities. The Glimmer supports a healthy 1,000-entry contacts list, with room in each entry for five phone numbers, an e-mail address, a home page address, and notes. You can also assign each caller to a group, a photo for caller ID, plus one of 33 polyphonic ringtones.

Other basics include a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, a calendar, a world clock, a tip calculator, a calculator, a notepad, and a unit converter. On the higher end, there’s also voice command/voice dial support, a voice recorder, stereo Bluetooth, plus a wireless Web browser called the Axcess Web. The Glimmer also has built-in GPS navigation.

The Glimmer’s music player is pretty standard. It supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and AAC+ formats. Its camera is also good. Not really great, but just enough. Not only is it a 2-megapixel camera with a variety of settings and options, but it also has a really nice user interface, all managed via the touch screen. You get a choice of four resolutions and you can choose from three quality settings. Other features include a night mode, a self-timer, five color effects, an adjustable brightness and white balance setting, multishot, and shutter sounds.

Photo quality was very good–images appeared sharp, with good lighting and accurate colors.

There’s also a built-in video recorder that shoots clips in two resolutions and three quality settings. Record time varies from 15 seconds to an hour, or as memory allows. Other settings include brightness, white balance, color effects, and cue sounds.

Sources:
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