Compact Beauty and Richness in the LG Mini GD880
One of the slimmest and arguably the smallest touchscreen smartphone on the plant was unveiled by LG Electronics just before the 2010 Mobile World Congress early February and should be out starting March in Europe, April in the UK and progressively in other markets thereafter.
This is the LG Mini GD880, sporting the simplest monolithic lines on an all-aluminum body measuring just 102 x 47.6 x 10.6 mm and weigh a very pocket-friendly 99 grams. What is remarkable about it is a 3.2-inch is display that almost bleeds to the side edges, wasting no space with a very narrow bezel framing, leaving just enough for a secondary VGA camera at the top and bottom space to balance it.
It’s interesting to hear Dr. Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications, talk about it as product of consumer research on what they want on a smartphone and declares “We developed the LG Mini in response to specific requests from actual consumers who were unhappy with current full touchscreen phones that are too bulky, too clunky and too expensive.” That statement epitomizes what the LG Mini is – compact in size and prize (as LG promised it would be) but a look at its spec sheet reveals these laudable traits are deceptive as there’s nothing compact or mini about its feature set.
At a Glance and Up Close
Firstly, the LG Mini comes with what LG calls its first ever implementation of the Air Sync on its smartphones. The feature allows continuous over-the-air data synching between the handset and you desktop or laptop PC to update media content on both devices anytime they are close. LG is silent on the technology but this could be an application of the DLNA feature of its WiFi connectivity. In addition, the handset draws out the last 100 websites you’ve visited on your PC every time regardless of search results.
The LG Mini runs its own OS with the famous S-Class UI that LG smartphones have become noted for. It is also a socially-aware smartphone with SNS apps like the Social Network Contact listing all your online friends in Facebook and twitter, the Social Network Connect that makes getting in touch with them a breeze and the Social Network Feed that instantly updates your SNS sites. Other than that, the LG Mini is as feature-rich as any bulkier and pricier smartphones in its class.
You get a dual band 3G phone with HSDPA at 7.
2 MBps and HSUPA at 2 MBps. It’s also your standard quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G. Data connectivity comes with the usual WiFi with DLNA, microUSB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.1. You also get SatNav functionality from its built-in GPS receiver with Assisted GPS.
The LG Mini GD880 comes with a 3.2-inch WideVGA TFT LCD resistive touchscreen display with 256 k colors. An accelerometer, ambient light sensor and scratch resistant glass cover are there. Imaging gets a glorious 5-megapixel autofocus camera with image stabilization, geo tagging, face and smile detection and VGA recording at 15fps.
Multimedia is supported with media playback for the popular audio and video codecs that includes DivX and Xvid. You also get Dolby Mobile, stereo FM with RDS and a 3.5 headphone jack.
Phone memory gets 330 MB with up to 1,000 phonebook entries capable of photocall. With its microSD slot, you can have up to 32 GB of hot-swappable external memory.
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