LG GT540

lg gt540 review

Release Date:  Q3 2010
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• 3G
• Social network integration
• Wi-Fi

• No GPS
• No secondary camera

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LG has announced its new version of Android phone, GT540. This new mobile phone is expected to take the functionality of social networking to a different level. Like the first Android phone from the company, which is LG Etna GW620, this new handset also adds more fun and easy environment for social networking. There are absolutely no hazards in accessing the most popular social networks in the present times such as Twitter, Facebook™ and Bebo with LG GT540. Apart from the social networks, LG GT540 also assures to provide great value of entertainment to the users. The multimedia features of the mobile phone are inclusive of WMV playback, a motion UI player and DivX player.

LG GT540 is innovative in its own terms. It is a perfect handset for the beginners who want to step into the zone of the smart phones. Generally, the smart phones look heavy with technologies, but LG GT540 has incorporated the style element wonderfully along with combining the best of technical features. Users can also customize the themes, widgets and bring colour variations to retain their individual mark in the mobile phone.

LG GT540 Review - Full on Google features

LG GT540 provides the users with accessibility to the full suite of mobile services by Google. Therefore, the users can access Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps™ and YouTube™ as well. Moreover, people download numerous games, themes and applications due to the Android Market accessibility.

LG GT540 Review - Looks attractive

No matter, a mobile phone comes with which brand name the first impression is always created by the looks. If the mobile phone is not attractive enough, then its scope of getting a good market share definitely gets restricted. Let’s find out what LG GT540 brings on board. The mobile phone comes with touch screen features and there is no physical keyboard. The touch screen functionalities are good, but definitely not in the line of something like Apple iPhone 3GS. Tough, it packs a decent display with TFT touch screen and 256,000 colours. The display includes accelerometer sensor for auto rotate and the resolution is 320 x 480 pixels. Most of the frontal portion of the phone is covered with its 3 inches touch screen display and the rest of the part features the major functional keys. The handset is available in three attractive shades, which are black, white and pink.

LG GT540 – the network and connectivity

GT540 by LG is supportive to both 2G and G network. It supports the quad band GSM 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900 and dual band 3G HSDPA 900/ 2100 and HSDPA 850/ 2100. Being a 3G enabled handset, it assures high speed access to the internet (HSDPA 7.2 mbps) and it also includes Wi Fi, EDGE and GPRS that further contribute to the high-end connectivity. Transferring files has become of the integral parts of the mobile phone usage. The users of the mobile phones exchange different files such as music, video, images and documents as well. Therefore, good connectivity and file transferring ability is definitely very crucial. LG knows this aspect very well and hence, it has incorporated microUSB for with-wire transfer of file facility and Bluetooth® for wireless transfer.

Memory features of the LG GT540

These days the users of the mobile phones are looking out for more applications and features. More application requires bigger storage space in the mobile phone and therefore, good memory back up is always essential. Suppose, you love to store many video files or music files in the handset, and hence you would require bigger memory space. Not just music or videos, good memory is important for any sort of application or software such as gaming, multi media tools, etc. Let’s see what LG GT540 brings in. The built in memory of the mobile phone is practically unlimited to store phone book entries and call records. However, there is an expandable memory option where microSD™ (TransFlash) card can be used to expand the memory up to 32 GB. Therefore, the users of the LG GT540 can store quite a lot of music, videos, games and other applications.

Camera of the LG GT540

Camera is one of the most used features of the mobile phones. There are many buyers who purchase mobile phones just for getting a good camera feature. If there is a camera in the mobile phone it comes as a great handy to capture the important moments anywhere, anytime. So, people do look forward to the camera functionalities when they go to buy a mobile phone. LG GT540 includes a camera, which is a 3 mega pixel snapper with auto focus. Though, it is not the best in terms of the high mega pixel cameras available with the touch screen phones these days, but it is not bad either. Video recording is possible with the camera, but there is no secondary camera.

LG GT540 – other entertainment features

Entertainment is the integral part of the mobile phones. These handsets work as a great companion to pass the spare times by tuning into music or playing videos. LG GT540 brings in its share of entertainment features. The music lovers can enjoy music playback by playing different files such as eAAC+, WAV, WMA and MP3. Apart from that, there is stereo FM radio with RDS. The users of the mobile phone can also enjoy different formats of videos that include DivX, H.264, H.263, WMV and MP4. The entertainment does not end there. LG GT540 is a high-end social networking handset where the users can take the advantage of the most popular social network integration such as Facebook, Bebo and Twitter.

Overall, LG GT540 looks attractive and seems like a promising handset. The first version of the Android phone by LG GT540 LG was quite good, and it is expected that GT540 will make it even better. The phone releases in April 2010.