Click to viewTheAT&T LG Vuis the latest multimedia system touchscreen phone on the flooring at CTIA , offering tactual touchscreen feedback , Mobile TVand a pretty visceral exploiter port . While the intro of the hardware and software package is beautiful , and theAT&T ’s MediaFlo - powered Mobile TV serviceis pretty slick , the deficiency of power in the web web browser app and sub - menu interfaces do n’t quite hold up to similar option ( coughing … iPHONE … cough ) .
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The marketing point of the Vu is by all odds the Mobile TV overhaul . It ’s implementation here is solid . Mobile TV is a legit service of process , a step up from AT&T ’s erstwhile Verizon V Cast - like CV service . The phone ’s homescreen has an easily accessible image at the bottom , and the entire user interface is ground around the Vu ’s touchscreen . It comes with a pull - out antenna , but LG says its meant for use in remote surface area . The television screen itself has button for distribution channel up / down and another that brings up an electronic computer program guide like to what you ’d see in artificial satellite or digital cable’s length . The best part is that the guide is completely touch sensation - friendly and you may jump from distribution channel to channel just by touching a show on the guide .
The touchscreen itself is solid for the most part . The tactual feedback lets you be intimate when you ’ve pressed a button , though the blind does involve a fairly firm push to get it to respond . It was especially quick and accurate in the front filmdom menu and the subsequent apps menus .
The horizontal QWERTY keyboard face well designed . However , it felt a bit cramped . I made my fair share of typo , partly because I was getting used to the feel of the keyboard , and partially because I could n’t see what letter I was pressing ( no iPhone - style down - up letter ) .
The euphony / culture medium player was pretty square , declare oneself categories such as album , artist , etc … , and is all touch - friendly . The VU has a microSD card slot in its back panel that support card as great as 8 GB .
The proprietary LG browser app pales in equivalence to roving Opera or roving Safari , and has trouble displaying full - size of it webpages . range the Gizmodo page was slow and jerky , and the method of scroll and panning the silver screen palpate unintuitive , perhaps because it ’s the inverse of the iPhone and iPod touch .
The textbook message interface does not practice the conversation thread style of display school text substance ( a la Palm and BlackBerry ) , in some ways negate the simpleness of the touchscreen interface .
The interface also had a few queerness that did n’t quite make sense to me . The nonremittal keyboard for text introduction is an on - screen 10 - finger’s breadth stamp pad that simulates the 0 - 9 keys on a real earpiece . The nonpayment range orientation is portrait mode . Both have to be toggle on and off via button on the touchscreen — the landscape / portrait clitoris was particularly vague .
All in all , the Vu ’s strengths consist in its multimedia characteristic , but the telephone could benefit from further embrace the interface design found in some of today ’s impertinent smartphones .
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