LG electronics mobile division announced this year the release of the next Arena model called GT950. We will take a look inside what promises to be a stylish and quality mobile phone. It’s not a smartphone, but at least is a touchscreen based model, which means it’s qualified to follow this year’s trend.
The WVGA touch screen display has 3.0-inches and provides a 480 x 800 pixels resolution which perfectly made for video playback. Below the display there are 3 soft keys: Send, Clear&Back, End. The microphone is situated under these 3 keys and the earpiece + proximity sensor on the top of the display. Above is the usual power key button.
On the left side of the phone we find the volume keys and 2 buttons: multitasking and camera one while on the left is the MicroUSB/Headset/Charging port(charging via PC is available). Around this display there’s a minimalistic metallic bar, perfectly assigned to give a sleek and nice design.
At the back of the phone is an 5.0 megapixel camera equipped with auto-focus and LED flash. Videos are shoot at a 640×480 resolution and the 2x zooming is also available. Other camera features: Geo-tagging, Macro and Shake reduction, Image Editor and the basic camera customizable modes.
The animated interface let’s you navigate between 4 home screens: widgets, shortcuts, notifications and contacts. Now there’s a lot of applications that make this phone special:
–AT&T Mobile TV let you watch full length broadcast quality shows(wide screen is supported).
–MusicID2 is a music recognition app that let’s you find your lyrics and artist bios.
–AT&T Music contains MobiTV and XM RADIO which are the TV and digital radio streaming programs.
–Mobile Email app provide access to Gmail, Yahoo, Aol, AIM, Windows Live services.
–AT&T Social Net enhance Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to give you latest updates from your social life.
More applications can be downloaded through AppCenter located in the menu.
A special feature that surprise us is multitasking. We guess this is not the real multitasking, but at least is a step forward for LG. With this multitasking you can navigate Internet, read your messages or play Games, while listening to music player. By pressing the multitasking button, you can choose to close the applications.
Connectivity features available are the basic ones: GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Bluetooth 2.1 and microUSB. GPS comes through A-Gps and with AT&T Navigator application you will surely find your way home or where you intend to go.
Internet is browsed with Mobile Web app and has Java 2.0 and RSS Feed support. You can assign bookmarks and even rotate the phone in any direction to browse the Web in landscape mode.
LG GT950 Arena is available worldwide from March with a $400 estimated price(without a contract).
