LG GD900 Crystal

The LG-GD900 Crystal is a mobile phone that utilizes the GSM (850/900/1800/1900)/EDGE bandwidth and supports HSDPA 7.2Mbps, WEDGE, GPRS, UMTS 2.1G and 900 (or 2.1G/850) bandwidth as well. Memory storage capacity can be expanded via a MicroSD slot (TransFlash) up to 32GB. The LG-GS900 measures 105 x 52.5 x 13.5mm. This phone has two touchscreens which are the display and the keypad. Ever since this phone was unveiled at the CES 2009, it has created quite a furor among gadget geeks for its transparent keypad. It is the first ever mobile phone to feature an invisible see-thru keypad. The keypad of the GD-900 is touch-sensitive whereby users can go through the phone without any trouble. LG has introduced the ability to have multiple home screens in the phone whereby users can customize each one of them by adding shortcuts to different features on the phone.

Specifications
Design
The LG-GD900 Crystal is a transparent design phone with white lighting in the dark and comes in a slider form factor. The keypad is protected by tempered glass, and features a transparent graphical user interface (GUI). The transparent touchpad provides access to favorite menus with Gesture Shortcut, and allows users to input commands on the touch area, allows handwriting and editing without covering the main LCD screen, and has a multi-touch control that supports zoom in and out with a touch of fingertips. The phone also features intuitive touch wheel for tuning in media player, gallery and camera, S-class UI, 3D graphics, access to multimedia features through extension of space from 2D to 3D, search through fingertip rolling, a 3 inch WVGA LCD wide full touch screen, multi-touch control supporting zoom in and out and an accelerometer sensor for auto rotating display when viewing.

Display
The phone sports a TFT touch-screen with 16 million colours. It also comes with an onscreen keyboard. There is a feature where you will have to use your gestures to do fun things like drawing stuffs or it can be used to launch a programme that you are going to use in the phone.

Camera
The LG-GD900 also features an 8.0-Megapixel, auto focus, 1/2.8-inch camera with CMOS sensor that allows users to capture images and store them in its 1.5GB internal memory. There are a couple of editing options for the phone’s camera. You can crop and replace colors on the shots taken the phone. With the same camera, videos can be recorded and there’s a video editor in the phone to edit videos shot. There’s also an FM radio and a music player.

Internet
It also has xHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01/Internet Full Browsing capabilities via WAP 2.0.

Media
The phone supports playback for MP3, AAC/AAC+/E-AAC+/AMR-NB/WB/WB+, WMA/WMAPro, Ogg-Vorbis, AC3, MIDI music files and H.263 at 4CIF (704 x 480 resolution; 30fps/ 704 x 576; 25fps) or H.263+/MPEG4/H.264/WMV9 (VC-1) at D1 (720 x 480; 30fps/720 x 576; 25fps).

Messaging, Profile features
The phone also supports vibration alerts, SMS/MMS/Video MMS/E-mail, USB/PC Sync for version 2.0 FS for Sync, HS for MSC, MTP; Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, Personal Information Manager, Scheduler/Alarm, up to 1000 names on its phonebook, Personalization, Wallpaper/Screen Saver and Picture/Ringtone downloading.

Power
It is powered by a 1000 mAh Li-ion battery that provides up to 300 hours of standby time and up to 6 hours of talk time (2G)/4 hours (3G).

Other Features
The phone also supports Java (version) MIDP2.0 and CLDC 1.1, 64 polyphonic MIDI, an FM radio, Speaker Phone Mode, built-in games (with 2 touchscreen friendly built-in games), voice on dial function, Video Telephony, allows users to read documents like MS office, PDF and Text, and comes with a TV Out Cable.

Reviews

“If you’re Wonder Woman and you need a phone that complements your invisible plane, the LG GD900 Crystal packs a good range of features into a unique body. But it doesn’t look as cool as we’d hoped, and two touch screens sometimes prove too much of a good thing, leading to inadvertent taps. The GD900′s responsive keypad makes up for the poor on-screen keyboard typical of LG touch-screen phones, but the S-Class user interface needs to improve before the phone can be truly pleasurable to use.” (CNET, 2009)