Synch Sync
The Lg Mini Gd880 To Feature The World’s First Air Sync
LG Electronics wows the mobile phone community on the eve of the highly anticipated 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. LG didn’t wait to unveil it in the event to match rival Samsung’s similar touchscreen in the S8520 Monte unveiled at about the same time.
LG has upped the ante with another new touchscreen smartphone that combines functional richness and affordability in a no-nonsense stark body that is so simple you wonder why the others never thought about it. This is the LG Mini GD880 in a touchscreen monolith. With just a 10.6mm thickness, the Mini can claim to be among the thinnest touchscreen smartphone out there.
A First of its Kind
At the recently concluded MWC, LG passed out information that its new LG Mini will be its first smartphone and certainly the first in the world, to feature its new Air Sync feature. This allows continuous data synching between a PC and your handset over the air possibly using the DLNA capability of its WiFi. It will sync with your PC’s media content as well as the last 100 websites you have visited on your PC regardless of search results.
Features at A Glance
- The LG Mini is a dual band 3G/UMTS(900/2100) with HSDPA at 7.2 MBps and HSUPA at 2 MBps. It is also a standard quad band GSM (850/900/1800/1900) with GPRS/EDGE on the 2G network. Data connectivity comes with WiFi 802.11b/g with DLNA, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0. There’s also a built-in GPS receiver with Assisted GPS
- For an exquisite imaging, it has a 5-megapixel autofocus camera that features image stabilization, face/smile detection, geo-tagging and VGA video recording at 15fps. A front-facing secondary camera support 3G video calls.
- Its stand-out feature is a 3.2-inch TFT LCD resistive touchscreen with WideVGA 480 x 854 pixel resolution supporting 256k colors. There’s multitouch with gesture control, an accelerometer, an ambient light sensor and scratch resistance glass surface. Multimedia features come with usual media players for all the popular audio and video file formats including DivX and Xvid. You also get Dolby Mobile, FM stereo with RDS and a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
- Internal phone memory is limited to just 330 MB with up 1,000 phonebook entries capable of photocall. This gets memory expandability with a hot-swappable microSD for up to 32 GB. A 900 mAh Lithium-ion battery (LGIP-550N) powers up the handset but the press release was silent on the talk and standby times.
The LG Mini GD880 uses a proprietary OS that has the popular S-Class UI and is bundled with a document viewer for PDF and MS Office files, WAP-enabled web browser with Java and Flash video and email client support. Its social networking prowess comes from a suite of apps like the Social Network Connect for staying constantly in touch with your SNS friends online, a Social Networking Feed for instant updates to Facebook and Twitter directly from the homescreen and a Social Address Book that contains all your online SNS contacts forming a subset to the phonebook.
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