Saturday, October 31, 2009

LG BL40 New Chocolate review: Chef’s best



Key features


* One-off touchscreen bar design
* 4.01" 16M-color capacitive touchscreen of 21:9 aspect ratio
* Quad-band GSM support and UMTS with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
* S-Class Touch UI with pinch zooming and gesture controls
* Accelerometer for screen auto-rotation
* 5-megapixel autofocus camera, Schneider-Kreuznach certified optics, LED flash, VGA@30fps video recording
* 1.1GB of internal memory, microSD expansion (up to 32GB)
* Wi-Fi with DLNA
* GPS receiver with A-GPS support and WisePilot satnav app
* Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, microUSB port, TV out
* Standard 3.5mm audio jack, Dolby Mobile sound enhancement
* Stereo FM radio with RDS, FM transmitter
* Full-blown multi-tasking with a decent task manager
* DivX/XviD video player
* Motion-based games
* Smart dialing
* Office document viewer

Main disadvantages

* Single-handed use not too comfortable due to the extra long form factor * Video recording output is pathetic * Piano black surface is a fingerprint nightmare * Memory card slot is under the battery cover * Web browser has no Flash support * No video streaming over Wi-Fi (such as the mobile YouTube) * WisePilot satnav app is only a trial version * No sign of any social networking integration

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