LG GD900 Crystal Disadvantages

When talking about good design it's usually all about placing the right elements in the right places. And

in the rare cases when an R&D team actually comes up with something innovative, they usually reserve it for a 2000 buck handset like the Motorola Aura. The LG GD900 Crystal and its see-through keypad, however, prefers walking among the mortals to sitting on mount Olympus and drinking ambrosia.

And luckily the sleek handset is much more than a pretty face. The rich feature set of the GD900 Crystal places it only a short step away from LG's multimedia flagships. However the lack of GPS is easily made up for with cool features like gesture shortcuts and multi-touch input. Sure, these may seem like fancy additions rather than key features, but sometimes it's all about winning the hearts of the users rather than their minds. And the Crystal seems pretty well designed to do that.

Key features

Unique see-through alphanumeric touch-sensitive keypad
3" 16M color capacitive TFT touchscreen of WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels)
S-Class Touch UI
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
3G with HSDPA (7.2 Mbps)
Wi-Fi
8 megapixel autofocus camera, LED flash, manual focus, geotagging, image stabilization, multi face detection (up to 3), smile detection
D1 (720x480 pixels)@30fps, VGA@30fps, QVGA time-lapse and slow-mo video recording
1.5GB storage memory
Hot-swappable microSD card slot(up to 32GB)
microUSB v2.0, mass storage mode
TV-out port
Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
Gesture shortcuts
Accelerometer for screen auto rotate
Multi-touch input
DivX and XviD support
FM radio with RDS
Dolby for Mobile audio enhancement
Office document viewer
Smart dialing

Main disadvantages:

Poor screen sunlight legibility
Below average camera image quality
No built-in GPS receiver
No standard 3.5mm audio jack
Records video in 3GP format
Email attachment size limit is 1MB (both ways)
Limited DivX/XviD video support
All-plastic build

So what we have on our hands here is a handset that's dressed to impress and with a mind bright enough to keep your attention. We really like it when there's something new thrown at us and a see-through touch-sensitive keypad is certainly a first in the mobile world.

The novelty factor is certainly there, we only need t to check if the delicate LG Crystal will pass our tests with flying colors. The ergonomics inspection is due right after the jump.

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