LG LX370 – silver – Sprint – a basic phone but great value for money

Sum and Substance:

Thumbs Up:

Great call quality, simple and user friendly interface, doesn’t confuse with too many features, One Click interface is great for accessing the most used applications.

Thumbs Down:

Photo and camera quality is bad, small screen.

Inside the Trunk:

Technology: CDMA2000 1X
Band: N/A
Phone design: Slider
Caller ID: Yes
Other features: Stereo Bluetooth, camera, music player

The Whiz Kid Speaks:

LX370 has a 2 inch screen which gives a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The handset can play MPEG4 videos and MP3 format for music. The phone has a 2.5 mm head phone jack. It has PIM tools like tip calculator, to-do / tasks, calendar and alarm
The phone is 4.10 inches big, 1.90 inches wide, 0.63 inches thick and weighs about 3.70 oz. The device can take up to 16 GB card in to the microSD card slot. 900 mAH lithium ion battery of the phone has rated talk time of 6 hours. The phone book can take 600 entries for your contacts. Grouping of contacts is supported.

Razzle Dazzle:

The phone is sleek, smooth but definitely not sexy. Such designs have been sported by Samsung phones way back in 2006 and they are outdated now. On the positive side the slider of the phone is sturdy making it easy to open and close the phone. There are dotted bumps behind the phone which makes it easy to grip. The front of the phone is extremely shiny and can even be used as a mirror. The handset is 1.89 inches wide, 4.06 inches long, 0.63 inches thick and weighs about 3.7 ounces.

Inside Dope:

LG gave us two phones before – LG Lotus and LG Rumour 2 and both of them were messaging phones. This time they are out with a phone for people who need a device just for calling and sending text messages. They have also thrown in some advanced features around takes the phone out of the ‘entry level’ category. The main features of the phone include One Click interface courtesy of Sprint, EV-DO REV .0., GPS and 2 mega pixel camera.

The display of the handset is rather tiny, it is just two inch big, has a resolution of 240×320 pixels and support for 262,000 colors. Even though the screen is small, it is vibrant and rich with color, the animated icons look very nice. You can change the font size of browser, notepad and messages and also the back light of the screen. You can personalize your phone with lots of wallpapers, alert tones and graphics.
We were quite fond of the One Click interface of the phone which can be found only of phones by Sprint. You get eight tiles and you can put in any of the 14 applications provided to you. As you cycle through the icons you get more options for the particular application. For example if you are going through Google, you get a pop up which gives you access to Google Maps, Search, YouTube and Gmail.
Underneath the display there are a few physical buttons like circular navigation button with OK button in the middle, 2 soft keys, back key, talk and end buttons. The end button is also used to power up the phone. On the sides of the device there is charger jack, volume rocker, camera button, memory card slot headset jack and voice command button. Speaker and camera are located behind the camera.
The phone is slider based and the numeric keypad is hidden beneath the front half of the phone. The keypad is very comfortable to type upon because the keys are adequately spaced away from each other and even though the buttons are flat on the surface there are lines in between them which you will feel while using the keys.
The phone can take 600 contacts in the phone book, a single entry can take 2 email addresses, 6 phone numbers, memo, IM screen name and web address. The phone supports grouping of contacts and photo caller ID is supported. There are four types of vibration and you can assign a vibration type to a contact. There are 33 polyphonic ring tones to choose from.
Other basic features on the phone includes unit converter, notepad, calculator, world clock, calendar, alarm clock, vibrate mode, speakerphone, voice messaging and multimedia and text messaging.
Other features on the phone include wireless Web browser, memory card manager, stereo Bluetooth, IMs (Yahoo!, Windows Live and AIM) USB-syncing mode, voice memo recorder and voice command. The handset supports POP and IMAP connectivity so you can set the phone to deliver e-mails from your client onto your inbox. There is also built in GPS with support for Sprint Family Locator and Sprint Navigation.
The handset comes with EV-DO Rev. 0 which gives you access to broadband services of Sprint like Sprint TV. You can stream clips from ESPN, CBS and other content providers. You can also purchase songs from Sprint Music priced at 99 cents per track. The music player is pretty basic still includes the features that you need the most like editing and creating playlists, shuffle and repeat. LX370 supports up to 16 GB of memory cards through the microSD slot.
The basic phone has a basic 2.0 mega pixel camera which can take maximum resolution of 1600X1200, it has three settings for quality and four tones for color. Other settings are fun frames, night mode, brightness, self timer, white balance, 4 shutter tones along with a silent option. Photo quality is below average just like a standard 2.0 mega pixel camera. The camera also lets you record videos but the quality is passable.
The handset comes with a trial version of few games like The Oregon Trail, Tetris Pop and Galaga. You will have to pay a fee to buy full version of these games. However, playing games on such a small screen is quite miserable.
The LX370 was tested for phone quality and we didn’t have much to complain there. We could hear the voice of our friends clearly and our friends too didn’t have any issues when talking to us on this phone. Voice was clear, loud and natural. Speakerphone calls were better than what we usually get, it sounded tinny but that is not unexpected.
LG told us that the LX370 has talk time of six hours. In our test the battery lasted for little over four hours.

Nitty Gritty:

LG LX370 is good if you belong to the category of people who just call and send text messages. A few features like music player, Bluetooth and camera thrown in make it a good entry level handset.

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