LG KU990 Viewty

The camera comes with color modes, and some manual settings allow you to control exposure compensation and aperture. The pictures were quite vibrant, and you should expect no less. The sharpness wasn’t as good I expected, but the overall tonality of the pictures was intact. The pictures had a lot of life, and warm colors like red and even green were reproduced well. When blown up, however, the pictures lacked detail in certain areas, and even had smudges. You can edit the pictures you have clicked and add a message if you like. Nice!

One of the coolest factors about the phone is the camera. It can record videos at 120fps, which means you can capture a high amount of detail. Tests proved this isn't quite true, but it was good enough. You may experience bit of clipping when you play it on the computer, but trust me it’s quite something.

Talking about playback, the camera comes with a built-in plugin for DivX video that makes use of LG's MobileXD engine that helps in providing a good resolution. We tried a lot of formats, but only 5 out of 10 worked. It can play MP3/MPEG4/WMV/AAC, and that’s pretty much what you need. I wouldn’t recommend the phone if you need a good player though – the music player is something of a novelty in this case.

The phone is power hungry, to the extent that it's quite capable of dying on you in the middle of a call. If you are a moderate user (which is unlikely) you will need to charge the phone at least twice a day. That's a very big negative if you ask me.