There is nothing as an option. Just ask AT&T, which released two very similar lateral sliding QWERTY touchscreen phones in the same week, the LG Xenon and printing of Samsung. As the dynamic duo of slab touchscreen phones, the LG Vu and Samsung Eternity at AT&T, LG takes the low road, while the major road from Samsung in terms of price, features, and covers. Xenon, released in April 2009 for $ 99 with contract after rebates, is half the price of Samsung impressions, and has a small screen and less on luxuries, as well as a lower resolution camera. At 4.1 x 2.1 x 0.6 inches and 3.8 ounces, the LG is one of the side pocket slider QWERTY phones and is much smaller than the print. And best even, is not only a warmer LG Vu: the touch UI has become in good ways and there are several new features such as widgets that we have seen in the latest LG touch screen phones from Verizon.
Design & Keyboards
4 LG Xenon QWERTY keyboard has a row of hardware that is only in terms of size, neither too large nor so small that it is a stretch to reach the keys. The print seems a little too big, but if you’re really a great man with his hands, we recommend printing on the keyboard. Since no 5th row of numbers that are embedded in the keyboard and need to press Fn key write emails, messages and URL, but not when dialing from the home screen. Shortcut keys for e-mail, SMS, instant messaging and online contacts the left edge of the keyboard and the design is normal (it is not strange letters or punctuation).
The LG Xenon phone is satisfying and good looking, but is not elegant or expensive. The sliding keyboard is solid and the phone does not creak or flex. The keys are backlit in white and are easy to see in the dark. You can configure the display and keypad backlight time separately and control the brightness of the screen. 2.8 “65,000 color touch screen is very nice, but not wow us as printing the screen Grinding.
The front of LG Xenon has the send and end call buttons and a button switch tasks (yes, the phone makes multi-tasking). The screen lock / unlock button on the right side and you have to press twice to unlock the phone (the first press conference that wakes up and opens the second). The camera button and micro SD card slot SDHC are also on the right. The volume controls are on the left and the micro USB charging and headphone jack it up.
Open the keyboard and the LG xenon phone automatically changes to landscape view, but the home screen background does not rotate (the same goes for fusing with the HTC TouchFLO 3D printing). All icons and turn most of the applications run in both portrait and landscape modes.
There is an accelerometer that rotates the screen when you turn the device on the LG Xenon side, but this only works in certain applications such as photo viewer and web browser. It does not work on the home screen, menu programs, instant messaging client, contacts or calendar. For these, you have to slide the keyboard to get the landscape and how to enter text using the QWERTY hardware board instead of on-screen T9.
No on-screen QWERTY keyboard, a phone with a keyboard and T9 options for a copy / paste function.
Conclusion
The LG Xenon get fit a touch screen and large, side sliding QWERTY keyboard in a small package and very thin. It is the budget price and still became rich with features like HSDPA, stereo Bluetooth, GPS, music and video playback. However, the touch screen responsiveness and consistent user interface knock this phone for a few notches: the screen requires very hard taps compared to other phones resistive touch screen, no QWERTY keyboard on the screen, the accelerometer works only for some applications and the list of travel is not easy. We have seen at best LG Dare and the Versa. Are granted higher-level phones for Verizon, but we’d like to see more polished software LG touch screen phones from AT& T.
Once you get used to the peculiarities of xenon, which has some compelling features such as a fast and accurate GPS, 2MP camera and decent standards of high quality of the call. 3G HSDPA in the reception could be better – if you’re in a good 3G coverage area or an area that is not 3G, it will not be a problem. But if you are in half-area coverage, xenon may not be ideal.
Pro: Very compact for a touchscreen phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. Good keyboard. A reasonable price for the features it offers.
Con: Reception is not very strong, user interface inconsistencies that the phone less fun and enjoyable (accelerometer works in a few applications, some applications while others do not turn, the lack of an on-screen QWERTY, scroll through lists is easy).
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