The LG KU990 Viewty is a ambulatory aimed that competes with the iPhone, on the contrary has a uncommon pretty cramped twists that locate it apart without career stigmatised with the "iPhone killer" tag that so multiplied common people are fond of these days.

Packing in a 5-Megapixel camera with 120fps video tape capabilities and drawing stabilizer, touch shade interface, 3G for agile news transfer & video calls all the signs are that this could be classed in the alike bracket as the Sony Ericsson K850, Samsung G800 & G600 and the N95.

In spite of all this, the head signs weren't great. The enclosed stylus is totally clearly an afterthought as the onliest street to attach this to the handset is to tie it over the handstrap eyelet, and to scroll on ice the leading menus you include to appropriateness the rush press-stud on the rear camera lens. As able-bodied as this, the aliment operation is initially a hasty onerous to dispose to grips with.

In spite of this, once I discovered that the 3" touchscreen can be used easier with a fingertip, the stylus was never used again. The response times on the touchscreen are besides good, and a tiny vibration is sent concluded so that you be read the deal has been registered. Whether alone this interface could bear been expanded on to admit nourishment scrolling.

The virtual keypad that pops up when typing a contents letter takes up approximately two thirds of the screen, with the rest obviously showing your message. Again, this is still more desirable operated with fingers than the stylus-dongle and response is indubitable good.

Now for the most talked-about deed of the handset, the 5-MP camera with 120fps video cd capabilities. As the main selling stop of the KU990 Viewty, you would expect this to be a powerful rival to the N95 and K850, and it doesn't disappoint. Yet though the competition is also strong, the Viewty makes a capital effort. The apart headache that could be famous is that the picture on-screen appears perfect grainy and pixellated when the 8x Digital Dash is utilised and could retain done with a bit amassed work.

The much-hyped 120fps video-recording capability is the main grounds of the advertising crusade for the Viewty, and you can behold why. Having this implemented into a mobile phone testament make safe bragging-rights to tech-geeks for the hour being. Thankfully, it works extremely capably and does correct what it sets away to do. A courteous touch is that the 3 camera features, the still-shot, camcorder and gallery are all easily accessible via a 3-way switch located on the equivalent side, on the other hand at reverse ends to the main camera button. The 120fps process is besides easily accessible by 2 touches on the screen, thankfully negating the extremity of going nailed down a complicated set-up process.

First impressions weren't great, with the LG Viewty employing a unusual alternative to fingertips in the appearance of a 'dangling-dongle' and some occasionally irritating blueprint features threatening to spoil what looked cherish a exceptional appendix to the 5MP camera telephone market. On the other hand once you bias used to these child foibles, the Viewty is a actual beguiling alternative provided you lack a sui generis alternative to the iPhone, or fair-minded something different.