LG wedge a great camera into their latest phone, the Viewty KU990
December 4th, 2007 by Giles Smith
The new Viewty KU990 looks like the older Prada (KE850) phone but sports some nifty upgrades
Touchscreen mobiles are destined to be a hot ticket for the foreseeable future, but with the touch-controlled KU990 Viewty from LG there’s far more than screen-fingering novelty to tap your attention.
The Viewty - daft name, it has to be said - adopts the stylish look and feel of LG’s Prada phone released earlier this year but ups the feature count. HSDPA 3G connectivity is included here, as well as a highly-specified five-megapixel camera, equipped with Schneider-Kreuznach optics, and offering manual focus and high-quality video capture at up to 120 frames per second.
The Viewty, like the Prada doesn’t use a smartphone operating system, like all its competitors. This allows the phone’s interface to be nice and simple, offering a ‘classy minimalism’
LG hope the Viewty will be the first camera phone to be able to compete directly with straight cameras, even having a proper flash, rather than the pretty lame lights that come with the competition. Other camera features include adding effects and processing tools that are often only seen in more expensive cameras.
The handset lends itself to holding the device in landscape mode for snapping. The touchscreen element enables quick access to camera settings and editing tools. There’s plenty of those to play with – as well as autofocus and fully automatic settings, you can adjust contrast, exposure, white balance, ISO, colour tones and flash settings, including red-eye reduction. You can take multiple shots too, plus stitched-together panoramic pictures.
There’s a macro mode, so you can take high-quality close-up shots in focus. Unusually for a mobile phone, LG has also added a manual focus option, controlled either by the jog wheel around the lens or an on-screen touch control.
Reg Hardware have a very long review of the LG Viewty KU990 if you want to read more
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