Mobile community has recently belonged to one of the smallest smart phone LG Mini GD880 launched by the Korean mobile phone innovator LG. This is about the same time as his compatriot rival Samsung made a similar Monte S8520 a few days before the beginning of 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
If the pre-press Mobile World Congress will think that it is the smallest full-touch screen phone in the world market at the moment. "We developed the LG Mini in response to specific requests from the actual consumers who were dissatisfied with the current full touch screen phone, which are too bulky, too cumbersome and too expensive, says president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications, Dr. Skott Ahn." Easily LG Pocket Mini delivers great looks at a reasonable price, and fashionable features that people want. Indeed, though living in the "Mini" name in looks, size and pocket ability, nothing "Mini" about its feature set.
Features set of LG Mini GD880:
LG Mini is a dual 3G/UMTS band (900/2100) with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 2 Mbps. In addition, the standard GSM group of four (850/900/1800/1900) with GPRS / EDGE network for 2G. Data connectivity comes with WiFi 802.11b / g with DLNA, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and Micro USB 2.0. There's also a built-in GPS receiver with GPS.
For exquisite images, it has a 5 mega pixel auto focus camera that features image stabilization, face and smile detection, geo-tagging and VGA video recording at 15 frames. Front-facing secondary camera supports 3G video calls.
LG Mini has a 3.2-inch TFT LCD touch screen with resistive Wide VGA 480 x 854 pixel resolution supporting 256k colors. There are multitouch gesture controls, accelerometer, light sensor and resistance to scratch the glass surface. Multimedia features come with conventional media player for all popular formats like DIVX and XVID. You also get Dolby Mobile, FM radio with RDS and 3.5-mm jack for headphones.
You will get a decent phone at 330 MB, plus up to 1000 phone book entries with photo shoot. You can expand it with hot-swappable MicroSD up to 32 GB. LG Mini power up with a 900 mAh lithium-ion battery (LGIP-550N).
Software-wise, the LG Mini phone uses its own OS popular S-class user interface on top. It comes pre-bundled with viewing MS Office documents into PDF files and, WAP-HTML browser is included with the video Flash, as well as support client. LG's position as it is known social networking phone with applications like social networking channel, which automatically updates Facebook and Twitter accounts, social network for connections in touch with your friends SNS easier than the PC and the social address book containing all the Online contact SNS.
Availability of LG Mini GD880:
Release of the new LG Mini GD880 is scheduled to begin in March this year in key European cities since April in the UK and other countries thereafter. Prices will be disclosed as a phone reaches markets based on country-to-country.