LG GC900 Viewty Smart: First look

Gsmaerna have posted a preview of the new LG GC900 Viewty Smart. Here are the phone's features and final impression.

LG GC900 Viewty Smart at a glance
General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 900/2100, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, EDGE class 12
Dimensions: 108.9 x 56.1 x 12.4 mm, 102 g
Display: 3" 16M-color capacitive touchscreen TFT of WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels)
Memory: 1.5GB flash storage, microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
User interface: S-Class Touch UI
Still camera: 8 megapixel autofocus camera, Schneider-Kreuznach optics, LED flash, manual focus, geo-tagging, image stabilization, multi face detection (up to 3), smile detection
Video recording: 720x480@30fps, VGA@30fps, QVGA time-lapse and slow-mo video recording
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, Wi-Fi, TV-out, USB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS
Misc: Accelerometer for screen auto rotate, Multi-touch input, DivX/XviD support, Dolby for Mobile audio enhancement, FM radio, office document viewer
Battery: Li-Ion 1000 mAh
Retail price: N/A

The Viewty Smart has a gorgeous display and a best-of-class user interface. But we've already seen that stuff on the LG Arena so our brief experience with the Viewty was hardly a revelation.

Instead of bringing any revolutionary upgrades, the LG Viewty Smart is there to simply expand the LG S-class portfolio in a camera-centric direction. The LG Arena has quite a nice camera as well, but a 5 megapixel sensor is no longer flagship stuff these days.

Since the LG Viewty Smart retains almost the same compact dimensions as the LG Arena, fitting the bigger camera module, called for a certain downgrade of the other features. In this case, it was obviously the 3.5mm audio jack and the FM transmitter that got axed.

Still, the LG GC900 Viewty Smart certainly has the potential of becoming a bestseller and we really hope to see more of it, once it gets to the final production stage.