Video: Renoir round-up

December 15th, 2008 by joeO

We’ve got a couple of special advertising feature videos with our media partners about the new LG Renoir phone for you today. First off, CNet take the Renoir on streets of London, showing off the phone’s features – such as the full touchscreen and customisable widgets on the home screen, before having a go at the 8MP camera and the range of powerful features that come with it – including smile detection and the 120fps slow-motion video. But the phone is not just a great cameraphone and they also take you through the Dolby Mobile sound, GPS and smartphone capabilities:

Meanwhile, over on the Telegraph’s site James Whatley of Spinvox and Mobile Industry Review fame gives the Renoir a look as well, with professional photographer Richard Boll. With his photographic experience Richard enthuses about the lens, the xenon flash and manual focus. James & Richard have a good chat about the Renoir and issues cameraphone-using photographers face as well:

Both these videos and more are available on our YouTube channel, check it out if you haven’t already.

Fabulous Photo Gifts

Hi.

Unfortunately, when we'd finally figured out how to get the pictures off the LG onto the PC (by getting a card reader!), we discovered the pictures were truly awful - her old Motorola Razr took better.

Mandy is a photographer and works with digital photo files all day so it wasn't a case of an in-experienced user.

It was the icing on the proverbial xmas cake and the whole lot was bundled up and sent back to T-Mobile (who were very helpful) for a full refund (which has since been issued).

A very sorry affair indeed.

P.S. On the wifi question - apparently, T-Mobile reckoned that it cost nothing to 'browse' their online portal - it only cost when you went off to another site or downloaded games or music etc. There was no way to make a direct connection with our router - everything had to go via their online interface.

Thank god i got an iphone.

Helen

thanks for the tip Anubeon!

Anubeon

@Jonathan

If changing the browsing profile to WiFi doesn't do the trick I suspect that the only option available to you would be to have the handset de-branded. Be warned though that de-branding and/or unlocking a mobile handset will probably void it's warranty.

Branded firmware often includes 'ugly' additions to the user interface as well as restrictions aimed at limiting or disabling some handset functionality. I suspect that in an effort to solicit uptake of their paid-for web 'n' walk service T-Mobiles has tampered with the WiFi functionality.

Regards,

Lee.

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Yes, the launches over the country were just as impressive as the phone itself. I really can't say a band thing about it! I now own one and am continuously impressed by it's features.

In reply to "Fabulous photo gifts":
Try changing the browsing profile to Wi-Fi, it should help.

Fabulous Photo Gifts

Hi everyone at LGBlog - Happy New Year.

My partner got her Christmas wish of a LG Renoir - mostly because of the 8megapixel camera of course.

However, we've been racking our brains over an issue with the wifi -perhaps you can help?

We're in the UK on the T-Mobile network. When she tries to connect to the internet, the T-mobile web n' walk interface launches. We have wireless broadband both here an at her office but I can't figure how to browse via our wifi rather than the t-mobile web n walk which is charged.

T-mobile reckoned it couldn't be done but it seems silly to me to have wifi capability yet not be able to connect via it.

Can you suggest any options / ways / settings I can explore on the renoir to connect via wifi networks please?

Much appreciated as I'm in danger of suggesting she gets an iphone ......... and the LG is a cracking phone with test pictures looking amazing so far.

many thanks for your help.

Please reply by email or via our website.

Jonathan.