Hands on with the LG Viewty Snap GM360

July 20th, 2010 by joeO

I finally managed to get my hands on the new LG Viewty Snap phone and have been putting it through its paces!

One of the biggest selling points of the Viewty Snap is the use of it as a quality multimedia phone – with a 5mp camera complete with Optic-all zoom so you don’t lose picture quality as you zoom in. Build on this with an LED flash and good quality video recorder and you have a decent camera. The pictures below were taken using the camera, the second photo using the zoom.

The social network feature offers a dedicated connection to a wide range of social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Flickr, Picasa and Orkut. The push email is also a good addition to the handset and was easy to set up and use.

The menu on the phone is the standard LG S-Class UI and is as easily navigable to a newcomer as it is to a veteran. The inclusion of a shortcut button to your favourite apps on the homescreen is a nice addition and offers the scope to personalize the phone to best suit your needs.

This is one of the cheapest touchscreen phones on the market and the 5mp camera is enough to set it apart from any competitors like the Nokia 5130 XpressMusic (which only has a 2mp camera). It really excels as an easy to use multimedia phone with one of the better cameras for it’s price range, and the ability to expand the memory to 8gb is sure to be another selling point.

For more details including full specifications, follow the link here

Hillhelen2

would like to know why lg gm 360 viewty snap texts are being saved to memory card & can't move them to my folders

LG Blog

Hi Helen,
my first thought would be your phone's internal memory is full. Try deleting some old messages and let me know how you get on after that

helen24

i've deleted some old messages, no change, i did format external memory, which lost some of the pics i had on there. how do i reverse this

LG Blog

Hi Helen,
spoke to an engineer. He said that the only place that messages would be saved to would be the Sim as there is no option to save to the microSD. To move messages to myfolder go to inbox, press the options button in the top left, an option will come up called 'move to my folders', check all messages you wish to move and then press move
thanks

LG Blog

Hi Helen,

have got in touch with one of the LG mobile trainers to help and will get back to you when i hear back
thanks

tifrap

I like this Phone, and am getting to know its quirks quite well by now - so what can I add to the review above... well.
The GM360 has a good interface once you get to know it - the screens sensitivity gets better when you realise that there is a protective film over the whole phone for shipping, when you peel it off the screen is better - also it is worth calibrating the screen with a stylus, even if you dont intend to use one, the touch screen becomes far more accurate and usable.

The GM360 is barely supported by LG at all - there are NO downloadable apps from the LG store UK, except a few games - so you will have to risk 3rd party downloads if you want any extras like a unit converter.
The phone is quite basic - but that means you don't inadvertantly spend a small fortune on needless connections to online sources - it warns you before any connection is made.

As a mac owner, I was aware that LG has a deplorable reputation for connectivity, and was not surprised to find that there is no sync capability whatsoever with a mac - there is a usb mode, but it will not allow the phone to be disconnected without issuing a warning that the device was disconnected while in use and that data may be lost. luckily most sync services can be got online nowadays, so google calendar and mail is a must for this phone, if you are a mac user.

The camera is a bit of a dissapointment, sure it has a lovely big resolution, but the images need to be tweaked in photoshop to get rid of the muted colour and poor level distribution/contrast. It has autofocus, which sometimes decides to auto-unfocus, so you may need to take a subject several times.
Its a cheapish sturdyish phone, that keeps battery life for a fair while and recharges quickly, even through a usb port on a laptop.