Posts Tagged ‘viewty’

Here’s a toast to the Viewty

June 25th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
 
Toast rarely makes it into the headlines - a mundane yet underrated aspect of life, it largely goes unnoticed and uncelebrated. Until now, that is. Yesterday Simon over at Digital Lifestyles went over to the RCA to meet Freddie Yauner, inventor of a CO2-powered supertoaster, who broke the Guinness World Record for the world's highest-popping toaster - an impressive 2.6m. Simon took along his LG Viewty and so managed to capture the toaster's awesome popping power at 120fps - check out the video below: The slices of toast quite clearly manage to go well above 2.6m, and in fact could well...
Read more
View Comments | Posted in General

What a ‘Viewtyful’ World!

April 14th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
 
Last week LG announced the ‘Viewtyful World’ online photo contest, which runs until 11th June. The eight-week contest is running in association with Yahoo, Flickr, Kelkoo, and National Geographic magazine which features some of the highest-quality photojournalism in the world. The competition was devised to provide opportunities to explore the spaces surrounding our lives and rediscover the wonders and attractions of these worlds through photography. You can enter the contest through the Viewty site on Flickr, you can also see others entries and vote for your favourites! There are three Viewty phones on offer as weekly prizes - two of which will be...
Read more
View Comments | Posted in General

Presenting.. the Silver Viewty

February 13th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
 
It's London Fashion Week and the beautiful and the stylish are flocking to London to fight for that impossible to get Moss/Westwood 'comeback' ticket. What could be a more fitting time to welcome the new 'Dark Silver' Viewty? Yes, LG are now offering up the sleek silver edition LG Viewty in addition to the original black. LG researched colour preferences across Europe, and silver was selected as the number one colour choice of consumers looking for a stylish, polished, premium phone that reflects their own style. But it's not just a revamp don't worry, the silver Viewty has all the functions and...
Read more
View Comments | Posted in General

Photo beauties with the Viewty

January 23rd, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
 
The photo site Flickr is great for a number of reasons - one of them being you can see what other's photos have been taken with the LG Viewty, showing off its abilities. This, for example, is a classy winter shot of ice on a tree branch: 21. Dezember 2007 by ernscht The camera fares well indoors as well, as shown by this macro shot: Xbox 360 Controller by Skyfall And the indoor shots are proven with this dinky shot of a scale model: New Rotterdam Central by jacco.org I found all these photos and more at Flickr's photos tagged with "Viewty". There's also a clutch of...
Read more
View Comments | Posted in General

LG Viewty Review Round-up Pt. 3

January 21st, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
 
Time for another check in with our fellow bloggers to find out what they’ve been saying about their Viewtys. (We might have to stop doing these soon – we don’t want all the praise going to our heads and making us smug!) Simon at Zath Games got in touch to let us know he’d written his review and it seems he is also a fan: “the first thing that you’ll notice about the LG Viewty is just how great this mobile phone actually looks and feels in your hand – it sits nicely in the hand, not being too big or heavy” Particularly of...
Read more
View Comments | Posted in General

LG Viewty review roundup pt. 2

December 21st, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
 
Time for round two of our look at what bloggers have been saying about their Viewty’s. Everton from Connected Internet is certainly impressed with the phones features, particularly the camera. The LG Viewty sets new standards for cameraphones by including a manual focus function, a first for a cameraphone. It also includes an image stabiliser that helps record clearer images. I shot a few shots with the camera in the States and compared them to my 7 megapixel digital camera and they were comparable. Great praise indeed. At the end of the day Everton sees the Viewty as, good phone that doubles as...
Read more
View Comments | Posted in General

Viewty – reviewers’ resources

December 14th, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
 
A lot of blogs are reviewing the Viewty, and we thought it a good idea to help reviews be as informative and pretty as possible. So, here are some resources for anyone who wants to blog about the phone - feel free to download & use to your heart' content. Product shots .gallery img { border: 2px #999 solid } Touchscreen (off) Touchscreen (on) Front & screen Front (angled) Front (straight) Fancy prism shot Logos Viewty logo (black) Viewty logo (white) LG logo (white) LG logo (black) Video There are videos of the Viewty available on our Viewty YouTube channel - including demos of the handwriting recognition, manual focus and high-speed shooting, as well as...
Read more
View Comments | Posted in General

LG Viewty review roundup

December 13th, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
 
The Viewty has been out for a few weeks now and it's been really pleasing to see some of the opinions we have got from people who we asked to review for us. Mark at Phones Review was positively glowing in his review, falling in love with the camera - at times we were blushing at how he found the phone: Can I actually find anything wrong with this mobile phone? The answer so far is a big fat “NO”. Moving on and last of all for this review at least is the camera and video which will have a more...
Read more
View Comments | Posted in General

The Viewty’s camera and the competition

December 4th, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
 
Dial-a-phone have done a testing session with the 5MP camera phones currently on the market – of which the Viewty is one. They’ve done three separate photographic tests of the camera’s capabilities and presented them for an easy comparison. I’m pleased to report the Viewty comes out really well in the comparison and from this evidence looks to be consistently in the top 2 along with the Samsung G800. We have a lot of faith in the Viewty’s camera and its good to see this demonstrated in a direct comparison test. We’re also very happy with the poll dial-a-phone have on their...
Read more
View Comments | Posted in General

Van Gogh and ISO 800 light sensitivity

November 16th, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
 
Another revolutionary aspect of the Viewty is the possible ISO light sensitivity setting of 800. Whilst normal digital cameras regularly have an ISO 800 setting (and above) it is unusual for a camera phone to have such a high setting. Such a (relatively) high rating will allow you take better pictures in darkened conditions and addresses a common complaint with camera phones generally – that they don’t work well in low light. The Viewty also includes Smart Light technology ensuring better and brighter images indoors and at night. The fun video shows the relative difference in light sensitivity between ISO settings...
Read more
View Comments | Posted in General
1 of 2
Next