LG GD510 Pop budget touchphone
Posted December 24th, 2009 by admin No Comments »
By Tony Smith (via reghardware.co.uk)
Review Less, they say, is more, and that’s certainly a maxim LG believes in if the Pop – aka the GD510 – is anything to go by. This is one small phone, yet it presents a full touch-based user interface and simple, clear styling that will make some wonder if it’s one answer to the long hoped for iPhone Nano.
LG’s Pop: nice and small
Should Jobs and co worry? Alas no, because as impressive as the Pop looks, it’s let down by its key component: the touchscreen.
The phone we use every day has a capacitive screen, but we’ve been testing phones with resistive touchscreens for years – HTC offerings, mostly. After all that stabbing away with fingers and stylii, not triggering a tap unless we pushed really hard, here, thanks to capacitive touchscreen tech was a display that was never less than totally responsive.
Capacitive is, without question, the way all of today’s touchscreens should be.
And LG’s gone and put one of the old-style ones on the Pop. Right from the off, it makes using the phone more of a chore than it ought to be, simply because it slows you down. If a tap or a swipe of your fingertip doesn’t work first time, you have to try again. And sometimes one or two times more. The Pop’s display will respond eventually, but how much time will you have wasted? Read the rest of this entry »
