LG India launches GD900 Crystal phone with transparent touchpad
Back in February, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, LG wowed the world with an astonishing style statement in mobile phones: a prototype handset with a transparent keypad! Dubbed the ‘Crystal’, it turned heads and was the talk of the town.
Well, the phone has finally been launched in India, and the GD900 Crystal packs a lot of oomph in its 13.5-mm-thin frame. As you can see in the picture, the transparent touch-sensitive keypad is absolutely gorgeous and utterly unique, making this phone the default standard for anyone looking to make a fashion statement. Illuminated with a soft glow, it boasts of a scratch-resistant design made from tempered glass and reinforced by a band of liquid metal.
While it looks like a normal keypad, its touch-sensitive nature actually lets it double up as a touchpad for the phone, behaving like a laptop’s trackpad, recognising handwriting, responding to multi-touch commands and enabling a new way of navigation called Gesture Command.
With Gesture Command, a user can simply press the phone’s multitasking button and draw one of 12 customisable symbols on the keypad. For example, if the symbol resembling a capital M is assigned to the MP3 player or a capital C is assigned to camera, launching any of these features is as easy as writing M or C on the Crystal Touchpad.
Speaking of the camera, the 8-megapixel shutter on this gizmo comes with autofocus and LED flash, and can also record video at 720x480 pixels resolution. The accelerometer on the 3-inch capacitive touchscreen (16 million colours, 480x800 pixels) helps auto-rotate the screen when taking pictures, and even comes with a proximity sensor to turn it off when talking on the phone. The proprietary S-Class user interface only adds to the charm of the GD900 Crystal.
And there’s ample room to store all of your songs on the 1.5GB of internal memory, with a microSD memory card slot to boost it up to 32GB. Obviously, there is no lack of connectivity options here, with the phone supporting 3G, Wi-Fi, EDGE, Bluetooth, etc.
Boasting of a talk-time of up to 6 hours and a standby time of up to 300 hours, it’s a bit surprising that such a high-end phone with a focus on fashion and design is retailing at a comparatively low price of Rs. 26,000.
Related Stories:
- LG Optimus UI 3.0 due for ICS devices, starting with LTE2
- LG Optimus 3D selling for Rs. 19,999 on Mobile Store
- LG Optimus L3 E400 available for pre-order online at Rs....
Listed under tags :
lg
, transparent phone
, gd900
, crystal
, transparent keypad
, touchpad
, gesture command
, translucent
Recommended Stories:
Top 10 Smartphones
Our list of the Best Smartphones with a right mix of performance and features. Click... Top 10 Android Phones
Our list of the Best Android Phones with the right mix of performance and features....
Sony launches Xperia P, Sola and U in India;...
Sony Mobile India has officially launched the Xperia U, Xperia Sola and Xperia P devices......Tag Cloud
- 3g
- smartphone
- lemon mobiles
- iphone
- rim
- smartphone
- android 2.1
- nokia
- blackberry
- mobile
- nokia mobile phone
- ibm mobile phone
- lg mobile price list
- windows phone 7
- mobile phones rates
- movil mobile phones
- microsoft
- ics
- nokia
- ios
- sony
- fly mobile phones
- phone
- fly mobile
- lg mobiles
- mobile phones in india
- airtel
- karbonn mobile price list
- android os
- apple iphone
- dual sim
- qwerty
- mobile phone
- price
- tablet
- htc
- dual-sim
- zen mobile
- lava
- cdma mobiles
- trai
- nokia mobile phones
- sony ericsson
- ipad
- mobile prices
- google android
- cdma phones
- sony ericsson
- movil mobile
- spice
- blackberry mobile phone
- apple ipad
- ibm
- wp7
- blackberry
- lg mobile
- olive mobile
- cellphone
- samsung
- iphone 4
- mobile phones
- motorola
- android 2.2
- mobile phone price
- htc
- karbonn mobiles
- android mobiles
- android
- lava mobile
- mobile phones prices
- lg
- mobile phone news
- froyo
- karbonn
- nokia mobile price list
- research in motion
- huawei mobiles
- micromax
- mobile handsets
- mobile handsets
- mobile
- apple
- symbian
- micromax mobile
- mobiles
- spice mobile phones
- sony ericsson mobiles
- samsung mobile
- micromax mobiles price list
- mobile prices in india 2010
- karbonn mobile
