LG VX9400 - Mp3-Ringtones-Mobile

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May, 2007Date :

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A slick-looking handset that supports Verizon's V Cast Mobile TV service, the LG VX9400 offers excellent video performance and call quality. The LG VX9400's easy-to-use multitasking capability, users can take calls, messages, and when they hang up, go right back to enjoying their program - just like if they were to step away from the television set during a program for a minute or two at home.

- Mobile Web 2.0-capable - customizable, enhanced wireless access to the latest in news, sports, weather and more
- microSD Memory Port to store music, pictures and customer generated videos (card sold separately)
- Flash User Interface for Clear Images / Text & Fun Animations
- Standalone Mode (RF Off)
- Music Only Mode (RF Off except Bluetooth)
- 1.3-megapixel camera with flash
- Self-Portrait capability and mirror for self-portraits
- Resolution: 1280 x 960 px, 640 x 480 px, 320 x 240 px, 176 x 144 px, 160 x 120 px
- Video Resolution: 320 x 240 px, 176 x 144 px
- Up to 4x digital zoom
- Customizable brightness, white balance, shutter sound, color effects, photometry, self-timer and night mode, Image Editor, zoom, rotate, crop
- Bluetooth capable (v1.2) - compatible with headset, hands-free, dial-up networking (SPP), advanced audio distribution, file transfer, object push for vCard, basic printing, audio/video remote control
- Bluetooth stereo headset support for listening to music
- TXT, Picture and Video Messaging capability - send and receive messages with text, sounds, photos and videos
- My Account access - access balance, minutes, usage, and payment info
- Instant Messaging capability
- One-touch speakerphone
- Enhanced speaker-independent voice recognition
- Voice commands: call, send message, go to, check, lookup, My Account
- Voice memo recording
- 13 Unique Ring Tones, plus vibrate and silent modes
- TTY / TDD support
- Hearing aid compatible (M4-Rating)
- 500 contacts address book with five numbers, two email addresses and a picture ID for each entry
- Speed dial (98 entries plus a voicemail default)
- English and Spanish language support
- Simultaneous GPS for Enhanced Location Accuracy
- Frequency: 1.9 GHz CDMA PCS, 800 MHz CDMA (Digital Dual-Band)
- Dimensions: 4.04" x 1.93" x 0.73"
- Weight: 4.06 oz.
- Soft-Feel coating for comfortable and firm grip
- Slim and stylish swing bar design with large (2.2-inch) color LCD for optimal (landscape) TV viewing
- LCD display: 262K-Color TFT, 320 x 240 px, 13 lines
- Standard battery: 950 mAh Li-Polymer
- Usage time: up to 3 hours and 35 minutes
- Standby Time: up to 12 days and 12 hours

The 1.3-megapixel camera is decent outdoors, with just a few wavy compression artifacts, but it had some blur issues in our low-light tests. Although the VX9400 shoots movies in 320-by-240 resolution, like the Samsung, it captures video at only 7 frames per second.
Images from the VX9400 camera, like its TV playback, exhibited better contrast and truer colors. Plus, LG's optics provide a longer focal length, so you can see more scenery in the viewfinder. However, the VX9400 has a remarkably quick shutter release . This means the camera is still moving slightly while the image is being captured, which results in blurry pictures, especially indoors. Indoor images also are a bit grainy, but with contrast and color on par with pictures from other 1.3 MP cameras. Outdoor pictures are spectacular, with true bright colors and deep contrast.

The display is superb, very sharp and clear with vivid colors and a glossy look. The appeal of the VX9400 starts and ends with the large 2.2-inch display. With a simple thumb flick, the screen flips up 45 degrees to the left into a widescreen position perpendicular to the phone's body, revealing the slightly recessed dialpad. Whatever happens to be on the display automatically reorients itself depending on its position, although some functions require the screen to be up.

The navigation array was spacious, tactile, and easy to use. A four-way toggle surrounds a central OK button; you can set the toggle to act as a shortcut to four functions. The other controls consist of two soft keys, a Clear button, and the Talk and End/power buttons.
The keypad is roomy, and I had no trouble dialing or texting one-handed (I do have long fingers). The keys are backlit, but the letter farthest to the right on each key is more faintly lit than the rest. The number key area is quite flat, though still more tactile than the RAZR.

The 5-inch long TV antenna tucks into a slot on the top-left corner. The left spine features a volume rocker, a voice-command button, and a 2.5mm headphone jack. The right spine houses buttons for the speakerphone and camera, as well as a microSD card slot for memory expansion. Besides the aforementioned speaker near the display, the VX9400 also features a speaker on the rear of the phone just next to the camera, lens, and flash. It's an inconvenient arrangement as it means one of the sound outputs faces away from you when you're watching videos.

The LG VX9400 is a full-featured handset but we'll start with the basics first. The address book holds 500 contacts with up to five numbers and two e-mail addresses for each contact. You can save contacts to caller groups and pair them with a photo and one of 15 polyphonic ringtones

As a phone, the VX9400 delivered clear conversations with plenty of volume and with ringtones loud enough to be heard from a pocket or pocketbook. Dialing and texting, however are made more difficult by the black-on-silver characters on the unevenly blue-backlit keypad, a combination that makes the tiny alpha characters difficult to read.
The LG VX9400 is also VCAST Music-enabled with a music player, allowing customers to download and listen to music right on their phones and the external microSD memory card slot allows them to easily move songs from their computer directly to the phone.

For worker bees, the VX9400 also has full Bluetooth with stereo and object exchange profiles (they really should be standard on all Verizon Bluetooth handsets), e-mail, and a speakerphone. Voice dialing is absent, but you can even check your balance, usage, and payment information with the My Account feature. Why this service isn't available from all carriers is beyond us.

The LG VX9400 has a rated battery life of 3.8 hours talk time and 19 days standby time.
In tests yielded six hours of TV watching time on the VX9400. This staying power alone may be enough to justify the pricetag for this phone

A very nice offering from LG and Verizon, and an exciting one since the LG VX9400 is one of the first two US TV phones. Even if you're not in a metro area covered by Verizon's new TV service, the VX9400 is worth a look thanks to its good call quality, strong reception, great display and overall good call quality. If you're looking for TV but want the smallest possible phone, the Samsung u620 wins, though we still prefer the VX9400's larger and better display.