LG MOBILE PHONE: LG Sentio GS505

Sunday, 15 July 2012

LG Sentio GS505

The LG Sentio, the company's first phone on T-Mobile, is a lightweight touch screen slab. Despite the Sentio's status as a lowly feature phone, it offers plenty of multimedia power, including a 3-megapixel camera, 3G, GPS, music and video players, stereo Bluetooth, and an upgraded Web browser. But LG cut a lot of corners here to deliver an affordable phone, resulting in a substandard experience.The Sentio measures 4.2 by 2.1 by 0.5 inches and weighs just 3.3 ounces. It looks sleek, kind of like a shrunken-down smartphone. It's made of a soft touch rubber with a plastic screen and buttons. The 3-inch touch screen is of the cheap, resistive variety. It was pretty dim in testing, and washed out completely in direct sunlight. Three round buttons below the screen control most functions and register a satisfying click when pressed. Typing on the on-screen QWERTY keyboard was OK in landscape mode. It wasn't the best I've tried and it felt a little cramped, but I reduced the frequency of mistakes with some practice.