This review will be a brief description of my first thoughts and impressions of the Vu. Keep in mind, my primary carrier is Verizon, so my sim card is a dummy card that only allows me access to the phone itself but i cannot make calls or send texts.





Form and Design: This is one well designed phone! i love how thin it is. Of course i carry a voyager around with me everywhere so most phones seem thin to me. But it is the perfect size and very light weight. So light weight in fact that it almost feels cheap.The phone almost doesn't seem sturdy enough.Also, the large glossy front collects ALOT of finger prints. One last point about the design of the phone: The location of the micro sd port is very inconvenient. Placed behind the battery, it is annoying to have to reboot the phone every time I want to add an mp3 or amovie.





Touch screen and display: The touch screen is amazing. It is way more accurate than the screen on my voyager even with the touch-screen-QWERTY. I thought that texting using the QWERTY would really mess up my messages, but to my surprise, it was no different than a normal QWERTY. Very Impressive. The display themes are, for lack of a better word, cute. With a little fish or abutter fly that follow your finger around the screen. The camera was very engaging. It contained so many tools that it took up both sides of the screen once rotated horizontally and the bottom. My favorite part of the camera mode was the ability to lightly push the camera key to kick in the auto focus functionality. It made for some of the clearest pics Ive ever seen from a phone. Another neat feature is the Full Screen option which allows you to choose whether or not you want your image to take up the full screen or not. Once you place the camera in full screen mode, the menu bars on the left, right, and bottom disappear and you are left with a larger image in the viewfinder. One negative aspect of the display is that with the factory settings in place, the auto lock kicks on way too fast. Probably the coolest features that the display offers, in my opinion, is the ability to set up a shortcut menu on the standby screen that you can customizeby pressing onone of the menu icons and dragging it to a different spot on the menu so you canchange the order of the shortcuts. I havent spent enough time with the phone yet to determine if you can customize the shortcuts themselves as well.





Ringtones and syncing: Not surprisingly, i haven't had time enough with the phone to figure out how to add personalized ringtones. But until then the phone comes with some of the most unique ringtones Ive heard. Some are even quite humorous. Also, we are still waiting for syncing software to be able to sync the phone with Microsoft outlook. Those two issues are for now the biggest issues to be resolved.





Conclusion: The Vu is definitely the coolest handset Ive used. I wish Verizon had something like it, lol. Any way, Its thin design withits superfunctionality including the impressive streaming TV, full html browsing, advanced Bluetooth profiles, and sweet sounding music player along with the simple benefits of a very clear and easily accessed phonebook, an auto focusing camera/camcorder, and all the settings and tools feasibleto customize the phone to meet any user's needs, makes this,in my opinion, LGs best phone to date.



[from LG Product Pro]