The LG GD880 Mini Is An Impressively Functional Handset

May 12
11:46

2010

Chris Westley

Chris Westley

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The recently released LG GD880 Mini provides a stunning combination of minimalistic styling along with impressive functionality with key features ranging from touch screen navigation, a 5 mega pixel digital camera and super fast Wi-Fi Internet access.

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The 3.2 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen provides excellent quality display of on screen imagery with high levels of clarity and detail.  This is thanks to the ability to display up to 256K colours within a pixel setup of 480x854.  The screen also features multi touch input method,The LG GD880 Mini Is An Impressively Functional Handset Articles and both accelerometer and proximity sensors.  The screen itself is manufactured from scratch-resistant materials protecting it from everyday wear and tear.

 

The dimensions of the LG GD880 Mini are 102x 47.6x 10.6 mm, making it a pocket friendly handset which is obviously a compact and size as the name suggests.  Its light weight of 99 g also makes it a very comfortable phone to hold and use on the move.  The styling of this handset could be described as minimalistic or futuristic with a clean, uncluttered fascia with sharp angular lines, and finished in a tasteful black with silver detailing.

 

The handset utilises a number of different connectivity features in order to provide it with optimum connection to cellular networks and the Internet dependent upon location and network coverage.  In order to stay connected to cellular networks, both GPRS & EDGE are provided in class 10 versions.  HSDPA provides connection to the Internet at speeds of up to 7.2 mega bytes per second (along with HSUPA at 2 MB per second) in areas covered by 3G.  In order to obtain a faster Internet connection, Wi-Fi Technology utilises the signal provided by wireless Internet routers, whenever detected.  This allows the Internet to be surfed at speeds equivalent to that of a broadband connection.  Finally, in order to connect to other devices such as compatible phones and computers, both Bluetooth and micro USB connections provide both wirelessly and directly methods of connecting to these devices.

 

The LG GD880 Mini provides excellent everyday functionality courtesy of a number of impressive features.  These cater for a number of different users, for example social networking integration is ideal for fans of sites such as Facebook and MySpace, whilst business users are catered for thanks to a document viewer (compatible with word, excel, PowerPoint and PDF files) and a voice memo recorder.  A versatile internal media player is also included which supports a whole host of different music and video file formats.

 

Internal memory is 330 MB as standard for storage of data such as media files.  However further storage can be attained by utilising the included micro SD slot.  This can accommodate a memory card of up to 32 GB, providing ample storage for the needs of most users.

 

An impressive 5 mega pixel digital camera is included in the LG GD880 Mini, which operates at a pixel resolution of 2560x 1920 pixels.  This provides excellent quality still images with high levels of detail and clarity.  A number of image enhancing features is included within the cameras software package.  These include Autofocus, image stabilisation and face & smile detection.  Also included is the popular geo-tagging facility, which thanks to GPS automatically records the location at which a photo was taken.

 

The LG GD880 Mini certainly is the full package, and despite is compact size, ticks all the boxes in terms of both functionality and style.