Doesn’t that user interface look familiar? ;-) Seriously though, this is LG’s interface, which it calls “S-class”. It is similar to HTC’s TouchFlo3D for Windows and SenseUI for Android, as well as Samsung’s TouchWiz2 and is meant to mask the complexities of manipulating a complex underlying operating system from the ordinary user. Here are the specifications for the GM730:
| . Type | . RF band | |
| Touchscreen | GSM(850/900/1800/1900) UMTS(900(850)/1900/2100) | |
| . Dimension : L*W*D(mm) | . Weight | |
| 109.8 X 56.5 X 11.9 mm | 107g | |
| . Standard battery, Max (mAh) | . 100mAh, Li-ion | |
| 1000mAh, Li-ion | 450 hrs | |
| . Talk time (hrs) | . Display External LCD | |
| 5 hrs | TFT touchscreen | |
| . Size | . Touch Screen | |
| WQVGA 3.0 inches | Resistive / 3D Active flash UI (S-class UI) | |
| . Colours | . SIM toolkit | |
| Black, Lime, Red Plum | Yes | |
| . Date / Fax | . Vibration alert | |
| Yes / No | Yes | |
| . Browser | . WAP (version) | |
| xHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01 / Internet Full Browsing | 2.0 | |
| . SMS / MMS | . Video MMS / E-Mail | |
| Yes / Yes | Yes / Yes | |
| . Document Viewer | . Predictive Text input (T9) | |
| MS office, PDF, Text | Yes | |
| . IrDA (Infared) | . USB / PC Sync | |
| No | Yes, Ver. 2.0 HS | |
| . WLAN | . Bluetooth | |
| Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g | Yes, 2.1 EDR | |
| . Scheduler / Alarm | . Phonebook (# of names) | |
| Yes | Yes, unlimited # of names | |
| . Wallpapers / Pictures / Ringtone downloa.. | . FM Radio / Video Telephony | |
| Yes / Yes / Yes | Yes / Yes | |
| . OS | . Java (version) | |
| Windows Mobile 6.1 | Yes | |
| . MIDI (poly) | . Built-in Games | |
| 72 | 2 embeded games | |
| . VOD / AOD | . Camera (main/sub) | |
| Yes / Yes | 5 Mega pixels AF / VGA CMOS | |
| . Internal / External Memory | . Memory | |
| 200 MB / Micro SD slot up to 32GB | 4Gb Nand / 1Gb DDR + 2Gb Nand / 512 Mb SDRAM | |
| . Audio codec | . Video Recording | |
| MP3, AAC/AAC+/E-AAC+, AMR-NB, WMA, MIDI | WQVGA 15fps (MPEG4, H263) | |
| . Speaker | . Facebook : LG dedicate Client Applicatio.. | |
| 12X18(Oval.) x 1EA | Yes |
The 1000mAh battery looks a bit dodgy to me because of its small capacity. So does the resistive screen, although I have to mention here that all WinMo devices have resistive screens. And video recording at 15fps? I think this will result in rather jerky looking videos due to the low frame rate! But that large RAM looks delicious though! And with a price like RM 1,799, I think LG doesn’t do much wrong here – and the big plus is that this phone is upgradeable to WinMo 6.5 when it is released next month! Whether the upgrading exercise is going to be an easy one, and whether it can be user initiated, is another big question altogether! The other thing that is not mentioned is what video codecs it supports for video playback.
On a related note, the LG Application Store for Malaysia is now open. Software, if they are chargeable, are denominated in RM and not in US$. Rather impressively, the GM730 is one of only two phones supported at the moment in the LG Application Malaysia store, the other being the KS20. I’m uncertain what the billing arrangement is with the local store, but it does ask you who your carrier is when you try to identify your phone – so that leads to the question of whether carrier billing is supported? Carrier billing is where you choose to buy an application, and have the cost of the application appearing in your monthly mobile phone bill, so you can have one consolidated bill for all your smartphone’s voice/data as well as application usage.
If anyone has any first hand experience with the local store, please do drop a comment with what you know!
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