LG Enlighten Review
By Blake Sanders on November 1st, 2011
With LG’s first experience with the Android system, the company had a shaky start with the LG Ally. Since then however these phones have come a long way in regards to style, performance and usability.
The phone measures 4.5 inches in height, 2.3 inches in width and 0.53 inches in girth. Though the design fits comfortable in the palm of your hand, it is a tad on the bulky side. Its square appearance is marginally alleviated by curved edges, but not so much that it loses its austere profile. The phone is, however, lighter than its predecessor at a though still weighty 5.54 ounces.
The screen is a HVGA display, measuring 3.2 inches in size. The resolution stands at 320x480, which is actually a marginal downgrade from its predecessor. The screen is colorful enough, with a clear image even under bright lighting (including sunlight). The picture quality sits comfortably with the interface, which is a custom interface brought in by LG (rather than the standard Android one). Underneath the display are the standard Android shortcuts for Menu, Home, Back and Search.
Should the on-screen touch keyboard not be sufficient to your needs, there is also the physical keyboard to fall back on. This keyboard slides out from the side of the phone, allowing for comfortable landscape typing. The keyboard is something the phone does very well. It comes as four rows of keys, all nicely spaced out with a solid textured feel to them. Typing is easy and smooth.
The phone comes with the latest Android operating system, the 2.3.4 Gingerbread. It comes with all the advantages that are included with Android’s latest operating system, including more options for customization, an improved user interface and better power management.
In terms of connectivity options, the phone comes ready with 3G (EV-DO Rev. A), Wi-FI and 3G Mobile Hotspot capabilities. With the OS the phone also comes with Google’s core range of applications, namely Gmail, Goole Search with Voice and Google Talk. All other essential applications are included such as YouTube and social networking applications.
Its hardware specifications may not be to the highest modern day standard, but they do the job well enough to keep the phone’s operation to an acceptable performance. It has an 800MHz processor and only 150MB of internal memory (though it does arrive with a 2GB microSD card). The processor isn’t the slowest around, but it is on the weaker side for a phone that runs Android Gingerbread 2.3.4. It also features a 3.2-megapixel camera
