LG Renoir hands-on
by Sean Cooper 
posted Jan 11th 2009 at 10:49PM
Though it has been out for some time, we'd not had the chance to really check out LG's Renoir properly -- even though Engadget Spanish has had a chance. Of course, LG's massive booth featured an area dedicated to this 8 megapixel effort that we had to almost fight through to get at this phone. The interface is good, the weight and feel in-hand doesn't come off as $10 plasti-crap, and the touchscreen does seem to get its job done. Crazy presentations aside, LG's Renoir is a really solid effort, color us suitably impressed.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Royel @ Jan 11th 2009 10:58PM
looks like the lg dare with just a bigger camera
Sutibu @ Jan 12th 2009 12:04AM
Bought one of these for the wife at Christmas, 'cause she uses her phone to take photos (almost) more than she uses it to actually, well, make calls.
The camera is indeed impressive (for a phone) and the Xenon flash is a plus.
It has quite fast response - important when using the touch screen to dial numbers - and the full QWERTY on-screen keyboard in landscape mode is actually quite usable.
Character recognition is pretty good too, for both English and Chinese characters (I'm in Hong Kong), but the stylus-in-the-separate-phone-string idea is a little strange to say the least.
The UI is pretty straightforward, but the scrolling mechanism - sort of the love child of multi-touch and Windows-like scroll bars - is more than a little clunky.
The thing has decent sound, seeing as it rolls with something called "Dolby Mobile". And quite cool is that it comes with DivX decoding capability out of the box. I was able to run 350MB SD DixX files very smoothly in the phone. Good thing the phone came with a 1GB and a 4GB microSD card.
In all, still an impressive effort, and most importantly, the recipient likes it!
Neil Neil Orangepeel @ Jan 12th 2009 5:38AM
If it's as crap as the Viewty I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole!
Take a picture, with the Viewty, and it will literally take seconds to respond by which time you've missed the whole situation you were trying to take a picture of!
frank obeirne @ Jan 14th 2009 9:18AM
im with 3 in ireland how can i upgrade firmware,when i tried the phone froze and had to be reflashed,these and all phones should be free to allow us to upgrade as we wish,