Exclusive Mini-Review: LG Xenon

Tony Ortiz March 28, 2009 66

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We got our hands on LG Xenon today and boy is this thing clean. Hit the jump for more!

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To start off, the phone has a resistive touchscreen with slide out QWERTY keyboard for typing. It’s packing a 2 Megapixel camera with dedicated camera button.

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The software running on the phone seemed very similar to Samsung’s Touch Wiz OS. It has a widgets box where you can drag and drop different items on to the desktop. We found this to be kind of hard to use due to the fact that the widgets were so large and the desktop was so small. The “note” widget took up a huge chunk of the screen. The phone was running on early firmware so this may change later when production models hit. The widgets had your basic items such as a calendar, photos, analog clock/alarm, notepad etc.

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Huge shout out to LG for creating an amazing keyboard. The feel of the keyboard was very similar to the Sidekick 2 (rubbery) and the travel between the buttons was excellent. You can feel the click with every press without the buttons being too stubborn.

Camera quality was decent. We did take a photo and the phone locked up while saving the picture requiring a battery pull. Again, early software so this is obviously a small bug they will fix.

Speaker was loud and easy to hear.

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The build quality was great. The phone was very light and very pocket-able while maintaining a high quality feel to it.

The address book of the phone has been improved compared to the software on the LG Vu. The scrolling direction while going through the names is now similar to that of the G1 and iPhone. There is a dedicated button in the address menu for browsing via first letter.

All in all we were very pleased with the phone. We were told it will hit AT&T very soon at a $100 price point after $50 mail in rebate. It will drop in 3 colors including black and red.

Glad to see LG step it up with this model. Looking forward to it! The LG Xenon is a great phone but There are many other options currently available on the market. Make the right choice when it comes to cell phones by reviewing the specs and deals offered.

66 Comments »

  1. abcyesn April 11, 2009 at 11:02 AM -

    Today i find a people evaluate the LG Xenon vs AT&T Quickfire like this.He said that “From the shape we can see that the LG Xenon is more smooth,and the AT&T Quickfire has more edges and corners.Personally,i prefer the AT&T Quickfire to the LG Xenon,beacause i think there are textures of the AT&T Quickfire,but also i like the colours of AT&T Quickfire,especially the silver color.While the LG Xenon’s colour is more fashion,customers who like fashion can choose the LG Xenon. In features,both of the two at&t cell phones are all almost same.They are all tochscreen mobiles and all sports a full QWERTY keyboard.Besides they also support the same Bluetoot,GSM/GPRS/Edge/HSDPA,as well as offer WiFi connectivity, a 2.8-inch display(the resolution may not same),camera.But the LG Xenon will come with a 3-megapixel camera,the AT&T Quickfire will feature a 1.3-megapixe……”

    source: http://www.LGXenon.org

  2. Jodeci White April 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM -

    I just got this phone 3 days ago and i must day say i love it everything about it i love. The keyboard is what really attracted me to this phone its the best ever. It was either this or Samsung Eternity and the keyboard is what made me get this one. Also the Samsung Impression was also a personal fav but it was to big and chunky for me and it was overpriced so i end up getting the Lg Xenon the best phone eva.

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