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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!]]>Jan 12th 2009 12:04AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/01/11/lg-renoir-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/01/11/lg-renoir-hands-on/
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!]]>Jan 12th 2009 5:38AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/01/11/lg-renoir-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/01/11/lg-renoir-hands-on/Jan 14th 2009 9:18AM