Eyes-on with the well-camouflaged LG GD900

There's not a whole lot to look at with the GD900 slider, but in this case, that's exactly the effect LG was shooting for. The high-design phone was being carefully guarded by plastic and metal not its own at MWC this week, making a true hands-on impossible -- but the good news is that we were able to get a good look at the phone's headline feature. That nearly transparent keypad has a glow applied around its edges to illuminate etched numbers, but with tactile feedback hovering near zero, this is a situation where you've really got to value form over function (and in this case, we just might). Interestingly, documentation by the GD900 says it'll start launching in May, though LG's press documentation claims we won't see it until the second half of the year -- so it's unclear when you'll be able to get one imported. Question is, do you really want people to see your cheek while you're on the horn?


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[(Unverified) Posted Feb 18th 2009 8:00PM]

Looks cool, but the lack of tactile feedback makes one handed dialing near impossible. With the lack of any additional controls I wonder if the transparent numeric keypad will double as a kind of mouse trackpad?