Lg Bl40 Review- The Unconventional Design Makes It Stand Out Of The Crowd

By Author: Jerry Smith
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LG BL40 aka Chocolate is a tall and slim mobile handset from LG with ultra wide display. If you are fashion-conscious mobile phone users, you will love this gadget as it has a whole range of features, though it is essentially not a smartphone. The LG BL40 measures 128 x 51 x 10.9mm and weighs 129g. The standard Li-Ion 1000 mAh battery supports a standby time of 400 hours for 2G and 270 hours for 3G and talk time of 6 hours for 2G and 5 hours for 3G networks.

The unconventional design of LG BL40 makes it stand out of the crowd. There are only a few hardware buttons which blend well with the design of the phone. Touch screen bars is available on the front and there is also a video call camera. The front of the phone is complete with a proximity and ambient light sensor.

The large 4.01 inches screen is a highly noticeable factor of the LG BL40. A 21:9 aspect ratio is something new for a mobile phone. The capacitive touch screen is responsive and a gentle tap is all that is required to activate menus. The screen also supports ...
... multi-touch features that allow you to use gestures. Twelve on screen gestures let you open twelve different applications with simple gestures. The top notch screen surprisingly has superior readability even in bright sunlight. The screen has an antiglare coating that helps you to read even during a sunny day.

The LG BL40 has a 5MP camera with LED flash. The maximum resolution supported by the camera is 2560 x 1920 pixels. Multiple features such as blink and smile detection, face tracking, image stabilization and Geo Tagging are available. Besides the functional video recording and multimedia features, the LG BL40 has an extra shuffle option which is convenient to reorder your play list .

The LG BL40 applies S class UI interface which is one of the most popular mobile phone interface preferred by users,as it is more user friendly with a shortcut for the task managmer. It is a enjoyable experience to use the graphical interface in a wide and bright screen. Visual and functional changes can be also expected in this interface. In addition, it makes the interface extra smooth by exploiting graphics acceleration. The home screen layout still relies on the cube interface. 3D cube provides centralized access points for all the applications onboard.

The multimedia screen is retreaded and you can now access multimedia contents right from the browser onscreen. All your favorite web pages can be stored as shortcuts in this screen, a feature which was found only in the iPhone until the introduction of LG BL40. Sliding up the home screen will release the lock, which is also similar to the iPhone. The wall papers can now be customized in the LG BL40. Owing to the accelerometer, the home screen will be filled with smaller icons when you rotate the phone.

The LG BL40 has an alphanumeric keypad in portrait mode and a fully functional QWERTY keyboard in the landscape mode on the screen. It is now easy to send messages with such a large keyboard. The email client is very much simple to use and it is good to see that the LG has finally learnt to become much more friendly. A fairly decent web browser exploits Wi-Fi support to browse the internet.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.