LG DG510 “Pop” Full Touch Screen Mobile Phone

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Introduction

"The world's most compact touchscreen phone" - that describes the still relatively new LG GD510 "POP", and it comes at a market price of around 190th - € (without contract). Visually quite small and handy, almost as big as a credit card, it comes with quite a bit of practical features, such as Dolby Mobile when using the headphones, FM radio, 3 MP camera and live Square (History and frequency of contacts, etc.) which are all included in one. With the touch-screen operation and the A-class user interface, it makes it fast and it can also be handled conveniently. Even the Facebook client can not break off contact with friends. The satin finish with an anti-fingerprint coating protects the device. So, what else the GD510 suggests in our everyday life and whatever else is in it, will be demonstrated our review.

LG DG510 “Pop” Full Touch Screen Mobile Phone with 3 MP camera

Processing Features
1. First optical impression / special features to support the design - Elegant, silver look with chrome elements and very handy in size.

2. Housing material / surface quality - Smooth plastic.

3. Housing Dimensions - With a weight of 90 g and dimensions of 95.3 x 49.6 x 11.2 mm, it is very good in the hand and almost fits in your pocket.

4. Precision of the touch screen - Evenly, but still some minimal time lag can be noticed.

5. Goodness (sharpness / resolution) of the display - 3 inch TFT display with 262 colors and a resolution of 240x400 pixels. Color ar very good and a clear presentation is there.

6. Implementation of the folding or sliding mechanism - NA.

7. Quality of the battery compartment cover - The battery compartment cover is made of plastic, and is easy to open, close, and sits perfectly.

8. The quality and scope of the supplied accessories - Manual, headset, charger (USB cable).

9. Processing Results - The modern mobile phone is composed of matte silver plastic, which was combined with high-gloss controls. With its compact dimensions and the acceptable weight it is doing very well in the hand. The touch-screen operation proceeds evenly, but if even, partially delayed somewhat. 262,000 colors are brilliantly displayed on the display. The battery compartment lid made of plastic sits fit and also scores points for the GD510. Even the included accessories and the price class are not disappointing.

The battery compartment cover is fit and is made up of plastic


Back of the LG DG510 “Pop” Mobile Phone


The volume control button are elegantly fitted


The Micro SD card slot is located under the battery compartment cover

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Business Features
1. Supported networks - Quadband, GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900, GPRS Class 12.

2. Reception and voice quality - The GD510 in worse network coverage offers a good reception quality. The vocal sound is often too comfortable with normal (mean) volume - but still minimally covered.

3. Voice quality of the speakers - At low volume, the voice reproduction is fairly well understood. At medium and high LS playback sounds, it is somewhat too superficial and covered.

4. Battery life (with normal use) - max. 3 days.

5. Storage capabilities of Contacts - Location: Phone: Choose Image: add image Go to Pictures; first name, last name, number: Set the number types: mobile phone, home, office, pager, fax, general, email address, caller groups: No group, family, friends, colleagues, school, VIP, ringtone, birthday, anniversary, home, home address, company name, position, company address, note, Livecon Setting: Animal / Human; SIM: name, number, email address, caller group.

6. Profiles - Normal, Silent, Outdoor, flight mode, Profile 1, Profile 2, Profile 3, all profiles are adjusted and can be easily adapted to their own needs. It is also possible to create three personal profiles and to save them.

7. Calendar settings - New Event: Set Category: Date: Subject, Location, Start Date, Start time, at the Ends, Ends, alarm clock: Set alarm: no memory, 0 min before and 15 min before, 30 min before, 1 h before, 1 days before, 3 days before, 1 weeks before, Repeat: Do not repeat Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Custom; Anniversary: Subject, Start time, Start Ends on, am, Ends, alarm clock: Set alarm: no memory, 0 min before and 15 min before, 30 min before, 1 h before, 1 days before, 3 days in advance, Set 1 weeks before, repeat not repeat, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Custom; Birthday: Subject, Start Date, Start time, alarm clock: Set alarm, set repetition, set like the anniversary date and time, searching, as a public holiday, View Week, Day, Go to date, delete Verg events, Delete all, resetting calendars, memory status : 500 events; Default view: Month view, week view, Week starts on: Monday, Sunday; Organizer Send via Bluetooth, organizer secure, restore Organizer.

8. Notes function - Save Input method: keyboard, handwriting, handwriting box, handwriting, double box, add word copy; T9: on / off, signs, Abc, abc, ABC; edit notes: send: message, email, Bluetooth delete;; Language : English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Russian, Slovak, Czech, Croatian, etc.; 1000 characters per note are very commendable.

9. Built-in voice recorder (Dictaphone) - Settings: Time: Unlimited, MMS size, 1 min; Quality: Super Fine, Fine, Normal, location: memory card, phone memory, My Voice Send:: Message, Email, Bluetooth Move; Copy, Delete, Rename, Sort by: date, type, name, search, delete all, the reproduction of the recording is to be commended. Voices have substance, sound natural, even minimally muffled in the background and only minimal noise is heard.

10. E-mail functionality - Connection type: POP3 and SMTP. The email account is set in just few steps. Retrieving takes some time to complete. Attachments from emails can copy only up to max. 2.2 MB available.

11. Internet functionality - The loading of web pages still runs very quickly but takes a little time, if the page is designed to be complex. The view is neatly and clearly presented by the LG DG510 “Pop”.

12. PC synchronization - The required USB cable is included. The GD510 is recognized as a mass storage for easy file transfer. For further synchronization tasks must be installed, the LG-specific software. There is no PC Suite CD supplied, but it can run at USB PC connection, an automatic download of the software from the network is done, including installation.

13. Additional Features - Wecker, Facebook client, Google search, maps, Extras: Calculator, calculator, world time, stopwatch, entertainment: games: Brain Challenge, Diamond Twister, Thomsons & Touch; applications: social networking, games and fun: Music World, Flying Cube, Golf ; Pocket Apps: Candle, decision, noise, banners, weight control, running coach, Muvee Studio; speed dial.

14. Business Results - The quad-band mobile phone only has EDGE - other phones in this price range even been flirting with HSDPA. This should be repaired in the LG. Up to 3 days battery life for a mobile phone of this category is still acceptable. Calendar, profiles and contacts correspond to the usual standard, and are not to be criticized. The functions of the notes are to be commended with 1000 characters per note. The recording of the dictation machine have barely audible in the background noise, and hence gives useful results. The email account is terminated after a short time and also the retrieval of messages are done very quickly. Also, finding and opening the selected sites to prepare the LG GD510 is done very quickly, despite only WAP there are no problems. The stylish mobile phone has games for entertainment and other fun features, which enhance the POP also.

laterally integrated - the USB / charger and headset connector

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Multimedia Features
1. Camera equipment - 3MP; Go to: video camera; Brightness: -4 to +4; continuous shooting mode: Normal picture, three, six, nine; Display mode: Full screen, image size; settings: Size: 3M (2048x1536), 2M (1600x1200), 1 M (1280x960), VGA (640x480), WQVGA background, QVGA (320x240), Gallery, Color Effect: Off Negative, Black & White, Sepia, White Balance: Auto, Fluorescent, Sunny, Fluorescent, Cloudy, night mode: on / off, Automatic trigger: Off, 3 seconds, 5 seconds, 10 seconds; quality: Superfine, Fine, Normal, Memory: Phone memory, memory card, view photographs: on / hide, icons: Manual, Automatic, Shutter: Ton1, Sound 2, Sound 3; Grid View : Reset Off, crosshair, grid lines, settings; Finishing options: Send MMS, Email, Bluetooth, Blogger, select the field edit;: Pen (color), text (text box color, text color), frames, stamps, Undo Picture: Rotate, Resize: 2592x1944, 2048x1536, 640x480, 320x240, background, size, Contact Photo, Color Accent, rotate, frame, color replacement, filter: facial retouch, color negative, sepia, sharpness, oil paintings, tunnel effect, black and white, blur, mosaic, sketch, emboss, Live, Antique, cartoon, Solarize, moonlight, luminous, watercolor; values : Auto Saturation, Auto-Brightness, brightness, RGB Effect, Saturation, Auto Color, Auto Contrast, contrast, hue, white balance, Save in the original file, new file, use as: home screen, keypad, contact photo, inset, Outgoing Call, Incoming Call, printing, Bluetooth, PictBridge delete, delete all; Slideshow: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 seconds; File Info: File name, size, date, resolution, type, location, protection.

2. Camera quality - Under normal lighting conditions, the POP mobile scores with fine results. Colors and shapes are represented quite well. At night, the camera can prove well, despite night mode. The photographed object also works with minimal light rather vague and poor visibility.

3. Video equipment - Supported video formats: 3GP, H263, H264, to change: Camera, Exposure: -4.5 to +4.5; Video size: 320x240, 176x144, display mode: Full screen, image size; settings: Color Effect: Off Negative, Black & White, Sepia; White Balance: Auto, Fluorescent, Sunny, Fluorescent, Cloudy, Video quality: Super Fine, Fine, Normal, duration: normal, MMS, location: the phone memory, memory card, Language: Mute, Unmute; Hide icons: Automatic, Manual Reset, settings Finishing options: Crop: Send Message, Email, Bluetooth, YouTube, edit;: Video Editor: Shuffle sync with picture, picture show, mix with video, voice memo Show, text, Speed: x4, x2, x 1 / 4, x 1 / 2; Single View, Sort by: date, type, name.

4. Video Quality - In daylight and normal lighting conditions indoors are presented almost with authentic colors and shapes. In the darkness they can not score points, unfortunately, despite there is no night mode, unless you step up close to the subject. With a bit of light, you can recognize at least a rough description of the behavior. All in all, we were surprised by the positive result of the video camera. Also it succeeded quite quickly to different lighting conditions indoors (outside, adjust the shade).

5. Equipment to Built in music player - Supported audio formats: MP3, WMA, AMR, MIDI, AAC, AAC +, e-AAC +, AC3, WAV, 3GP, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, Repeat One, All, None; Coincidentally, last played, all tracks , favorites, artists, albums, genres, playlists, random Collapse;, map list, Equalizer: No Style, Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Concert Hall, to send a playlist;: Message, Email, Bluetooth, use as: Ringing, turning on, off, file info: name, size, date, time, type, title, artist, genre, track number, album, comment, duration, author, year, copyright, rating, saving sleep timer.

6. Sound quality of the music player - The speaker is positioned on the front and can correctly reflect the selected songs. One can clearly hear the difference from other mobile phones, which have positioned the speakers on the back. Clear and strong, but the songs are presented rather sharp. The middle and low frequency sounds fine. Not even the high range and bass songs with too much activity must reckon with the loss of sound. The equalizer also allows to refine or adapt songs to their own needs. To praise, there is the Dolby Mobile mode, which guarantees a spatially extensive, and not surprisingly sounds dull at the same time when using the headphones. Speaking of headphones - from a qualitative point of view it is not convincing - but the sound is surprisingly clear and quite homogeneous.

7. Radio yes / no, sound quality of radio - 50 channels placed; Automatic search, manual search, over headphones / listen through the speakers, RDS: on / off, reset, reset all channels, volume, channel name can not be added unfortunately. The equipment of the radio is pretty flimsy, but what you really need more? The sound of each channel is in good alignment of the antenna rather scratch-and noise-free.

8. Storage - 40 MB internal - expandable with Micro SD cards up to 8 GB.

9. Multimedia Results - The camera equipment is simple and easy to use and has additional settings. The results of the 3 MP camera is good but not outstanding. Since there is no flash, images obtained in the dark give little results. The built in MP3 player is easy to use and positioning of the speaker sounds fine. Playlists are created quickly and easily. A radio with 50 station sites is included in the GD510 too. The mobile phone has an internal memory of only 40 MB.

3 MP camera, unfortunately without a flash


Headset with good sound

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Handling / Menus
1. One-handed operation for the main functions available - Yes, partially.

2. Call execute (with menu "contacts") - Contact details are quickly found and run a call with ease.

3. Adding / Creating / editing contacts - The entire handling when creating, adding or editing new and existing contacts to prepare the user with the GD510 is done with no difficulties.

4. Readability of the display - Under normal lighting conditions, day and night, the readability of the display is not to complain. In direct sunlight or light exposure, it can be mirrored to display only at very difficult to see shine through menu items.

5. Precision of the touch screen - Accurate, albeit sometimes delayed.

6. Handling the navigation elements to prospect the menus - The entire operation via touch screen is relatively simple and quick.

7. Clarity of the menus - The menu has a very easily recognizable icons. The design is just about clear.

8. Scope of the menus - The menu has plenty of scope and sub-menu is split useful.

9. The design of the menus - Beautiful graphic design with easily recognizable menu icons.

10. Possibility of assignment of shortcut keys - The shortcut key can be quickly assigned for multimedia, contacts, widgets, or rearrange shortcuts to set their own wishes.

11. Message Handling - Input Method QWERTY keyboard, handwriting, signature box, signature double box, the Add Word to store copy, design, font size: Small, Medium, Large, T9: on / off, input type: 123, abc, sign, language: German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Russian, Slovak, Czech, Croatian, etc.

12. Photo and video camera operator - The 3 MP camera can be operated easily and smoothly. The additional settings are also found quickly and easily adjusted.

13. Operation of Music Player - The entire menu of the MP3 player is clearly evident and the service runs intuitively. It is easy to create your own playlists.

14. Reading Memory - Reading from Micro SD cards of various sizes up to max. 8 GB execute the GD510 quickly and reliably. It can display existing data where possible to represent the format and file type errors. The larger the capacity of Micro SD card and the files are on it, the more time is needed for the GD510 to open the existing data. Another minus point - there are no subfolders shown on microSD cards.

15. File Management - Creating your own folders and moving data runs smoothly.

16. Results - The LG GD510 POP is a short acclimatization mobile relatively easy to operate. The handling of contacts and the brilliant display, speak for the LG. The touch screen, unfortunately is somewhat delayed. The beautifully designed menu has a completely satisfactory extent. The simple operation of the 3 MP camera and MP3 player are further plus points. When posting messages you have the choice between 4 input methods. In addition, the handy Memory of LG can be read quickly and easily and reflect data from the file and format type if possible. Depending on the capacity of the memory card, it has difficulties with the speed when opening data. Moving your data is carried out smoothly.

Favorites and camera release button

Overall Conclusion

The LG GD510 POP provides a very fair market price advantage with an elegant appearance combined with small dimensions and a successful equipment. Multimedia features are certainly in a position to the satisfaction of basic needs of the user. The 3 MP camera is easy to use and provides very good pictures under normal lighting conditions. The internal music player scores with very ordinary sound. The speaker was well positioned on the front and is sufficiently powerful. The loading of web pages takes a little more time, there is no UMTS or HSDPA onboard. Emails also need a little time to download. The precision of the touch screen, however, holds potential for improvement, because it reacts partly slightly delayed. Unfortunately we can not share the opinion of LG through the so-called Satin Finish (anti-fingerprint coating), the mobile phone seems always completely clean. Fingerprints are still seen very clearly. Regarding the absolute classification can be said that the "POP" is recommended as an ideal mobile phone for all those who lay bound in a very good reception quality with stylish looks and compact dimensions of value.