LG GS290 Cookie Fresh Mobile Phone

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Introduction

Stylish and timeless, the LG GS290 Cookie Fresh mobile phone, convinced us by its sheer number of available colors: silver / blue, full silver, white-orange, blue, white, red, black, purple White, etc, and also with touch screen capabilities. Unlike highly trendy designer clothing, the price of this compact mobile phone is very straightforward: Starting at 80th - € (without contract, shipping and depending on the provider), and with a 2 MP camera as well, it is available in the market. The display is designed for finger and stylus use, and for fun - FM radio is also included and social networking lovers can also directly access to Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. Regarding high-speed data connections, the GS290 presents itself in this price class at attainable heights. The improved A-class user interface should be easy to handle for less experienced contemporaries. In addition, you can customize the way of the Menus of this touchscreen mobiles, as you like. How does the LG GS290 behaves in a practical life, our test shows.

LG GS290 Cookie Fresh - stylish and full touch Companion Mobile Phone

Processing Features

1. First optical impression / special features to support the design - Fashionable touchscreen phone in a handy format.

2. Housing material / surface quality - Smooth surface with a combination of matte and shiny plastic that looks decent.

3. Housing dimensions - With a weight of 89 g and dimensions of 108 x 52.9 x 12.5mm it sits comfortably in the hands.

4. Quality (sharpness / resolution) of the display - 3 inch TFT display with 262,000 colors and a resolution of 240x400 pixels. Good color and clear presentation, speaks for this top price range mobile phone.

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

6. Quality of the battery compartment cover - The battery compartment cover is made of very cheap plastic, but can easily open, close, and fits perfectly.

7. Quality and scope of the supplied items - Manual, headset, charger, USB cable.

8. Processing Result - The LG GS290 Cookie Fresh is a stylish mobile phone which is made of low-class of a simple plastic. With its handy size and light weight, it sits perfectly in the hand. The TFT display is clear and 262,000 sharp colors are accurately visible. The battery compartment cover sits perfectly which scores for the LG GS290.

Back of the LG GS290 Cookie Fresh Mobile Phone


The battery compartment cover is made up of simple and very thin plastic and sits precisely


Loud-soft key and Micro SD card slot


The integrated speaker is positioned on the front

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Business Features

1. Supported networks - Quad band (850/900/1800/1900MHz) and UMTS (2100MHz).

2. Data transmission - Bluetooth 2.1, GPRS, EDGE, USB.

3. Reception and voice quality - The LG GS290 Cookie Fresh has an impeccable reception quality, even if the network coverage is not very good. The voice playback at normal volume sounds natural and is only minimally covered.

4. Voice quality of the speaker - The voice playback at medium volume is not well understood. At higher volume, it is somewhat unbalanced and slightly distorted.

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

6. Storage capabilities of Contacts - SIM: name, number, email, caller groups, phone: first name, last name, number: mobile phone, home, office, pager, fax, general, e-mail address: Email extension: @ hotmail.com, @ msn.com, @ yahoo.com, @ gmail.com, caller groups: No group, family, friends, colleagues, school, VIP; ringtone birthday: on / off; Anniversary: on / off, start page, home address, company name, position, company address, note, Livecom.

7. Profile - Normal, Silent, Outdoor, flight mode, Profile 1, Profile 2, Profile 3, all profiles are preset and can easily be modified to meet individual requirements. It is also possible to create in my profile 1, 2 and 3, anyone's personal profile.

8. Calendar settings - New Event: Type: Appointment, Anniversary, Birthday, Date: Subject, Location, Start Date, End on, Ends, Alarm: no memory, 0 min before, 15 min before, 30 min before, 1 h before, 1 day before, 3 days in advance, 1 week before, Repeat: do not repeat Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Custom, a new event search, set as a holiday view: week, day, delete Jump to date, Event : entries against all entries; Reset Delete all calendar.

9. Notes feature - 1000 characters per note; Writing language: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Russian, Slovak, Czech, Croatian, Macedonian, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian , Estonian, Indonesian, T9 on / off, numeric, symbols, characters, input method: QWERTY keypad, keyboard, handwriting, handwriting box, handwriting, double box, add a word, save as a secret memo.

10. Built-in voice recorder (Dictaphone) - Duration: Unlimited, MMS-size, 1 min; quality: Super Fine, Fine, Normal, location: the phone memory, memory card, go to Sounds, Play, Send: Message, Email, Bluetooth, File: Change name, delete, use as: voice ring tone, message tone, power on, power off, move, copy, delete, select: choose Select All, File: Rename, file information: name, size, date, time, type, title, artist, genre, track number, album , Commentary, duration, author, year, Copyright, protection, Install. The reproduction of the recording still sounds natural. However, a slight noise in the background is not to be missed.

11. E-mail functionality - Connection Type: POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP. Setting the e-mail accounts is done in a few steps. Various e-mail providers are already pre-programmed to the e-mail addresses to even enter quickly. The download takes some time, however, if there are too many emails in your inbox. Attachments also need some time to download. If they are too big, then the LG GS290 Cookie Fresh finds difficulties in imaging.

12. Internet functionality - The loading of the web site, takes a little time, but also in extravagantly designed pages, it is possible for the LG Cookie Fresh, to present a well-read view of the web pages. Depending on page layout (picture size, banners, etc.) it needs more, or less time.

13. PC Synchronization - The required USB cable is included. On first connection to the PC, when selecting the item "PC Suite", it is possible to connect, the necessary software for the extended Sync can be downloaded from the Internet. After a few minutes, the software on the PC (download speed will of course depend on the type of connection) will be installed. The GS290 has been detected in our case immediately. After a few steps, the sync partnership is established, it can not just sync contacts, but Outlook calendar, tasks and notes are synchronized, as well as bookmarks. Photos and videos, are in the pre-defined folder on the PC or from mobile to the PC, it can also be synchronized in one step. Compared to earlier versions, the LG PC Suite IV shows significantly faster, more reliable and thus more powerful tool for syncing. Alternatively, you can connect cell phone as a mass storage (option: USB memory) to display, and for it no separate software is necessary.

14. Other features - Protocol, Social networks: Facebook, Twitter, My Space, games: Block Breaker Deluxe, Brain Challenge 2, Diamond Twister, Ferrari GT demo, real football 2010, Thomson & Touch; applications: push email, games and fun music world; Muvee Studio, Google search, alarm, task, date calculator, Tools: Calculator, calculator, world time, stopwatch, sketches.

15. Business Result - This quad-band mobile phone provides EDGE network, and Bluetooth 2.1 for seamless data transfer. 3 to 4 days battery life are perfectly fine. Calendar, profiles and contacts are to the usual standard, and are not to be complained. The memo has 1,000 characters and scores points for the LG GS290 Cookie Fresh Cell Phone. The voice recorder provides a great result, if one does not goes too close. The e-mail account is already provided, thanks to the pre-programmed set inbuilt, and getting the mail depends on the size. Finding and opening Internet site, consumes little time for complex pages. Amazingly the synchronization with Outlook is well run. The LG GS290 has 6 games (mostly demos) for entertainment and various other features.

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Multimedia Features

1. Camera Equipment - 2 MP, Exposure: -4.5 to +4.5; shooting: Normal picture, three, six, nine; size: 1600x1200, 1280x960, 640x480, 400x240, 320x240, Color Effect: Off, Black & White, Negative, Sepia, White Balance: Auto, Daylight, Sunny, Fluorescent, Cloudy, night mode: on / off, Auto-Timer: display mode; location select: phone, memory card, second of View 3, 5 seconds, 10 seconds quality;, Off: Super Fine, Fine, Normal;: on / off; Hide icons: Manual, Auto, Shutter Sound: Sound 1, Sound 2, Sound 3; Grid View: Off, crosshair, grid lines, reset settings, post-processing options: send: message, email, Bluetooth, use as: background, contact photo, inset, Edit: Select an area, pen, text, stamp, save in: original file, new file, undo, image: Rotate, Resize: 2592x1944, 2048x1536, 640x480, 320x240, background size, contact photo, frame, Morphing, Color Accent, Color swap, add images, red-eye reduction, filter: face retouching, tunnel effect, color negative, black and white, sepia, blur, sharpness, mosaic, oil painting, sketch, emboss, Solarize, lively, moonlight, Antique, Bright, Cartoon, Watercolor; values: Automatic saturation, auto color, brightness car., car. contrast, brightness, contrast, RGB effect, hue, saturation, white balance

2. Camera quality - Under normal lighting conditions, the camera gave good result from the LG Cookie Fresh mobile phone. Colors and shapes are great on the screen, although sometimes focus is presented minimal. If you pick up the pictures on a large monitor as on the 27-inch screen of Apple iMacs, the image presented is unsatisfactory. The pictures at normal brightness is slightly noisy and not particularly sharp. In the darkness, the camera can not score despite night mode. Overall, an average camera quality, at the affordable price range, with reasonable performance.

3. Video Camera Equipment - Zoom: 1.0 to 2.0; Exposure: -4.5 to +4.5, video size: 320x240 QVGA, QCIF 176x144, display mode: Full screen, image size, settings: Color Effect: Off, Black & White, Negative, Sepia, White Balance: Auto, Daylight, Sunny, Fluorescent, Cloudy, quality: Super Fine, Fine, Normal, duration: maximum, for news, choose location: Phone, Memory Card; language: on / off; Hide icons: Manual, automatic, reset settings, post-processing options: Send: Message, Email, Bluetooth, Video Editor: Crop, Video mix with, mingle with image, voice memo synchronization, display text, image map, speed, change delete name.

4. Video Quality - Pixels are cloud in motion immediately. So it is better to avoid it and keep the LG cookie Fresh very quiet with no motion, which thus manages to partially achieve clips with very little pixel clouds, which looks at only on displays with small diagonal (20 inches) and a low resolution with no side effects. For high-quality displays with full HD resolution, the videos focus is noisy. Generally speaking, in daylight and normal lighting conditions (indoors) colors and shapes are attenuated, but presented clearly. In the darkness or twilight it can unfortunately get no results. A video light would have been an advantage. Adapt to different lighting conditions is possible for the LG Cookie Fresh but not exactly with swift movement and is quite limited.

5. Facilities built-in to the music player - Format: MP3, WMA, AMR, MIDI, AAC, AAC +, e-AAC +, WAV, MMF, forward, rewind, pause, stop, last played, all songs, artists, albums, genre, playlist, random;'s Collapse, list Equalizer: No Style, Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Concert Hall: To Playlist, Send: Message, Email, Bluetooth, use as: ringtone, message tone, power on, off, file information: name, size, date, time, type , title, artist, genre, track number, album, comment, duration, author, year, copyright, sleep timer: on / off, 5 minutes to 60 minutes, Repeat All, from, and one, loop: on / off ; volume; Rating: 1 to 5 stars.

6. Sound quality of the music player - The speaker is positioned on the front of the mobile phone and can play the songs you want with good sounds, although the maximum possible level is severely limited. The playback is neat, if one includes the price league with the GS290 in the evaluation. The built-in EQ is too little to use, the individual sound fields (pre-programmed) differ, but they seem quite unbalanced, so it is best for the menu item keeping "no style" in decision. The included headset has indeed no comfort, but offers a relatively balanced sound. Only the weak bass are out of points.

7. Radio yes / no, sound quality of Radio - 48 station can be preset; minimize, auto search, record, RDS on / off, reset reset channel, all channels, channel store, hearing about cable headset, speaker, station names can not be added unfortunately. With a favorable orientation of the antenna, transmitter sounds almost noise free. If you move, unfortunately, you will have repeatedly scratching sounds. The quality of the images also depends on the orientation of the headset. The less it moves, the better results are obtained when recording from radio stations.

8. Memory Storage Capacity - 50 MB internal which can be expanded to 16 GB, which is rather commendable.

9. Multimedia Result - The camera equipment is simple and easy to use and has useful additional settings. The results of the 2 MP camera clearly shows that this is a minimal assembly - no more, no less. For snapshots from time to time but from what is offered is sufficient. At dark we can not achieve results. The video function should be best forgotten, if you want to see the results on larger screen sizes. The built-in media player can be very easy to use. Playlists are created easily and without problems. A radio is inbuilt in the LG GS290 also. With 48 station presets, and provided with very easy handling, this fills the points account of the LG GS290 phone. The radio images are useful when the headset (antenna) is aligned favorably. The mobile phone has 50 MB of internal memory and is expandable to 16 GB.

2 MP camera, unfortunately without a flash


uncomfortable headset with decent sound


Controls for the Headset and Calls

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Handling / Menus

1. One-hand operation for key functions possible - Yes, partially.

2. Call execute (with menu "contacts") - Easy execution of a call and easy to find contact details.

3. Adding / Creating / editing contacts - No trouble creating, adding or editing new and existing contacts.

4. Readability of the display - On the day and at night you can read from the display perfectly. In direct sunlight or light irradiation hardly any content can be seen. It is, however, as almost with all other mobile phones, with the setting of the theme and background image, display can be read.

5. Pressure point of the keypads / reaction of the touch screen - Slightly hesitant response of the touch screen, sometimes more clearly is by using push away.

6. Handling the navigation elements to prospect the menus - Very easy to use the menus and with fast transparent.

7. Clarity of the menu - The menu has easily recognizable symbols. The entire design is clearly arranged.

8. Scope of the menus - The menu is divided into extent content and has enough sub menu items.

9. The design of the menus - The graphic design is typical from LG with great recognizable menu icons.

10. Opportunity for the assignment of shortcut keys - Widgets from the bar, individual items will be taken quickly at the display and are thus selected to be organized to the menu.

11. Message Handling - Input method: keyboard, handwriting, handwriting box, handwriting, dual field; QWERTY keyboard; Add Word to store design, font size: Small, Medium, Large, Recipient: By group, recently used, T9 on / off, German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Russian, Slovak, Czech, Croatian, Macedonian, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Estonian, Indonesian, symbols, characters, abc; Insert: Image: Select Image Capture Image, Video: Select your video, record video, sound: Choose Sound, Record Sound, template, emoticon, name & number, new page, subject, signature, Extras: business card, calendar, notes, tasks, my business card.

12. Settings of photo and video - The settings are easy to find and easy to adjust.

13. Operation of Music Player - The menu of the music player is well designed as you can notice. The overall handling and creating a playlist does not overpower the user.

14. Reading from memory cards - The reading of micro SD cards with relatively low number of files is done quite reliably from the LG Cookie Fresh. Existing data far from the format and file type are possible and depicted easily. However, the LG GS290 takes a long time to open the data stored on the memory card, and then to presents it. Files of format or in size can not be displayed. A Micro SD Card with 16 GB and quite exhausted volume overwhelms the LG cookie Fresh. In our test it had some problems (quite a delay of view) with a 4 GB memory card, which was covered with only half of data.

15. File Management - Easy to create folders and move data.

16. Result - The handling of the LG Cookie Fresh overwhelmed none. Running a call, adding contacts, as well as the readability of the display in daylight speaks for the LG GS290, with slightly more hesitant reaction of the touch screen. The clearly designed menu is noticed from the LG, yet with timeless designed menu size. The simple operation of the photo / video camera and MP3 player are further plus points. Through various input methods (handwriting, keyboard, QWERTY keyboard) issue of news is facilitated. Reading from Micro SD memory card could have been improved.

Answer, favorites (program changed) and end key

Overall Conclusion

The LG GS290 "Cookie Fresh" is for users who are looking for a great price an easy to use all-round phone, which makes it a recommendable device. It looks great, and all for the daily operation of a normal user-related functions are well integrated. More demanding users, however, should look into higher price ranges. The built-in camera is good for easy shots, with a pleasing image quality, but can not be expected more. With a great variety of colors, it will particularly attract youth users.

The LG GS290 - for normal demands