Introduction

If you look at the pictures of LG VX9800, you'll notice right away that it contains a slide in Qwerty keyboard which makes typing of emails/text messages much easier and enhances productivity when using applications such as Ms Word and PowerPoint on the phone. You can chat with your friends or business clients via built in AOL Instant Messenger, MSN or Yahoo.

What makes the VX9800 unique is that it is not only a productive business phone but also designed to be a sophisticated multimedia phone. Rather than just targeting business people, this phone enhanced by advanced audio, video and multimedia options is targeted for the more hi-tech consumer.

The phone comes with ED-VO (Evolution Data Optimized) technology that allows users to view 3gp and other streaming videos, as well as subscribe to commercial television channels at very high speeds. The phone also contains a 1.3 megapixel camera, that takes vibrant and awesome quality photos. Parallel to the LCD display is the stereo speakers that produce awesome quality sound for your MP3 music.

Digital Camera and Other Basic Features

LG VX9800 has a built in digital camera with capability of 1.3 megapixels. Any phone that has megapixels of 1.3 to 2.5 usually takes awesome quality print photos. The available resolutions at which you can take photos include:

- 1280 x 960 pixels
- 640 x 480 pixels
- 320 x 240 pixels
- 176 x 144 pixels

The LG vx9800 is more like Adobe Photoshop junior. How you ask? It supplies a ton of filters and effects that you can use to spice up your photos, and just take high picture resolution photos. Some of them include:

- Pictures Mode (Auto, Portrait, Scenic, Sports, Vivid, Macro, etc)

- Night Mode

- Color Tones (Auto, Solari, Negative, Sepia, and Black/White)

- Flash (Auto, Off, On Always)

- Self-Timer (Off, 2 secs, 5 secs, and 10 secs)

- White Balance (Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Tungsten and Fluorescent)

The zooming features of the camera are also very sophisticated. They include a 4x digital zoom and auto focus. 4x optical zoom allows you to get closer to your photo spots without losing any or much resolution. This helps in taking quality photos.

The vx9800 also has advanced capabilities in viewing videos (320 by 240 pixels). You can record upto 15 seconds of video clips, using up 15 frames. The available format types include MPEG4, H.263, AMR and ACC. If you want to play the videos you recorded on a Personal Computer, you will need to have Quicktime 6.5 software available at apple.com

Basic Features

Check the details and specs for all the basic features that are included with the LG VX9800.