LG's Viewty was hard to miss at GSMA. Between the saturation bus ads and the creepy, surreal show stand, it was pretty obvious what LG wanted us all to write about. The phone itself looks like a camera, and has specifications that aren't normally seen on a phonecam. Five Megapixels, a Schneider-Kreuznach lens, ISO settings up to 800, manual focus (which cuts shutter lag times) and image stabilization. It also shoots video at an astonishing 120 frames per second.


Available in both black and silver, the body does feel a little lightweight and plasticky, and the colors on the LCD screen were a little washed out, especially compared to "real" cameras. But them, those real cameras don't make phone calls, don't upload to YouTube (in the brochure it's named YooTube) and they don't have touch screens with handwriting recognition or MP3 players. In all, it's a pretty good compromise.