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The LG Viewty KU990 is the company’s high-end touchscreen phone that is available in a variety of colours including the standard black and metallic finishes.  It comes with a 3-inch LCD display and a 5-megapixel camera with a built in xenon flash.

The camera takes good clear photographs but even with the xenon flash, the Viewty performs very poorly in poor lighting conditions.  The flash is not particularly bright and pictures taken in darkness do not come out.  Using the camera regularly quickly drains the battery; so if you take a lot of pictures, be prepared to pack your charger.

The camera feels and looks like a proper digital camera when you’re snapping your pictures and because of the HSDPA (3.5G) you can upload them straight to the web.  You can do the same for videos, which you can record and upload straight to YouTube.

You can video fast action scenes using the slow-motion video at 120 frames per second.  While you may not use this option every day it is fun to use and useful for shooting quick moving incidents.  As with the camera, the video works best in brighter or daylight conditions.

The touchscreen on the Viewty lets it down as it is tricky to use and scrolling through menus is sometimes clumsy.  Compared to, for example the iPhone, the interface is basic and doesn’t allow an application store.

Check out the Samsung Soul and the Samsung Jet for similar phones.