LG GD550 Pure Disadvantages

LG GD550 Pure review: Slide and go

Introduction

Big buttons and no questions asked. Believe it or not, that’s what some people still look for in a phone. The LG GD550 Pure is playing it safe – less tech inside means fewer things to go wrong. This is less a gadget for those who think old-school is cool and more for those who take old-school to mean safe and familiar.

Key features:

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, UMTS with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA
• 2.4" 262K-color QVGA display
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera, D1 video recording @ 30fps
• Standard microUSB port
• Bluetooth (with A2DP)
• Hot-swap microSD card slot (up to 16 GB)
• FM radio
• Excellent keypad
• Office document viewer

Main disadvantages:

• User interface is nice and simple, but perhaps too basic
• No smart dialing
• Poor image quality and video recording
• Laggy image gallery
• No sign of any social networking integration
• Memory card slot under the battery cover