LG Ally VS740 – An Affordable yet Powerful Android Device
Available from Verizon Wireless, the LG Ally is the first LG Android-powered smartphone released for the U.S. market. Featuring a stylish sliding design, customizable widgets and Google's service integration, the Ally is a promising device that will please many keyboard-equipped smartphone lovers on Verizon.
The Ally is a slider handset with a four-row QWERTY keyboard and a large 3.2" capacitive touchscreen made of durable tempered glass. The TFT display supports 262k colors and 800 by 480 pixels. With haptic feedback, the phone will respond with vibration when it has registered your touch. An accelerometer and a proximity sensor are built in as well.
The Ally offers five home screens that can be customized with various widgets and shortcuts. Packed with the latest Android OS, Android 2.1, the phone gives you a full set of Google applications, including Gmail, Google Talk, Google Search, Google Maps Navigation as well as access to Android Market with more than 30,000 downloadable apps. The handset itself offers the ThinkFree Office app, which lets you view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and read Adobe PDF documents.
The Ally is also a social networking device young users would like. Preloaded with LG Socialite, it aggregates Facebook and Twitter updates and messages to a custom interface. Needless to say, you get text and multimedia messaging along with several instant messaging clients (AIM, Windows Live and Yahoo Messenger). For email, the Ally supports POP, IMAP and Exchange servers in addition to its Gmail app.
For entertainment on the go, the built-in music player is compatible with MP3, WMA, AAC and AAC+ formats, while the video player supports WMV, 3GP, 3G2 and MP4 files. You can buy and download songs from the Amazon MP3 Store. Taking advantage of the 3.5mm audio jack, music lovers can enjoy music with their own earphones. The standard Android Web browser supports HTML browsing and double-tap zooming. In addition, the Ally comes with a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with zoom, LED flash and video capturing capabilities.
The Ally offers 102MB of free internal memory and has a microSD card slot for up to 16GB of additional storage. It connects to Verizon's 3G network and is also Wi-Fi enabled. Last but not least, the phone supports stereo Bluetooth, USB mass storage, S-GPS support, one-touch speakerphone and voice commands. It measures 4.56" high by 2.22" wide by 0.62" deep and weighs 5.6 ounces.
The LG Ally is an attractive and powerful smartphone that brings you a nice physical keyboard and great social networking capabilities. If you want to try out the hot Android software but don't want to break the bank, the Ally is a good option to consider.
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