Hands On With The LG Expo Projector Phone
LG eXpo does a decent job hiding Windows Mobile. LG’s obsession seems to be with sliding grids or wheels of icons, which the Snapdragon processor handles admirably; the home screen has a sliding icon bar, the main menu has four sliding icon bars, and so forth.
Windows Mobile has made me nervous recently, because I’ve been testing a bunch of very unstable Windows Mobile phones. The Expo feels fast – one Windows Mobile bullet dodged – but I can’t vouch for its stability, and it’s the stability issue that really worries me.
The Expo’s QWERTY keyboard is excellent, well-spaced and clicky. There’s a 5-megapixel camera on the back, but annoyingly no standard headphone jack. But you don’t care about that much, do you? You care about the $179 projector attachment.
The Expo is going on sale on Dec. 7, but only through AT&T’s business sales department. Consumer sales are coming later, but AT&T won’t say when. The phone will cost $299, minus a $100 rebate, with a two-year contract; the projector costs an extra $179.
via: pcmag.com