Just sold my LG Joy at Toa Payoh Central, some mobile phone outlet. Sad to say, not only the phone is problematic, the trade-in value for the phone also cannot make it (CMI), $110 – $140.

For those who is holding such as CMI phone, remember to trade-in early, together with charger and ear-piece. If ear-piece and 8GB micro-SD card are not available, there is a deduction of $20 – $40 off the trade-in price.

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The problem solely because of a slow processor (Qualcomm MSM7200A) and the heat up problem.

Slow processor causes the program to launch slowly and hanged the phone easily;  to make things worst, the device heats up easily when I am using programs such as Skyfire, YoutubePlayer and etc… Internet Explorer also heats up the device quickly, how bad can that be?!!

extracted from MXPhone.com

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First and foremost, I thought iPhone battery life is short; LG GM730 is worst, it drain around 20% – 25% of my battery life in an hour when I am reading news. To better conserve battery, I removed ALC and reduced the backlight to maximum. It works perfectly with my old O2 XDAIIs, however it does not work on this fone.

To make the matter worst, the User Interface sucks… I prefer using LG XT9 keypad input, but everytime I restart the device, it will definitely change to Letter Recognition Input which is something I hate to use (slow and error prone). Besides getting irritated by the input, I am also quite disappointed with the multi-tasking capability. It becomes apparent to me that the advertisement is more or less gimmick. I switched on a few applications in the background, when I have an incoming call, the whole system hanged so bad that I have to remove the battery in order to restart. It happens so many times…

Another problem I found out is the free browser Skyfire which have many positive reviews, actually converts my fone into a heat pack for my muscle sores. I have checked with other brands of Win mobile devices, seems like it happens only on my fone.

Come to think of it! It’s Windows. What can I expect from Microsoft, the same buggy problems since I started using Win mobile 2003. My next fone definitely WILL NOT BE Windows.

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After browsing through the models, I decided to get LG GM730 (LG JOY), which runs on Windows Mobile 6.1. It has wide 3” LCD panel that enhance surfing,
touch screen interactivity.

The features of LG Joy as follow:

• Connectivity: 3G/HSDPA/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
• GPS
• 5MP Camera
• LG S-Class UI (A Home Screen Widget built on Windows Mobile)
• Display: 240x400pixels, 3”/ 65K Colors/ TFT Screen
• Memory: Micro-SD up to 16GB

As I was a previous Windows Mobile user, I realised that the common thing that does not change through the versions is Windows Mobile still hang easily; to make it worst, I need to hard reset the device.

Comparing it with other Windows Mobile device, it is quite responsive when interacting with its UI. It provides quite a wide set of applications including MS Office Mobile and widgetized Calendar, Email and Messages.

One cool features I like about windows mobile is its multi-tasking capability, I realised that iPhone OS cannot multi-task, not sure about Android though.

For more widgets and applications, try out: PPCWarez Forum

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