LG Viewty Snap

Editor's Review of the Viewty Snap

The GM360 is LGs latest addition to its Viewty line, a handset which has also been dubbed the LG Bali. The Viewty Snap is available in either black or silver, and is pocket friendly with measurements of just 108 x 53.1 x 12mm. Although we weren't won over by it's basic plastic-ridden appearance, the handset feels solid and comfortable to touch.

The front of the handset is dominated by a 3 inch TFT resistive touchscreen, with a fairly standard pixel resolution of 240 x 400. With such a large focus on the handset's display, we wish LG had equipped the Viewty Snap with a capacitive screen, the resistive display proving slow to respond and niggly to get the hang of.

When it comes to multimedia, the Viewty Snap GM360 is a great little handset, making us forget about our touchscreen woes. Alongside its integrated FM radio, the handset offers an integrated media player for music and video playback, with support for most popular file types. With up to 16GB of external memory via microSD, you should never run out of storage for all of your files.

The Snap also boasts a 5 megapixel camera, and we were pretty shocked at the quality of photos it managed to produce. Thanks to its optical zoom and LED flash, the camera coped well in most situations, and images looked bright and detailed on the handset's 3 inch display. It can also record video footage, which proved just as impressive. Thanks to the handset's microUSB port and Bluetooth connectivity, media can be transferred straight to your PC, as well as directly to social networking sites such as Facebook and Tumblr.

Although lacking in 3G or WiFi connectivity, you can still access the web on the GM360 thanks to the handset's Class 10 GPRS and EDGE connectivity, although don't expect this to be an easy process, as pages can often take minutes to load. The Viewty Snap also offers social networking integration alongside a dedicated Facebook client, but these also suffer from the slow connectivity. However, we found the Push email support pretty impressive, proving extremely easy to set up with surprisingly speedy loading times. We struggled to get the hang of the onscreen keypad though, with replying to emails often procing a lengthy process.

If you're not too fussed about high-speed connectivity, the LG Viewty Snap GM360 is a great little handset for staying in touch with your friends and family.