The glass and handling
Not for sale, preproduction beta, marketing sample. Any of these notions means that we’ve got something special, a non-final test model, an internal sample, which usually doesn’t really get out from the manufacturing plant. It took some really fortunate circumstances to have it in my hand right now.
Anyone who saw it, immediately asked to try it. People just couldn’t believe that such a thing exists. The glass keypad is really made of glass (it’s told to be scratch-resistant), I’ve used a magnifying glass to spot the circuits, but I had no chance. The production mechanism is LG’s best-kept secret, but after some research I found another company, a manufacturer called Elan, who have made a similar product. Of course they won’t tell either how does it work (I personally think we are having some ultra-thin circuits), it could be that LG bought the license from them.
It doesn’t matter.
LG GD900 is a beauty. The purple-white backlight is cool in dark as well, while the transparent glass is the most attractive part in light. After taking off the back this surface might seem even slimmer, it’s touch-sensitive only on the front. The question is: does this have any meaning at all?
Well, it has in some cases. What we can do with our fingers on the keypad (zooming pictures, rotating the S-Class interface, handling the browser) are all available on the touchscreen as well. And it’s usually somewhat more comfortable. But the glass panel helps when typing, we can enter the characters in a normal fashion. We could do without it, just like in the case of LG Arena, but then we would be missing a wonder. You can check out a short video right below:
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
