LG Muziq LX570

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LG music-oriented cell phones have been very popular. One of this is of course, the famous LG Chocolate. Other music-oriented phones from LG are the LG VX8600 and the LG VX8700 that has held their own as slim and sexy multimedia handsets.

Now, LG has released the new LG Muziq, a music-oriented phone that comes in with a built-in FM transmitter, a 1.3-megapixel camera, EV-DO support, and a microSD card slot. This is a slender and easy-to-use phone that has great overall performance.

The LG Muziq is absolutely gorgeous faeturing a streamlined design with a glossy black exterior and glowing red music player controls similar to those of the LG Chocolate. At 1.94 inches wide, 3.8 inches long, 0.61 inch deep, and weighing in at 3.14 ounces, the LG Muziq is a slender and lightweight phone that feels comfortable in the hand and cradles nicely next to the ear. The overall design is rectangular, with clean lines and a smooth finish.

Furthermore, the Muziq sports a vibrant 262,000-color 1.3-inch diagonal external screen. Not only does it display the customary date, time, battery life, signal strength, and caller ID info, it also acts as a camera viewfinder, and it will show the currently playing track whenever the music player is activated.

The Muziq does not only let users listen to their music, but it also looks great. The phone features a lovely, 2.2-inch-diagonal TFT display with 262,000 colors. The display is bright and colorful, though the graphics seemed a little washed out. The menu interface is well-laid-out and easy to understand.

The LG Muziq has a pretty impressive feature set to go along with its stylish good looks. The LG Muziq’s phone book stores around 500 contact. Each entry has room for five phone numbers, e-mail and Web addresses, and a memo. You can save callers to groups or pair them with a photo or any of 31 polyphonic ringtones. Other essentials include text and multimedia messaging, a vibrate mode, an alarm clock, a calculator, a scheduler, a notepad, and a world clock. There are also a number of higher-end features including a wireless Web browser, voice memo recording, voice commands and dialing, mass USB storage, e-mail, instant messaging, a speakerphone, stereo Bluetooth, a memory card manager, EV-DO support, and a music composer so you can create your own ringtones.

The Muziq, as its name says, is primarily a music phone. Its external music player controls on the front certainly make that clear. The interface is rather generic and plain, but you can do things like repeat songs or put them on shuffle.

Even though the LG Muziq is all about music, it comes with a camera too. The 1.3-megapixel camera can take pictures in three resolutions (1,280×960, 640×480, 320×240), three quality settings, brightness and white balance controls, flash, and four color modes, plus you have the choice of four shutter sounds or no sound at all. The camcorder mode records clips in two lengths: 30 seconds for video mail, and in a regular video, for as long as there’s available memory. You can record video in two resolutions (176×144 and 128×96), and it has similar editing options as the still camera.

The LG Muziq has a rated battery life of 4 hours of talk time and as long as 10 hours of music-only mode.

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