LG India launches GD900 Crystal phone

Bangalore: LG India has launched the LG-GD900 Crystal, with a transparent, smart keypad. It is the combination of 3D S-Class user interface technology. The transparent touch-sensitive keypad of the GD900 Crystal is illuminated with a soft glow, and it also has a scratch-resistant design made from tempered glass and reinforced by a band of liquid metal. The GD900 Crystal's slide-down crystal touchpad can be used like the trackpad on a laptop computer, and also recognizes handwriting, responds to multi-touch commands and enables a new way of navigation called Gesture Command, reports ThinkDigit. With Gesture Command, a user can simply press the phone's multitasking button and draw one of 12 customisable symbols on the keypad. For instance, if the symbol resembling a capital M is assigned to the MP3 player or a capital C is assigned to camera, launching any of these features is as easy as writing M or C on the Crystal Touchpad. Speaking of the camera, the eight megapixel shutter on this gizmo comes with autofocus and LED flash, and can also record video at 720x480 pixels resolution. The accelerometer on the three inch capacitive touchscreen (16 million colours, 480x800 pixels) helps auto-rotate the screen when taking pictures, and even comes with a proximity sensor to turn it off when talking on the phone. The proprietary S-Class user interface only adds to the charm of the GD900 Crystal. Also, there's ample room to store songs on the 1.5GB of internal memory, with a microSD memory card slot to boost it up to 32GB. Obviously, there is no lack of connectivity options here, with the phone supporting 3G, Wi-Fi, EDGE, Bluetooth and many more. Boasting of a talk-time of up to six hours and a standby time of up to 300 hours, the GD900 Crystal is priced at 26,000.