Comments on: New LG Secret – accelerometer goodness!

By: paul.fabretti

paul.fabretti — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:25:23 +0000

@vero OMG – that’s worrying! He’s speaking for us at a seminar!

By: Vero Pepperrell

Vero Pepperrell — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:35:24 +0000

Watch that Whatley guy if you meet him, Paul. He’s nothing but trouble!

By: Dave Kinsella

Dave Kinsella — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:29:34 +0000

Will LG be issuing the phone with a wrist strap like the nintendo wiimote?
I could imagine plenty of complaints from people who lobbed their phone across the room going for for a double-top to finish.

By: paul.fabretti

paul.fabretti — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:10:38 +0000

Good stuff – interesting perspective on build actually.

I never considered build as a function of contract duration. Saw it as more driven by market desire for good, solid handsets.

Jeez – when I am going to meet you guys?!! Feel a bit left out here!!

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:29:35 +0000

Hence “Style that lasts” eh?

Nice to meet you last night Chris BTW.
Cheers for the good/honest feedback.

By: Chris at LG

Chris at LG — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:26:09 +0000

Paul – yes the Secret is constructed differently, in fact it’s built with 18- and 24-month contracts in mind – as phone contracts have been getting longer there’s more demand for more durable phones. On another of our YouTube vids, you can see me putting the phone’s casing through its paces quite brutally – I’ve done the same demo on the handset a dozen times since and it’s still pristine.

By: paul.fabretti

paul.fabretti — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:08:48 +0000

The big thing for me with the Viewty was the direct upload to You Tube.

I think the biggest stumbling block to people using phones to upload content to the net is the the interface or the method of upload.

I am NOT going to be bothered to post stuff if it involves getting home, putting on my machine, hooking the machines up and then submitting.

Give me an OS which will let me upload to YouTube, Facebook, flickr etc. which is as easy as sending an MMS and I am hooked.

@Jimbo – Interesting you say about the build quality of the Secret. The viewty started out quite well, but is struggling a bit now – a lot of creaks, screen seems to bend and the back is loose.

I presume the construction of the Secret is different?

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:39:27 +0000

Good response.

I for one look forward to the improvements you mentioned. The LG Secret actual build quality is awesome. It’s a lovely device to physically hold.

Get the innards sorted and I you may have a future customer right here…

By: Chris at LG

Chris at LG — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:08:41 +0000

James, I agree that more compatibility with web services is a good thing, including Facebook & Flickr, and definitely the future. Embracing these services and opening up the platform to allow these apps is, as Jeremy Newing said at the bloggers’ day, a future course of action for LG, but these things take time.

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:10:29 +0000

HSDPA & Bluetooth don’t enable sending photos/videos to my facebook/flickr though, right?

Don’t get me wrong, it is a really nice device.

But for such a forward thinking company I thought you would’ve opened it up a bit y’know?

You guys *know* what I’m talking about…