LG KF750

LG Viewty + even more, better cool stuff + sliding keypad = LG Secret

That’s right, what you’re looking at is the spiritual successor to the breakthrough Viewty, a mobile phone that made everyone go, “Awhuh?” when it was released. And instead of cutting out features, they’ve taken what made the Viewty so great and built on top of it in the LG Secret.

So, you get a 5 megapixel camera (yep, based on the Viewty’s camera, but with a new secret weapon… more on that in a sec). You get a touchscreen, to use with the gawd knows how many different multimedia options. And you get the internet, on your mobile phone, at broadband speeds. Not only that, but you get al of that amazing stuff wrapped up in a body only 11.8mm thick, making the LG Secret nearly (but not quite, the upcoming Sony Ericsson C902 has this crown) the thinnest 5 megapixel camera phone you can get.

But it does have a couple of secret weapons. (Secret, geddit? Geddit?)

First up, is the accelerometer, a piece of technology that’s ludicrously cool, despite having a long-winded, hard to remember name. What it boils down to is that the LG Secret, much like the iPhone and the Sony Ericsson K850i, knows whether it’s being held upright, or on its side, or on its back, and so on. And even better than that, you can play games on the phone, and instead of controlling the action with key presses, you control it by tilting the phone about. Very clever stuff!

But there’s one more secret, and it’s in the camera. Specifically, it’s in the video bit of the camera. Not only do you get the same high-quality video from the Viewty in the LG Secret (and yes, that includes slow-motion), but LG have squeezed in another video mode. Time-lapse, or as they call it, fast video. That’s right, time-lapse, as seen in nature programs, when you see flowers growing really quickly. All in all, that’s really quite stunning!

No doubt about it, the LG Secret’s one hell of a phone, so if you’ve been waiting for it to come out (and I know several people who have), get it checked out!