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The new LG Scoop from Alltel has a full QWERTY keyboard for fast and easy texting and a chat-style messaging interface. And with Yahoo! and AOL IM preloaded you’ll never miss a message!

LG Scoop is a great choice for those who do a lot of text, picture, video, or instant massaging. LG Scoop looks very nice, with its small, slim profile and seems like a normal phone. It’s hidden QWERTY keyboard – which lets the massage quickly and accurately. Insides the scoops offers broadband web access, streaming TV and music from ALLTEL, one music player, 1.3 megapixel camera and more.

Features

The Scoop stores 500 contacts number with room in each entry for five numbers, two email address, notes and assign callers group pairs them with a picture, 24 polyphonic ring tones. It’s basic feature vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, calendar, tip calculator, notepad, calculator, speakerphone, world clock, stopwatch, and unit converter and so more higher end option is voice dialing, Bluetooth, voice recorder, USB mass storage, PC Modem support, email through the wireless web browser.

The scoop’s camera offer a different set of options, more image resolution settings, such as resolutions (1280×960, 640×480, 320×240, 176×144, and 160×120), and choose from three quality settings. Other features include a night mode, self- timer, and color effects on five, an adjustable brightness and white balance setting. The video recorder takes video in two resolutions (176×144 and 128×96) and offers a few editing options. The Scoop offers 64MB of internal memory, and the microSD card slot will accommodate cards up to 4GB. Photo quality is quite poor. It’s images is too blurry, objects lacked clear definition and color is muted and washed out.

The Scoop’s music player is attractive broad. It’s a lot of features save for an equalizer and playlists. It’s supports multiple file types (MP3, AAC, and AAC+). The Scoops dose not support wireless music download but that’s not really an issue since Alltel doesn’t offer a music download service anyway.

The Scoops with variety wallpaper, color schemes and banner. The phone doesn’t come with any games but download them from Alltel’s the wireless Web browser.

Design

The LG Scoop has a pretty candy bar plan that hides its full keyboard at the back its descending front face. At 4.35 inches by 2.02 inches by 0.71 inch and 4.2 ounces, it’s exactly the same size as the Rumor. The Scoop comes in three colors: citrus, slate, and turquoise. We look at the slate model but the features are the same on all versions.

The Scoop’s display is 2” supports 262000 colors (176*200 pixels). It’s menu use to easy, and like that Alltel included support for its Cell top application. As wish changes the brightness level, font type and dialing font size.

LG Scoops is circular clasp with a central ok button, two soft keys, a dedicated speakerphone control, a back button, and the Talk and End keys. They merge in with the back border nearby the display so they can be hard to see in dim lighting. The keypad buttons in exacting are well-spaced with a bright backlighting.

The Scoops are sliding front face to the left will expose the QWERTY keyboard. It’s keyboard is specious and easy to use. Good complaint here again about the lack of a dedicated punctuation key but that’s a slight subject. Sliding the keyboard rotates the display’s orientation mechanically.

At last the outside of the phone are a headset jack, micro SD card slot on the right side

and volume control, camera cover on the left side. The charger port is seated on the underside of the Scoop, and the camera be seated on the back face.

It’s good

LG Scoops has a good looking, use so comfortable and specious keyboard, so on include this scoops are Bluetooth, voice dialing and multimedia massage option.

It’s bad

LG Scoop’s has lower photo quality, and the voice quality could be a bit metallic.

Highlights
• 1.3 Megapixel Digital Camera/Camcorder Takes Print-quality Stills, or Extra-long Video Clips
• Bluetooth Wireless Technology
• Built-in Music Player Lets You Download Music Over-the-air Or Sync With A PC (USB Cable Required)
• Hidden QWERTY Keyboard Creates Messages Quickly and Accurately
• Large, Crisp Color Display
• Small, Lightweight Messaging Phone Lets You Crank Out Text, Picture, Video and Instant Messages
• Surf The Internet – Visit Your Favorite Web Sites At Broadband Speeds
• Works With Alltel’s Celltop Software, To Integrate Widgets Into Your Home Screen

Battery qualification
• Battery Type – LiIon
• Talk Time – Up to 180 Minutes
• Standby Time – Up to 140 Hours

Technical Specifications
• Application Platform – Java MIDP 2.1
• Data Download Speed – 1xRTT (Up to 130 Kbps)
• Network Compatibility – CDMA 800, 1900
• Compatible Carrier – Alltel Wireless
• 3G Data Speeds – Yes
• Built-In Memory – 128MB Built-in
• Expandable Memory Capacity – Supports MicroSD/Transflash Format Cards, Up to 4GB Card Sizes Max
• Ringtone Types Supported – MIDI, QCELP, MP3, AAC, AAC+ and Video Ringers
• Dimensions – 4.3 in x 2.0 in x 0.7 in
• Weight – 4.2 oz