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Review: LG Rumor Touch

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Camera

The 2 megapixel camera on the LG Rumor Touch offers only the slightest upgrade over its 1.3 megapixel predecessor, and the camera interface keeps things very simple for this low-end kit. There are only a few basic image settings, including white balance and some color manipulation. A few of these get settings buttons right on the main screen, so you can increase the brightness, for instance, but most of the good stuff is hidden under the settings menu.

The camera opens when you press the camera button on the side, but only from certain menu screens. Sometimes the camera opens up. Sometimes, you're taken to an imaging sub-menu, and if you press the camera button again, the viewfinder springs to life. Sometimes nothing happens at all. No camera, no imaging menu, just a tone to let you know the phone has registered the button press, it just won't be doing anything about it.

Before you get to the image gallery, there is an autosend option you can attach to the camera app. I'm not sure if it actually works, though. Even when I had instructed the camera to send all my pics to Facebook, it would still ask if I wanted to send pics anywhere. Some pics would later show up on my Facebook page, some would not.

Image Gallery

The image gallery on the LG Rumor Touch is a basic thumbnail grid. There is a built in slideshow. You can move your pictures to and from the microSD card and also send them from the gallery as a picture message, an e-mail or even a Facebook upload. You can flick through pictures with a swiping motion in the viewer mode, and this actually works well, one of the few times the touchscreen wasn't an issue.

There are even some basic editing options hidden deep within the menus. Besides being able to crop, flip and rotate pics, you can apply a few interesting filters, like an emboss filter or a sketch filter. The phone can even take images of faces and warp them into funny looks using some rudimentary face recognition. All fun stuff, but it won't save your pics from the problems of a low resolution mobile sensor.

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LG Rumor Touch / Banter Touch

3" display 240 x 400 pixels
Memory Card Slot, Hardware Text Keyboard, Headphone Jack (3.5mm)

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