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Review: LG dLite

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The camera app is bare bones, with few options to tweak images on the 2 megapixel shooter. To launch the camera, you can press the dedicated camera button. A few times during my testing, the camera app crashed, requiring a complete battery pull to restart the phone. This was very infrequent, perhaps three times in a week's heavy use.

You can adjust white balance and choose from a limited selection of shot modes. There is a night mode, though it did not seem to help under low light conditions. There are also color modes for black and white or sepia tones.

Once you've taken a shot, the dLite has a nice selection of options for sending the photo along. You can upload to a variety of online albums, including Flickr, Kodak, Photobucket and Snapfish, in addition to T-Mobile's own My Album Online. You can also send photos to your desktop over Bluetooth. The phone has GPS capabilities, but it does not offer to geo-tag photos to show them on a map later.

Image Gallery

The LG dLite has a surprisingly robust image gallery with a fine assortment of editing features to tweak your pics. The gallery itself shows a single image almost full screen up top, with a row of thumbnails lining the bottom. Once you've selected an image, you can enter a zoom mode or edit the photo. In the editor, you can crop, rotate and resize your pics. There are also a number of color adjustment options, so you can have the phone automatically adjust levels, color balance, brightness and contrast or exposure, among other options. There are even fun image filters. Beyond the simple sepia and black and white modes from the camera, you can add a filter for a mosaic look, a cartoon or water color image, and other various filter effects. You can also add stamps from a small selection of tiny graphics. The gallery has a slide show mode, and you can even print to a Bluetooth-enabled printer. I wouldn't call these images print-worthy, but if you create a masterpiece, the option is there.

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LG dLite

2.8" display 240 x 400 pixels
900 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot

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