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Review: LG dLite

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Don't expect anything more than simple, mobile Web browsing on the LG dLite. I found the browser to be very slow. Pages took a longer time to load than I expected on T-Mobile's 3G network. Navigating pages could also be a chore. Pages moves slowly past as I clicked the 4-way button, and the browser can only navigate by jumping link to link, the phone does not scroll smoothly. There is a menu option for zoom, but the browser also hides a long list of keyboard shortcuts. All 12 keys get their own shortcut, including a pair of keys that zoom in and out without needing to use the menu. It definitely helps, but the browser takes a long time to zoom in at every step, then redraw the text on the page to be legible once you've zoomed in close enough to read it.

Our own PhoneScoop homepage looked pretty good in the Web browser, but it couldn't handle most HTML pages I tried. CNN and the New York Times would not offer the phone their full desktop version, only the mobile counterpart. The phone uses the same font in the main interface and the Web browser. While those playful, whimsical fonts might look good in the menus, they look silly in the browser. So, I had to switch to the more business-like of the three font choices every time I wanted to spend a long time reading pages on the Web.

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There are a few customization options on the LG dLite, but LG and T-Mobile miss some cool opportunities. The dot matrix display, for instance, has a number of animations you can play in standby mode. You can even create your own image to appear on the hidden, external screen, but you can't animate it yourself. I would have loved to create a multi-frame animated picture. There are three different themes to choose from, with three different system-wide fonts. There are also a handful of animated wallpapers.

The hidden light show is also customizable. There are a number of color options to choose from, and a few different lighting patterns. Again, I wish I could create my own custom light show here, but the different LED colors look great, very bright and vibrant.

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LG dLite

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

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