Saturday, February 13, 2010

New Device: Net 10 LG600G

The fist addition to the new blog format is a device I've owned for quite a while, my old trust Net 10 LG600G.

LG600G Features

* VGA Camera
* Includes Bluetooth® Wireless Technology
* Enjoy the same low rate for every call -- local, long distance & roaming
* International Long Distance and Roaming calls
* Downloadable Ringtones, Graphics, News, Weather, Sports and more using Airtime Minutes.
* Hands-free Speaker
* Picture Messaging, Text Messaging
* Voicemail, Call Waiting, Caller ID
* Alarm Clock, Stop Watch, Calendar, Calculator, Games

This phone served me well for a long period of time, and I have no major qualms about it. Unfortunately, it's quite old. It's tiny 160 x 120 screen makes photo viewing a pain, Java performance is quite slow, and it's a flip phone. I personally dislike flip phones and much prefer bar style phones.


The Java on this phone is unrestricted; you can install almost any appropriately sized game. There are some issues with this however, the status bars at both the top and bottom do not go away while in an application. It's a minor annoyance, but can be a massive detriment in some games where vital information is displayed at either end of the screen. You can kind of see this in the picture on the left.

It's also quite easy to transfer .mid files onto the phone through a bluetooth connection from a PC. I got mine from vgmusic.com . Just be aware that you need to use small .mid as the more instruments in a piece make the sound much more distorted on the phone.

Images work in much the same way, you can pull them right off the images folder you see when you connect to your phone (Use the FTP setting).

This is probably the last you'll be hearing of this phone, as I'm going to use this phone for one thing, and one thing only in the future. My test bed for lowest common denominator for my Java games. More on that later.

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