LG Cookie Pep review

With every passing day, there's a new price war and that too in between the budget segment of touchscreen mobile phones being launched in the mass market.

Samsung successfully demonstrated this with its Corby series touchscreen phones and now LG and other brand names have also joined the bandwagon. LG has introduced LG Cookie Pep GD510 (aka LG Pop) in India, which is LG's first touchscreen device to enter the low-end price bracket of the market.

At first glance, the LG Cookie Pep is aesthetically pleasing due to its classy outer-casing while its decent weight and shape make it comfortable to hold and carry around in your pocket.

LG Cookie Pep is targeted at the young mobile phone users which promises to deliver one touch social networking experience and fun applications with its virtually frameless 7.62 cm full touchscreen interface. The LG Cookie Pep device is designed to offer all the essentials in communication, multimedia and entertainment in a delightfully compact form.

The 3-inch, 240x400 pixel resistive touchscreen covers the whole front of the Cookie Pep, with only a single button in the bottom right corner. This button changes functionality, depending on what you're doing. For example, when your phone rings, it turns green and acts as the call answer button. When you're on a call, it turns red to indicate a call end button. When you're not on a call, it's the menu button.

On the specs front, LG Cookie Pep comes equipped with a 3 megapixel camera and an MP3 Player. With one touch smart key, the device is pepped up with 3 way homescreen and Fun UI. Preloaded with SNS widget, LG Cookie Pep offers one touch social networking for the instant access of FaceBook, MySpace, Orkut, Youtube, Picassa and Twitter.

The LG Cookie Pep GD510 features a 3.2 megapixel camera that takes good quality images which are easily viewed on the 3-inch display. Switching between images can be done with a neat flick of the phone.

A lack of flash however makes bright light essential or photos become dull and colour drained. The camera also doubles up as a video camera allowing video recording and playback.

Simple layout and mixing of songs, decent music quality and a 3.5mm headphone jack complete the LG Pep's respectable media package.

The LG Cookie Pep comes preloaded with 42MB of internal memory and it offers up to 8GB Micro SD card support for external memory slot.

Small details are what make this phone attractive for people not serious about all the bells and whistles.

Examples include the ability to change background with a quick swipe across the home screen, and the easy drag and drop adding of icons or recent media to the home screen. LG even offers (at a cost) a solar battery cover for environmentally friendly, if slow, charging.

However, once the novelty of these clever touches wear off, the LG Pep becomes little more than a low end mobile.

On the connectivity front, LG Cookie Pep is well equipped with GPRS, EDGE (Class 12), USP, WAP, JAVA and Bluetooth. However, connectivity is fairly limited, with only EDGE to keep data chugging over.

The LG Cookie Pep GD510 also falls dramatically short in the area LG claims it simplifies - everyday use.

The touchscreen's design and small size makes the phone hard to navigate even for those with ordinary sized fingers. The lack of a much needed stylus is pure laziness on LG's part.

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