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LG Thrill and Twitter Review

Check out my video review here or click on the picture of the phone.

By: Carlissa Robinson

This week I am reviewing the LG Thrill. Now this phone is anything but ideal in terms of height. It’s what I call a surfboard, due to its eyesore length, at 5.07 inches. But what I call a surfboard, phone companies describe as candy bar form (a bit of exaggeration on their end). The LCD display follows suite to the dimensions of the phone, at 4.3 inches.  While the display is a bit on the larger side, it would suit the visually impaired just fine. On the plus side, the width is reasonable, at nearly half an inch.

The coolest feature on the LG Thrill is the 3D capability, the latest craze in smartphones. You can watch, record, and play back videos in high definition 3D, all without actually wearing 3D glasses! The weight is just a tad above average, at 5.9 ounces. While standby (idle) time is 13 days , a day of talk time will only give you six hours to gossip. That’s not even half of a day! There’s so much to cover in the course of twenty-four hours. But if you’re used to smartphones, you most likely have a car charger, a work wall charger/USB cord to plug in while your boss isn’t looking, and anytime charger for your daily outings.

The internal memory enables room for 8000 megabytes. There are  1000 megabytes in a gigabyte so that’s 8 gigabytes of memory, like your standard flash drive. With that kind of space you won’t need a SD card unless you have a ton of songs you want to listen to or assign to contacts. An overall grade for this phone would be a B-. It’s acceptable, I guess.

The app of the week is Twitter. Now Twitter may be the pinnacle of change for the younger generation, but everyone should get involved. Tweets are statuses of 140 characters or less that Twitter users post to let the world know how was their day or what are they currently doing. Twitpics are pictures uploaded to Twitter. The Twittersphere is the Twitter universe of users and their acts. While Twittter may seem irrelevant to older generations, it is the newest way that professions like journalism are evolving in a unique light. Nowadays professionals use Twitter for things like self-promotion and breaking news. While business is just one way to utilize Twitter, fellow Twits, or Twitter users also mention popular topics like global issues that trend and that can affect change when Twits unify and become the voice of change.