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hi I'm Kent chairman senior managing editor her had seen it today were take a first look at the LG optimus regard this phone is definitely more in the mid-range to low-end category now that's not surprising considering it's come from cricket wireless it's got a pretty basic design not a lot of exciting features pretty affordable as well 229 that's without a contract so that's pretty fair it is also have LTE it's one of the few cricket phones to do so so that's pretty cool as I said pretty simple design for 3.5 inch display I found the screen a little cramped when I was using the phone dialer or when i was typing messages not so bad when you're just going through menus but personally i think i'd like something just a little bit bigger also don't expect your great screen resolution that's not really surprising considering it's a mid to low-end phone do you have a few home screens which you can populate it as an Ice Cream Sandwich phone of course you can populate the home screens with all the icons and features and shortcuts that you like and then if you go into the main menu pretty simple design you just see that it has those three pages you can customize as you like as well down below be the standard touch controls for getting to the menu also for going back and also for going to the home screen up on top you'll see there's a 3.5 millimeter headset jack along with a power control over in this side there's a volume rocker or in the micro USB charger port around back do have a camera lens for the 5 megapixel camera it's the main camera of course and then a flash and then up front above the screen is the VGA or actually at one point megapixel camera and that is also a sensor as well inside camera application is probably the most feature-rich thing we'll see on this phone had a lot of options one that I found particularly interesting was actually when you press the camera lens it will keep shooting photos until the shutter actually closes so what that does is it shows you up to six shots then you can actually choose which picture you like and save it so that was a nice thing they do have the audio camera shutter as well so when you say something you can say cheese you can say whiskey of all things and you can say kimchi the phone will actually or the shredder will actually close and you don't have to press a button otherwise we have a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core processor ram pretty well of course not particularly fast if you're used to something a lot speedier actually phone has two browsers it has the standard sir and a chrome browser Chrome browser is nice because you can sync the phone with the desktop or a tablet with your tabs with your bookmarks so that's kind of nice so about otherwise not particularly exciting phone some webpages especially full web pages like that I've seen in it or American Airlines took almost a minute to load apps took almost two or three minutes to download so if you really want a speedy phone that's going to cover a lot of places this is not for you what I really like about this phone is does have that LTE connection again one of the few cricket phones to do so it's relatively affordable within the 200 to 250 range that's without a contract you just want something entry level to mid range that is Ed easy to use provides relativity good performance the LG optimus regard is a great option I'm Kent Sherman here at cnet for the first look at the LG optimus regard for cricket