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hey guys jon rettinger from technobuffalo here they full review for you of the LG expo for AT&T Wireless this phone is going to run you 199 you may see commercials of this device all around touting its pico projecting ability however I was unable to get a projector of attachment to show you provider 18t or LG so we're going to focus on just the phone itself surrounding windows mobile 6.5 or Windows Phone it's got a 3.2 inch resistive display which has a resolution of 480 x 800 I can show 16 million colors it's got a 1500 milliamp hour battery which is more than substantial to get through a day with heavy usage weighs about four points for six ounces and that only has 512 megabytes of internal memory but of course you can expand that up to 16 via microSD card what makes this fun unique because it's one of the few on the market that's running the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor meaning it's got a full gigahertz powering it windows mobile or windows mobile 6.5 here is a bit of a resource hog so you don't see the speed as much on the Expos you do want other Snapdragon devices like for example the nexus one so before you get into all the software and finish talk about the hardware let's talk about how this thing works as a phone that's always sort of the first point that I mentioned when I do a phone review I can tell you that from a phone sim point phone call quality was quite good I heard no white noise or static on Mayan colors for no whites always are static on there and able to pick up a signal very strongly some areas where another test of ice that might only have two or three bars of 3g this would pick up four or five so the radio that LG put in here is very strong and that's important if you're infringe 3g areas or fringe edge areas we really want to make sure that the strongest device possible to get whatever exception you may be able to so if using is just the phone you're going to not be disappointed so the touch screen here in this case e 3.2 inch resistive screen as a bit squishier than i would have liked those you don't know resistive touchscreens work by making contact between two pieces of film that's why it sometimes up squishy filled with this one much squish sure there were nearly I found on some touchscreen devices not the biggest fan of these green here so it does come with a stock build of windows mobile 6.5 it also comes to sort of an LG skin which I've got right here you've seen windows mobile 6.5 plenty of times you can pull up an LG menu icon and you can scroll through these rotating menu see it to where you want to go you also from the home screen have access to this cube which you can scroll through you can add some favorites scroll back and you can go right to your picture of you so you can customize these ads you one that's really the extent of the LG skin from another hardware perspective there isn't a physical d-pad yet this fingerprint reader right there which serves as security for the device but also if you want to go up and down or left to right that will take care of it from the rest of the hardware buttons you only have a send an end key and a back button on the left side you've got just your volume rocker on the right you've got a lock button and a camera button and your microSD card which does remove the battery to to get to which is quite nice is externally accessible on the back you have a 5 megapixel sensor with LED flash the picture quality was actually really impressive on the expo very impressive on the top you've got your power and your lock button and god you're charging port notice missing from here a 3.5 millimeter headset jack that is done via and adapter unfortunately and it's locked but on that side can be programmed to be any sort of key that you like so one of the other advantages of the LG expo is the slide-out keyboard that's sort of a big thing for a lot of people when you solve a screen reorient itself here the keyboard on first blush felt very nice nor I used it through the gradually my opinion changed join your fingers overseas you can hear this it's noise the keys make when you move it but almost feels like you're crumpling a piece of plastic and that noise I didn't think it's going to bother me but became quite annoying as you type on this for a little while the keys are flat with no space between them so it's a little bit hard to feel where you're typing the keyboard is by no means bad it's certainly better than having saying imperfect on-screen keyboard but certainly not the best as far as a tMT's offerings you can look at save their HD HTC touch pro2 which has a much better physical keyboard probably one of the best on the market so this one is its average best definitely usable if you require a physical keyboard you won't be disappointed but be aware of that no way does can get a little lighter playing music on it so overall the phone was good but not great average not fantastic throw your run-of-the-mill windows mobile phones if you need windows mobile if you need to exchange connectivity and some of the openness that the platform provides it have to be disappointed if you're looking for a fun smartphone for for apps and playing games this is not going to be the phone for you so really it's going to come down to which market you are and which phone suits you best and I guys hope you enjoy a short review of the LG expo for 18t wireless i'm jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo and i'll see you the next video bye-bye