LG’s new S-Class UI is on board with its multi-touch capabilities and funky 3D like animations for certain navigation functions. The UI to be quite sluggish. Every time it is opened Gallery section of the music player or pretty much any option that contained media files it took at least 7-8 seconds to open up and show the files. The normal keypad is not bad but could have been better laid out and the same goes for the landscape QWERTY mode.
While the UI does have some pretty impressive features, even the multi-touch for pinch control is not immediately responsive. With handsets like the iPhone it’s an on the spot workable function but the Viewty is about a second behind. Touch response on the whole was a bit off and there didn’t seem to be a calibration option I could easily find. The Accelerometer is super sensitive. It’s smooth, yes, but a little over the top. People who have used the handset to were not sure how to hold the phone as even a slight tilt would keep switching between landscape and portrait.
Some of the images taken with the camera showed up in the wrong mode as well i.e. if you take a picture in landscape it would only show up correctly when you hold the phone in portrait and when changed the orientation the image would flip over to its side, so you have to edit these images by rotating them.
When held in landscape, the menu icons change orientation and gives you a full view of all the options. The silliest thing is that only the main menu (not the desktops or submenus) changes, so if you select an option you’ll have to flip the handset back to portrait to do anything else. An accelerometer that changes the menu orientation should do it for all menus and sub-systems instead of having users switch from one orientation to the other all the time.
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