LG Chocolate BL40-Classy camera

Classy camera
The camera is a cut above those found on the likes of the iPhone. It's got a 5-megapixel resolution, autofocus and an LED flash. Shots taken in good light look pretty impressive by smart-phone standards, and there's a very cool panoramic mode in which the phone tells you where to point the lens for each shot in the panorama before automatically stitching the pictures together. The camera can also shoot video (30 frames per second at VGA resolution), and there's a neat little video editor on-board that you can use to knock your clips into shape. The LED flash isn't really strong enough to overcome the camera's poor low-light performance, though, so night shots tend to suffer pretty badly from digital noise.

Call quality was excellent during our test period and battery life was pretty much par for the course with a smart phone of this ilk, with the handset offering 6 hours of talk time. This means you can expect to have to charge it after about a day and a half's worth of normal usage.