LG Renoir Review

LG Renoir Review

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Published on: 17 October, 2008 by PhoneArena Team

LG Renoir Review

Today, we'll take a look at Renoir KC910, which is the latest entry in the line. As a successor to the Viewty, it is a powerful multimedia device with a top-shelf camera, hence named after the famous French artist. In addition to the high-quality video DivX codec, we now have XviD support. The features now include Wi-Fi and GPS as well...

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Renoir is 150x better that Pixon...but when $@# people are reviewing we cant do anything................
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oh my god in this review you said this software like pixon ,you mean the same software gow its not good and pixon is very fast and very excelent
i think its bad review from you and you are not judge
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LG does not really convincing phone!
Varna is good!
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If i didnt know any better id think this 'review' was a comparison between the Renior and the pixon. It is very biased towards the pixon.
Im still gunna get the Renior tho, a Xenon flash is 10x better than a shitty little LED one.. pffft!

GO RENIOR! :-D
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I did the rating calculation for this phone it should be 8/10

If you notice the calculation for Pixon is 9/10 which is (wrong) it should be the same 8/10
that really means this site love samsung and hate LG..
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Had it 4 days, mixed opinions. Texting tricky on screen but getting better with practice. Had 10 years practice on "button" phones, 4 days on touch screen.
Video problems. Plays some divx files, rejects some. Same with xvid. Don't know why yet. Should really play any divx/xvid as it says it supports them.

Video camera, audio and video out of sync. Makes it useless for any decent movie shots.

Orange have changed appearance of home screen and logos. Removed GPS Maps in favour of their, chargeable and not operational yet, "Orange Maps" They too have added 5 non deletable bookmarks. The built in browser i found very difficult to click on any link, repeatedly poking at the screen with nothing happening. And the press-hold to zoom percentage seems completely random, unless i haven't figured it out. I've installed Opera Mini instead.

Camera seems good, though does not save straight to memory card, despite setting it to do so in Memory Manager and Camera Settings.

PC suite software is terrible. Best to change usb settings to Mass storage mode and add files by drag & drop.

On the whole it's a pretty cool phone, just the niggling details, i'm going to stick with it. Maybe there will be updates to help the lack of full divx/xvid support. Anyone else tried changing their divx files to suit it, i.e. audio codecs or bit rates/video resoulutions?
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Use ImToo 3GP converter > avi (divx) for files it can't paly.
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Hello All,

I am writing from South East Asia and currently using a Renoir as part of my 2 week evaluation for LG in my country. After this 2 weeks, I will be entitled to purchase the phone at a steep discount off the MSRP. Let me be upfront and state that I do not have a competing set, Pixon or Innov8 from Samsung to compare the Renoir to. In my last 1 week of using the Renoir, I can report an overall positive experience with it. There are several areas that the phone falls short in, namely in the user friendliness of the UI. However, for a high tech device such as this, it is an acceptable compromise. It fits my usage to a T as I do not demand a full fledged WinMobile phone and the basic function set is adequate for everyday work and play.

Let me get to the point to say that this review is biased against the Renoir and I can say in no uncertain terms that my own experience with the phone is 90% positive. For a more unbiased review, I would head over to GSM Arena instead. I for one, will definitely be buying this phone.
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In my point of view Im 100% sure that samsung paid you money to let this phone down. [2]
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Reviews these days are getting more and more bias. Better off trying the phone yourself and make the decision. Never trust what others says until you really get your hands on it. That is the way with touchscreen phone!!!
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I have found this phone to be much better in almost all respects to my Viewty, I think this review by phonearena is contrived.
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Well I'm upgrading my N95 in jan' 09. My choices have been narrowed down to three phones, the LG renoir, samsung pixon and the samsung omnia. After reading the above review I thought "Well that's the LG off my list, that narrows it down!" but then I read the user reviews and find myself back to the start again. Out of the three phones mentioned, which would you advise me to go for. All advise welcome as I'm totally stuck! Thanks.
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