LG Optimus GT540 Smartphone Launched : Features Android 1.6 OS

LG today announced the launch of its second Android-powered smartphone, LG Optimus GT540 Smartphone in India, an advance handset that offers an optimal environment for first-time smartphone users with easy and convenient 3.0-inch HVGA 262K color capable Touchscren display.

The LG Optimus GT540 smartphone announced in June 2010, is powered by Android v1.6 with LG’s custom S-Class User Interface and offers a series of apps from news and weather apps, to games apps, Google Mail, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Search and favourite social networking apps including Facebook, Bebo and Twitter.

The new LG Optimus GT540 smartphone allows users to enjoy diverse Android applications and automatic account synchronisation with all Google mobile services. LG Optimus also features enhanced social networking functions in a high-powered multimedia environment. The smartphone comes loaded with Social Networking Manager (Linkbook) application allowing Real time SNS updates, and features Real-Time Push Email and offers POP3 and iMAP support.

LG Optimus GT540 smartphone delivers smartphone benefits in a convenient Google internet package. LG Optimus GT540 smartphone also offers SN Manager that provides integrated access to social networking sites in a convenient platform that can manage multiple accounts. The LG Optimus GT540 smartphone handset’s multitasking feature allows users to view updates from friends and access their social media sites while simultaneously searching the phone’s contact list.

Featuring a fully customizable user interface, the LG Optimus GT540 smartphone can be easily customised to show anywhere from three to seven home screens displaying frequently used applications, news and weather, among other information, depending on user preference.

The new LG Optimus GT540 smartphone also includes high-powered advanced media player that allows users to watch DivX and Xvid videos directly without separate encoding and browsing multimedia files is especially enjoyable with the 3D thumbnail gallery.

The LG Optimus GT540 smartphone features a powerful 3.15 megapixel camera with 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution and supporting geo-tagging, auto face-tagging and face-to-action technology to allow users to create and share multimedia content from the phone.

For data connectivity, LG Optimus GT540 smartphone offers GPRS Class-10, Class 10, 236.8 kbps, 3G HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi LAN and Bluetooth 2.1+ A2DP wireless connectivity in addition to microUSB 2.0 port connection for wired connectivity. Other features of LG Optimus GT540 includes stereo FM radio with RDS, 3.5mm audio out port, GPS receiver with A-GPS support and Google Maps 3.0 preloaded, JAVA MIDP 2.0 support.

The LG Optimus GT540 phone includes a long-lasting 1500mAh battery allowing upto 5 hours of talk time on 2G and 7 hours on 3G with upto 500 hrs of standby time on 2G and 3G networks. The LG Optimus GT540 Smartphone is already available in India in Black, White and Pink colors with one year warranty.