LG Incite

“The Incite from LG is a mixed bag. It has some solid features, such as the camera and browsing speeds, but also has a lot of quirks. It is clear that LG is testing the water with this device. It has a lot more work to do to integrate its menus with that of Windows Mobile and make them more usable. The touch integration could be a lot better. Where the LG stuff is perfectly fine for touch, the WinMo software is not. The lack of an on-board stylus makes the Windows Mobile UI all the more difficult to use. Where the Incite excels at connectivity and messaging, it only rates satisfactory at things such as music playback, video capture and call quality. I'd chalk the Incite up to a nice experiment from LG, but would wait until the company takes another shot before jumping on the LG smartphone bandwagon. LG still has a bit of a growth curve to surmount.”

“In the end, the LG Incite is just too difficult to use. The phone is slow overall, and the display can only be used acceptably with a stylus. The fact that you have to tie the included stylus to the phone in order to keep it nearby, however, is unacceptable for a device that is so hard to use with fingers only. LG did a nice job with the Windows Mobile Today screen, and added an interesting finger scrolling system, but otherwise has failed to deliver the goods from a real world use perspective. In the end, we have to give the LG Incite a Not Recommended rating.”