BLG comes out with the new LG Ally. AKA the iron man 2 phone! The LG ally features a bright 3.2 inch, 400x800 capacitive touch screen display. Below the display, we have the two capacitive touch back and search buttons. For the physical buttons, we have the call receive, home, menu and the call end button. The call end button also functions as the sleep/wake and power on/off switch. When we slide out the keyboard, we have the back and search buttons on the left side just above the alt and shift keys. And the home and menu keys are where the send and end buttons would be on the right side of the slide out board.
The keyboard is very nice and very well designed. My first impression was none other than "oh my goodness". I thought I would have issues adjusting from the lg voyager's keyboard to the ally's keyboard. If you take a closer look, you will notice that the keys are very different. Instead of having two space buttons on either side of the keyboard, the space bar is conventional. Meaning that the keyboard you would find on the ally is the same on the us keyboard. Of course, the "alt" keys will be different, but the space bar will be in the middle (as people prefer it that way). I personally liked to use the voyager's keyboard better.
The lg ally is also not the fastest "snap dragon" droid, but it's decent. Its not something you will use to consistantly download movies or for the heavy user. No. The lg ally is just a decent phone for the "decent" user. If you are looking for a phone with an android os, but are not willing to spend more than $50, the lg ally is the phone for you... that is if you don't mind having a somewhat slow or laggy phone. But once you got the phone going, the laggieness stops.
By lagginess, I mean when you slide the phone open to use the QWERTY keyboard. The phone will take a little bit to realize what its got to do, but that's ok. It won't kill you unless you consistently need a phone to realize it as soon as you slide it open or whatever. Ok. That wasn't professional, but who cares right? I'm a 17 year old hs student who is bored and is at a local winco's on a... Tuesday night. Whatever.
The overal design of this phone is amazing. Amazing keyboard, amazing display, nice features and affordable. But what makes the lg ally not attractive? Because of the fact that the lg ally is portrayed with iron man, the phone is thought to be fast and powerful. But it isn't. In reality, its just another decent phone. Marketing right? That's how they get you. But that's ok too. Another thing wrong with this phone is the battery life. It doesn't have the best battery ever... oh wait, yes it does!! Its because I'm a heavy user on this phone. Hahaha. Plus I download lots of apps so that may lead to the weak battery.
Ratings
Design: 4
Preformance: 3
Daily use: 5
Overall score: 12 out of 15
Would I recommend this phone? Depends on the user. If you need a fast phone, and if you hate lag of any kind... the ally is not the phone for you. If you don't mind some lag, and you want a decent android os phone for a decent price of $50 (after $100 mail in rebate), then yes. The ally is for you!
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