LG Optimus Pro C660

The LG Optimus Pro performs exactly where it should – with the excellent portrait physical QWERTY keyboard, which makes it a messaging machine. It also offers a fairly large for the form factor 2.8” screen that comes in handy when browsing or snooping on your social networking status. These offset the small nuisances like uninspiring black plastic design, fairly thick frame, and the low screen resolution. The biggest drawback however, is the lousy pictures and video, as if the 3MP camera is of the lowest quality LG could secure from suppliers. Still, on the multimedia end the handset surprises pleasantly with good video codec support, and playback of DivX/Xvid videos up to 720x480 definitions. The LG Optimus Pro is an affordable low-key alternative to some basic BlackBerries from the Curve series, for example, mainly because it is running Android, which enhances its functionality with the numerous apps in Android Market, plus its fairly large display. As far as the Optimus Pro’s own category of low-end physical portrait QWERTY phones with Android goes, you can have a look at the Samsung Galaxy Y Pro , which is lighter and thinner, but has a less comfortable keyboard than the LG phone.