Perhaps you aren’t a big screen fan of big smartphones. The LG has you covered with a bright 4″ screen protected by Gorilla Glass.

While consumers are wrapped up in smartphone numbers and screen size, the LG Lucid, a 4G LTE phone on Verizon Wireless is a nice package for a little price  (online discount 5/24 of $80 on a 2-year contract).

The small phone slips into a pocket. A metal band around the phone and a metal power switch give the low priced phone an expensive feel. It’s thin and easily fits in small hands.

Colors are rendered naturally for photos, a much more pleasing experience for viewing photos than the much more expensive Motorola RAZR.  And again,  ignoring the screen size race, 480 x 800 resolution is great for text on Android 2.x.

The higher the screen resolution, the smaller text is rendered on a phone. For me, I am just as happy with a lower resolution phone if it renders color well, is bright and handles font sizes well.

By default, LG places a dialing widget off the home screen to the right.  An Android addition I haven’t seen on a phone to date, but handy to swipe and dial, and swipe back to home. There are four docked icons at the bottom of the screen that can be customized and show notification counts for email and messages.

The 5 megapixel camera does a good job as does the front facing camera.

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