LG A290

Overview

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LG A290 is a bar phone that was announced and released by LG in February 2012 with the tag-line “Have Fun Three Fold”. It is a 2G phone with network operating frequencies of GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and triple Mini-SIM with triple Standby. It has a SIM switching hard key for the sole purpose of switching between all three SIMs. The phone has a dimension of 113.5x51x12.95 (LxBxH)mm and weight of 93gms. It has a 2.2-inch TFT LCD display of resolution 176x220, colors display of 262K and 128ppi pixel density. The phone comes in a pack with accessories such as Battery, Charger, Stereo Ear Microphone, User Manual and Data CD. It has a 1500mAh Li-Ion battery with Talk-time of up to 23.5 hours at PCL 15 and Stand-by time of up to 882 hours at PP9.

LG A290 has a phonebook memory of up to 1000 entries, message memory of up to 600, a dynamic E-mail storage capacity and internal memory size of 18.9MB. It has an external memory support of microSD card of up to 2GB. For your personal convenience, it has Alarm clock, World clock, Stop watch, Calculator, Calendar, a To-do List, Notes and a Unit and Currency Converter. It has polyphonic as well as MP3 alert tones and even has a vibration option in case of stealth. It also has a loudspeaker and a 3.5mm jack. The music player has an equalizer with No Style, Pop and Rock options with audio formats of MP3, AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC, AMR-NB and WMA. It has a voice recorder, FM with recording capability which can even play on speakerphone. You can send SMS, MMS, E-Mail(POP3, IMAP, SMTP) and group SMS to maximum 20 numbers in both English and Hindi language. For connectivity, it has a Class 12 GPRS of 32-48kbps speed, modem enabled, Bluetooth of v2.1 with A2DP, EDR, v2.0 microUSB, MIDP 2.1 Java and WAP 2.0 browser. It has a LG Proprietary Operating System with a MTK6253 GPU.

1.3MP CMOS rear camera with fixed focus, 4x Digital zoom, numerous shot modes, different white balance types, a great number of color effects and a lot of ways to edit that captured image. The camera can also play QCIF videos with 4x zoom, 30fps QCIF playback and 15fps QCIF recording capability. As extra features, it has regional languages(a lot of), Anti-theft Mobile Tracker, photo editor, schedule power ON/OFF, call black list, call time reminder, cost save mode, SIM budget, fake call, embedded games, embedded apps, torch light, phone suite, handset theme, editable short-cut key, call conversation recording, USB charging and mass storage mode and Flight mode.