Review: LG Fathom
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The LG Fathom runs the latest version of Internet Explorer Mobile, which is an equivalent of IE6. Because of its heritage, some sites, like Facebook, will get nasty with you and tell you to upgrade to a new browser as they've dropped official support for IE6, but most sites work just fine. I could view CNN and the New York Times in their full desktop layout without reverting to their mobile format.
Navigating pages in Internet Explorer could be herky jerky. The touchscreen made swiping around pages a chore. Sometimes kinetic scrolling made pages sail by, sometimes they came to a crawling stop. Often, I would try to scroll and accidentally plant my finger on a link, which caused the new page to open. On the other hand, sometimes tapping did not work at all. Even though I got a haptic, vibrating response from the phone and a visual cue from the browser, nothing would happen when I hit a link.
I wish the keyboard was more accomodating for Web browsers. In both the on-screen, software keyboard and the sliding hardware keys, key symbols are hidden under the function key. If you want so much as a period, let alone an @ symbol, you have to press twice.
Customize
There are a few themes and even some new features to customize Windows Mobile. Themes change the color of the device, and there are a good number on board for a variety of color schemes. You can remove the new fangled Windows Phone Today layout for an old school screen, and then you can add notifications and widget-like features to the older look. You can also rearrange the Start menu apps easily, a feature that was been lacking in older builds of WinMo 6.5. You can change what the buttons do, assign different sounds to a large number of very specific events, and fine tune your wired and wireless connections. If anything, Windows Mobile might offer too many customization options, when you dig deeper into the system. Like with Windows, experienced users can tweak to their hearts content, but novice users might get confused, especially when something goes wrong.
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LG Fathom
