Sometimes mobile phone manufacturers twist the truth. Sometimes they bend it. Sometimes they get it in one of those arm-behind-the-back locks that really hurt. Other times they just plain lie. And LG have dropped an absolute stinker on us today. With this sentence… wait for it, because you’ll like this… seriously, it’s impressive… “The stunning LG GT500 Puccini is a slim yet feature-packed touchscreen phone that will revolutionise the way you think about mobile communications.”
Now then. There’s several things we’re not going to dispute here about the LG GT500 Puccini. Firstly, “stunning.” Well, actually, it’s not. But it’s not bad looking either, so we’ll let that one go. “Slim.” Here we’ll agree. Not the slimmest, but at 12mm it’s certainly not obese. “…yet featured packed.” Again, we’re at arm bending ever so slightly back in a direction it’s not supposed to here, but it does have a lot of features that aren’t half bad (5MP camera with lots of cool add-ons, high-speed internet access, GPS, etc.) so we’ll let them have that too. Here’s where it gets tricky though: “…that will revolutionise the way you think about mobile communications.”
Right. So this phone will revolutionise, will absolutely turn on its head, turn inside out, upset, challenge, provoke and completely alter how you think about the entire mobile communication industry. Erm, it won’t. We’ve learnt all about this phone, seen it in action, read all the specs, read them again, read them a third time really slowly just in case we missed something, and we can categorially tell you that we have not experienced a revolution in how we think about mobile communications. To be honest, we didn’t even spin round once in our spinny office. We just nodded, thought that the GT500 Puccini (released very soon on T-Mobile only) was a pretty average phone that, as long as you can pick it up cheaply, would not be a bad choice really. Bearded Cuban men or angry Iranian people start revolutions. Sometimes, when something as startling as the first iPhone comes along, you might just about be able to squeeze the word revolution into a sentence. This is not one of those times. Shame on you, LG press release writers! Check out a less angry LG Puccini review here, where we promise the words revolution, cataclysmic, world-ending, tectonic or even brilliant are used.
