Sometimes you get to look at a phone and you can only really describe it as strange.  I’ve seen a lot of cell phones in my time–from huge boxy conglomerations to tiny communicators that Captain Kirk would have envied for their sheer capability.  And today I may have encountered one of the strangest cell phones to date–the LG Neon.

The LG Neon is a slider-style cell phone that includes tri-band capability, conference call capability, voice recorder, speakerphone, Bluetooth capability, TTY compatibility, a phone book with capacity for a thousand name and number entries, mobile email, mobile web, support for Java applications, AT&T Music, support for digital audio and video formats and downloadable content, a two megapixel camera, video recording with self-portrait mirror, alarm clock, calendar, basic calculator, conversion tools, stopwatch, and a battery capable of yielding three hours of talk time on a single charge.

Now, admittedly, that battery life is kind of short, but there are plenty of great tools and options here to help the value side of things.  But I said this was a strange one, and that shines through in the phone’s aesthetics.  I mean, LOOK at this thing!  It’s GREEN!  And not a nice deep green, either, but like a light electric lime green.  A greenish-yellow even.  And I’ve never seen a QWERTY keyboard that looks like that, either.  Not that it really gets in the way, but man, that color scheme is enough to put a fella off his lunch.

But still, the phone does have plenty to offer, and some other colors are available.  So this isn’t really a bad phone, but rather, just an odd one.

The Good

Plenty of features

Unique design

The Bad

Nauseating color scheme

Score: 7 / 10

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