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Review: LG Incite

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The Incite is packed with tons of extra software. We could write thousands of words worth of text about it all, but we won't. Here are a few that stood out for one reason or another.

Bluetooth

The Incite has support for both mono and stereo Bluetooth headsets. Pairing was no problem. Sound quality was on par with the Incite's general call quality, which is to say, not great. The Incite can also connect to other devices such as PCs and swap files back and forth.

Clock

The Incite's clock can be set to large or small analog, or large or small digital. Too bad you won't be using it as a watch replacement. If the Incite is locked, pressing the unlock key will open whatever the last screen you were on was and place an "unlock" button at the bottom of the screen. Press than, and you are taken to an unlocking screen, where you have to press another button. Neither of these screens shows you the time. In fact, once the phone is unlocked, you still won't be able to see the time until you go back to the Today screen. For shame, LG.

GPS

The Incite has GPS and AT&T's navigation software on board. It works, but it is slow. Considering the big push that network operators are giving GPS-based services, we expected better performance. Still, we were able to successfully route ourselves from point A to point B without any problems.

Stopwatch

This is the most useless application ever. It would be fine if the Incite's touch screen were responsive. Because you have to press and re-press the screen to get it to react, there's no such thing as timing things accurately. If you need to time something general, for like 5+ minutes, go for it. If you need to time something that requires accuracy down to the second, forget about it.

Weather

This has become a core piece of software in my life. Always being able to quickly find out what the weather is is key. The Incite has a nice little weather widget that can be customized for your location easily. It places a little graphical indication of what the weather is right on the home screen, with a little number telling you what the temperature is. If you want to see more than the current conditions, you can go into the weather app to get full forecasts and even see radar/satellite maps.

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