Review on a not so popular phone

Recently I bought a new phone - LG Viewty ( catchy catch line - view the next technology ). Why did I decide to write this review ? Well i think there is a lack of good indepth review about this phone out there so i just want to put my few cents worth for readers.
Firstly the big question. why am i a sucker to buy it. I am really really not sure. i think it is the fact that no one really wants to buy it. LG has been pushing this phone with lots of advertisement on paper and TV media. I have yet to come across 2 person having this phone now. I am highly curious why this is so because this phone boast the first 5 mega pixel phone with 120 frames per second video recording. This is definitely a first for camera phones.
So i guess curiosity kills a cat. If i do not lay my hands on one i would not be convinced that this is a lousy phone that no one wants it.
This phone cost SGD 838 dollars retail price off the shelve with no strings attached. But i signed a plan with Starhub and got this at SGD 338 dollars. And with the loyalty voucher i got from starhub it cost me 100 dollars less so i paid $238. And this phone was in promotion with Jeff Chang Concert tickets. I got a pair of tickets for free ( each worth SGD 90) so essentially i paid about $50 for this phone.
The packaging of this phone is superb. I have never seen a better packaging. LG actually bothers with the phone box and packaging. Each of the component comes with a nice sleek black box with nice silver font saying what is inside. The sevral small blackboxes snuggles nicely in the main box which is a hard cased cardboard box. Nice sleek. No complains. You get what you paid for ( for the packging at least)
The first thing that strikes me is not the phone. it is the little stylus that comes along with it. This stylus is like NO other stylus that you have seen in the market because it is retractable. And it retracts into a lip stick like cap. very very sleek but also very very " gu niang". My stylus is still in the box. come to think of it .. only LG dares to design a phone without a stylus slot. it is suppose to hang dangling off one corner of the phone as an accesory ! Cool and not cool.
ok come back to the phone functions. This phone lacks nothing. it has everything you would love to have so i will not go through the obvious. I will just highlight the touch screen. it is a good one. The LG icons are nice and the touch screen key pad comes with a vibration when you touch a button to simulate a "real" key pressing down. This is a pretty cool function. Sensitivity wise i would give it an average because the touch screen cant scroll that well but it works really well on button tapping.
The camera works like a beauty. Really the selling point. it comes with some funky photoshoot options like panaroma which produce a rather decent job. Video recording is easy to use as well.
It does take sometime to get use to tapping on a flat screen for messaging and dailing but it is just a phase that you need to go thru breaking into a phone.
One draw back about this phone perhaps is the phone's PC suite. it is not design by the best programmers in the world. It is a challenge to decipher how the designer want you to work with it. Highly not intuitive but then we get by. But for sure this is one area LG would like to improve on.
I will give this phone a 8/10 overall score. despite the intial irritating phase of gettng use to the phone touch screen and software. it is a beauty itself because everyday you discover one more function it can perform. little surprises that comes along.
The best thing i think is that not many has it. you can easily churn a topic when you bump into anyone by flashing your phone. simply a beauty.