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LG KF700 Review
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LG KF700 Review
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Published on: 18 June, 2008 by PhoneArena Team
Performance:
No matter how many various features a phone has, its main purpose should be making calls with good sound quality. Regrettably, KF700’s performance was mediocre. The sound in the receiver varies (louder-quieter) and the voices are sharp and sometimes hard to understand. On the other end of the line the situation is better – the inconsistent sound quality is not present here and even though your voice is heard as somewhat monotonous, it is easy to understand.
The loudspeaker is useless, because you will not understand anything your collocutor is saying.
According to LG, KF700’s battery should provide 3 hours of talking or 14 days in a standby mode. Our tests proved those specifications with the phone giving up after a day and a half, including talking for over an hour, 30 minutes of surfing the Internet and wasting a lot of time with Thomsons & Touch. Nevertheless we feel that the battery is weak and do not recommend it to heavy talkers.
Conclusion:
Overall, we are disappointed by the KF700. The three different navigation modes promised, are basically inapplicable and you’ll have to use mainly the touch screen. All the other functions are average (except the good browser), and on top of that it has unattractive design.
However, when compared to the direct competition in the face of mid-level touch phones like Samsung F700 and F490, it performed very well and its interface is much more user-friendly.
If you still want to use the regular hardware keyboard, KF700 is just for you. If not, Viewty is a much better solution (at almost the same price) – you’ll get a better camera and great multimedia features.
The loudspeaker is useless, because you will not understand anything your collocutor is saying.
According to LG, KF700’s battery should provide 3 hours of talking or 14 days in a standby mode. Our tests proved those specifications with the phone giving up after a day and a half, including talking for over an hour, 30 minutes of surfing the Internet and wasting a lot of time with Thomsons & Touch. Nevertheless we feel that the battery is weak and do not recommend it to heavy talkers.
Conclusion:
Overall, we are disappointed by the KF700. The three different navigation modes promised, are basically inapplicable and you’ll have to use mainly the touch screen. All the other functions are average (except the good browser), and on top of that it has unattractive design.
However, when compared to the direct competition in the face of mid-level touch phones like Samsung F700 and F490, it performed very well and its interface is much more user-friendly.
If you still want to use the regular hardware keyboard, KF700 is just for you. If not, Viewty is a much better solution (at almost the same price) – you’ll get a better camera and great multimedia features.
Pros
- 3.0” touch display with great sensitivity
- A good web browser
Cons
- Mediocre sound quality during a talk
- Disappointing camera
- Average media players
- Unattractive design
PA rating 
- Good
- out of 10
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