LG PRADA KE850 Phone Review

What can be said about the appearance of the Prada phone is “style and sheer style”. This is not the smallest phone, but it is slim and is conveniently handled and conveniently carried in the pocket. When you hold it in your hand, when you use it or talk on it, you stand out in the crowd immediately. It is different from anything else that is currently on the market. The only thing that does not appeal to us is the battery lid. The small play, although typical for most phones, is illogical for this one.

Model	Dimension (Inches)	Dimension (MM)	Weight (OZ)	Weight (Gramms)
LG PRADA	3.9" x 2.1" x 0.47"	99 x 54 x 12	3,0	85
Apple iPhone	4.5" x 2.4" x 0.5"	115 x 61 x 11.6	4,8	135
Samsung SGH-F700	4.1" x 2.0" x 0.6"	104 x 50 x 16.4	?	?
Motorola RAZR V3	3.9" x 2.08" x 0.5"	98 x 53 x 13.9	3,4	95

Made entirely of plastic, this phone is much lighter than the iPhone, as well as smaller in volume. Samsung’s F700 is much bigger, but it makes up with its QWERTY keyboard and its 5-megapixel camera. The Prada phone is so small, it’s even smaller than the original RAZR when closed!

As was already mentioned, the main feature of the Prada phone is its display, representing its face and used to control the device. It is 2.95 inches and its resolution is 240х400 pixels. The resolution is different form the standard 240х320 resolution, because the phone is higher (or broader, if you turn it round) and therefore the ratio between its sides is changed: it is close to 16:9. It is touch-sensitive, so that it allows you to control the phone and to do all necessary operations, but it is only sensitive when touched by hand. Just like LG Chocolate’s touch-sensitive control buttons, it is activated by the electricity running on your skin and it does not react when touched with something else (whether a pen, pointer, etc.). Naturally, the whole software is adjusted so that it is conveniently pressed with your finger. It is sensitive and it reacts quickly, which is a good improvement, compared to the keyboards using that technology (the above-mentioned Chocolate), where pressing with your fingers does not always do the job. After you’ve used this display for a few days, you get accustomed to it and you can write on it (using the screen keyboard) just as fast as if you were using a normal keyboard. However, the inconvenience is that there is no tactile response here: you press on the smooth glass, which does not move at all. Samsung uses vibration instead of the tactile feedback for their keyboards, which is a clever solution.

What is strange is that it is sensitive even when touched through a light fabric or even through the case from the kit! This means that you could easily activate it when you carry it in your pocket and therefore you should always carry the phone ‘locked’.

The display’s resolution is big enough for its physical size with small pixels, resulting in detailed images. The colors are saturated and realistic, the contrast is good. Our only criticism concerns the brightness, which, even when it is at 100%, is still mediocre, compared to most high-end contemporary phones. If you choose the black-and-white Prada theme, you’ll have difficulties reading the display in direct light. The black color turns into a mirror and you do not see anything. You’ll be more successful with the colorful themes, but even then you can't tell that the screen is too bright.

There are three buttons under the display: answer/reject and Clear. The first two are necessary, because, during conversation the display is not sensitive (otherwise it would reacted by the touch of your face) and therefore, you should be able to end the call without having to ‘unlock’ the phone, which is done by an especially dedicated side button. However, we do not see any point in the Clear button, which in all cases dubs the software button. Maybe the idea is to ensure more convenient use, but for us this does not make sense.









On the left-hand side are the volume rocker and the profile shortcut, as well as the slot for the charger/sub cable, covered with a protective cover. To the right are the button, locking the display and the mp3/camera shortcut. The two sides, the upper and the lower part and the three front buttons are made in metallic glassy color, very contrasting on the black surface. The side buttons are felt weakly and are easily pressed. Of all the keys, only the answer/reject keys are backlit in red.









You will find the camera module on the back panel, with the same contrasting silvery finish. We find this to be the only ugly feature of the Prada phone! It looks like a patch on the left-hand side (not even in the center, to make it more symmetrical). There is also a small ‘mirror’ here, the camera lens and the LED flash. Underneath it says that this is a 2.0 megapixels camera, using Schenider Kreuznach lens.





In the lower part the LG logo is positioned, but is not as visible as the PRADA logo, located in the upper part of the front panel. The phone is advertised as a „PRADA Phone”, rather than as “LG PRADA”.






The fact that the microSD cards slot is located under the battery lid, next to the sim cards slot, is not very pleasing. You have to remove the battery itself, in order to reach it, which makes replacing the memory cards inconvenient.