LG ARENA KM900 Review
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The messages menu has been through some major changes. Getting in takes you right to incoming messages, grouped by date. A button at the top sends you into your outbox, your sent messages folder or drafts and… Oh, My! You can read all messages sent to or by a specific contact in threaded mode. It seems LG has finally paid attention to what customers demand. You can directly reply to an incoming message from your inbox and there´s a separate button to get down to typing away a response. You also have a nice icon that lets you attach a file in a snap. It´s located at the bottom to you right and it does come in really handy.
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You can read all messages sent to or by a specific contact in threaded mode on the LG ARENA KM900 | ||||
Setting up your email account is easy, especially if you happen to use any of the mainstream email providers like Gmail, Yahoo etc., since the settings are preloaded onto the phone. Unfortunately this doesn´t hold true when it comes to personal email servers like ours, but let´s not forget that such specific cases are hard to handle and save a few specialized business devices like BlackBerry, not many phones have such a function. The good news is the LG ARENA KM900 supports Microsoft Exchange server sync of emails, contacts and calendar.
All these cool things would´ve been wasted if the keypad was below par. Fortunately it´s up to the task even if all buttons are a bit smaller than we hoped they would be, especially if you´re intent on using both your hands to type.
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QWERTY keyboard |
Connectivity:
So, let´s start up with the things we dislike. Despite the LG ARENA KM900 is quad-band GSM and therefore usable all over the world, its 3G functionality is only suitable for Europe and Asia. If you happen to be on another continent, you better search for a hotspot and use Wi-Fi to attain to higher bandwidth.
The built-in browser is really good, although it needs some finishing touches if it´s to pose a threat to the Apple´s mobile Safari. Multi-touch is used to zoom in on things, pretty much the same way as on the iPhone and even if less smooth, it´s far better than the implementation on PRADA II. Actually, it´s exactly speed and fast response that the browser needs in order to catch up with the market leader. The other issue we encountered was that text formatting failed to properly adjust itself to the zoom level and we often ended up with hyperlinks lapping over the page content. Apparently we would have to wait a bit longer for the LG ARENA KM900 to edge the iPhone out of its number one position on the web surfing phone top list. Let´s now take a look at how the ARENA handles multimedia and find the answer to the question “Is the Apple´s marvelous device still the best for music and video buffs?”
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The built-in browser of LG ARENA KM900 is really good | |
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7 Comments
1. McMillian posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:55 0 0
I want this phone so bad!!!! does anyone know if it's coming to America?
3. jhonch posted on 01 May 2009, 13:27 0 0
Sorry, i found ithttp://manualfile.net/lg-km900-arena.html
4. benjack posted on 16 Jul 2009, 10:24 0 0
I bought the phone a month ago or so, and I sent it back one week later because it was so bad that it was almost not usable. The interface is a copy of the iphone, and it is packed with features, but most work badly. A few examples : - in the music player, when you sort by album, it actually sorts by artist name - even with the autofocus, the pictures are blured - you cannot play a youtube video trough the wifi, you have to be connected to the internet trough you phone company - the web browser is so bad that you basically cannot click on links, buttons, or select boxes - and the worst of all, one day it refused to make a phone call saying that this feature was not implemented in the current firmware!!!
5. kronos1 posted on 22 Oct 2009, 17:02 0 0
Superb phone...extra voice clarity in phone conversations very good camera, had no issues with it...it is 5 months in my possession and so far so good.
6. Le (unregistered) posted on 03 Nov 2010, 19:06 0 0
Which is better: Lg Arena or Omnia 2 /Omnia Lite??
I want to buy one, but I don't know yet.
7. sa (unregistered) posted on 29 Sep 2011, 18:53 0 0
it did well for about six months, but then it went all wierd. it turns off all the time for no reason, and doesnt store many messages at all. now everytime i take a photo or go to look at the photos it turns off. also when i plug it into the computer it disconnnects itself, and the battery life is painfully short.
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