Thread: LG KF900 Prada

The joint venture of LG and Prada seems to revive their wisdom and they have decided to really launch a mobile with QWERTY to improve the messaging and other powers of the phone. The LG KF900 Prada is not only the QWERTY, but more than that which makes this powerhouse a businessmen phone. The spacious phone is very much thumb or finger friendly as you touch the TFT touch-screen of 3 inches to command the gizmo.

The LG KF900 Prada is less slinky than the original phone designed by Prada and the features of the phone are sure to make some mark among the mobile users. The phone has high appeals of a chic design being a designer collaboration phone. Then it is solidly built, has Touch UI vastly improved, Multi-touch works, perfect web browsing, solid camera and video recording features, powerful and intelligence brain, and Wi-Fi technology.

But LG KF900 Prada may have complains from one section of people regarding its fiddly web browser, lack of built in GPS navigation, jack and other features. The phone could have been a better device had LG cared to improve it more with some better platform like Symbian or Windows in it.

The features of the Prada are –

KF900 is a 3G HSDPA equipped phone that supports GSM networks like 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900. It measures 104.5 x 54 x 16.8 mm, and has a TFT touchscreen of 3 inches with full QWERTY keypad. Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, card slot for 8GB memory, HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB port, SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging, 5 MP camera and secondary camera for videocall are some good features of KF900. The media player of Prada is enthralling for music lovers because it can play files like MP3/WAV/AAC/AAC+/WMA/RA/AMR/DivX/MPEG4. There is the document viewer but no editor. FM radio, photo/video editor are some other important attributes of LG KF900.

my ratings:

design: 4/5
features: 4.6/5
performance: according to various reviews: 4.5/5

Key features:

* 3-inch 262K-color capacitive touchscreen display of WQVGA resolution
* Comfortable QWERTY keyboard
* 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash
* D1 (720x480) resolution video recording at 30fps
* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
* Dual band 3G with HSDPA support
* Wi-Fi
* Responsive Flash-based interface with multi-touch support
* Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and USB v2.0
* Stylish and generous retail package
* microSD memory card slot (verified to work with 16GB cards)
* FM radio with RDS
* Accelerometer sensor for screen auto rotate
* TV-out
* Office document viewer
* DivX video support
* Fashion-related content preloaded

Main disadvantages:

* Two-year-old design
* The large waistline doesn't match the fashionable image (but is OK for a QWERTY messenger)
* Plastic build
* No GPS (LG Renoir has it)
* No XviD video support (LG Renoir has it)
* Multi-touch has rather limited use
* No Flash support in the web browser
* Video recording is a letdown
* High cost-to-features ratio (but OK for a premium fashion handset)

LG KF900 Prada review: Messenger wears Prada - GSMArena.com