• LG KM900 Arena: Another iPhone Look-alike

    LG KM900 Arena: Another iPhone Look-alike

    Prasad Naik, May 22, 2009 1455 hrs IST

    A classy, feature-rich touchscreen phone

    Design and build, tons of feature, display quality (indoors), audio quality

    UI design needs a bit more polishing, occasional lagging and crashes, erratic auto UI orientation, display performance under sunlight, battery life

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The LG KM900 Arena has a 3.0" 16 M colour, 480 x 800 pixel WVGA capacitive touchscreen display. Compared to the size of the display, the resolution is enormous which gives it incredible pixel density. The display looks amazing indoors with bright sharp colours and superb brightness. The icons, wallpapers, videos and everything else looks brilliant on it. However take the phone outdoors under sunlight and you'll find hard too see what is there on the screen.

Similar to the LG phones we have reviewed in the past, the Arena display has poor sunlight legibility. What's worse is that the glossy display and the chrome reflect sunlight. This affects some aspects of the phone such as outdoor photography and GPS navigation.



The touch sensitivity of the display is excellent. Even the lightest of touch is registered and multi-touch gestures work fine as well.


 


UI & Applications



The Arena uses, what LG calls, the S-Class UI. It has been optimised for full finger based navigation and seems to be heavily inspired by the iPhone UI.







 



 




The Arena has four home screens, each with a different functionality. The first one allows you to have up to nine of your favourite apps as shortcut on the screen for quick access. The second one offers several widgets such as a calculator, weather, notes, etc. on the desktop screen. The third one allows you to put your favourite contacts on-screen for quickly calling or messaging them. The fourth one allows you to put 20 of your favourite music tracks and images on-screen.

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(7) Comments
Sri
,Pondy, on Mar 17, 2010 01:36 PM
Please anyone advise how to setup email in LG KM 900 Arena Mobile phone. I have a sify account.
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Eamon Holley
,Manama, Bahrain, on Jun 09, 2009 02:39 PM
I think you were too kind to this phone. It is practically unusable. I regret buying it and tell anyone I can not to. I should have splashed out the extra US160 and bought a new iphone. Problems - battery = 5 hrs max; typing - impossible; UI crashes and is clumsy; delays receipt of messages; syncing does not work - that's just what I can fit here. Utter rubbish - LG should be embarrassed.
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Aflatoon
,KOLKATA, on May 23, 2009 11:56 AM
Nagendra, Read the damn article. The first 2 pages are all about how it tries to imitate the iPhone but fails.
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nagendra
,delhi, on May 24, 2009 12:21 PM
Hey Aflatoon, I read the entire article.... and did not find any comparision with i phone except the passing remarks that the reviewers coworkers confused this phone with iphone... So i think you should first read the article and reply the queries..... by the way I did not ask u that... I was asking the opinion of an expert like Mr. Naik and not yours ... I was aware that few iphone fans will be offended with that comparison. That is why i was asking an objective opinion of an expert and not an subjective outburst of yours ...Take care...
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Prasad Naik
,Mumbai, on May 25, 2009 02:02 PM
Nagendra as a matter of fact I did mention in the review several times about the similarities of the Arena UI to the iPhone UI. If you go through the Interface section again, you'll notice it.
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naveenchaudhary
,meerut, on May 23, 2009 12:32 PM
lg, battery again...........failing in battery department. however they use good batteries in cdma phones.
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Nagendra
,Delhi, on May 23, 2009 07:54 AM
Nice Phone... good review Mr. Prasad. One thing i really wanted to know about this phone... i.e. how do you compare this LG Arena with iPhone? Is it justified to compare both these phones? I thought so because the S class UI of LG looks damn close to iphones's UI. What is your take? I know many iphone fans will not accept the comparison but I was really looking forward to your comparison (as an expert reviewer) of these two phones..
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