LG KM900 Arena: Another iPhone Look-alike

LG KM900 Arena [Review]

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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EXPERT REVIEW

The LG KM900 Arena is one powerhouse of a handset, managing to incorporate almost everything that you can imagine in a mobile phone. A large capacitive touchscreen, 5 Megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, 8 GB built-in memory DivX/XviD playback, accelerometer, you name it, the Arena has got it. On top of that is LG's new touch interface, which they call the S-Class interface, and you have in your hands a complete all-round device. Well that's on paper at least. We got our hands on a proper retail unit of the Arena, well before its official release date sometime next month, and can now see whether it keeps its promise in real life as well.

Bundle

LG KM900 Arena
Battery
Charger
In-Ear Headset
USB Data Cable

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USER COMMENTS

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.

by Eamon Holley, Manama, Bahrain, on Jun 09, 2009 02:39 PM, Report abuse Reply

Nagendra, Read the damn article. The first 2 pages are all about how it tries to imitate the iPhone but fails.

by Aflatoon, KOLKATA, on May 23, 2009 11:56 AM, Report abuse Reply

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...

by nagendra, delhi, on May 24, 2009 12:21 PM, Report abuse

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.

by Prasad Naik, Mumbai, on May 25, 2009 02:02 PM, Report abuse

lg, battery again...........failing in battery department. however they use good batteries in cdma phones.

by naveenchaudhary, meerut, on May 23, 2009 12:32 PM, Report abuse Reply

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..

by Nagendra, Delhi, on May 23, 2009 07:54 AM, Report abuse Reply