LG Launches its First Touch-Screen, QWERTY Mobile – The KS360
LG is appearing to be embracing the touch-screen mobile phone more than any of the other manufacturers, with handsets such as the LG Viewty and the LG Renoir KC910. The newest member of its touch-screen family, the KS360, has a feature that the other LG models do not possess, namely a full, slide out QWERTY keyboard.
This handset is clearly being targeted at the texting generation, rather than the business user and is available in a choice of vibrant and funky contrasting colours such as black and red, white and soft pink and titanium and bright blue.
Impressively, this handset remains slim and lightweight, despite its QWERTY keyboard, so on the face of it the KS360 appears to be a triumph for LG.
However, there is a negative. Not only does this handset not possess HSDPA but it is also without 3G. This is disappointing for a newly launched phone and may be a big disappointment for its target customer. The speed to load webpages is frustratingly slow, downloads and even worse. For a web browsing experience this handset takes you back to the dark ages!
The 2MP camera could also be improved. Whilst being functional it will not blow you way. Oddly when you use the camera there is no zoom. However switch to video and zoom becomes available. There is also no flash.
LG have therefore made a phone of contrasts. Its touch-screen and QWERT keyboard make it a groundbreaking handset for LG, but it is sadly let down by the lack of 3G, which this phone is crying out for. This handset may therefore only appeal to texters who are not really interested in web browsing.