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LG blends style with features in its slimline KG810.
 Charles F. Moreira
Slim is in for mobile phones and LG Electronics is certainly
on the slimming bandwagon with its LG KG810 clamshell measuring under 15mm deep
when folded.
It’s rich in lifestyle features, yet would be the perfect
companion in corporate boardrooms and feature-wise, the tri-band KG810 is a
foldable version of the LG KG800 Chocolate slider.
Design
It looks impressive with its satin-black inner surfaces and
back, a layer of protective clear, glossy plastic covering its front and main
screens and chrome trimming along the sides and top of its flip. Unfortunately
the glossy plastic reveals fingerprints and grease marks too obviously.
Its large 49.8mm, 176 x 220 pixels, 262K colours TFT screen
is very crisp and clear with vibrant colours, while it’s 96 x 96 pixels, 65K
colours front display is placed in the middle of its front cover.
The white numbers and letters on its large, tactile black
keys are easily seen, while the oversized numbers and letters displayed on its
screen, are visible to all but the blind.
Menu and other selections are made by pressing either its
upper-most left soft key or its round
“OK” button in the middle of its four-way navigation ring, and to go
back simply the button with the capital “C” below it’s navigation ring or press
its upper right key to do the same thing.
Its large hinge joining its two halves is solid, opens
closes smoothly and with some practice I could open and easily close it with
one hand.
Its 1.3MP CMOS camera situated on its front panel lets you
take pictures portrait style by pressing its OK button or in landscape style
with the phone held sideways and pressing the shutter release button on its
side, to the right of its navigation ring.
Feature
LG certainly has good taste, as it include eight artistic
bitmap and two animated GIF images as choices for the KG810’s main or front
screen wallpapers.
It has 30 x 64-channel polyphonic ringtones, including 20
for call and other alerts, 10 tones and 36 icons for picture (EMS)
messaging and ample 128MB shared internal memory for storing MP3/AAC music
files, images and pictures taken with its 1.3MP camera, which takes sharp and
clear pictures mainly under outdoors during the day.
Its 1,000 contact address book should be sufficient for most
businessmen. Besides the usual General, Silent, Outdoor, etc profiles, the
KG810 comes with an “Offline” profile or aircraft mode which turns off phone
part, so you can listen to your favourite MP3 or AAC songs, watch or record
videos, take pictures, play games, check your schedule, appointments, perform
calculations and unit conversions without interfering with the aircraft’s
delicate electronics.
Extras
Bluetooth 1.2 connectivity lets you transfer pictures and
music files between phones, and between phone and PC. It also has a USB port
but no infra-red nor expanded memory slot.
Java games are Zoo Zoo Club, similar to Bejewelled, except
that you switch faces of cute zoo animals, instead of jewels, to form a line
which disappears. The other is Sudoka, a 3 x 3 number matrix puzzle game.
It’s battery lasted about a week, mainly on standby but
began draining fast once I started testing it.
Overview
The LG KG810 is an ergonomic, easy-to-use, feature rich and
practical phone for most users, with great features like to please young and
old alike.
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