LG KG800 Chocolate
At last, the long awaited upgrade for my cell phone. I decided on the LG KG800 for the simple reason that it’s so damn sexy and packs a mean punch.
First impression was the slim design, it fits really nicely into my pockets. The MP3 ringtones are just bliss and I’ve already loaded a whole bunch of custom ringtones I made myself. Funnily enough I thought I could load WAV files, but I think I’m getting the format wrong, because the phone doesn’t see them.
Functionality is quite simple with some nice shortcuts. I didn’t like the touch keys (yes, heat sensitive touch keys!) switching off so fast, so I upped the delay. I guess it takes some getting used to.
The LG KG800 has some excellent video (3GP) and camera (up to 1280 x 960 pixels) quality. I look forward to playing with that in future. It also has a voice memo recorder, MP3 player (with stereo headphones), link software with a data cable and much more. The nice thing is that with Windows XP you just plug it in and then you can see the phone as a storage device, enabling you to load almost anything on the cell phone. I’m not sure why it has a text folder, I guess you could load some text files on there if you’d like to do some reading, or made some notes for yourself…
You could also load some animated gifs as screensavers, which is pretty cool, plus associate 72×72 px pics with callers in your phonebook. The sound quality and ringtone volume is good, allthough allot of bass on loud ringtones tends to distort the loudspeaker. Speaking of which, I hoped that the phone would have an ‘in-call’ loudspeaker facility, but it seems not to have that function, which is a bummer. I can live without it though.
On the disk that comes with the phone there are lots more images and ringtones to load on the cell phone. I could however not get the phone connected through the software. I’ll keep on trying and see what works…
It comes standard with 128mb of memory, pretty nice for loading tones and taking video and pictures.
Cons: The only problem I have with the phone is the fact that the top keys on the keypad is close to the slider which makes typing text/sms a drag, but I guess it’s also something to get used to since I’ve only used it for a few hours…