LG KM900 Arena

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:19:30 +0000

LG KM900 Arena features a 3-inch capacitive TFT touchscreen with good resolution, attractive design and a bunch of multimedia features, and all that for a moderate price.

Overview:

LG KM900 Arena has excellent connectivity, 5 megapixel autofocus digital camera, support for movies in DivX and Xvid, smart dialing and MS Office document viewer right out of the box. Moreover, the phone has 8 GB of built in memory, standard 3.5 mm audio jack and FM radio.

LG KM900 Arena pros:
+ 5 megapixel autofocus camera with Schneider-Kreuznach optics
+ Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
+ USB Mass Storage
+ Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
+ Wi-Fi and GPS receiver with A-GPS
+ S-Class Touch UI
+ Accelerometer for screen auto rotate
+ Multi-touch input

LG KM900 Arena cons:
- Maximum email attachment size is 1MB only (incoming and outgoing)
- No standard USB port
- Poor sunlight legibility
- Poor flash performance
- No voice-guided GPS navigation software available
- Limited DivX/XviD video support
- Recording video in 3GP file format

The design:

LG KM900 Arena measures 105.9 x 55.3 x 12 mm and weighs 105 grams. Thanks to its metallic frame on the front of the LG phone the Arena looks very attractive. The front of the LG KM900 Arena is dominated by the 3”capacitive touchscreen display showing 16M colors and WVGA (480 x 800) resolution. The screen is bright and vivid and the general image quality is very good apart from the direct light performance where you can hardly see what’s on the screen. Above the display you can see the vide call camera and the earpiece, whereas below the screen are three touch-sensitive buttons. The right side of the LG KM900 Arena features the volume rocker and the dedicated camera key. The left side of the LG phone houses the USB port. On the top of the cell phone you can see the standard 3.5m audio jack, battery release button and the power key. The back of the LG KM900 Arena hosts the 5 megapixel Schneider-Kreuznach camera lens.

Performance:

LG KM900 Arena is supposed to work up to 300 hours in stand-by, or almost four hours of talking. Thanks to the fast CPU and 3D hardware accelerator the phone does not lag and shows smooth transitions between menus. The signal reception in in-call sound quality are very good as you might expect. The phone has 8 GB of built-in memory which you can still expand by using a microSD card. The phone supports up to 16 GB cards which would give you 24 GB of memory in your phone.
The messaging in LG KM900 Arena is seamless. The SMS and MMS share and editor and you get a second one for e-mail. Setting up an email is as easy as providing your address and password and he LG phone will do the rest for you. Unfortunately, the email attachments are limited to 1 MB for both incoming messages and outgoing ones. The phone also comes with a MS office document viewer right out of the box. Viewing documents is quite fast.

Multimedia:

LG KM900 Arena has a very good music player which allows you to sort tracks by artist, album, rating and genre. It also has several equalizer presets and although you cannot customize any of them you will most probably find one that suits you so that should not be an issue. The LG mobile phone also comes with FM radio which can store up to 50 radio stations. The audio quality is very good and so the phone can easily substitute a dedicated mp3 player.
The video player in LG KM900 Arena supports both XviD and DivX right out of the box, however it seems that not all the video files will run smoothly. If the do run you can change the speed of playing a film to 2x or 4x and besides that you get the standard set of options.
The 5 megapixel camera in LG KM900 Arena can take up to 2592×1944 images. The picture quality is not as good as you could get with the Olympus E-620, but still is is more than satisfactory.

Menus / ease of use:

Thanks to the use of capacitive touchscreen technology the LG KM900 Arena is very responsive and as the menus and the user interface are very well designed they make an impression on the phone user. LG introduces the so called Cube interface in their KM900 Arena. Each of the cube’s sides has a different homescreen and so you get one for messaging, one of your contacts, for shortcuts, or widgets. The interface looks well and it is very handy and customizable so you might want to have a look at it. The phone supports multitasking but only up to two applications at one time.
The phonebook in LG KM900 Arena has also been optimized in order to assure great usability with touchscreen and that’s indeed what you get. You can assign a picture to your contacts and they are displayed next to the contact’s name and you can scroll the contact list almost like on the iPhone.
Selected LG KM900 Arena features and specifications:
Styling

Scratch Resistant tempered glass

AMD Processor

Network

2G: GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 3G: HSDPA 2100

Formfactor

Touchscreen

Connectivity

Messaging

SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, IM

HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps

Bluetooth

WiFi

Wi-Fi 802.11b/g

USB

EDGE

Class 10

GPRS

Class 12

Screen Display

Size: TFT touchscreen, 16M colors.  Type: 480×800 px 3.0″, Flash UI

Memory

Internal memory: 8 GB  External Memory: MicroSD card slot up to 32 GB

Call Log

Dialled: 40, Recieved: 40, Missed: 40

Phonebook

Yes, Photocall

Additional

– Dolby Mobile - Document viewer (PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, GIF, JPG, TXT) - 3D S-CLASS UI - Google Search, YouTube and Google Blogs - Tactile Analogue Alarm Clock  - Radio Tuner  - TV Out - Widgets - HTML browser

Photo

5MP, autofocus, Face tracking, Image Stabilizer, ISO 800

Push to Talk

Touchscreen

3D Class UI

Video

Camcorder, D1 video recording, DVD-resolution, 120 fps Video Support: H.263, H264, MP4, WMV, ASF, AVI, DivX/Xvid,

Player

MP3 Music Player, Dolby Mobile surround sound, 3.5 mm audio jack Audio Support: MP3, AAC, AAC+, RA, WMA

Radio

FM Radio, Radio Tuner, in-built FM Transmitter

PDA

IMAP4, SMTP, POP3 protocols, Gmail

GPS

aGPS, geo tagging, Google Maps

Ringtones

Polyphonic (72-chord), MP3

Battery

Talk time
230.0 m
Standby time
300.0 h

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