LG KF600 Venus Contract Deals
A Slider Touchscreen That Will Definitely Turn Heads
Just like the Roman goddess it was named for, the LG KF600 Venus is a stunningly beautiful mobile phone. It has the elegance that seem inherent in most slide phones but with a major difference – it’s a touchscreen phone as well. And not only a touchscreen, it has the unique InteractPad, which makes up the touch sensitive keypad and changes function according to the features of the mobile that you’re using at the moment.
Although it wins points for style, you may be wondering why a touchscreen phone would be sliding out to reveal another keypad at all, wouldn’t that be redundant? Nay, says ardent touchscreen phone users, who love touchscreen phones but find it impossible to create text messages, or even dial, with ease. LG then addresses a major complaint about touchscreen phones, making the Venus competitive with the Apple iPhone and LG’s own Viewty.
The LG KF600 Venus is a dual screen phone, with a vertical screen above the touch-sensitive horizontal screen which serves as the InteractPad. If you turn the phone on its side, the screens follow suit and you can use the phone on landscape mode. Both screens are TFT and have 262,000 colours. It also comes with several gorgeous themes for wallpaper, interface icons and the rest of the menu.
Even with these spiffy features, the LG Venus cannot really be called a gadget phone, by any means. It is not a 3G phone, although surfing the web is not a problem as it has Web 2.0 and EDGE. The 3 megapixel camera is not as good as other camera phones with 5 megapixels, but at least it has a landscape viewfinder, which is great for the video recorder, and xenon flash, although you’ll have to switch it on at night or in poor lighting, as it’s not automatic like the Viewty. The music player does not have as many cool features as on other phones, but it plays music continuously even if you need to use your phone for other things such as web browsing or composing and sending a text message. Additionally, it is enabled to support a Bluetooth headset – which you’ll have to purchase separately, and allows a whopping 8 GB MicroSD memory card to store thousands of songs. So, here you have standard features found on any mid- to high-level phone, but not at the higher level you would expect on a touchscreen phone.
Still, the LG Venus is a large improvement on features and usability than most of LG’s phones, especially the Shine and the Chocolate. The Venus is a much better looker, too. It’s not a superslim phone but it’s not clunky either, despite being a slider. At 101 mm tall, 51 mm wide and 14 mm thick, it’s a pretty lightweight phone at only 107 grams. It comes in a range of glossy colours, from elegant black to red and pink, with a silver trim around the sides. It may even be the best of the pretty LG mobile phones so far… after the Viewty, of course.
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