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LG KS360 mobile phone

This portable phone is definitely a text heavy mobile phone for the mass market. Full QWERTY keyboards have always been a feature that has been reserved for smartphones, mainly for business, as the full QWERTY keyboard is perfect for long jobs of email and text messages. However, LG has come up with a mobile phone that gives you the messaging facility of a QWERTY keyboard but is more aimed at the strong market user. So how does a mass-market mobile phone with a QWERTY keyboard fare in our test?

First of all, the K360’s build superiority is astonishingly solid. For a deep market mobile phone, LG has managed to make the KS360 as solid as you’d expect from upper market mobile phones. The slider feat in no way felt flimsy while I was using it and it didn’t even feel like I was using it and it didn’t even feel like I was holding a cell phone model. As uncompromising as it is, the KS360 is also quite light for a mobile phone in its league, weighing in at 108 grams, which I guess is due to the lack of the best features normally expected from business mobile phones.

The mobile phone also comes with a rather large 2.4-inch 256K color screen that is perfect for viewing media, especially videos. However, as such, you don’t get a normal twelve-key keyboard, as the front of the mobile phone is taken up by the screen, two soft keys, navigation keys, call keys, the cancel key, and another key to open the digital keyboard.

Now you may be wondering how to dial as there is no twelve key pad in mobile phone. Frankly, dialing with the QWERTY keyboard is pretty ridiculous, but you shouldn’t worry too much about that as there is still a 12-key keyboard on the mobile phone, albeit a digital one.

As I said before, there is an entry to open the digital keyboard on the mobile phone and from there you can dial quite easily without resorting to the QWERTY keyboard. The best thing about this is that LG has made it so that you experience each button that is pressed through resistive vibrations. I found that there were virtually no errors in my dialing as LG didn’t make the finger tap feature very responsive.

The funny thing is that although the keyboard is touch, dialing is the only function that applies the touch function of the mobile phone. When you open the menu, you can’t really select the apps or options by touching them and instead have to rely on the navigation keys.

One definite thing that interested me was that the KS360 also gives you email functionalities. Typically, a mobile phone of this price point will lack email features, however, since the KS360 comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, the inclusion of email features should be expected.

You can easily set up your email accounts, including Gmail, although you’ll need the fancy details of your email servers and whatnot. However, I was disappointed with the basic WAP 2.0 browser of the mobile phone. Although the connectivity is limited to EDGE and GPRS, LG could have at least given us a better improved browser.

The KS360 mobile phone comes with a two-megapixel fixed-focus camera. Images taken with the mobile phone camera were surprisingly decent in good lighting conditions. In fact, better than I expected the result would be. Media playback on the mobile phone was also quite first-rate, with music and video played with decent sound and display quality. It was unfortunate that a 3.5mm audio jack was not added to the mobile phone as it would have made the mobile phone’s media playback features more enviable.

However, since it’s Bluetooth A2DP, you can still use stereo headphones. Also, although it was expandable up to 4 gigabytes via microSD, I still felt that the insufficient fifteen megabytes of memory in the mobile phone was rather stingy of LG. However, that’s a little exasperation he was willing to let go of.

In conclusion, I have to say that I was truly blown away by the KS360. LG has managed to create a mass market mobile phone that is perfect for the messaging market, which I think in Asia, part of the world, is quite large. At such a low price, the mobile phone is really affordable for almost everyone and, apart from the small drawbacks, I am pretty sure that users who are passionate about texting will quickly appreciate this wonderful mobile phone.