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Display
- 3 Inch TFT 262k Colour Touch Screen
(480 x 800 Pixels)
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Ringtones
- MP3 & Polyphonic Ringtones
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Network
- Tri Band Technology (GSM 900,
GSM 1800 & GSM 1900)
- HSDPA 2100
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Camera
- 5 Megapixel Camera
- Auto Focus
- Flash
- Camera Key
- Photo Album
- Second Camera
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Entertainment
- Java™ Games
- Downloadable Games
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Talk Time
- 4 Hours Talk Time
- 300 Hours Standby
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Video
- Video Record
- Video Player (MPEG4 & DivX)
- Video Gallery
- 3G Video Call
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Organiser
- Phone Book
- Calendar
- ClockM
- Alarm Clock
- Calculator
- Stopwatch
- Document Viewer
- Handsfree Speaker
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Weight & Size
- 105 g
- 105.9 x 55.3 x 12 mm
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Messaging
- SMS (Text Messaging)
- MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
- Email
- Instant Messaging
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Connectivity
- 3G HSDPA
- Wi-Fi®
- USB
- Bluetooth®
- EDGE
- GPRS
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Memory
- 8 Gbytes Memory
- MicroSD™ Memory Card
Support up to 16 Gbytes
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Sound
- Music Player (MP3 & AAC)
- FM Radio
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LG KM900 Arena looks so familiar to us, like the Renoir without its mechanical face keys and what we've seen of the Viewty II so far. Not even its brushed-steel trim and tempered glass screen can help the Arena look more than mediocre, especially with a few fingerprints smeared on the screen. Perhaps it's the steel-coloured plastic backplate that cheapens the overall aesthetic, or maybe it's just that we've seen too many phones like this recently - the Samsung Omnia springs immediately to mind.
Luckily, LG's new S-Class user interface looks anything but mediocre. It features four home screens that rotate on-screen like a virtual cube, showing media and contact shortcuts, as well as programs and widgets. Each home screen has its own colour scheme, lime green, sky blue, burnt orange, and purple. Together these screens make the Arena feel colourful and alive. Navigating the list of your favourite contacts or your saved images and videos is easy with a Rolodex-style rotating menu, which is responsive to finger gestures, but can get laggy when you fill your phone with music and photos for the menu to render.
The home screens keep your info segmented and easy to find, but the phone's main menu is a cluttered mess of icons - 32 shortcuts in all. Holding the phone vertically shows 16 of these, urging you to drag the lists to display the absent shortcuts, but holding the phone horizontally reveals them all, minus their titles. At first this menu appears confusing, but only until you figure out what the other icons are for, the big question is why are they all on show? Tools like "voice recorder", "Stopwatch" and "Message Settings" are all best left in a sub-category folder, accessible only when they are needed.
Whether you find this system attractive or not, it looks fantastic on the 3-inch WVGA (480x800) display. LG is pitching the Arena as its all-in-one multimedia phone, and the screen specs are a great start. Add to it a top-mounted 3.5mm headphone jack (a rarity on an LG handset) and match it with good media playback and you've got a media powerhouse.