A detailed review of the touchscreen phone LG KP500

The mobile device LG KP500 is a model from LG, with the help of which the company is trying to bring the masses to the fashion for touch devices. The phone was created in such a way in order to reduce the cost of the final product to the maximum, which made it affordable for a wide range of consumers.

LG KP500 design

Now the device can be purchased in 4 body colors (Cookie Black, Anodizing Silver, Elegant Gold, Vandyke Brown).

Case LG KP500

The body of the device is made of velvety and soft-touch plastic, which is not very resistant to various mechanical damages. As a result, the phone must be used carefully. Only the battery cover has a smooth surface. The body itself creaks a little when squeezed in the hand.

In general, the build quality is not bad, they were made to fit well, but their strength remains a mystery. The weight for such a device came out to be minimal, it is only 87 grams. The advantage of the sensor device is the thickness of the case (11.9 mm). The dimensions are quite common for such phones (106.5x55.4x11.9 mm). In the pocket of your trousers, the phone fits easily and without problems.

Display LG KP500

Almost the entire panel on the front side is occupied by a TFT screen with a resolution of 240x400 pixels, and has the ability to reproduce up to 262K colors. The display sensitivity is good, but because of the program after pressing, the reaction is late by about half a second. Perhaps the purpose of this delay is to eliminate erroneous clicks. For fans of speed dialing, this is not a very pleasant moment, since the moment is not regulated in the settings.

There is also a built-in accelerometer, which is responsible for changing the screen orientation in various applications, which is very convenient when typing, as it is very convenient when the display is horizontal. In the horizontal orientation, a virtual computer co-avatar is opened to the user.

The phone screen simultaneously displays up to 8 lines of text, and three with service messages. You can operate the functions with your fingers and stylus. For a better experience when using the phone, you can select different vibration feedback options when you touch the screen. Sound effects are also configured.

The diagonal of the screen perfectly matches the resolution, the interface elements and text are of a decent size, easy to read even at arm's length. There are no problems with viewing angles. An excellent screen for a device in its price range.

Housing elements and keys LG KP500

In addition to the large display on the front panel of the LG KP500 phone, three medium-sized buttons are located at the very bottom.

In addition to the large display, there are three keys on the front panel. The distance between them and their shape make it comfortable to work with the phone. The key on the right edge is used to end a call and to turn the phone on / off.

The key on the left is used to initiate a call, and the key in the center is used to enter the applications menu.

On the left side there is a USB connector, which is covered with a plastic cover. This multi-connector is specially designed for LG. It is intended for charging the device, headset and connecting to a computer.

The volume control button is located a little lower, it has optimal dimensions, but its location is not entirely successful. The ergonomics of the device could have been improved by swapping the universal jack and volume key.

On the right side there is a slot for installing memory cards covered with a flap, as well as a camera key protruding slightly above the surface (which greatly simplifies the work), and a lock button.

At the bottom there is a notch for the stylus.In this device, the location of the stylus is rather unusual, since the stylus is taken out to the side, and not as usual down or up. This may not seem very convenient for experienced users. Whoever comes across a stylus for the first time will be quite pleased. Whatever it was, but it is much more convenient than those cases when there is no specially designated place for this device. The stylus itself is metal, its length in the unfolded position is 75 millimeters.

At the top there is a strap loop.

There is a small microphone hole on the bottom edge.

The rear panel houses a 3-megapixel camera lens, no flash, and an external antenna jack. The main part of the back of the phone is occupied by the battery cover.

Performance LG KP500

Communications

The phone has that necessary minimum of communications, which allows you to satisfy a larger number of consumers and reduce the price of the final product, removing all unnecessary.

The phone works in GSM networks, supports GPRS Class 10. Bluetooth 2.1 module is supported by EDR and main profiles. There are no problems with communication with other Bluetooth devices, as well as no problems with data exchange.

Data transfer in both directions is carried out using the USB 2.0 interface. The latter, in turn, works quite quickly. When connecting the machine to a computer, there are three modes of operation. The first one presents the phone as a removable disk, phone memory and memory card are available without additional installation of drivers. The second mode of PC Suite synchronizes data, and the last one - PC Internet uses the mobile phone as an external cellular modem.

Camera

The camera is simple 3 megapixels, there is no flash. You can control the camera settings using the touch interface. Settings items are arranged in columns, and the settings themselves pop up on the screen.

Camera settings and icons in the menu are easy to recognize, so there is no need to follow the instructions. The camera itself is launched in an instant by holding the camera button on the right side, and thanks to the size of the icons, camera control is possible without using a stylus.

The quality of the photos taken with the LG KP500 leaves much to be desired, and even with ideal lighting, the pictures are average, to put it mildly. But with macro, things are generally bad. Examples of snapshots show what a potential user should expect:

The camera of the device shoots video with a resolution of 320x240 pixels in 3GP format. The menu system of the camcorder is similar to that of the camera. The quality of the video also cannot be praised.

Memory and memory cards

The phone has 49 MB of memory for use and 24 MB for system data, of which about 15 MB is free.

The memory card slot expands the available memory. There is a possibility of hot card change. There are no problems with the operation of 8 GB memory cards.

Performance

Evaluation of performance: the speed of the graphical interface and programs pleases. Java MIDP 2.0 is supported to help you evaluate Java and processor performance using JBenchmark programs. Note that Java applications work beautifully. The presence of multitasking allows you to run several applications at the same time, and some of them run in the background. Java 3D support is a big positive for this budget model.

It can be seen that the performance of the LG KP500 is quite high, in some points it surpasses the performance of its competitors, which are much more expensive.

Menu

At the top of the main screen there is a service line showing the state of the phone. If you click on it, you can get information about the battery charge level, memory status, here you can activate the player, change the profile, turn on Bluetooth. At the bottom of the screen there is a panel for quick launch of applications, which cannot be customized for yourself.Here you can find only what you need - telephone keypad, message menu, virtual keyboard, main menu icon.

Interestingly, you can drag the necessary widgets to the main screen using the stylus.

There are seven widgets in total, you cannot change their number. Although this is basically enough, since they are the most needed (notes, calendar, MP3 player, etc.)

This phone has a second main screen, just slide the stylus from right to left, or vice versa, across the surface of the screen.

You can use photos of your favorite contacts as widgets on the home screen. This is great for speed dialing. The main menu and submenus are presented in the form of lists.

The main menu contains four tabs (entertainment, communications, settings, tools). They are located vertically on the right side.

Each menu item looks like a matrix of 2x4 icons. The submenu looks like a vertical list.

The dimensions of the menu items allow you to control the device with your fingers, those who do not accept this option can use the stylus. The phone menu is very fast. It is more convenient to use a stylus to scroll through pages, because scrolling on the panel does not always work correctly.

Phone book and messages

"Speed dial". This is an opportunity to place selected 9 numbers in cells for speed dialing.

"Contacts". You can save up to 1000 contacts.

"Call history". Up to 40 contacts are saved in the general list of missed, outgoing and incoming calls.

"A new message". Here you can select both handwriting input and, turning the device over to a horizontal position, use the QWERTY keyboard.

New email message ". Regular e-mail. The size of each letter is limited to 1 MB.

"Messages". The phone memory stores 500 text messages. There are 10 templates and a set of emoticons. The size of MMS cannot be more than 300 Kb.

Entertainment

"Gallery". Here you can see lists of all videos and images. The transfer of images for printing and sending via e-mail and Bluetooth or message is provided.

"My folders". File manager that works with both the memory card and the device's memory. It can be used to copy, move, delete or transfer files. You can create other folders and name them.

"Camera", "Video camera". Everything is simple and convenient here. We have already mentioned this above.

"Muvee studio". An application in which you can create clips from pictures, for this use the music.

"Music". Player, plays files in AAC, MP3, AAC + and WMA formats. There is an opportunity to sort compositions, as well as create playlists.

"Radio". It is required to connect a headset that acts as an antenna. You can tune up to 50 radio stations, the sound quality is decent.

"Games / app". This is where Java applications reside.

Instruments

"Reviewer". Internet browser displaying regular pages. The application works in two positions (horizontal and vertical).

"Organizer". Calendar that you can view events for a certain period of time. You can create up to 500 events.

"Alarm clock". 5 variants of the alarm clock are configurable, different times are set, with repetitions and a sound signal. Here you can create a note.

"Dictaphone". Recording without time limit. There are three recording qualities.

"Drawing panel". Ability to draw on the display and save drawings in the phone memory.

"Instruments". It contains world time, stopwatch, converter and calculator.

Settings

"Profiles". There are seven profiles in the phone, each is customizable. Each of them can be given a name, adjust the volume and type of signal.

"Screen settings". Ability to choose wallpaper, customize font and backlight duration.

"Phone settings". Standard features for this subclause.

Call settings. Call control, call counters and data transfer size.

"Sensor settings".Customizable sound effects and vibration feedback that accompanies touches of the touch screen.

"Bluetooth". Turns this unit on and off.

"Compound". Internet access settings.

Entering text

The device can enter text using five methods.

The first way is the usual "keyboard". Nothing mediocre, the usual keyboard of a mobile device.

The second way is the "full screen keyboard". It is very handy when typing.

The third way is "handwriting input". Can be entered anywhere on the screen.

The fourth is the "double entry window". It is necessary to write in a special area of the display.

The fifth is the "handwriting input box". Similar to the fourth, only the input area on the display is slightly modified.

All these options are equally good in both English and Russian. Before entering, you must set the desired language.

Outcomes

The LG KP500 mobile device is a pretty good model if we take into account the price-quality ratio. The battery charge lasts for three days with autonomous operation, which is very good. The connection quality is at a high level, the interface is excellent. The signal volume is sufficient for most users. The functionality of the phone, if we take into account its cost, can also be called excellent. This is a really good and inexpensive model.