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LG KE970 Shine review

2008-02-02 15:08:58

This is another well designed mobile phone from LG with sliding mechanism. The device has the dimensions of 98 x 51 x 14 mm and it weights 119g.

LG KE970 Shine

This sliding phone has on its upper part, bellow the screen, two keys and a scroller. These keys can be used for menu opening or for quick access to contacts and the scroller is used for moving through functions in the menu or opening those functions by pressing it. In the bottom there is a keyboard with standard keys.

The back of the phone can be opened by pressing one key and for SIM card inserting it isn't necessary to remove the battery. On the right side of the phone there are a few other keys, and charger and earphones slots.

On the bottom right, there is a video and photo recording key. Above it, there is an MP3 player shortcut key and above them two volume adjusting keys.

LG KE970 Shine It has a TFT screen (240x320). It works well in daylight, and while the phone is closed, the screen can be used as a mirror.

The menu is the same as on the other models of this series and it is very simple.

Every function is numerised so they can be activated by pressing the adequate number.

It has a 2 megapixel camera with resolution of 1600x1200 pixels and it has a number of photographic functions - quality settings, flashlight, counter and other.

The video camera can record in general or MMS mode with resolutions of 128x96 and 176x144.

Some of the multimedia functions on this phone are an MP3 player and voice recording. It has 50MB of internal memory and it can be expanded by microSD cards. The space for the card is located under the SIM card.

The address book can store up to 1000 contacts. With standard things like e-mail or web address, it is possible to add a certain sound or a photo to each contact. It also has an alarm clock, calendar, calculator, converter, stopwatch and it shows world time.

Shine supports Office documents - Word, Excel and PDF. All of the documents can be rotated so that, for example, recording with the camera can be done in landscape mode. It also has two games - Bubble Soccer and Fishing Mania. Connecting is enabled through USB cable, Bluetooth, GPRS and EDGE.
LG KE970 Shine

Shine is an excellently designed mobile phone, with a solid slide mechanism, and a number of useful applications. It is clear that it will attract a lot of users that want a nicely looking phone, with great things inside.

ADVANTAGES: design, multimedia
SHORTCOMINGS: memory