Features
The handset brings no serious improvements in software, it has the menu system we’ve seen on KF510, which has now become completely stable and it’s still very easy to use. Of course there are some small tweaks, for example when pressing the clear key on the standby screen we get an interface where we can browse between the time/date display, the calendar and the image viewer – it looks like as if we were using widgets. When using the directional keys on the standby screen, we can instantly access the music player, the message editor, the profile selector and the favorites menu, where we can put our most frequently used applications. The wallpaper changes automatically when the appropriate theme is selected, the only permanent element is a small paper boat – a funny little feature.
We have two menu themes, they look almost the same, so this is not much customization. The main menu can be set to list or grid view; in the first case we have twelve menu items. The submenus are always displayed on a list, and just like on any other LG, we can use the horizontal direction keys to jump to the “neighboring” submenus in case we want to. The software speed is basically okay, but the fact is a fact: this is not the fastest LG I ever had for testing, I’ve been thinking that this might not be the final software version after all. Anyway, it could be faster, but it’s still okay to use.
The handset has 130 megabytes of onboard memory, so we won’t need to panic even if we forget to bring a memory card. The PIM functions are the usual ones, the calendar, which has only day and month views, can store 100 entries, which can have alarm times too. There is a notepad as well, here we can also store 100 notes, the maximum length is a joke: 80 characters, which is half an SMS. We can access the file browser (My Stuff) directly from the main menu, but we should check the Tools menu for the alarm clock, the calculator (with sinus/cosines calculation), the stopwatch, the unit- and currency converter and the quite good-looking world clock.
The phone supports Java applications, these are stored in one of the submenus of the Games & Apps menu in the top left corner. The applications folder is empty by default, but in the games section we can find a Sudoku and a lousy skateboard game. The M-Toy games collection is also here, this contains six mini-apps, which can be controlled with the gyroscope – by the way, we don’t many other programs which make use of this feature.
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