Data transfer, battery
Let’s star with the bad news: KF600 has no 3G. EDGE is the fastest data transfer standard supported. The browser’s menu includes the service called Yahoo! Go, which provides a kind of web presence for the user; it includes blog, photo, news and different Yahoo services. The browser can display HTML pages too, but the poor guy is quite desolate, it doesn’t know either screen rotation, or any kind of page optimization. Although the possibility to roam freely on websites (just like at the zoomed pictures) would have been given, the designers missed this one.
For local communication we can use Bluetooth 2.0 and USB with the same version number. The latter wants to use the content of the memory card as an external drive (and so does it see), but if we install the software from the included CD then we can sync the phonebook and the calendar with our PC.
The battery under the hood has some serious fights because of the dual-screen solution. This can be felt on its performance, in no case did it take it for more than two days, and moreover it went offline by surprise: one could have went to work happily (seeing that there are two marks from three have a strong presence on the charge-o-meter) just to be thrown back to the cruel, real world by the horrible view of a dark KF600 – that’s in case he didn’t throw the whole thing against the first wall he came across. (Based on a true story…)
Conclusion? The KF600 is the repository of missed opportunities. It looks astonishingly good, the menu is fascinating, its use is ingenious. On the first day I’ve been telling everybody that “look here man, what a phone this KF600 is, this is really something, we’ll just write a really wonderful article about it”, than I just had to observe that there are piles of useless feature, while a couple of important things are just simply not present. However there is an important thing left to be mentioned: this split-screen fun is absolutely brilliant; the path LG has stepped on is very good, only perfect functionality has to be added.
This way, however, KF 600 has become what is very characteristic of LG phones: precisely though-out fashion-gadget with loveable trifles, about which the customer has to decide in advance that how much these will disturb him or her. We still think that it’s:
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Translated by Szaszati
LG KF600 has been provided by XXL GSM. The device can be bought at:
Budapest VI. Jókai tér 6.
Budapest VI. Teréz körút 18.
On-line at www.xxlgsm.hu.
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