Exterior
We would not like to make irresponsible statements, but I think it’s quite probable that LG had huge stocks of black and silver lacquered plastics, as Prada II is not the first handset to be made of such materials. Besides the predecessor KS20 also looks like this, which is otherwise one of the cheapest Windows Mobile combo handset on the market, which tells a lot about what kind of materials have been used to make. Of course I can’t say that the subject of our review is ultra-low quality, but it’s quite weak for this price, the Prada logo on the front looks really strange…
The new phone got quite fat compared to its predecessor. Its size is 104.5 x 54 x 16.8 mm (compared to the original Prada’s size of 98.8 x 54 x 12 mm), it weighs exactly 130 grams, so it has no chance to win the award for being ultra-compact – and otherwise, it’s not small even for a model with a QWERTY keyboard. It’s not advised to keep it in the pocket of our jeans, it’s impossible in a shirt’s pocket, although it might just fit in a Prada coat. The front is just like on the KE850: a large display with a black border surrounding it. Okay, the basic “accessories” are here, there is a speaker on top besides the secondary camera used for video calls, while on the bottom there are three buttons. The display has a diagonal of 3”m a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels, so we won’t get anything new in this matter.
The back is minimalist just like the other parts, practically the only noteworthy part is the 5 megapixel camera. Since it’s an LG model, the lens is from Schneider-Kreuznach, there is a very faint label painted on the plastic part telling this. The part that can be taken off is rather large and it comes off very easily, so if we put the handset in our pocket upside down and want to take it out, it might happen that the piece of plastic comes off.
On the top there is the charger/headset connector, of course it’s again a proprietary LG connector, there’s no sign of microUSB. On the right there is the microSD slot and three buttons: keypad lock, favorites menu and camera shoot key. On the bottom there is the mic, while on the left there are the volume control keys and the hook for the wristband.
The most interesting part is of course the 39-key QWERTY keyboard appearing after sliding the phone open. The engineers did a great job with this, the keys have an appropriate size and pressure point in order to allow fast and comfortable typing, the backlight is completely uniform, it looks really cool in the dark. The only problem is with the layout, for example there is no exclamation mark, we can’t even access it with shift or secondary mode, which is strange since we can type every kind of parenthesis we can imagine.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
