Data transfer, battery
LG Arena performs well in data transfer too. It supports all possible European network standards from GPRS to 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA. If this wouldn’t be enough, we can use WLAN as well, which has a medium sensitivity and supports WPA2 encryption. Of course this requires a browser as well, since the resolution will be enough to have a great experience.
The browser works in landscape as well, but it’s not perfect. The multitouch display comes in handy again, as we can zoom pages, which works okay, but a more complex website makes things slow down, and there’s no option like on Apple phones and Opera Mobile which makes a part of the webpage grow on a double-tap. Of course it still works, we can even watch YouTube videos without a problem, but there would have been room for some improvement.
Hirdetés
Locally we have stereo Bluetooth 2.0 and there’s a USB cable in the box, which can charge the handset from the PC. It won’t do anything else before we install the provided software, which includes a modem driver as well. Still, we can use the handset in USB Mass Storage mode without installing the software. Software updates can be done via the same application, there is a separate note about this in the manual, although I can’t guess if there will be a new software available.
Besides these we shouldn’t forget that the phone has a GPS receiver too, which locates our position very quickly, thanks to the AGPS technology, which uses cell information too. The phone has Google Maps installed, which requires internet connection it doesn’t support turn by turn navigation, and since Arena has a closed operating system, we can’t install iGO, Garmin, Sygic or any other software.
I think the battery is not enough for this amount of features. The high resolution screen consumes a lot of energy, and you just have to play around with the phone, so it won’t stay online for more than two days. We should forget about USB charging, it takes a lot of time, a wall plug is the ideal solution, as this way the battery is charged in two hours.
Summary. Should I write one? LG Arena is this year’s best phone until now, there’s no doubt about that. It’s not a cheap one, as it costs about 375 euros, but this includes everything that one could expect from a phone that has no open operating system. As a bonus we get a bleeding edge display and high quality materials, the best part being the S-Class menu system, which has more ideas and innovation than any other mobile communication device that has been launched since iPhone. It’s much, much better than the possible greatest rival, Samsung S8300.
LG grew up. They have learned so much about making phones in a couple of years, like Samsung did, starting a bit earlier. I don’t know who is in head of the KM900 Arena project at LG, but he should receive at least a worker of the year award. The phone surely gets one from us:
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Translated by Szaszati
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