LG KS360

LG will soon offer a new handset for UK’s mobile users, the KS360, a fairly unremarkable looking phone at first glance, looks like a pretty standard slider phone when you first see it. But the unique selling proposition here is that the slide-out keypad has a full QWERTY arrangement rather than a standard number pad.

The KS360, with 102 x 51 x 17mm in size, has horizontal 2.4-inch screen and 240 x 320 pixel screen resolution, and underneath which is the slide-out QWERTY keyboard and the host of other keys and peripheral ports.LG KS360 is targeted towards youngsters who mostly use their mobile phones for texting, emailing and social networking.

The keyboard on the KS360 is interesting for a couple of reasons. On the positive side, the key spacing is very good which should help when composing messages. On the negative side, the layout is a little more creative than usual - the space bar is where the V and B keys usually are, so the bottom row of keys is split.

The new LG also comes with an accelerometer as well as the following features: tri-band GSM connectivity (900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE, a 2 Megapixel camera with fixed focus and video recording, Music player with support for MP3, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC+, FM Radio, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, MMS capabilities, WAP browser, Instant Messaging, email (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP and Microsoft Exchange), USB, only 15MB of internal memory and microSD card support for up to 4GB.




specifications :

General 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced 2008, July
Status Available. Released 2008, July
Size Dimensions 101.5 x 51 x 16.8 mm
Weight 108 g
Display Type TFT, 256K colors
Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches
- Touch Screen Dialling
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Downloadable themes
Sound Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
Memory Phonebook 1000 entries, Photocall
Call records 30 dialed, 30 received, 30 missed calls
Internal 15 MB
Card slot microSD (TransFlash) up to 4GB, buy memory
Data GPRS Yes
HSCSD No
EDGE Yes
3G No
WLAN No
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0
Camera Primary 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels
Video Yes
Secondary No
Features Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio FM radio
Games Yes
Colors Black and red, Black and silver, White and soft pink, Titanium and bright blue
GPS No
Java Yes, MIDP 2.0
- MP3 player
- MPEG-4 player
- Photo/video editor
- Voice memo
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 800 mAh
Stand-by Up to 430 h
Talk time Up to 5 h