LG KF510 Mobile Phone

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LG KF510 mobile phone - Slim slider with touch pad operation

Introduction

In a price breakdown between 146th - and 299th - € (cell phone without a contract) is the LG KF510. The buyer, which is a comfortable, even visually very nobly acting mobile phone searches, receive an ultra flat slider with an interesting look. EDGE is also on board as a 3-MP camera is available. The operation via touch panel is becoming increasingly popular. LG also gets the buyer a radio with various functions and a Music-/Mediaplayer with many features. We were now curious to see how the KF510 in practice test suggests.

Processing

Favorably positioned speaker


Side Controls


Battery compartment cover made of metal


Back of LG KF510 Mobile Phone


Stable Slider Mechanism

Processing Feature
1. First optical impression / special features to support the designs: Very elegant and noble looking slider.

2. Housing Material / Surface Quality: Plastic, glass with chrome and metal elements.

3. Housing Dimensions: With a weight of 110 grams and the dimensions of 104.5 x 49.5 x 10.9 mm, the phone can be easily integrated into the jacket pocket disappear.

4. Quality of the keys: Plastic keys with smooth soft and very good pressure point; addition InteractPad - Touch screen - box with very good response.

5. Goodness (sharpness / resolution) of the display: 2.2 TFT display with 262,144 colors and a resolution of 320x240 pixels. Very good color and clarity of presentation.

6. Implementation of the folding or sliding mechanism: Stable sliding mechanism that even after frequent buck up and get no game.

7. Quality of the battery compartment lid: The battery compartment cover made of metal is easy to open, close and sits perfectly fit.

8. The quality and extent of the supplied accessories: USB cable, software, user manual, stereo earphones, charger.

9. Conclusion processing: Edel and quality seems to us than the KF510 chic companion. With its size fits the phone still well in the pocket. The KF 510 shows on the display 262,144 colors, sharp and clear images. With sturdy slider mechanism and accurate battery compartment cover, the mobile phone comes in addition. The supplied accessories are priced according to class.

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Business Feature
1. Supported networks: Triband, GSM: 900, 1800, 1900.

2. Data: Bluetooth 2.0, EDGE Class 10.

3. Voice quality when the speaker: At max. Volume is the voice playback clearly overrides, at normal volume levels is the playback quality properly, votes may well be understood.

4. Battery life (with normal use): Max. 3 to 4 days.

5. Storage options contacts: Name, phone, home, office, email, fax, group: no group, family, friends, colleagues, VIP, Group 1, Group 2; Ringing, anniversary: on / off; photo, notes.

6. Profiles: Generally, silently, only to vibrate, loud, headset, all profiles can be edited on its own and needs to be.

7. Calendar settings: New date: the date, time from / to, alarm: no alarm, time, 15 minutes beforehand, 30 minutes before 1 hour before 1 day before, 3 days in advance; subject Repeat: Once, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, annually; Go to date; beginning of this week: Monday or Sunday, 100 calendar entries possible.

8. Notes function: 100 notes per 80 characters, send message, Bluetooth, email, symbol; T9 settings: on / off; 22 input languages; T9 word add 80 characters per note are definitely too little.

9. Built in voice recorder (dictaphone): Memory: phone or memory card, recording mode: General (unlimited) or MMS (30 sec), pause, stop, forward, rewind; album; use as ringer, contact Ringing, Sending MMS, Bluetooth, email, file: rename, move into folders, on telephone / card; file info: name, size, date, time, type, copyright, new folder, Mark / Mark repeal: delete, copy, move, delete all; Sort by: Date, Type, Name; The playback sounds quite natural. The low noise in the background hardly bothers here. Competitors cut much worse from here.

10. E-mail functionality: POP3, SMTP, IMAP4 possible. Very fast downloading of emails. Even if you look at the account settings from the network directly to mobile phone downloads, is the process for setting quite cumbersome, since the account settings need to be individually entered.

11. Internet functionality: The display Web pages can properly play. While the KF510 emails very fast downloads, the waiting time during loading of Web pages a bit longer. Good: Even sites with complex structure are clearly presented.

12. PC synchronization: The data and the accompanying software are included. Installing the software takes very little time. Outlook records are easily transferred.

13. Further features: Alarm clock, calculator, stopwatch, calculator, world time, 2 games (mini-game world and Sudoku).

14. Conclusion: With the transfer with Bluetooth works KF510 quite rapidly. EDGE is on board, but still takes the connection and the presentation of the pages a bit longer than other edge mobile phones. The voice quality is pleasant and only minimally covered is also rushing to play quite freely. The duration of the batteries amounts to 3-4 days. Storage for contacts and ability to personalize the profiles, and the setting of notes and calendar correspond to the standard. A few bonus points, the KF 510 with his voice recorder, which when playing only minimal noise in the background, and the voice of course there again.

Micro SD card slot

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Multimedia Functions

3 Mp camera with a flash


Headphones sounds very neat

Feature
1. Camera-equipped: 3 megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom, but at max. Image-elected, does not work; Display: Standard, a symbol hide; Resolution: 320x240, 640x480, 1280x960, 1600x1200, 2048x1536; quality: Normal, Fine, Super Fine, image stabilizer: on / off; Autofocus: on / off; Shutter: Audio 1, Sound 2, clay 3; from cross lattice; location: Phone or memory card; default settings: yes / no; Light: Off, On, Auto, Red-eye reduction, self-timer: off, 3 seconds, 5 seconds, 10 seconds; multi Recording: 1 image, 3, 6 or 9 images; white balance: automatic, night mode, daylight, tungsten, cloudy, fluorescent, color: off, sepia, black / white, negative, EV; finishing options: use as background, Contact photo; clear: yes / no, multiple delete, delete all, send MMS, Bluetooth, email, slideshow, sorted by date, type, name; mode: 3x3 thumbnail, 2x2 thumbnail; information: name, size, date, Time, resolution, type, copyright, no finishing options, such as changing the size or to sharpen possible.

2. Photo-quality of camera: Under normal lighting conditions and delivers the bright light KF5110 convincing results, expressed in a natural environment, low noise and behavior in one place contrast impeccable. In the darkness you have with restrictions on the color and shape of course. But despite absolute darkness reached at least the KF510 still usable results. Regrettable is the shutter lag, which although improved, but still clearly too much time.

3. Video equipment: Ad, quality, location, WB, color, EV and standard setting, such as camera; Resolution: 176x144, 320x240; mode: In general, MMS; light: on / off, not finishing opportunities; send as MMS or via Bluetooth; files.

4. Video quality: In bright light and normal light conditions KF510 yet achieved the good results. A steady hand would be an advantage, the smallest movements in the clip through a visible pixel veil. Moreover, the contours are thus blurred. When zooming an object are clearly audible zoom noise in the finished clip to hear. The zoomed motif itself is sharp and clearly explained. In the dark the reached KF510 with night mode and video light, although results, but which are only partly usable.

5. Equipment built to the music player: Formats: 64 polyphonic voices, MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC +, AAC + +, MIDI, SMAF, forward, rewind, pause, stop, all Title: playlist to add more delete, delete, use as: Ringing, Nachrichtenton; send MMS Bluetooth, email, rename, delete all the information: name, size, date, type, duration, artist, genre, Cpyright; My Playlist: Pleasure, last played, favorite songs, artists, albums, genres, settings: Random Play: A / off; Repeat: off, once all; equalizer: General, 3D, concert, jazz, pop, rock, dance, live, bass, Country; minimized.

6. Sound quality of the music player: On the built-in speakers, which is very conveniently positioned, come across fairly decent songs. When using the headset are pieces of music alive and, of course. Songs with too much bass sound activity at max. Scratchy volume and easily overridden. The built-EQ can do something to remedy this and brings fortunately sometimes even useful results (for example, normal volume, successful bass boost and downward).

7. Radio yes / no, sound quality radio: 10 stations seats, automatic or manual tuning; transmitter edit, delete, via loudspeaker, it will only be displayed MHz and no channel name. Similarly, the frequency can only be saved. The representation of each channel is depending on the orientation of the antenna almost noise-free. Facilities fairly low, but still insufficient.

8. Storage Capacity: 24 MB of internal memory for user data, expandable with Micro SD up to 2 GB.

9. Conclusion: The camera / video equipment and convince quality with simple handling and good results in daylight and normal lighting conditions. Unfortunately, the camera can not score points in the night, where the camera is still usable results. In addition to the video should be turning a steady hand beware. The operation of the MP3 player is proving to be simply and easily. Radio and MP3 player also points clear with the poor sound and distortion. The storage capacity of 24 MB for user data, as is often customary to minimize the potential for storage but can easily with Micro SD cards up to 2 GB expanded.

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Handling / Menus

Keys with a good pressure point

Feature
1. Single-handed operation for the main functions: Yes.

2. Call execute (with menu "contacts"): Running a smooth and easy call locating contacts.

3. Add / Create / Edit Your Contacts: On the day and at night, very good readability of the display. In direct sunlight it depends on the attitude of the background and the theme.

4. Pressure point on the keys: Very good and uniform pressure point. The InteractPad (navigation) reacted quickly and reliably. If desired, a vibration feedback with different strength levels, should be terminated.

5. Handling the navigation elements to prospect for the Menus: Easy handling of the navigation unit (InteractPad).

6. Clarity of menus: Rather than straightforward menu with not too many sub-points.

7. Scope of menus: The extent of the menu is meaningful and useful.

8. Graphic design of the menus: Timeless and clean graphic design with clear menu icons. KF510 when the user has only the choice of the topic, between standard (black), bright blue or orange.

9. Occupancy for the possibility of quick dialing buttons: The navigation InteractPad field with quick access can be substantiated.

10. MMS and SMS handling: Insert: picture, sound, video, icon, text, emoticon, name &Nummer; save as a draft; T9 recruit; 22 input languages; T9 word to add, delete text, quit; messages can also be instantly via Bluetooth to other devices are sent.

11. Operation of photo and video camera: Simple operation of the photo / video camera. The additional settings are easily set up and find. Photos / videos are automatically stored and are under My Documents (My Pictures / videos, etc.) to find.

12. Reading Cards: The reading of the memory cards prepared KF510 no difficulty. Easily read all the KF 510 Micro SD cards, as well as the specific breakdown of the card and showed it to faultless.

13. File management: Simple Moving of files and creating folders.

14. Conclusion: Easy to use, easy to run and adding contacts, good readability of the display and a good pressure point on the keyboard speak for the LG KF510. The fairly straightforward and modern menu features a full menu meaningful extent. The ease of photo / video camera, MP3 player and the smooth handling when SMS / MMS composing are more plus points. Additional InteractPad brings the joy with his quick reaction.

Overall Conclusion

The KF510 is too favorable for market prices and provides a lot of style and size equipment

The LG KF510 offers to middle-market prices, a performance that surprised.Already the very successful appearance suggests it with a much more expensive phone to do. The chrome and metal elements bring a touch of exclusivity to the overall picture. Even the internal Music-/Mediaplayer including radio scores with good sound, perfectly positioned speakers and rich furnishings. The camera delivers integrated with normal lighting conditions, shutter lag, despite very good results. In the darkness there is, like almost all mobile phones, unfortunately restrictions. The KF510 creates it but still, at least to deliver useful results. The e-mail retrieval by like speedy download speeds, even if the setting of the account somewhat time-consuming. The installation of synchronization software and the reaction of InteractPad are also commendable.