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LG KG920 Mobile Phone

LG KG920 has a quirky design its pretty solid construction, the metallic parts, the high-quality plastics and the visible bolt heads add to the feel of a very sturdy build. The design is one of a kind, and you either like it or dont. It is ironic tha

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LG KG920 has a quirky design its pretty solid construction, the metallic parts, the high-quality plastics and the visible bolt heads add to the feel of a very sturdy build. The design is one of a kind, and you either like it or dont. It is ironic that neither the front nor the back looks too much like a phone. The front looks like a lab machine full of buttons, and the back looks like a digital camera, with a manual lens cover, LED lamp, and Xenon flash. The KG920 is one of the few camera-phones designed like a camera and, fortunately, works like one, too. On the left edge of the unit, beside the 2-inch 260k-pixel screen, are dedicated buttons for zoom, flash and timer functions. It?s a phone for those who cant see the point of carrying a digital camera with them all the time just in case they see something theyd like to photograph for keeps. The screen delivers 240 x 320 pixels and 256,000 colors. The KG920 is not among the smallest or slimmest devices with its dimensions of 108 x 50 x 18 mm, nor is it among the lightest ones with its impressive weight of 138 g which is more suitable for a smart phone or even a Pocket PC. Our opinion is that the dimensions are pretty ok, only the weight is a bit too much for our taste.

It consists of two parts joined by a rotating hinge. As opposed to the rotating Nikon cameras and the Nokia 3250, the lens is directly behind the keypad, instead of on the edge of the device. If you wish to take self-portraits, you can simply rotate the camera around 180 degrees. If you are a keen photographer, the rotating mechanism also allows you to take pictures from a very low angle. With the included Xenon flash, the KG920 is also great for party pictures. In our hands, the KG920 feels very solid. It's definitely not the lightest, nor the slimmest phone around. But from a digital imaging perspective, which is possibly one of the strongest features of this phone, a firm grip usually helps in taking pictures. The front panel has a rather intriguing design since the keypad is situated in the lower half of the panel. The top part doesnt feature a navigation D-pad, but three contextual soft keys. Most of the time you would end up using only two, but there are instances where a third option appears, for example they come quite handy in the camera interface. On both sides of the soft keys you can see the green and red receiver keys. The navigation D-pad is placed on the further right side of the keypad. Considering the overall size of the phone, the buttons are quite small (number keys are 6mm x 3mm, or 0.24" x 0.12"). Thanks to the strong tactile feedback, the keypad may be acceptable if you have small fingers. The worrying part, however, is the paint on the handset - including both the body and the buttons. The pea-shaped soft keys are quite hard to press, and you might risk scratching off the paint if you use your fingernails

Camera
LG KG920 takes slightly more than 2 seconds for the camera application to start. The camera screen is very informative, but you can turn off all the icons if you find them distracting. The camera menu contains almost all the settings you can find on an average consumer digital camera. You can apply frames and filters if you wish. The pictures taken with it have a maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels which is quite good for even A4 prints. Its functionality is further enhanced by a strobe flash, Depending on the amount of compression you choose, a 5 megapixel photo ranges from 250KB to 2MB. In terms of speed, the camera takes less than 2 seconds to focus, and about 7 seconds to resume to camera mode including saving a 2MB file.

The LG KG920 has also a nice equipped video camera which shoots video at 320 x 240 pixels resolution at the whopping 30 fps. That alone makes those home videos perfectly watchable and enjoyable. The output format is the usual .3gp. Otherwise the picture quality is fine if you managed to hold the phone perfectly still during image capturing.

Performance
The overall performance of the handset is a letdown. Texting an excruciating chore on this mobile is found. You have to type slowly since the letters appear slowly, and you wouldn't want to pre-type your whole message only to end up with an undecipherable string of letters. One of the biggest disappointments is that there is no optical zoom. Id advice that the 4x digital zoom is to be avoided. And if you want high quality video then look elsewhere as the only resolutions on offer here are 176 x 144 and 320 x 240. With a camera-phone, chances are you'd likely be taking snapshots most of the time. For that purpose, the shooter has to be responsive--we felt otherwise with this LG. For one, it took about 3 seconds to power up the camera and about the same amount of time to lock focus. Shutter lag was timed at approximately 1.5 seconds.

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Monty Alexander has a wealth of experience in article writing. He has written his views on LG mobile phone, digital camera, apple iphone, mobile phones and many other topics

 

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