LG PRADA KF900 (Unlocked)

Key features:

* 3-inch 262K-color capacitive touchscreen display of WQVGA resolution
* Comfortable QWERTY keyboard
* 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash
* D1 (720x480) resolution video recording at 30fps
* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
* Dual band 3G with HSDPA support
* Wi-Fi
* Responsive Flash-based interface with multi-touch support
* Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and USB v2.0
* Stylish and generous retail package
* microSD memory card slot (verified to work with 16GB cards)
* FM radio with RDS
* Accelerometer sensor for screen auto rotate
* TV-out
* Office document viewer
* DivX video support
* Fashion-related content preloaded

Main disadvantages:

* Two-year-old design
* The large waistline doesn't match the fashionable image (but is OK for a QWERTY messenger)
* Plastic build
* No GPS (LG Renoir has it)
* No XviD video support (LG Renoir has it)
* Multi-touch has rather limited use
* No Flash support in the web browser
* Video recording is a letdown
* High cost-to-features ratio (but OK for a premium fashion handset)

It was about time the first Prada phone by LG got an update, no doubt about that. Data transfers, connectivity, multimedia and user interface upgrades are spot on, but a hardware QWERTY keyboard was hardly essential.

Oh well, all-in-one QWERTY touchscreens are obviously the new black. Or so the LG KF900 Prada believes. Keen to find a niche within the niche, it lands right in the middle of not so friendly smartphone crowd. It's got the features to stand up to the XPERIA, HTC and the likes but it's not comparable to fully-functional smartphones.

Summary:
The LG KF900 Prada will try to do everything for you and hey - it will come out right for the most part. To begin with, it's one of the most uncompromising all-inclusive upgrades we've seen in quite a while. The original Prada phone is improved down to the last bit of specs. A fluid and responsive touch interface, 5 MP camera, high-res video recording, lightning fast data transfers and Wi-Fi are a great treat, no doubt about that.

But if you bought the first Prada, it was hardly the specs you were after. And it's probably not the performance you'd be keen to upgrade but looks.

No, our problem is not that the design is 2 years old already. The new Prada stays reverently true to the original styling and we guess it tries to connect with the original following.

It looks really brilliant. Its key pad is very nice ... really good for ppl who text a lot.. , Unfortunately, it is pretty slow and sometime it lags..