LG Arena KM900 Arena Unlocked Quad-Band Touch Screen Cell Phone with 5MP Camera, Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi --International Version with Warranty (Silver) Review

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(More customer reviews)I had this phone for about three months, until it fell from about 3 feet and the screen broke.
That said, I'll write this review being objective, based on the whole experience as a user.
Pros:
- Capacitive Screen: Yes, just like the iPhone, no need to press, just touch. You can perform gestures such as sliding pictures or scaling them with two fingers.
- Nice interface: the rotating cube is great. The contact manager is as good as it gets, I loved it.
- Wonderful screen resolution: 480x800
- Good looking and not bulky at all, especially for that resolution.
- Great multimedia features: decent camera, video with sound, 8GB, nice music player.
- Good battery life when used as a music player: I had this phone playing music for hours in a party with no need for a charger.
Cons:
- Average battery life with day to day use.
- Slow: Browsing is embarrassingly slow. I thought that was normal for a cell phone until I saw some other phones browsing way faster, even phones worth half the price. Navigation is fast 90% of the time but occasionally it'll freeze for a few seconds. Same thing with the accelerometer, sometimes it just doesn't realize it has to rotate the screen.
- Interface mistakes: regardless of the great looks, it has some obvious mistakes. For example, when you make a call it locks the screen, so far so good. But sometimes you need to unlock the phone (to dial an extension number for example) and guess what, as soon as you click the unlock button on the highly sensitive screen there's a red "hang up" button just below it waiting for you to click it by mistake.
Also, IMHO the "call" button on the phone should open the dial-pad and the one on the screen the "recent calls list", not the other way around.
- Kind of fragile: I've had Nokias fall harder with no problems whatsoever.
Well, that pretty much summarizes it, I hope you find my review useful.

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