Review: LG KF510

LG KF510 Review

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In a nutshell: The KF510 is a gorgeous, ultraslim fashion phone. With a sleek touchscreen design, sparkly LED lights, a 2-tone graded colour scheme and a metal body, it's one of the best looking phones available. It's fully featured too, with a 3 megapixel camera, MP3 player, FM radio, Bluetooth and memory card.
Best buy: *Free* with half-price line rental for 14 months from mobiles.co.uk; or on Pay as you Go from the Carphone Warehouse for £129.95.

With the LG KF510, LG does what it does best: makes a phone that just looks the business. If you want to wow your mates in the pub, look no further. We were expecting the beauty to be just skin-deep, but the more we played with the KF510, the more it grew on us. Sure, we're shallow and easily pleased, but hey!

Let's do the looks first, since that's what this phone is really all about. Well, LG have pulled out all the stops with this one. It's an ultra-slim slide phone with a sleek touchscreen design. The colour scheme is gorgeous, with a two-tone graded finish in either Sunset Red or Stardust Dark Grey. When you move your fingers over the touch-sensitive surface of the phone, LED lights blink on and off. It's quite hypnotic, or at least we thought so. Maybe LG have hypnotised us into writing such a good review! Oh, nearly forgot to mention that it's quite a heavy phone, despite being so thin, as its body is made of metal. This will give it strength, and combined with the scratch-proof tempered glass screen, it should be a pretty robust phone despite its superslim design.

Moving on, it quickly becomes clear that there's more to the phone than just looks. The camera is quite respectable for a mid-range phone, with a 3 megapixel resolution and autofocus. Not up to David Bailey standards, but as good as anything else in this price range. There's an MP3 player of course, plus the bonus of an FM radio. You can customise ringtones, play games, send messages and browse the web, just like any other modern phone. Bluetooth and USB connectivity are both present, so all boxes seem to be ticked. There are just two weak areas: the phone is triband, rather than quadband, and the inbuilt memory is quite limited at just 16 Mbytes (enough for a couple of ringtones and some photos.) However, you can expand the memory to 4 Gbytes by adding a microSD memory card.

So, despite our initial expectations of this being a rather superficial kind of phone, we find ourselves liking it very much. It's very much a mid-range phone, so don't expect it to have all the bells and whistles, but as mid-range phones go, this one is definitely a match for the competition. Take into account the fabulous looks, and you have a top notch phone. The touchscreen may annoy some users, but so far the user feedback seems to be positive. Alternatives are the Samsung U600 and the Sony Ericsson W580i, but we prefer the KF510.

Features of the LG KF510 include:

• 3 megapixel camera with autofocus
• Video camera
• Display: TFT, 262,000 colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2.2 inches)
• MP3 player & FM radio
• Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, email
• Java games
• Wallpaper
• Phonebook (1,000 names)
• Memory: 16 Mbytes plus microSD memory card slot (up to 4 Gbytes)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0
• Internet: WAP 2.0, GPRS, EDGE, Google package
• Vibration alert
• Triband
• Size: 104.5 x 49.5 x 10.9 mm
• Weight: 110g
• Talktime: 4 hours
• Battery standby: 400 hours

LG KF510 Consumer Reviews

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Reviewed by anny kim from indonesia on 28th Jun 2008
OMG!!!! yesterday i finally brought it!!!!!! this is the best phone ever and i mean it!!! the speaker is great the video not sure but it's really great!! first i didn't quite want 2 buy it because some comment's said it was bad but don't don't belive those!! Cause if u don't buy it i bet 100% you'll regret!!!trust meeeee!!!1
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Reviewed by valerie lincoln from australia on 26th Jun 2008
I have had the kf510 for 4 weeks and still cannot send picture messages to my sister in the uk or anybody else despite numerous phone calls to optus and today picked it up from the shop where I got it from where it has been for four days and was told yes it works and have since tried to send a picture message to my sister and it has failed 4 times can anybody help?
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Reviewed by Ryan from UK on 30th May 2008
AMAZING PHONE - A pleasure to use, switched to this from a N95 which I thought was big, slow and buggy! The KF510 is really easy to use, the touch sensitive buttons respond really well, and fantastic all rounder phone! 5 Stars
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Reviewed by Ali from UK on 27th May 2008
Great phone. Looks fantansic. Does everything I want a phone to do. Excellent
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Reviewed by SARAH DOLAN from UNITED KINGDOM on 17th May 2008
I BOUGHT MY KF510 ABOUT 2 WEEKS AGO I HAD TROUBLE WITH IT AT FIRST WITH IT HAVING A IND OF ITS OWN. I THINK THE SENSORS IN TOP PANEL HAD A FAULT. I TOOK THE HONE BACK TO WHERE I BOUGHT IT AND GOT A REPLACEMENT SINCE THEN MY PHONE HAS BEEN FAB. I THINK IT IS ONE OF THE BEST PHONES I HAVE HAD!
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Reviewed by H Singh from U.K on 16th May 2008
This phone look very nice. But the heat sensitive button become very annoying. I enjoyed this phone for the first 2 weeks i had it. After that i find it really irritating and annoying.
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Reviewed by Deb M from North Wales on 15th May 2008
Fantastic phone, it looks the biz and has everything that i need.
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Reviewed by ruby c from us on 11th May 2008
it simperly amazing it looks good and is very good
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