Additional left keys: volume and sound profiles key. The top side of the Prada phone is pretty bare and doesn't feature any control elements. The same holds true for the bottom side too with the exception of a key for releasing the battery cover. Right next to the cover release button there is a little microphone aperture. Prada phone top and bottom sides. The back panel of the Prada phone is the only place on the body where you will notice the LG branding.
The camera lens is located in the top left corner along with a self-portrait mirror and the LED flash. They are placed on a stylish brushed metal plate. The battery cover is easily removed after you release it with the abovementioned release key.
According to the manufacturer, the battery should sustain the handset for up to hours in standby mode and up to 3 hours in constant talking.
Now we weren't able to measure the battery life correctly since we used the handset heavily during our tests but under a moderate everyday usage you would probably need to charge the Prada phone every two days or so. The SIM card bed is located above the battery while the memory card slot is buried even deeper - being under the SIM card slot itself. You would have to take out the battery in order to take out the memory card which is a bit of a nuisance.
GSMArena team , 29 May Introduction, design, construction. Next Page » 2. Touchscreen display, telephony, user interface, phonebook. Reviews LG Prada review. Beside the regular Single shot mode the camera can also capture images in Multi shoot mode which takes 3 or 6 pictures in a quick succession. A new setting is the option to view the viewfinder in either or screen ratio. The setting fills the entire screen.
The LG Prada camera photos don't have any EXIF information that may help a photo enthusiast determine what went wrong with a certain picture or setup. The quality of the 2 megapixel autofocus camera depends a lot on the lighting conditions. The outdoor photos are not bad, but we noticed a tendency for over-sharpening plus the colors on most of the photos look way too intensive high saturation.
Indoor photos turned out very good, but only when taken during the day. But if you resize the images to a smaller resolution you are almost sure to get some great looking samples. Although there isn't a dedicated macro mode, we were pleasantly surprised by the macro shots - the camera can focus from really close distance and capture really fine details. LG Prada sample photos. Unimpressive flash performance. The output files format is the usual 3GP. Video camera options.
As you can see, the menu of the video camera is pretty much the same as the one we already described for the still camera with few exceptions. The camera offers both limited and unlimited video recording.
The great thing about the USB support of the phone is that when connected, the phone memory and the memory card both appear in the Windows explorer as removable drives just as your regular USB flash drive would with no special drivers needed.
If you receive a call while in mass storage mode, the call will be rejected but after you disconnect the handset, you will see the information about any missed calls.
USB connection established. If you need any other type of synchronization between the phone and the PC like for items such as the phonebook and the schedule you should use the dedicated LG software LG Mobile Sync that comes on CD along with the phone.
The web browser that the Prada phone is equipped with offers some really basic features but it's able to open full HTML pages. It doesn't feature zoom and landscape mode. When browsing web pages the touchscreen functionality doesn't work over the pages themselves and you have to use the arrows in the bottom of the screen for navigation.
As you can see from the screenshot, only half of the screen is actually used to display the web page. Browsing GSMArena website. The Calendar is pretty straightforward, it offers a monthly view and you can navigate along the dates with your finger. One game even pushes the screen into wide format for play.
Built in memory is fairly limited. You have space for SMS messages and 1, contacts, just calendar items and 50 text memos. There is 8MB of memory for other stuff such as games, sounds, images and videos. There is a microSD card slot for expanding on this, and you get a MB card, but LG has managed to locate the slot awkwardly. You have to remove the battery to get to it. There is also an FM radio. You dial voice calls by tapping at an on-screen number pad, and enter text for SMS and text memos in precisely the same ways as you would use a standard button based keypad.
T9 is supported. The usability of the touch screen and the general construction of the user interface are the real make or break factor for this phone. You may be drawn to the Prada by its looks, but you are going to use it everyday via the screen, and if that is not up to standard, then the Prada could turn out to be just another gadget lying at the back of a drawer.
The screen measures three inches corner to corner, and delivers x pixels of data. Tapping at the screen requires different levels of precision depending on what you are doing.
In some the games though, the icons are smaller and I was not precise enough to hit the required parts accurately. When working with text rather than number dialing, for example, writing SMS messages or entering web site addresses, the lack of tactile feedback meant I had to slow down and take more care than usual. A lot of thought has gone into the user interface.
On the main screen there are shortcuts to the phone dialler, messaging and contacts as well as to the main applications menu. Choose the latter and tabs down the right edge enable you to move between groups of applications: Call and Data Communications, Multimedia, Organiser and Diary and Settings. The handset comes with several themes. The Prada theme has black and white icons. Others include the one pictured, which is called Fish, and another called Butterfly which features animated icons on the front screen.
They roam around at will, and are drawn to any spot you tap. The camera shoots stills at resolutions up to two megapixels, and it has autofocus, a flash and a self portrait mirror. There are plenty of other settings, including presets for different lighting conditions, self timer, and burst mode on the lower resolutions. But for all these features I found it disappointing.
The coloured dish, which is my standard reference shot and was taken indoors with the camera on auto settings, is lacking in vibrancy.
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