Design
We warn the bat, that the largest part of our investigation of the Shine is in this section. The brightness is certainly a first draft of the phone, LG and has no scruples, its beauty to be done. In all seriously, it's really very beautiful. The cursor on the phone in polished metal exterior gives it a sophisticated, elegant stainless steel casing and gives him a solid, strong feeling in the hand. 3.9 inch by 2 inches by 0.54 inches, and that is something for our tastes a little wider, but it slips easily into your pocket. And even if it is a bit difficult at 4.4 ounces, you will not lose more and more weight.
Of course, it is clear why call it a brilliant shine telephone. But not only gloss, but it positively, if the face reflects light to catch. (Note: it's not a phone for under-estimates). The mirror is also useful for examining the teeth before a big day, you can use your helicopter through fingerprints and stains that the dish is so simple.
At first glance, you may ask, where is hell, the brightness of the screen, but a quick, by clicking on a button to the large 2.25 Inches (240x320 pixels) display, which the face below. Following the model of the phone itself, the screen is very bright with a splendid 262,000 colors and richly detailed graphics. You can change the font style dial, brightness, backlight and time, but it was recommended to the changes, if the phone is open. The menu interface is simple and easy to understand, and is available in two formats.
Just below the display is the brightness of the background of the navigation single table. Instead of a switch or joystick, the KE970 has a bar between two buttons. The bar is responsible for raising and lowering of the navigation buttons and you move from page to page. It goes without saying that the agreement has dealt with some, but we found more convenient to use, that the controls of chocolate. The bar is less than one inch wide, so it is large enough for users to be, but the two buttons on each side of the bar are too small.
You can also use the scroll bar to a menu item down. Unfortunately, this action is not as intuitive as simple switch. If you do not do this, tap the right in the heart of your finger May just push the lever fully, so the cursor on the menu. It took a while to depend on him, so you want May to one should first try. L'avant end of the phone are the two buttons sit on either side of the bar. They are marked only by small LEDs - indeed, she is not aware that the buttons in the first - but they are large and have a pleasant feeling.
After the debacle of the Chocolaterie-side end key, which is a little understanding on what you can find in the brightness. Despite the fact that back in its right place at the front of the phone, LG has decided that the two CRAM and the mobile sending the key behind the face, just above the keyboard. Therefore, you must slide the phone open to accept or a call. Although we realize that LG tries to jam in the brightness outside, have to open the phone to call seems to be a further step for us. This of course means you to open the phone to make it so. In addition, this top row of keys is too close to the underside of the bar.
Speaking about the cursor mechanism is very strong and has little impact on the smooth, that we are on other phones cursor. They open and close easily with one hand, but some efforts. Our only complaint is that it is a good understanding of the customs at the end of the cursor. In some cases, the fingers glided up the bar instead.
, Until the cursor brightness also shows that the keyboard, to be honest, is pretty terrible. The keyboard seems a little from the first generation RAZR, just the worst. In addition to the close enough, the keys have no texture or a clear dividing line between them. Through the pressure is not possible, although the keys have a downward trend to "push" effect when you press. The backlighting is also fairly dark, although the numbers on the keys are a good size. A special button, between the end of Talk and energy / Keys.
Odd, all of the brightness of the external controls were in the left column. Not a bad thing, but it is interesting to note that the same amount of rockers, from its traditional silence on the spine right. From top to bottom, there is a headset / charger jack (you can only at once), this volume rocker, a music player shortcut, and a camera shutter. Slot for the microSD card is in the right column, but you should check the lid of the battery compartment to getting there. Finally, the goal of the camera, flash and self-images reflected on the back.
Features
The brightness are characteristic of decent work, but your brain not with their beauty. We start with the basics first. The phone has a book in good health, 1000 contacts with in each room for four phone numbers, e-mail, and the notes (the SIM card has an additional 250 names). You can contacts into groups, assign a photo, displaying the caller's number, and their combination with one of the 20, 40 polyphonic ringtones agreement.
Other important elements with a vibrating alarm, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, a calculator, a notepad, a stopwatch, a unit converter and a world clock. At the upper end, you receive a voice recorder, e-mail, Bluetooth and a speaker. You can use the KE970 as a USB mass storage device and the drive allows you to text files and PDF files and PowerPoint, Word and Excel documents. The internal memory is impressive to 50 MB free disk space released and can be equipped with a microSD card for more space.
The 2.0 megapixel camera Outshined (no bad pun) the shooter chocolate in many respects. You can view photos in a variety of resolutions, the whole two-megapixel camera (1600x1, 200 pixels) and below VGA (320x240 pixels). Other features of the camera are a timer, two modes for the four color effects, an adjustable white-balance setting, a choice of shutter sounds and a multi-shot mode (only at the level of resolution below). The brightness of the camera is also equipped with a completely self-reflection and a flash.
The camcorder shoots videos with sound in two resolutions (176x144 or 128x96). It also contains a number of options for handling similar to the camera, and you can zoom function. Clips for multimedia messages are limited to eight seconds, otherwise you can as long as the available memory allows.
A Schneider Kreuznach lens and an autofocus effectively to ensure it is not normal, from your cell phone camera. In fact, the picture quality is very good with colors, line-item, detailed and alive. The flash is not very efficient, but we are glad that in any case. Video quality was good, but not many. Although the clips are not as grainy as we have seen in other mobile phones with camera, we do not want to use the brightness of the films at home. In general, the brightness of the camera is a laudable, but not as good as fantastic 3.2 megapixel-shooter on the Sony Ericsson K790a.
The music player, the design is very minimalist, but the task of providing songs for a short procedure. Supports MP3, WAV, AAC, AAC and AAC files, and how can we the files as ring tones. Moreover, the features of an equalizer and a shuffle. Fortunately, the music on your phone is exceptionally easy. You do not need special tools or software, rather than simply connecting the brightness of your computer as an external storage device, and then drag and drop audio on the phone. The 3.5-mm headphones included our expectations. You can use to make calls to and the navigation in your contact list. The earphones come with an adapter Therefore, you can use your own headphones with the brightness of the status of the connection.
You can adjust the brightness with a variety of background images and sounds, and of course you can always download more with the WAP 2.0 wireless Web browser. Options game was on two titles: Bubble Soccer Mania and fisheries. Avid players should not be more than title for the game open.
Performance
We have the triband (GSM 900/1800/1900) Shine in San Francisco with T-Mobile service. The quality of calls is quite clear with little distortion or feedback. Geklingelt natural voices, and they have a sufficient quantity. The caller will not be many of the problems, but said that the KE970 picked up a good amount of wind noise. Added to that automated could call the whole time. Speaker calls were less satisfactory. From our perspective, the tone is subdued, and the caller also said. Calls upon the cable and a Bluetooth headset was fine. It suffices to recall that since the brightness is not compatible with the GSM 850 band, reduced input in rural areas.
Audio quality in MP3 player was loud and clear for most. It is not enough to replace your MP3 player, regardless, but he has little metallic, we take in other MP3 phones. We liked that you have your own headphones.
The weighted shine a speech time of three hours and a promised standby time of 11.6 days. In our tests we have the time, but there is still a little weak for a GSM phone. According to FCC radiation tests, the LG KE970 Shine Digital has an opinion of the SVR 0443 watts per kilogram.
