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LG KM335 - Mobile Phone

08 Jun, 2009, 11:58 am IST | Shayne Rana | Mobile phones

LG recently launched a couple of mid-range multimedia handsets - the GM200 and the KM335. The GM200 fared quite well in our tests, and now it’s the KM335’s turn 'under the knife’, so to speak. Here’s what I can tell you about the handset, from its features to its funk quotient.

Form Factor
Sleek and slender, with a very balanced layout of keys, the phone has a very 'likeable' design. The 2-inch TFT LCD display has a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 256K colors. The keypad is neatly laid out and large enough to provide for quick and easy typing. While I think the display could have been a little large, that would also mean that the keys would get smaller. So the point is moot. The five-way nav-pad is just below the display in between the call take and end buttons and function keys.

A set of LEDs are encased in the top portion of the handset. They can be set to go off for incoming calls and flash according to the rhythm of the tone. They can also flash for incoming messages and while the music player is active. This rhythmic backlight is quite jazzy, but nothing more than a gimmick.

On one side is a proprietary all-in-one port for charging the battery, USB and handsfree. This is never a good idea. A microSD card slot is located just below this. However, the handsfree kit has a 3.5mm adapter on the microphone portion. On the other side is the volume/zoom control, followed by a rather small music player shortcut key and the camera button. At the back is where you’ll find the 3.0 megapixel AF camera that also has an LED flash. A set of stereo speakers are placed on either side of the camera module.

With a champagne colored line steel effect and maroon borders, the KM335 looks quite chic.__STARTQUOTE__Sleek and slender, with a very balanced layout of keys, the phone has a very 'likeable' design.__ENDQUOTE__Features and Performance
Interface
The LG KM335’s interface is always colorful and smooth. It’s easy to navigate but this particular model does have some serious issues with, how shall I put it... ‘freedom’. Allow me to elaborate. Most handsets allow you to copy paste media from your PC onto the memory card and create folders of your choice. This enables you to easily port your memory card with you from handset to handset and have all your data at hand. However, the KM335 creates very specific folders for all media. Your music files have to be put into a specific folder in order to be read by the player. I was also unable to access all folders of my memory card. Only three folders showed up in the My Stuff-External Memory Card section that the handset had created by default. Nothing else was visible.

I placed all media files into the Album folder and videos and images showed up but no music, till I moved the folder out and placed it into the Sounds Folder. But this transfer of files can’t be done from the handset so you’ll have to do it via the PC. It’s very silly to have a File Browser feature that doesn’t allow you to do that very well. It’s such a closed system that I was able to move data only from the card to the phone and vice versa but within the mediums. Very odd.

A new feature with quite a few new LG handsets is Intelligent Call. It’s not really anything to write home about, as it simply voices out the numbers for incoming calls. It would have been simpler if it called out the name instead, like Nokia and other companies have been doing for years. The Time Teller option does the same.

Tags: 3 Megapixel , mobile phone

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