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LG Renoir KC910 Review
| Author | Sandra Vogel |
| Published | 7th Nov 2008 |
| Manufacturer | LG Electronics |
| Price | From Free on Contract |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersWhen it comes to shot quality I think this camera has the edge over the Samsung's i8510. It didn't do too well in harsh lighting conditions, either in low indoor light or high contrast outdoors, but when it was good it was very, very good.
Indoors and photographed under normal household lights the coloured dish is clear and sharp. Outside the chair is perfectly acceptable though the white is not quite as uniform as I'd like. The flower's colours are well reproduced and that shot is sharp. The cat had to appear again having been a subject for the i8510. This time he is in close-up via the macro mode, and the definition is really very good.
There is a lot more available here too. Briefly, the phone shoots VGA video at 30fps, QVGA at 120fps. There's TV-Out support, and an applet called Jogging Buddy which takes advantage of A-GPS to track your distance travelled and will also monitor time and record calories burned. There is an accelerometer for auto screen rotation and a rather good tappable keyboard which occupies about ¾ of the screen in landscape orientation when you want to type out texts and emails. The phone plays DivX and Xvid files too.
Of course this phone plays music, and Dolby has had input into the software. Sound quality was definitely good, but I was disappointed that LG had not bothered to build a 3.5mm headset jack into the handset. As my review sample wasn't a final boxed unit I didn't give the battery a rundown test. If final boxed phones are as good as the one I had in my hands, though, you should get a couple of days of use between charges if you don't thrash the battery-sapping music player or Wi-Fi.
Verdict
This is quite simply one of the best phones I've seen in ages. Its camera tops the i8510, though it still isn't up to what you'd get from an 8-megapixel dedicated digicam and is not itself a reason to buy. But the range of additional features is excellent, and very importantly, overall user ergonomics are excellent. LG just nosed in front in a very competitive race.
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Horseymare said on 27th May 2009
ginger said on 28th May 2009
I have had this phone for 2 days today and I love it!! The Renoir has lots of things to offer but it could be better by installing better speakers in it so when you are talking you... more
Nigel1111 said on 27th July 2009
Disappointing phone - touch screen scrolling through lists is clumsy without the stylus, screen lock keeps cutting in when you are trying to send parking texts etc, and the sync so... more
liam said on 14th September 2009
im sorry but i have to agree with what Horseymare said on 27th May 2009, i love the bits and bobs on the phone, the look, the feel and i even love thetouch screen but the random cr... more
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LG Renoir Kc910 is the worst phone I have ever used! Apart from the appaling battery life, it locks me out and crashes, meaning battery has to be taken out and put back before goin... more