LG Arena KM900 Comments

Great review but cant wait to see a review of samsung's OminaHD. Does this mean we are going to see an App store from LG? Are they planning on releasing an SDK for this phone? anyhow Apple has some serious competition this year from all sides (OS: interface & functionality and hardware) and i dont think the iphone's OS 3.0 is enough to attract that many new customers because i see it only been appreciated by existing users except they can tie the OS upgrade to a new product...iphone2

Anyone know what OS this is based on? Looks a lot slicker the the s60 5th on the 5800!

Yeah why no mention of the OS? If pinch works then its a capacitative screen which means s60 5th or android? This phone looks really good and my touch dual is begging for the bin. Trying to hold out for the ominiaHD or better yet the Pre

well, OS for the phone can be updated for instance Apple can design a totally brand new one and push it out through itune, wouldn't it feel like you've got a new phone? Apart from Apple currently, no other has done software update so well. they can certainly make flashy OS but without updates or new twicks, the phone will just be dated sooner or later with new arrivals.

@xbrumster
Most phones in this category in fact have a better system for updates then itunes called over the air where the owner is told about new firmware they can download + install on the fly with maybe one reset through a prompt or something. Much better then being forced to be tied to iTunes which is imo bloated and unnecessarily locks users into an upgrade cycle.

apple has placeholders in the sdk for new models this year.

year 1 was the introduction
year 2 was competition
year 3 will be domination of the mobile phone nation for Stevie J

A very subjective review. Just to pick one count battery life effectively 1 day but is good? Lots of other 'opinions' here but the general feel is of a review based on walking into a store and trying out the phone. This review undermines down Trusted’s usual high standards

I have had this phone since 9/5/09 and I don't like it. I don't like this phone as you can't connect to a wireless access point, if it's SSID is hidden, as there is no option for this, my wireless router at home's SSID is hidden for security reasons. The phone's functionality is very basic compared to some others that I have tried before. I have tried the Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition and the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and to be honest, I found the Nokia to be better than both of these, also the Nokia has stereo speakers, so the sound quality is better than both the LG Arena and Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition put together. I also found that the LG Arena and Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition's capacitive screens not very responsive and not very precise. In my opinion, they need to make the icons larger on a capacitive screen for them to work properly.

The LG Arena has a capacitive touchscreen according to everything I have read.

I have this phone, and after using the LG Viewty (KU990) which i found to be excellent this LG Arena is a terribly frustrating disappointment. yes there are features galore but there are severe issues with call management, touch screen abilities and the backlight , all of which make the phone very frustrating to use, i have missed calls due to being unable to unlock the phone while it's ringing, it has a tendancy to randomly reboot when writing standard text messages and often the touchscreen buttons are unresponsive and the phone OS is slow, pressing a button, nothing happening and then repeating and then finding its acted on both presses.

This phone has a large array of small and frustrating niggles and failings that really bring it down. It feels like its production started well but at the end the software interface has been rushed and very poorly tested. After the satisfaction of the Viewty this is a bitter shame considering how new it is.

The only plus side is the large amount of memory space for keeping/playing mp3s.

I have just got this phone. It has quite a few faults. The CPU is too slow, you are constantly waiting for things like the screen to rotate or you have to press a button 3 times before anything happens. this is quite annoying and considerably slows the typing of SMS messages and adding contacts etc. I have not been able to get the GPS to work at all with google maps. The screen is considerably smaller than that of the iPhone although it is very high resolution so you get a very clear crisp interface. The camera is pretty low quality and every second picture will be blurred. However it is possible to take good photos with a steady hand and good light conditions. Sometimes certain windows will stop working and pressing buttons will do nothing. It has a tenancy to automatically capitalize the first letter of passwords you enter (e.g. when setting up an email account) which suggests the operating system has not had much testing. This phone is cheaper than the iPhone but in this case you get what you pay for.