LG Cookie ( KP500 )
( Review )
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LG KP500 Cookie is an
affordable touch screen phone with decent features and a fun and friendly
interface. It has got a youthful personality. It is one of the most compact touch
screens in the market as it is only 11.9 mm thick and weighs a mere 89 grams.
Display: User Interface: |
Music:
LG Cookie has very good
music player that comes with equalizer presets. It has excellent audio quality.
The music player almost resembles ipod. Here you can arrange
tracks - by artist, album, genre and recently played. You can create
your own playlists also. The handset also has FM radio with RDS whicn can be
heard on loudspeaker also but the earphones have to be plugged for they serve
as antenna. It stores up to 50 stations. Sound is loud and clear.
Memory:
Phonebook capacity is up
to 1000 contacts along with full set of fields. You can make caller groups and
you can assign a personal picture and a ringtone. The phone has an external
card slot that can handle upto 16GB microSD card, which is among the largest
currently available, so storage space is no problem.
Camera:
The handset offers a 3
megapixel fixed focus camera with resolution 2048 x 1536 pixels. It has no
flash so photography in dim light is not possible. The positioning of camera
lens is not very convenient as the holding finger often interrupts the view.
The camera interface supports settings like white balance, effects and quality.The
image quality is pretty good even without auto-focus. The video recording is
elementary as It captures QVGA video @12fps. The file format is 3GP.
Image gallery
Image gallery is a great experience in touch phones and that is same for this
one too. Pictures can be retrieved directly from file manager or through the dedicated gallery. Images can be seen
in portrait or landscape mode just by changing the orientation of the handset.
You can zoom the images too. LG KP500 also has an image editor where text
typing, morphing, coloring is all possible. It has many more features like
rotate, resize and mirror and many photo editing options like levels,
brightness, contrast, color, sharpness, blur etc.
Organizer:
Although LG KP500 Cookie is not targeted at business people still it
has a decent collection of easy to use time management and other applications.
The Calendar offers monthly, weekly and daily views. It can store up to 500
calendar events in the categories like appointment, anniversary and birthday.
The To-Do application can hold 500 tasks. A Memo feature can store up to 100
notes. The Date Finder can instantly tell the day of the week for any given
date. You can also take backup of calendar events and to-do list on memory
card. Then there is Alarm clock with 5 alarm slots available. Calculator, unit
converter, stopwatch, world clock and voice recorder are some more applications
for your perusal.
The LG KP500 Cookie has
built-in Picsel viewer for viewing document like .doc, .xls and .pdf files but
does not supports .ppt. Scrolling, zooming and text search is also possible
while viewing documents. The documents can be seen in landscape mode too.
Messaging:
Messaging features SMS,
MMS and email. For typing you have soft alphanumeric keypad or QWERTY keyboard
in landscape view which works better with the stylus. There is also handwriting
recognition if you can handle its accuracy. Email setup is easy and useful. It
offers both POP and IMAP options and supports SSL also.
Internet:
The handset has a good
web browser. You can browse web pages in landscape view with or without the
controls visible. A tap on the screen brings back the controls. Zooming and
scrolling is fast enough and pages can be dragged around with finger. The web
browser history is displayed in the form of webpage screenshots.
Games:
LG KP500 Cookie comes with very interesting set of preinstalled games.
Specially the accelerometer or the
built-in motion sensor has made the dice games so much fun. In Flying Dices,
you just roll a pair of dices by shaking the handset and play snakes &
ladder, base ball and many more games. Turn the wheel of fortune in Wheel Mania
to win. Apart from these, you have
a Pipe game where you have to put together dismanteled pipes to complete the
pipe system and get water running. Thomsons and Touch is a set of six mini
touch-controlled games. Games can be downloaded too.
Features at a glance:
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Network Compatibility |
GSM
850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
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Dimensions & weight |
106.5
x 55.4 x 11.9 mm, 89 g |
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Display |
240
x 400 pixels, 3.0 inches |
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Sound & Music |
64
Polyphonic ringtones, MP3, composer, downloadable, Voice memo |
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Memory |
Phonebook
- 1000 entries, Photocall |
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Internet |
GPRS - Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots),
32 - 48 kbps |
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Connectivity |
Bluetooth -
v2.1 with A2DP |
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Camera |
3.15
MP, 2048x1536 pixels |
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Messaging |
SMS,
EMS, MMS, Email, T9 |
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Games |
4
+ downloadable |
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More features |
Java
- MIDP 2.0 |
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Battery |
Standard
battery, Li-Ion 900 mAh |
Disadvantages:
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No
Wi-Fi
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No
3G support
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Camera
does not have auto focus and flash
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No
DivX/Xvid support
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No
3.5mm audio jack
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no
PowerPoint in document viewer
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Average
battery
Advantages:
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3"
Touch screen (240 x 400 pixels)
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3
megapixel camera
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Bluetooth
2.1 with A2DP
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50MB
internal memory
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External
microSD card slot with card capacity of up to 16GB
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Accelerometer
for auto screen rotate
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Virtual
QWERTY keyboard
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FM
radio with RDS
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Widgets
interface
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Amazing
flash user interface
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Smart
dialing
A touch screen phone at this price! Just grab it. No you won’t regret as LG Cookie will only make you proud for its
beautiful looks, smart features and amazing user interface.
