i was about to post this too...

i am going to test today since my supplier ask me to sell...

shall give 5 mins hands on review..

i try my best with the scratch demo.. hehehhe

coz nicholas teh kindda ambassador for this phone mah...

no la... where got chance to compete..?

KF510 is triband with 3mp armed..
U900 Soul is HSDPA with 5mp armed...

Price wise totally different...

in other words, different league.

but as i recalled, tempered glass is scratch resistant.. but not totally unscratchable...

i tried this phone yesterday, except for deep scratching with blades or so...

1st impression... real solid build with the metal frame and quite a strong sliding mechanism, spring type. and damn it is slim.. and the red colour is quite nice, though i personally think black will be better colour for guys... well typical.

Then off to switching on, there is a slide button that act as on/off button. slide and hold it for 2-3 seconds and the KF510 is switching on. Starting up takes around 20sec or so... It greets me with some animation and follow by the touch sensitive display.

I tried the touch sensitive and i find it really smooth if i were to describe it. but sometime it does too smooth job until select wrong icon. anyhow it is nice and i dont find it hard to use. Sliding out shows the keypad, which supposed to look flat, but it isnt so. The keypad has good feedback and better than those rice-type keypads. The touch panel features haptic feedback, which means whenever u touch it, it will vibrate a lil, like viewty. Not bad.

Usually, LG phone suffers lag when accessing menu or memory card, but 1gb shows no problem and access into phone menu is a breeze. So off i go to messaging, which i think is one of the most important feature for all phone users.

Messaging is more or less same with nokia except when changing predicition words, you tap down arrow instead of "*". Since it is touch sensitive, you might find it a bit hard at 1st, but 1 min later, i am okay with it and can type sms fairly fast. i used to nokia and qwerty PDA keyboard.

Call in and out is good and clear depending on coverage. sadly it isnt 3g, so cant test out the EDGE speed.

For MP3 Playing, it is the same as the old ones which you cant minimize the player. Meaning you cant listen mp3 and sms at the same time. Pity, this features come in handy for some users. But one thing for sure, it is as loud as KF600. It is good because it means the alarm is going to wake you up; unless ur tone is soft. those pre-installed ringtone are good and able to listen in the noisy condition.

Picture snapping, well, just say it does its job. But dont fight with K810i because KF510 isnt camera oriented phone. Its autofocus does the job, but early review said it is not autofocusing well. So i guess the commercial units now with working autofocus. quality is good, but i didnt BT out the pics i took (i forgot ) so i cant compare photos with other 3.2mp. Anyhow i think those photos is good for moment snapping.

Other than that, i find this phone is quite heavy due to metal frame, but i am satisfy with its build. The only grief is that its non-3g phone, as i usually surf the web on the go. I didnt further explore the phone as it is not the demo unit from the launch (its already over and LYP is doing plasma & LCD tv roadshow). My friend didnt know it is scratch resistant, and i cant test it because he doesnt allow me to scratch it. But of coz i did try to scratch it when i am at his back ... so with normal scratching with keys or edge from the table proves it is resistant, but i doubt it can stand those strong scratches; after all it is not sapphire glass, or diamond ...

that is my hand on review.. please enlighten me if i am wrong at certain parts.

and the phone in LYP is selling at least RM1100-1199. My friend even sold it once for RM1.3k...

yeap... just sad... if i could have more time with it.. i shud able to check out its features...

it works.. like other software also, only this comes together with the phone. like new samsung phone

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i remember there is a way to minimize it.. but i cant confirm it now..

can... but they too will send it back to zitron opposite BTS.