LG KP500 Cookie cell earphone review

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The LG KP500 Cookie is a new gimmick boast to be the UK’s cheapest touchscreen French telephone. With a large 3″ blind and a 3 megapixel photographic camera, the KP500 should be a tempting proposition to anyone that wants a more affordable option to the iPhone. We take a closer look to see if the Cookie crumbles…

Physical Aspects

The LG Cookie comes in the standard tablet style that many recent touchscreen handsets have adopted. This gives the device a simplistic look, with the 3″ touch-sensitive display dominating the movement. Measuring a respectable 106.5mm x 55.4mm x 11.9mm (4.2″ x 2.2″ x .5″) and weighing a mere 89g (3.1oz), the Cookie easily slides into a pocket or bag.

The display is capable of showing 256,000 colors and has a WQVGA solving of 240 x 400 pixels. It’s also quite bright, allowing for decent discernability in sunny conditions. Below it ar 3 square buttons with chrome edges. The buttons comprise the ‘Call/Send’ button, favorite/running apps button, and ‘End’ push button. Around the display is a glossy black surround that houses the LG logo, with the ease of the movement organism clad in soft-touch plastic.

The rear shares this soft touching finishing, and houses the lens for the 3.0 megapixel camera. The lower berth half of the back cover slides off to reveal the assault and battery and SIM card one-armed bandit, and features an embossed LG logotype. The front and back of the gimmick ar separated by a metallic flatware banding that loops around all 4 edges of the French telephone. The circus tent and bottom of the device ar completely bare, digression from the microphone pinhole on the freighter margin.

The sides of the Cookie theater the remaining few buttons, with the volume cradle on the left and the photographic camera shutter and screen lock buttons on the right. I found the screen ignition lock push button to be too flush with the casing to allow easy procedure. It usually took a few jabs at the side of the gimmick before I managed to unlock the blind. There’s also a covered microSD(INFO) slot on the right and the gimmick’s proprietary headset/information/charging multi-port on the left field. Hidden in the bottom right field corner of the device is the extendable stylus that, unusually, slides out of the gimmick sideways. The stylus is quite shortstop at 76mm, but the phone tin be operated with a fingerbreadth for most tasks, so it’s rarely needed.

Overall, the LG Cookie is a decent-look gimmick, though is a little drilling and lacks any real designing flare. However, thanks to extensive manipulation of soft-touch plastics, it does feel quite nice in the helping hand and stays fingerprint-free, digression from the blind.

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