Here is the LG KM900 Arena it has been elegantly designed with a fantastic touch screen and a fabulous user interface. With quality built-in imaging features and technologies this gorgeous handset really is waiting for its user to enjoy and explore what the Arena has to offer. The Arena comprises a stunning 3 inch TFT touch-screen displaying up to 262k colors with screen resolutions of 480 x 800 pixels which definitely ensures for clear, bright and very colorful screen images. We love the 3D cube style interface which acts like a rotating cube on the screen enabling the user to make on screen menu selections via the touch controls and it really does provide the wow factor making the Arena look even more amazing. This elegant mobile phone is easy to manage and operate especially with a size of 105.9mm x 55.3mm x 12mm and weighing in at a very respectable 105g, there will be no issues either when it comes to storing the LG KM900 Arena on your person or a small bag. There are up to 4 hours of talk time on the LG KM900 Arena Arena mobile phone with up to 300 hours of stand-by with a full charge up of the phone's battery.

INTERFACE

The new S-Class interface kicks offs with four sliding homescreens, each assigned for customization including nine feature shortcuts, widgets, picture ID contacts and favourite multimedia clobber like individual songs, pictures and videos. The last two panels introduce a front-facing carousel menu for snappy browsing.
A finger swipe will adequately access these homescreens or alternatively a dedicated button summons a spinning 3D cube that seems completely superfluous. The iPhone-esque main menu itself consists of four elasticated sliding rows conveniently grouped under communication, multimedia, utilities and settings. Overall, the layout is intuitive and easy to scroll through.

NICE TOUCH

It helps that the sharp, 3in 480x800 capacitive touchscreen is LG’s best yet and highly receptive to your taps and swipes. Similarly, the multi-touch pinching technique also works well when zooming in on photos or web pages.That said, it’s still not iPhone smooth and smaller icons can occasionally be tricky to single out with the pinkie, which is more a handicap of the smaller display. This also goes for the fiddly onscreen virtual QWERTY that needs time to master if you’re a speedy typer.

CAMERA QUALITY

We’re disappointed to see the Arena is only endowed with only a 5MP camera and not the 8MP of the Renoir. Still, it still comes with the requisite photo mods like face detection, image stabilisation and ISO 800 mode. In keeping with the new interface, a user-friendly SLR-type dial lets you handily flick through the settings.
The Schneider-Kreuznach lens is decent enough but suffers from a sluggish autofocus. Compared to the Sony Ericsson C902 it’s slow to get its eye in and the LED flash isn’t consistently effective in low lit areas.

VIDEO STAR

On the upside, the Arena is exceptional at video recording, thanks to the built-in D1 camcorder. The WVGA-quality video capture at 30fps footage is very polished, and you can also shoot slo-mo (120fps) and fast dallies at inferior QVGA resolution.
As for web surfing, it’s certainly brisk over 7.2Mbps flavored HSDPA and Wi-Fi. The browser also proved easy to use particularly with multi-touch, though we’d look into downloading Opera Mini when it becomes available for the KM900 Arena.

DOLBY DANCER

With the Dolby Mobile mode activated, the music player sounds surprisingly dynamic and detailed at low volume with plenty of bass. Plug in your earphones of choice via the integrated 3.5mm jack and it sounds even slicker. With 8GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot for tunes storage, the Arena could easily become your portable music player, or at least a handy back-up. 

REASON TO BUY:

• 3" 16M-color capacitive TFT touchscreen of WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels)
• S-Class Touch UI
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• 3G with HSDPA (7.2 Mbps)
• Wi-Fi and GPS receiver with A-GPS
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with Schneider-Kreuznach optics, LED flash, geotagging
• D1 (720x480 pixels)@30fps, VGA@30fps, QVGA fast-motion video and QVGA slo-mo video
• 8GB built-in storage
• Hot-swappable microSD card slot
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack and TV out
• USB Mass Storage
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• Accelerometer for screen auto rotate
• Multi-touch input
• 3D hardware accelerator
• DivX and XviD support
• Dolby for Mobile audio enhancement
• FM radio with FM transmitter
• Office document viewer
• Smart dialing

THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE YOU BUY:

• Poor sunlight legibility
• Inadequate flash performance
• No voice-guided GPS navigation software available
• No standard USB port
• Records video in 3GP file format
• Maximum email attachment size is 1MB only (both ways)
• Limited DivX/XviD video support

BOTTOM LINE

There’s no doubt the KM900 Arena is great fun to use and is easily LG’s best touch phone yet. But with app and software download stores becoming an important part of the mobile landscape, it lacks the flexibility of rivals like the iPhone, G1 or Storm, and doesn’t have a good enough snapper to worry the top camera phones.

In terms of beauty alone we stand to give the LG KM900 Arena full marks and of course for user friendly touch screen abilities. What gives the Arena an edge is that fact it is sporting a 5 mega-pixel camera function, but the lack of music and sound technologies is a little disappointing. To be competitive we expect a little more, yes not everybody is a music lover out there who requires the best in terms of high tech music capabilities but a little more would have been more impressive. But having said all that overall the LG KM900 Arena mobile phone is a real stunner that may give the illusion it is a complicated handset to operate, but it really isn't, so for pure elegance and style and the no fuss of high spec techs then the LG Arena is most definitely worth checking out.