14 DAY TRIAL // Although the LG KP500 is a Renoir-esque device that was designed to be entry level, everybody expected that it would be priced somewhere on the upper limit of affordable. It seems that this is not quite true, since according to the latest reports, the price tag for this phone will be somewhere around 170 Euros, before taxes and subsidies.
If the information provided proves to be correct, users will be able to get this baby for 100 Euros or even less, when all the taxes are deduced and a contract is signed. Probably a two-year agreement, but who cares after all? This phone bring almost everything users could ever want.
The LG KP500 is a candybar device that delivers a full 3-inch touchscreen that is designed to make watching videos, playing games and looking at photos really enjoyable. Also, it has a redesigned intuitive UI that will allow them to access all the menus fast, while the accelerometer should make the user experience a really easy and comfortable one. Of course, the phone wouldn't be complete without an accelerometer, which users will find really useful when playing games, the display being auto-rotating, while the device also brings a full QWERTY onscreen keyboard.
Other features include a 3.0 MP camera, 48 MB of internal memory expandable up to 8GB through a microSD card, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, together with the MP3 player and video player, and the document viewer. The phone measures 106.5 x 55.4 x 11.9 mm, and is a quad band EDGE/GSM, and in case you were wondering, no, it does not have 3G. This might be one of the downsides of the device, but there seems to be plenty other stuff to compensate for this and, if you're not a heavy mobile Internet user, then the EDGE should do just fine.