LG KF700 review: A touch of slide, a touch of scroll

Gsmarena have posted their review of the LG KF700. Here are the key features, main disadvantages and final conclusion.

Key features:
Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE plus HSDPA 7.2Mbps
3 megapixel autofocus camera
Secondary camera for video calls
3" 262K-color TFT touchscreen display with a 240x480 pixel resolution
Touch feedback (haptics)
FM radio
Stereo Bluetooth
176MB internal memory, microSD card slot (hot-swap)
Sliding hardware keypad
Side scroll wheel with an OK key
Retail headset has a standard 3.5mm audio jack
Office document viewer
Multi-tasking support with a task manager
Pleasing touch-optimized web browser
Google Maps pre-installed

Main disadvantages:
The side scroll wheel seems redundant
Image quality is only average
Video recording maxes out at QVGA@15fps
FM radio has no RDS
Music player lacks equalizer settings
Web browser doesn't have flash support
No screen auto rotation

The LG KF700 is a good all-rounder with nice performance in almost all aspects - it's got nice design (although not that thin), rich connectivity package (the lack of Wi-Fi and GPS is alright in a feature phone) and responsive touch-based interface.

Although the camera image quality is not that good and video recording has a "MMS-only" sign all over, the KF700 sports nice multimedia features and has an excellent touch-optimized web browser (save for the flash support).

Unfortunately, it's a difficult time for touch phones - firstly, there are new ones coming out with increasingly advanced features, then there's the iPhone 3G rolling out to a quite a large part of the world, and finally there are several other handsets on the market that cost slightly more but offer tons of more features. So obviously, if affordability is key and you're after a sleek and easy to use touch handset, LG KF700 is a really nice choice.

LG have set a firm foot on the touch phone market and they seem to be pushing more and more touchscreens. The LG KF700 is obviously not a high-end device and it has an attractive price point (at the time of writing) at around 230 euro (340 US dollars). We feel comparison with LG KC550 is quite justified. The affordable 5 megapixel snapper is a focused little gadget that brought the Viewty and Secret flair down to the masses. LG KF700 might be more of a niche product, but what it does is pretty similar. It takes a nice and capable touch platform, follows some Prada dress code and puts it all to use with HSDPA and nice browsing at a reasonable price.