LG KF900 Prada review: Messenger wears Prada

Gsmarena have posted their review of the LG KF900 Prada. Here are the key features, main disadvantages and final impression.

Key features:
3-inch 262K-color capacitive touchscreen display of WQVGA resolution
Comfortable QWERTY keyboard
5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash
D1 (720x480) resolution video recording at 30fps
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
Dual band 3G with HSDPA support
Wi-Fi
Responsive Flash-based interface with multi-touch support
Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and USB v2.0
Stylish and generous retail package
microSD memory card slot (verified to work with 16GB cards)
FM radio with RDS
Accelerometer sensor for screen auto rotate
TV-out
Office document viewer
DivX video support
Fashion-related content preloaded
Main disadvantages:
Two-year-old design
The large waistline doesn't match the fashionable image (but is OK for a QWERTY messenger)
Plastic build
No GPS (LG Renoir has it)
No XviD video support (LG Renoir has it)
Multi-touch has rather limited use
No Flash support in the web browser
Video recording is a letdown
High cost-to-features ratio (but OK for a premium fashion handset)

The LG KF900 Prada will try to do everything for you and hey - it will come out right for the most part. To begin with, it's one of the most uncompromising all-inclusive upgrades we've seen in quite a while. The original Prada phone is improved down to the last bit of specs. A fluid and responsive touch interface, 5 MP camera, high-res video recording, lightning fast data transfers and Wi-Fi are a great treat, no doubt about that.

But if you bought the first Prada, it was hardly the specs you were after. And it's probably not the performance you'd be keen to upgrade but looks.

No, our problem is not that the design is 2 years old already. The new Prada stays reverently true to the original styling and we guess it tries to connect with the original following. On the other hand, the feature set implies a totally new target audience and it's exactly this inconsistency that questions the LG Prada's success.

After all if performance is what you need - the LG KC910 Renoir goes even further and costs much less. Not to mention a few smart messengers that make the new Prada look like a damsel in distress, only without the happy end.