It is s a budget phone no doubt about it but it still manages to pack in a 2 megapixel camera with fixed focus, which is far better than the number would suggest especially in the right lighting, MP3 player and ringtones, FM radio, Bluetooth and a memory card slot with a potential 4Gb expansion, which is enough to store around 1,000 MP3 tracks!
LG has certainly found inspiration from the growing Smartphone market to create the KS360. This is a phone which borrows from the sliding Qwerty keyboard form factor as seen on whole range of Smartphone�s out there such as the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and upcoming Nokia N97 found at the other end of the pricing spectrum, but also cuts away many of their premium features to put a messaging device in the hands of the mass market.
In addition to the touchscreen which is used for dialing, there’s a full range of “normal” buttons for navigation, calling, ending calls, etc. So if you don’t get on with touchscreens, there’s no need to worry as this phone is very user friendly. The black and blue front fascia and disjointed D-Pad is rather unique and definitely eye catching, whilst the embedded number pad keys which sit against a grey background as do the diamond-shaped arrangement of embedded cursor keys make for a very visually pleasing handset. 
That said the LG KS360, impressive as it is, isn’t without some niggles as with everything in life, it can�t be perfect. For example, while the phone lacks 3G that is no real reason to install a basic WAP2.0 web browser and, though this isn’t a high end device, the exclusion of a 3.5mm headphone jack is quite a shame as it means you can’t charge the phone and listen to music simultaneously. Connectivity appears to be via Bluetooth only, however the battery life is very good due to the light weight applications and it does have triband GSM coverage.
Also, I have to mention the KS360�s build quality. It is remarkably well put together. It feels solid in the hand but light at just 106g thanks to the shedding of those premium features. The not too recently released 3G Samsung i8510 packed to the brim with high end applications weighs in at around 140g�s and it doesn�t even have an external keyboard to worry about, just to put the size difference into perspective. In fact, the overall effect is a phone which wouldn’t look out of place alongside many of the more expensive Windows Mobile and Symbian-based smartphones on sale. The large 2.4-inch 256k colour screen is also vibrant and offers surprisingly responsive touch screen dialling when the keyboard is folded away. Of course all of these plus points would be irrelevant if the LG KS360’s key selling point was poorly implemented but this is one of the best mobile k
To be honest, we were quite blown away by this little baby. We were expecting it to be a bit tacky, gimmicky and flawed due to its price range, but it’s really impressed us. The LG KS360 is an excellent phone in what is sure to become an expanding market and one which both the text addict and text amateur can enjoy with equal pleasure. Build quality is superb as previously mentioned; the screen is sharp and vivid, while the headline grabbing QWERTY keyboard is top notch. Buy the KS 360 for what it was intended and you can’t go wrong.
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[Source: The UK Mobile Phone Blog]
