LG PRADA phone unboxed

One thing I gotta’ say off the bat is smart. This phone is smart. LG and PRADA are smart. No, it’s not a "smartphone" but it’s made by smart people. Combining an upscale luxury brand, with a new, fun and intuitive device has been done in this case. What I love about the phone is that it’s a phone, it doesn’t try and handle your Exchange email, while syncing your contacts to the moon, and have a ringtone master maker program. It makes calls. Now onto what really matters — how does it make calls? It’s good, not great. The touch-screen takes a little getting used to and sometimes the phone doesn’t recognize your input when you damn well know it should. The menus are really straight forward even for a novice user and placed wonderfully. PRADA’s minimalistic default theme looks extremely sharp on the handset, with the "Apple" theme looking rather good itself. One of the problems to me was not the built quality, but the feel. As soon as I picked it up I thought it was going to be heavy and solid, yet it feels like it’s made of cheap shiny plastic and is very light. At the end of the day if your wearing a tuxedo or dinner gowns to black-tie parties more than once a week, grab the LG PRADA phone. You will be the ones everyone hates. Until the iPhone drops.

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Jonathan S. Geller