LG SHINE shines!

I bought a new phone, LG Shine KE970 the shiny metal slide phone.

The front look of the phone.

Many have been asking why did I buy such an unpopular phone. Well, this is me, always doing things that most people don’t do. In other words, I want to be different from others, I want to be unique, I am too just obsessed with myself.

Anyway, here’s a review about the phone. All honest opinion from my heart, from a fussy user. No blardy lies in this post, cause nobody paid me to write this!

The back of the phone - the metal casing.

The Pros.

The main reason I bought over this phone is because of its elegant exterior. I am one who always look something from the outside, then only inside. This applies to how I look on other people.

From the front, it’s like a huge mirror. The phone benefit most to those people who are a vainpot, like me LOL! Throw your mirrors out from your heavy bag, you don’t need them with your phone around.

Told you the screen can be a mirror.

On the back part, it’s a whole piece of metal. I don’t know how to describe how a piece of metal can make the phone look so good, but it’s how it made the phone shines among the others, really.

I love the flat key pad, where it’s so hard to find it on other phones.

Nice keypad for sms.

The phone comes with a 2MP auto focus camera, product of Scheneider - Kreunzach. So far, from my opinion, the camera isn’t really good, but at the same time isn’t that bad also. Averagely it’s better then those chapalang handphone camera that are without auto focus.

Picture of my grandma’s self made chee chong fun taken from the phone, unedited. Not too bad right?

I did say that the phone is unique in many different ways didn’t I? This phone has a special scrollbar, in the front part of the screen. No more arrow up and down, it’s just rubbing your thumb on the scrollbar up and down. It’s nice!

The heavenly convenient scrollbar key.

The Cons.

The software supported are very inconvenient, totally inconvenient. Here are few examples to support my complain.

1. There’s no shortcut for deleting sms-es. A minimum of three steps needed, Options > Delete > Yes. Compared to SE phones, a “C” > Yes, one step saved.
2. Transferring pics via bluetooth to pc was troublesome. I have to transfer ONE BY ONE cause they never have a “mark” function for me to mark more then one pics to be sent together. Grrr.!
3. After finished typing the sms, ready to be sent, there’s no shortcut key for us to reach our contact book in the phone, instead, we need to go Option > Contact > [find name] > Yes > Send. SO MAFAN CAN!!
4. My phone book got messed up. Like I saved the contact on the name (Ah Kow) from my previous phone, it now turns in to (Kow/ Ah). Now I have a hard time to think of the name that I saved to make a call. How pathetic is that?
5. When my battery is running low, which is quite often, the phone doesn’t allows me to use my camera. Even when listening mp3, when the “low battery” warning pops up practically 3 minutes starting from my song, my music will be stopped and not resumed. DAMN! Am I the owner of the phone or the battery is!?!

It’s not thick you see, it’s sleek!

Other then the software problem, the battery is very not lasting. I think, for a new phone, the battery must at least last for 5-7 days without calling, but my phone lasted only for 3-4 days max even if I didn’t make or receive any calls. I have to charge my phone every 2 days now, which I think it’s a very bad battery provided.

The price.

I think many of you are curious about the price. Well I got it at a bargain, only RM999 (I think it’s pretty cheap!). It was originally priced at RM1199, but with SenQ giving a RM200 rebate, a FREE Jabra bluetooth headset, comes with a 512mb Micro SD card, 1+2 additional years warranty for free (for members), and I topped up an addional RM49 for an extra 2 years warranty which made my phone warrantied for 5 fucking years.

Tell me where can you get your phone warrantied for so long!!?

2 MP camera with auto focus, not too bad.

So far, other then the complains I mentioned above, I am quite satisfied with the phone. Asked me if I would recommend this phone to you? If you like something to show off, YES. Else, get another phone. Hehe!

I hope LG would take note of all the complains and improve its functions in the coming phone as I see there’s future in LG, just that they need more experience and time to work things out.

Go go LG!