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LG KE970-Shine Review - Conclusion



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Fareed
Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007
by Fareed, Cell Phone Editor
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Conclusion

Editor Rating: 4.2
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The LG Shine comes with the following:

      • Box and manuals
      • Charger
      • USB cable
      • LG software
      • Stereo headphones with remote
      • Battery
      • LG Cleaning tool

The phone is a fingerprint magnet!! The material of the phone makes it get dirty very fast and you have to constantly wipe the screen off. I think that is why LG has included the cleaning tool with it which can be attached to the phone.

The UI of the Shine is nothing special and is almost the same as others in its class. The phone does not add any new features that we have not seen before and are very limited. Although this phone is not meant to be a PDA, more advanced features would have been great.

Overall the battery life is sufficient for making and receiving calls but when you use Bluetooth or A2DP the battery life significantly decreases. On average without using Bluetooth the phone would last me two full days, when using A2DP the battery would last barely one full day. The battery lasts 280 hours on stand-by and 3 hours of talk-time.

Overall I liked the LG shine very much. Everyone that saw it said the same thing “it’s beautiful”. The phone looks fantastic and currently there’s no other like it. This does not mean other companies will not copy the design especially when it becomes more and more popular. By many people LG is known for the Chocolate phone and now in my opinion their going to be even further recognized by the Shine and Prada phone.
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