Aug 29, 2008

Eye Catching Camera Phones



LG KF750 Secret

The touch-sensing Secret is the thinnest 5-meg camera-phone ever. That’s no secret and nor, sadly, is the fact that the said camera is no better than passable. It is fine when you’re gamboling about in brightly-lit fields, but when indoors or in twilight, the pictures become soft and are lacking in detail. You’ll often end up misfiring while trying to semi-depress the shutter to focus, and the screen suffers from blurring if you have the temerity to move. There are adjustable scene modes, sensitivity and white balance, but no xenon flash. Another non-secret about the Secret is that the touch controls are as sluggish as a slug farm on a moist day, requiring multiple jabs before they perform. They’re like the staff of some ’sarkari’ office.

In other areas that the Secret shines - it looks gorgeous and the TouchMedia menu is superb. But as a camera, it’s not much cop - and that’s no secret! Man, we got a lot of mileage out of that gag.

We say - Innovative features and lissome appearance. But it’s camera is nothing to write home about. T3 rating : 3/5

Stable-mates - LG Viewty - Rs 21,990: We’re massive fans of the rubbish touchscreen and plastic build. Shame the Viewty is let down by an excellent 5-meg camera : Thanks to a touchscreen that’s infinitely superior to the Viewty’s, we can forgive the KF700’s camera for only “having 3-megapixel in it”

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