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Ooh, a 2mp Camera and an MP3 player. #

By Lloyd Posted Monday 26th March 2007 14:51 GMT

Hardly up to minute technology is it?

Bit short on usability info... #

By Nick Drew Posted Monday 26th March 2007 16:29 GMT

Fairly good review, but as a tech site I thought you might be more interested in the functionality and usability of the phone for texting, web-browsing and so on. It's unlikely to sell on feature set, but given that it's the first (kind of) competitor for the iPhone, it would make more sense to see where the battle lines have been drawn.

Since when has the fashion world ever been interested in usefulness? #

By Arnold Lieberman Posted Monday 26th March 2007 17:09 GMT

Considering this phone is more likely to be targetted at Paris Hilton than geeks like us, they've probably got the feature set just right (i.e. not too much, but pretty).

Re. usability #

By Tony Smith, Editor, Reg Hardware Posted Monday 26th March 2007 17:12 GMT

I did discuss how well the touchpad works for dialling, texting and navigating around the KE850's user interface. But you make a fair point about web browsing.

To fill the gap, then, the browsing experience isn't up to much. The handset's a GPRS device, so it's not a fast downloader, and the web browser app doesn't do an especially good job. It's fine for small-screen centric sites, such as Google's mobile page, but runs into difficulty with sites designed around monitor sizes.