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Comments on: LG KC550 5-megapixel cameraphone

Looks like a fish, moves like a fish...steers like a cow 

Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 11:07 GMT

Alien

Yes, but has it got a black button labelled in black on a black background with a little black light that lights up black to let you know you've pressed it?

Poor SD card support 

Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 11:20 GMT

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Only being able to add 4MB is ridiculous in this day and age, I would expect at least 4GB cards to be supported.

@Jerome 

Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 12:18 GMT

You beat me to it!

Don't buy 

Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 14:09 GMT

I hated this phone. Went right back to my K800. And I could not get bluetooth A2DP working, despite trying three types of headphones.

microSD / microSDHC 

Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 14:24 GMT

In theory, if the phone supports 4GB cards, it should support larger ones too. Micro SD cards of 4GB and above are necessarily SDHC cards so the hardware required to read them is there, it's just a question of O/S support, and if a manufacturer starts doing devices in this day and age that only have O/S support for cards up to 4GB, they need their heads looking at.

Interestingly enough, the official blurb about Nokia's N95-1 (the original N95, not the newer N95-2 with 8GB of flash memory on the mainboard and no memory card slot) also says that it'll support cards of up to 4GB. I've had an 8GB card in mine for several months now and it works fine even when almost full, so O/S support *IS* there in this case. Early indications are that the N95-1 will also work with 12GB and 16GB cards when they become available.

So, did anyone at El Reg try the new LG handset with an 8GB card or did you all take the specs on face value?

Re: Looks like etc. 

Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 19:37 GMT

Happy

Ah, that would be that elusive DED, the Darkness Emitting Diode, right?

Mirror.. 

Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 09:45 GMT

Alert

the lil domed mirror next to the camera lens so you can align your self portrait shots looks a little bit well err duff! did someone read silver and paint it?

@GettinSadda 

Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 16:42 GMT

No, but it has one that when you press it a sign pops up saying "Please do not press this button again!".