mini review of lg kg270

today, i am reviewing a lg's low-end mobile phone. it's the kg270.

lg kg270

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here are the screen shots of the menus.

i've been using the kg270 mobile phone for over a month now. the only reason that made me buy this phone is its price and also becaue i need a non-camera mobile phone. i got it for sixty-eight bucks without mobile plan contract. not a bad deal, actually. however, usability is a big problem.

1) messaging

it has t9 and messaging feels very much like nokia's. i.e. pressing the '0' inputs a space. we all know nokia has the best messaging implementation and that is mostly attributed to t9 and the arrangement of the keys. i'm sure all lg mobile phones have the same implementations as nokia's. however, i feel lg's is not as refine or its software is buggy.

i'll illustrate,. supposedly, you need to type the time '12.30'. on this lg, you would press, on the keypad, '1' -> navi pad 'up' to get to '1' first. then, you press '2' and press 'up' to get '2'. after that, you press '*' to select '.' from the symbols menu or just hit '1' to get '.'. for '0', you first have to change the input type to numbers before pressing '0' on the keypad to get '0'.

annoying? i bet.

on a well-implemented messaging system like nokia's and sonyericsson's, all you need to do to input the time is to press and hold the number keypads to get the numbers. unfortunately, it's not the case here with the lg.

2) phone calls

basically, calls got dropped and receiving parties usually could not hear properly from the caller. it's reminiscent of conversing using signal sets.

3) stiff buttons

as this is a budget phone, the materials used in the construction of the phone are usually of low quality. messaging on the lg270 can be a daunting task. the buttons are simply too stiff and unresponsive.

of course, the lg270 has its plus points. at least it has a radio function which pretty comes standard with a budget phone. secondly, it functions well without any hardware glitches.

honestly, i would not recommend this phone. there are better budget phones like the nokia 6030. lg is just does not work for me. i call it "lousy gadget" ("life's good")...

fault lines of a relationship

in a relationship, both parties almost certainly will get the taste of happiness, betrayal, despair and disppointment. all these emotional entities are the fault lines of a relationship. at any one point where one of the lines starts to crack, it can gradually weakens the relationship and too much of it can destroy a relationship.

if someone were to hurt you emotionally in a relationship, how would you take it? as the receiving party, would you be angry and turn revengeful? or would you take everything, swallow it up and hurt yourself? or would you even take it just fine and move on, thinking nothing is so great as to break yourself into pieces?

humans are emotional creatures. just like any other living creatures on earth, we need to talk (to someone) for comfort. without communications, we would die, literally.

it's really an art to communicating with another human being. messages conveyed sometimes do not get understood but yet, if one doesn't talk it out properly, things will certainly go wrong.

think about it.

seventh of august

my dear turned twenty-two on the seventh of august. i've been with her through thick and thin although our love journey started out about two years back. yup, our journey never ends. *smile*

ah..how sweet..

i had been planning hard to give her a very memorable birthday celebration. well, things turned out just perfectly well and i'm glad she loved it. *smile*

right, allow me to reveal the master plan.

i knew there would be more than one celebration. that had been confirmed with dear (part of my plan). dear was very persistence. she knew there would be one from me, so she kept hinting me about where and when i would do this and that. of course, i let nothing out of the bag. information i gave her was graded 'restricted'. ok, she knew there would be one and also the venue for dinner. but that's that.

i took a week to give it a serious thought as i was too caught up with work. first of all, i thought i would only join xuan, leon, wah and jy to give dear a celebration. then i thought i didn't want to get involve with the surprise they were throwing. that left me with a pool of ideas from which i could pick from. in that pool were rose, bracelet, pendant, watch, and, not forgetting, a brithday cake.

the rose: i could get the florist to deliver a bouquet of roses to dear's place in the morning so she would be thrilled. at night, we would have a lovely dinner at miss clarity.

the pendant: she likes a pendant with two metals. we saw one at lee hwa jewellery. get it and surprised her at eski bar.

the watch: a casio sheen watch. surprised her at miss clarity.

it was mentally taxing to pick one from that pool. i had to find out exactly where to get all those stuff and how much they would cost (not that i'm rich, but budgetting is needed). on wednesday, thursday and friday, i went downtown, up north and west-ward to do my research. it was physically exhausting and i had to lie to dear about my whereabouts.

finally, i decided on a watch and a pendant. the pendant wasn't from lee hwa though. the cake came as a surprise as dear's brother told me he would get the cake and the family would celebrate with her. so, i bought the watch from up north and the pendant from west-ward. i would surprise her with the pendant at eski bar. then at miss clarity for dinner, i would surprise her with the watch. perfect.

but what about the other items she likes? i haven't count them out yet. they would appear right before her eyes in time to come. very soon. *wink*

[ presents and gifts are stop-overs. the only thing that is important, is for us to finish the journey together, with courage, hope and faith ]