LG Arena KM900 Arena Unlocked Quad-Band Touch Screen Cell Phone with 5MP Camera, Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi --International Version with Warranty (Silver)

by LG

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.8 x 0.5 x 4 inches ; 3.7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001T6COIA
• Item model number: KM900 Arena Silver
• Batteries: 1 Lithium ion batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,280 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

Inside the LG Arena touch screen phone is a powerful user interface that lets you control an array of mobile media with the touch of your fingertips. The large, 3" touch screen boasts gorgeous viewing possibilities for photos and DivX video. Scroll and play your music with Dolby Mobile. Take high-resolution pictures with the 5 MP digital camera. Browse the Internet. Plan your route with GPS. With the Arena, everything is just a touch away.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bittersweet experience, July 22, 2009

By 

Steven Burns (-) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

I had this phone for about three months, until it fell from about 3 feet and the screen broke.
That said, I'll write this review being objective, based on the whole experience as a user.

Pros:

- Capacitive Screen: Yes, just like the iPhone, no need to press, just touch. You can perform gestures such as sliding pictures or scaling them with two fingers.
- Nice interface: the rotating cube is great. The contact manager is as good as it gets, I loved it.
- Wonderful screen resolution: 480x800
- Good looking and not bulky at all, especially for that resolution.
- Great multimedia features: decent camera, video with sound, 8GB, nice music player.
- Good battery life when used as a music player: I had this phone playing music for hours in a party with no need for a charger.

Cons:

- Average battery life with day to day use.
- Slow: Browsing is embarrassingly slow. I thought that was normal for a cell phone until I saw some other phones browsing way faster, even phones worth half the price. Navigation is fast 90% of the time but occasionally it'll freeze for a few seconds. Same thing with the accelerometer, sometimes it just doesn't realize it has to rotate the screen.
- Interface mistakes: regardless of the great looks, it has some obvious mistakes. For example, when you make a call it locks the screen, so far so good. But sometimes you need to unlock the phone (to dial an extension number for example) and guess what, as soon as you click the unlock button on the highly sensitive screen there's a red "hang up" button just below it waiting for you to click it by mistake.
Also, IMHO the "call" button on the phone should open the dial-pad and the one on the screen the "recent calls list", not the other way around.
- Kind of fragile: I've had Nokias fall harder with no problems whatsoever.

Well, that pretty much summarizes it, I hope you find my review useful.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Review Arena, July 8, 2009

By 

Roger "Roger" (New York) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this Arena via Amazon.com (MobileCityOnline) and connected it to my desktop to synchronize it. LG PC Suite III asked me if I would like to update my Arena, which I did.
After this been done I could not use this phone anymore and having VERSION MISMATCHING in the phone display.

Amazon as well as MobileCityOnline refusing to have it flash resetted, as this phone is an international one and can only be resetted outside the States. I paid 520,00 US for this phone and still can not use it. I feel robbed. DO NOT BUY THIS ARENA FROM AMAZON! Be warned, apparently these phones are only for the Singapore market without warranty although Amazon said it has full warranty. Also I ordered a 16GB and got the 8 GB delivered. Do not buy with Amazon.com !!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Black version, July 10, 2009

By 

Michael West (United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Phone would freeze up at least three times a day. Nice when it worked, but the software problems made this thing a P.O.S.. Could not send photos via email when using the 5MP camera. Not enough memory to send it. I had to downsize to 3MP. Would not fetch mail at the intervals I had put in. It tried and locked up. LG did not think this software through. Allot of money for bad software. Sent it back to mobilecity and got hit with a 15% restocking fee even though the phone was defective. Buyer beware.