LG Shine (KE970) Titanium Black
Available
July 2007 13th July 2007
The LG
Shine is a pretty familiar device to our readers,
but this time the Shine has gone much darker with a
Titanium Black colour scheme.
At present, LG have announced this scheme
for the KE970 (GSM) version of the Shine, and not the
almost identical KU970 (3G) version. The handset is
due to hit major retailers in the UK, Netherlands, France
and Austria at the end of July.
Whether
or not this dark coloured Shine is actually appealing
remains to be seen - it's not always easy to judge how
a handset really looks from press photography. It's
certainly a striking looking handset, and as the LG
Shine is pitched firmly in the fashion phone marker
then it should turn a few heads.
Just in case you're not already familiar
with the technical specifications on the LG Shine KE970,
it comes with a 240 x 320 pixel display in 262,000 colours,
a 2 megapixel camera camera with a Schneider-Kreuznach
lens, autofocus and a multishot capability. Memory expansion
is through a microSD slot, stereo Bluetooth and the
LG Shine also has the usual combination of MP3 player,
email client, web browser and everything else you'd
expect. It's a bit heavier than most similarly sized
GSM phones at 119 grams, mostly due to the metal parts
in the construction.
Although the original KE970 is a great
looking handset, there have been criticisms about signal
strength, battery life and that the handset scratches
easily. This latter problem is common to a lot of fashion
phones - the solution is to take better care of it!
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LG
Shine (KE970) Titanium Black
at a glance
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Available:
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Q3
2007
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Network:
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GSM
900/1800/1900
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Data:
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GPRS
+ EDGE
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Screen:
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240x320
pixels, 262K colours
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Camera:
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2
megapixels
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Size:
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Medium
slider 100 x 51
x 14mm / 119 grams
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Memory
card:
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microSD
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Infra-red:
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No
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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11 days standby
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