LG KF510 Review by 3G.co.uk
It's amazing to think that a couple of years ago LG was rolling out humdrum clamshells that failed to fire the imagination. But since the launch of the heart-melting Chocolate slider in 2006, the Korean giant has literally become a style trendsetter. The follow-up Shine provoked a slew of rival metallic, mirrored handsets, the Fashion Prada blower could easily be cited as kick-starting the whole touch phone revolution, and the recent 3G.co.uk fave, the Secret, is just simply awesome. These are hard acts to follow, so can its latest slider, the KF510, maintain LG's growing rep?
LG KF510 - Heavy metal
Coming from a mid-range background, you would think the KF510's chances were low. But true to form LG has maintained its impeccable production values, brilliantly combining the metallic torso of the Shine, with the touch-sensitive keys of the Chocolate. Its real metal body gives the KF510 an assured heft and a quality feel that is sometimes missing from middle-class handsets. While it may feel pretty solid, this skater is also impressively slender, measuring a lean and trim 10.9mm.
Lying dormant, the handset's minimalist design is the perfect backdrop to enjoy its rather fetching colour graduation paint job. Our sample arrived in a more sophisticated stardust dark grey, but the fading paint work is best showcased on the sunset red model.
LG KF510 - Eye catching paint work
And like its vaporous veneer, the skater mechanism is similarly slick with a nifty inner slider hiding the camera, and a hotswappable microSD card slot. LG has also borrowed the tempered scratch-proof glass from the Secret, giving the KF510's 2.2-inch QVGA-quality display a robust sheen. So apart from the highly usable but plastic chequered keypad that feels a bit tacky under thumb, the KF510's build oozes a metallic quality last seen at this level in the Shine.
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