Great phone at a reasonable price (LG KC550)

Member Name: chrisc92

Product:	LG KC550
Date:	12/06/09 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Comes with 1gb memory card and 5mp camera, bluetooth, mp3, organiser. Can upgrade memory.

Disadvantages: Keys occasionally stick, shape may not appeal to all

I bought my LG KC550 about 4 months ago from my local Tesco store and is on their network.

It's a little wider than the phone I normally buy, and is one my partner suggested - in fact this particular one was intended as a birthday present for my daughter, but I bought it too early as it had a £20 top up voucher included that had to be used pretty soon and I was also worried that she would only have 11 months warranty instead of the 12. As I loved the phone that was soon remedied and I went back and bought her one too.

It comes with a 1gb memory card which for most would be adequate for over 100 mp3 songs or a high number of photos at its maximum resolution of 2560x1920 (5mb camera). It currently shows 3818 photos available at maximum resolution, but I have replaced the original with a 4gb card and used its pc punctionality to copy my original photos across using a spare card reader that accepted mini cards. It took quite a while, but that's only because it was more than half full when I did the copying. The photos are pretty good and it has a range of ISO speeds upto 800 and zoom functionality.

I presume that models supplied by other networks come with other games, but mine has a maze, fishing game, baseball homeruns, darts, hammer throw and magic ball. It also has a skateboarding game and some childrens games which are a little bit of fun. They are quite good, but a bit repetitive and the maze game never ends!

Included is an fm radio, which seems to be a standard feature these days of mobiles, but it does annoy me a bit that you can only use it with the ear plugs in. I don't tend to use it, but do regularly use its bluetooth capabilities to play mp3 tracks through my car stereo.

It doesn't have a very high volume, but its perfect for my needs. It also has java built in, but no applications. Other built in functions are alarm clock, calculator, stopwatch, unit converter, world clock and an organiser. Again like many phones these days it also has internet access - I don't regularly use this feature, but experience to dat is that it's pretty slow.

I have had some problems with the keys on the left (1,4 and 7 when texting) as though they jam, but I overcome this quite easily.

It has a wide number of emoticons built in, but unlike my old nokia, they don't turn into proper smiley faces.

Of current phones in this price range (at Tesco) I would definitely recommend you seriously consider this phone

Summary: A reliable phone at under £90 and with all the features you need

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