Korean Titans Lock Horns
September 1, 2008
As the world is very much indulged in the pleasures provided by the sparring of a few ‘big name-gladiators’ of the smart-mobile phone arena, such as Apple iPhone 3G, Nokia N95, N96, Blackberry Bold, HTC Touch-Diamond, etc, a lesser battle, though definitely not the least is happening, not elsewhere. This tug of war is between two Korean arch-rivals. You know them better by the names LG and Samsung. More, it is happening everywhere including the good old European market as well. Two flagships of either sides that keep this historical rivalry afresh today are, LG KF750 Secret Mobile Phone and Samsung SGH U900 Soul Mobile Phone.
LG KF750 Secret 5MP Camera Mobile Phone is obviously LG’s trump card excelling from its Black label series after some dismal show from a couple of its great expectations namely, Shine and Chocolate. On the whole, what Secret has in store for you, is nothing less than Viewty’s camera and video precision artistically packed in a slender yet sturdy slider casing confidently engaging the armour of carbon-fibre for increased rigidity. Meanwhile, Samsung’s Ultra edition series beats the retreat but not before giving their everything in a final blow called Soul. And it really is a stunner of a swan song. The sleek partly-metallic frame truely reminds a melancholy strain as this blinder of a slider phone sports a remarkable contextual touchpad that dances to the tunes of your shuffled features with intuition.
The best part of the KF750 is undoubtedly its camera that is 5megapixels strong along with its video capabilities. Frankly, in this sector this mobile phone definitely scores over the Soul comprehensively. The snapper of Secret proves to be a sterling performer here and is exceptionally complimented by a VGA shooting footage of 30 frames per second. And not finished yet. How do you feel having a camera phone that captures Chaplin-ish high-speed videos and slow motion scenes with unmatched artistry? The Soul here, though a bit trailing, does not tend to trail far either for it to flaunts a 5MP camera with autofocus. Picture quality here, is definitely colourful and sharp. The half-a-penny LED flash is compensated by ISO settings in this mobile phone’s built-in camera. However, a welcome change here, is its macro mode.
In the connectivity sector, both the mobile phones put forth more or less equivalent expertise. Both the phones are triband GSM models and driven by HSDPA. Bluetooth and A2DP features in either gadgets explain short distance data transfer as well as stereo sound conception. Even in the memory part both these models fare alike with an on-board memory of 100MB apiece along with expansion slot for microSD cards. Though, LG Secret comes with all the desired niceties of this sector like a touch-sensitive navigation-pad, a mechanical keypad and a remarkable mainscreen, its touch performance somewhere, proves erratic to let it
down as the Magical Touch Window of Samsung Soul SGH U900 5MP Camera Mobile Phone that emitts feedback offers great sensitivity levels and customisable short-cuts. To these, a set of mechanised call buttons that are soft as well, play the perfect foil.
The display of the LG Secret4 mobile phone is of 2.4 inches in diagonal length and comes studded with 240 x 320 pixels and 262,000 colours. The Samsung Soul mobile phone, here comes with a slightly smaller screen of 2.2 inches in diagonal size that is adorned by 16.7m colours and the same amount of pixels that embellish the former’s screen. However, in the power management area, Samsung clearly dismisses its opponent by providing 4.5 hours of talktime and a thumping 420 hours standby mode. The Secret, in its turn offers a decent 4 hours talktime on a single battery charge but cuts a sorry figure with a paltry 260 hours standby mode.
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