LG Secret KF750 > Reviews (17)

I got the LG Secret 8 days ago ( 18th birthday present!) and so far I'm pretty happy with it! It's part of the black label series, and has a very sleek design.

The backcover is made up of a 'carbon fibre' material, which not noly looks good but 'apparently' is pretty durable to, although I'll have to wait a little longer to see how well it lasts.

The front of the phone also looks pretty amazing too, the screen is nice and big and the touchpad ( made of tempered glass materials) lights up ( blue colour) when you press it. There is a central, slightly raised silver button, which leads to the menu, and is also used to select different functions. My fingers are tiny and I've had no problem whatsoever with the touchpad but my boyfriend ( who has v. large hands) finds it pretty annoying to use!

The navigation around the menu is staightfoward, use the left / right parts of the touchpad to navigate and the silver button to select where you want to go! I have barely looked at my 'user guide' yet I've already customised my phone, and used all my differnt functions ( it really is that simple!) But if you struggle with new phones the user guide that comes with the phone is clear and easy to understand.

The navigation on the touchscreen when I first opend it is as follows:

top right: takes you to 'my stuff' where your camera images and videos,music and games are stored, you can then press left and right to go to mesages, browser, phone book etc...

top left: 'contacts' just takes you straight to your phone book

top middle: ' quicky menu' takes you straight to function such as bluetooth, calender, and FM radio.

right: takes you to your messages, in box, out box, create new message..

bottom: takes you to your contatcs again.. a little confusing as so does the top right!

left: lets you change the phones 'profile' e.g. 'silent' so it's on vibrate, or 'normal' so it rings.

The phone slides up to reveal a normal keypad, the buttons are a good size, and again i've had no problems using it to text quickly, but I think people with larger hands may find it harder to use.

The buttons on the side of the phone are as follows:

top: these up / down arrows adjust volume or can be used to zoom in on the camera

middle top: takes you to the 'touch screen' function, where you can view photos and play games.

middle bottom: another shortcut to the menu

bottom: shortcut to the camera function, you have to hold it down for a couple of seconds to get there

One of the main things that attracted me to this phone was the 5 MP ( mega pixel) camera, I've only previsouly had a 3 mega pixel before and so far I haven't been dissapointed with it.

It allows you to zoom well, and you can have many different colour effects ( black and white, sepia, purple etc...) you can also adjust the brightness and white balence ( quite technical for a camera phone!)

Aftert he photo has been taken you can edit it further by adding frames, or funny symbols ( swirly glasses or devil horns..) you can also add a effect to the photo ( e.

g. black and white) and you can also 'morph' the picture to make the person's face look like an alien...

The only criticism I could make of the camera is that the auto flash can be quite bright. If you were to take a photo in a darkened setting I wouldn't use the flash as it will come out over exposed, instead change the settings to 'night' in 'scene mode.' The camera doesn't compare to my lovely canon digital, but is fine for quick snaps.

The user guides desciption of the video read something like this 'High-speed 120 fps video recording at QVGA / 30 fps VGA' that is far to technical for me to understand! all I know is the video works, has a large capacity for long videos and again you can change the effect to sepia or a colour. You can also record in slow motion or high speed which can make for some quite funny videos!

This is the first phone I've had where you can edit your videos after recording them, you can merge different videos, add sounds afterwards and also add text.

I don't use the internet much on my phone, but again the browser function on this phone works just fine. The same can be said for bluetooth it connects quickly with other phones and exchanging files is also quick.

There are standard functions on this phone with a calculator, calender, alarm, currecny convertor, memo pad etc... there isn't much that can be said about these, other than that they are there and easy to use!

There are only 2 games on this phone ' grand golf' and 'sudoku puzzle'
but there is also something in 'games and applications' called the 'M-toy'.

Here you play games by physically moving the phone around ( kind of like a mini Wii) There is a magic 8 ball, you 'ask' a question, shake the phone around ( the little ball on the screen rolls around ) and it 'answers' the question. Personally I prefer the darts game where you flick your wrist to 'throw' the dart onto the dart board ( so far my top score is (106!)

There is one thing which I have found annoying about this phone, when I make calls my face has leaned on the touch pad and hung up before the person has answered! this has happened a couple of times so far, but it may just be a case of getting used to the phone.
Another point is the battery life isn't as long as I would expect of such a expensive phone, but it charges up quickly so it isn't much of a problem.

Overall I'm really happy with this phone and would recomend it to someone thinking of buying it. ( I would recomend buying a case to keep this phone in, although I have already dropped my phone and nothing happened I wouldn't want to scratch the big screen)