LG is one of the most forward thinking mobile phone manufacturers on the market today. Never a company to stand in the background, they have always been prepared to take chances in order to design the biggest and best mobile phone out there year after year. Rumour has it that they have done it again with this year's offering of the LG KM900 Arena. Touted as the successor of the LG Viewty, this handset has a lot to live up to but does it hit the mark?



Before we look at whether the big selling point, the 3D interface, lives up to the hype, we should take a look at the outer package. The LG KM900 Arena is a very slick and sophisticated phone. With clean lines, a slim line design and a fabulous colour scheme, it is most definitely attractive to both the business and personal sides of the spectrum. It actually has a silver titanium case, complete with a black frame to highlight the sheer beauty of the screen. Measuring a huge 3 inches with a resolution of 480x800 pixels, it truly is amazing and you will be blown away by the quality.

In terms of the feature list, the LG KM900 Arena seems to have every base covered. With a built in memory of 8GB, there is more than enough room for everything you want to store there. You can even supplement that further with a MicroSD card if you like. The touch screen is incredibly responsive and easy to use, the connectivity options are excellent and the Wi-Fi connection is far more reliable than you might find on most other handsets. The reliability of the handset in general is excellent, but you might want to know a little about the features.

The LG KM900 Arena has a music player and a camera. The music player supports most file formats and has some absolutely wonderful touches. For example, the 3.5mm jack is located on the top of the phone so that you can enjoy the fabulous music quality without snagging your headphones on your pocket all the time. The Dolby Mobile is responsible for the excellent sound quality but you can share your tunes via the FM transmitter as well. The camera, on the other hand, is not as powerful as some may expect from an LG phone. However, at 5MP it still takes excellent images and comes complete with LED Flash, auto focus and face tracking, amongst other features. As such, it is highly functional and perfect for the user that loves to take pictures as and when the mood takes them.

However, the LG KM900 Arena does have one major fault after the excellence of all of the above and unfortunately it happens to be the main selling point that LG have chosen to focus on – the 3D interface. Logic tells us that 3D imagery on a flat screen is impossible but wishful thinking seems to have convinced LG otherwise. This is not the mobile phone version of HD so do not get too excited because you will be sorely disappointed if you do.

Providing that you do not buy into the 3D hype, you will be highly satisfied with the LG KM900 Arena. It is a fantastic handset that really does push the bar. LG is really establishing a reputation for bigger and better phones and the LG KM900 Arena fits into that perfectly!