LG KS660 Review
Like most competitors, along with the KS660 offer SIM cards so that you can operate on two numbers (business and private) are accessible without having to lug two devices.
It is intended that the KS660 first in China and Russia will be delivered and (only) anywhere in February here in the Netherlands will be in stores with a price tag of around 350 Euro.
In exchange for the dual sim functionality LG features like WiFi and 3G support should be shooting. The other specs of this LG fall any, in a positive sense it. Thus, the KS660 (twice) tri-band GSM support with GPRS and EDGE, a 3 inch WQVGA (400×240) touchscreen display, 5 megapixel camera, motion sensor, FM Radio Tuner, Multimedia player, Bluetooth (with A2DP), 50MB memory and a microSD memory card (optional). The LG KS660 measuring 105 x 55 x 14.9 millimeters and weighs 115 grams.
LG is making significant progress in the mobile phone business. It has just its first dual-SIM handset, the KS660. They will have a 3 inch touchscreen WQVGA display, a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and video recording, tri-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE connectivity, 50MB memory space to upgrade via a microSDHC and accelerometer to play . This dual-SIM device has sacrificed the 3G and WiFi connectivity options, but we can get that in future versions.
KS660 Russian Review
The KS660 will arrive in China, Russia and some of its neighbors in Q1 of 2009. Other countries? We will just have to wait. And we also need a price.
This post has 14 comments
April 21st, 2009
That sounds like it’s good
but anyone who has been using it can give a better view on this phone
September 11th, 2009
I have been using it, for about 5 months, and it is rubbish – the most frustrating phone I have ever had (worse than the Sony Ericsson I had 6 years ago).
The first month was fine but it gets worse with time. Problems:
– when writing texts words disappear for seemingly no reason (it has something to do with the rhythm with which you press the keys but not figured out why). 1 in every 2 texts I write the “do you wish to save to drafts?” screen pops up for no reason whilst typing. Click yes and you then leave the editor and have to find the text in your drafts, click no and you lose it all – great.
– No warning to say that your message memory is full, simply when you try to send a message it will not send. You cannot delete old messages without quitting editor and cannot save the message if you quit.
– these days takes a very long time to start up (about 3 minutes during which the screen freezes – and sometimes requires battery removal to reset)
– touch pad is not very accurate after 1 month, sometimes not registering firm pressure for 10 seconds or so
– Very slow, searching through address book is horribly tedious.
– messages in my inbox have been jumbled around, titles, dates, sender numbers and content have all been mixed up!! Some text even cut out of old messages and then inserted into a different folder as a message from someone else.
I could go on, but I don’t think I need to. If you intend to send more than 10 text messages, don’t buy it. Everything else is pretty standard – except for the 5 megapixel camera which is awful.
Having 2 sims is a bonus, and the only reason I bought the phone, but I am about to go and buy 2 single sim phones instead. There goes 300 pounds
September 14th, 2009
Hi D-man. I wished I could have had read your opinion before deciding whether to buy or not. I bought it last month on the 24th. Had echo problem whenever people call me they can hear themselves echoing behind. I sent it back & they couldn’t fix the problem so they replaced a new one for me. Everything was fine until a few days ago I deleted all my messages. As it is getting the memory full soon. So all I did was press the DELETE ALL button. And there the problem came. Now I can hardly send messages as it is in Outbox(pending) for quite sometime then only it send through. Or it doesn’t send at all. Pisses me off. And my inbox is all jumbled around as well! Some of the messages that came I just couldn’t get them to VIEW! I couldn’t get to see what is in my message! I just hate my phone now!
October 3rd, 2009
thanks guys, i was about to ask my frnd to get it from singapore…i thot its a nice phone to have?
October 11th, 2009
If you need a dual SIM phone go for Acer DX900. Its world’s first and only smartphone with dual sim and solid performer. All problems like poor battery etc have been solved with Acer’s latest firmware ver 700 for India. A good phone. Only glitch – needs charging everyday on medium to heavy usage.
October 27th, 2009
LG KS660 is like riding on a donkey in space age. With all my worst regards.
December 4th, 2009
Hi Friends:)
Thank u all for warning me not to buy this phone!!
Shiraz,Iran
December 19th, 2009
even my computer started behaving funny while searching for reviews of lg ks 660.
December 22nd, 2009
thanks guys for the warning, was just about to get one for myself. Please can anyone enlighten us more about the Acer DX900 or any dual phone that is good except samsung
January 18th, 2010
I was a day away from buying this phone.Thanks a lot for the heads up
February 4th, 2010
This is quite simply the worst phone I have ever had. It is impossible to dial calls or send sms as the touchscreen normally does not work at all or malfunctions completely. I was given a global warrant in writing by the dealer which LG refuse to honour. They say its false, I asked them if they were at least interested in knowing which one of their dealers was supplying false warranties and they said it really wasnt their problem
Texting is impossible, t9 does not work most of the time or deletes the words, and if you turn of T9, u only have access to the first letter of each number!!! The sound is hopeless and perhaps the only redeeming feature is the camera which is actually ok
Unfortunately I was intending on buying a phone, not a camera and now Im several hundred Euros out of pocket with a phone that is only worthy for the rubbish bin
February 10th, 2010
The phone is better than Samsung D980. I didn’t have problems with echo’s maybe because of the firmware I have (v10c). The echo’s I saw on some forums that can be resolve by codes. Everything works great at this phone for me, even the internet browsing and emails. The soft respond a little slower but I had phones slower than this with bigger expectations. From my opinion this phone it is a very good choice for those who wants a dual sim phone. I also have an Acer Dx900 but because of the battery life and other problems, I’m using it only for wifi, games, applications, gps. Acer Dx900 is no more produced because of many problems with the sims and battery life (needs to be restarted too often). Ks660 it is easier to use and you can easier manage the two sims, the picture viewer is vary fast, the movies played very good, the auto rotate screen works better than Acer (with acer when you talk on the phone and the screen is rotated, you must wait too long for the screen to comes back vertically and responds too late to the commands when you want quickly to change between the two sims and to stop a phone call). Till now I used: Samsung D780, D980, some Chinese dual sims phones, AcerDx900 and now Lg lg660 witch I like more than all.
February 15th, 2010
My experience is exactly like Sumra. I took it to service center. Apparently they reloaded the firmware. It worked OK for couple days and returned to “its” “normal” behavior.
I congratulate myself if I can send any text message from it.
My older chinese dual SIM phone N958 used to work like jiffy. Speed of KS660 is pathetic.
Due to absence of any other input mechanism, many times I get stuck because I cant do anything else than receiving call and last number redial.
Such kind of product not expected from company calling “Life’s Good”. Need to understand concept of Good from them. Life has become miserable after owning KS660
February 16th, 2010
I don’t know about any problem with my KS660. For me it works great. I install a lot of software and games. It is true the without protection on the screen the touch works much better, but this problem I saw on many touch phones. For a “very good” phone you can buy nokia, but read the opinions very good because nokia has also problems (a lot of problems with every new model). On the market there isn’t “no problem phone”.
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