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LG Arena KM900

15 May 2009

Touted as being one of the best multimedia handsets of the year, the Korean chaebol launched its 2009's flagship mobile phone, the LG Arena (KM900).

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			<h2 class="header-green">ZoneOut - LG Arena KM900 Review</h2>
		<span class="byline">Reviewed by Sutlej Soin on Friday, 15 May 2009</span>
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		 		<h2 class="page-title">Overview</h2>
		 		<h3 class="page_title">LG Arena KM900 - Come and Play</h3>
<p>Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2009 in Barcelona, Spain, the Korean chaebol LG was beaming with pride when they flaunted the LG Arena KM900 in all its glory to the media. What's special about this LG handset? The answer lies in the new user interface designed by LG. If you can recall, we previously <a href="/view/10030" target="_blank">commented in our MWC coverage</a> that the new S-Class user interface is the main selling point of the LG Arena phone, and it is the feature that is going to snag the attention of consumers. As such, you can guess that were excited when we got the phone for a full review. Just how good is it? Check out our video clip below for the highlights and read the rest of our in-depth review to see if managed to impress us.</p>
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