LG KE850 Prada
 

Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Apple iPhone, the LG KE850 designed in conjunction with PRADA is an advanced touchscreen-only phone with sleekly understated looks.

Although it says PRADA on it, there's very little to say about the design of the LG KE850. It's rather minimalist and simple - it would be easy to "bling" a handset like this up, but the fact that LG and PRADA have come out with something ultra-simple to look at is refreshing.

At its heart, the LG KE850 PRADA is a tri-band GSM phone with GPRS and EDGE, there's a large 240x400 pixel touch-sensitive display that can playback widescreen video clips, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD expandable memory, and the KE850 has an FM radio and a two megapixel camera. We measure the display as being 3.2 inches diagonally, a little smaller than the iPhone's 3.5 inches.

It's worth dwelling on the camera for a while - it uses a Schneider Kreuznach lens to ensure high-quality optics. To be honest, we hadn't heard of Schneider Kreuznach - but they manufacture pretty much every lens for Kodak, so if you have a Kodak camera check out the name on the lens. Although megapixel counts are very impressive, in fact the quality of the lens is usually far more important. In addition to the lens, the KE850 has an LED flash. In other words.. the chances are that the LG KE850 will be able to take some decent quality photos.

It's clear that LG have done more with the KE850 than just slap a PRADA label on an existing phone. Although it's not the first touch-screen only phone, the KE850 is different from just about everything on the market.. except for the iPhone. The big advantage that the PRADA phone has is that it will be available to most of the world very soon.