LG Prada Review

Phone rating:

In a nutshell: The Prada phone is a stunning phone featuring a touchscreen display. It's Prada-branded and one of the best looking phones currently available. It also features an array of gadgets including a camera, music player and a built-in FM radio. But it's starting to show its age now and there are better touchscreen phones available.
Best buy: £119.95 on PAYG from Dialpahone (Silver).

Review: April 2007. Updated July 2009.

Well, LG have been pushing fashion phones in a big way in recent years but now by teaming up with Prada, they have produced their most stylish phone yet. Wait, it's possibly the most stylish phone yet. It's so cool it's not even allowed to have the LG logo on it, but is Prada-branded. Yes, it's the LG Prada, or to give it its proper title, the PRADA phone by LG. The Prada phone is the embodiment of minimalist chic, with its gloss-black finish, slender size and um, hang on, no keypad! Yes, this is a touchscreen phone, with buttons displayed on the screen. These are not like the touch-sensitive buttons used in the LG Chocolate, but actually appear on the LCD screen and change according to the current menu function (see picture on right). There are two real buttons just below the screen for send and return, so you can at least switch the phone on and off without any trouble! There are also side buttons for controlling volume, the camera and music player. There's a choice of themes, but the default is black and white, which suits the look of the phone very well. When not in use, the screen virtually disappears from view, just like the Chocolate. The Prada has some specially designed ringtones too, which frankly we found irritating, especially the ones called "Noise" and "Man". You can listen to these on the PRADA phone website.