Test report and technical data LG Electronics LG G5400

Plus of the LG Electronics LG G5400: color display, Java-engine, large memory



Minus of the LG Electronics LG G5400: dual-band, no camera



LG put everything they got into the LG Electronics LG G5400, they wanted to build a real achiever with the LG Electronics LG G5400 and show their numerous mighty competitors what they can do.



The LG Electronics LG G5400 should have become the model with the best and the most features, especially worth mentioning is MMS and Java-engine.



The LG Electronics LG G5400 is supposed to be in shops by May 2003.



The LG Electronics LG G5400 will surely fit in the category of trendy, fashionable mobiles, which can already be seen in the design of the LG Electronics LG G5400. The LG Electronics LG G5400 is a silver-colored folding mobile that is available in combo-cases either in silver, blue or red.



On the exterior LG Electronics LG G5400 is a little vertical display, as suitable for a flap-phone, so you don't have to open the LG Electronics LG G5400 all the time. A funny detail is that the background illumination of the display of the LG Electronics LG G5400 can be changed. The main display on the inside of the LG Electronics LG G5400 is color display with 65.000 colors, a high resolution of 128 x 160 pixels and, best of all, a size of 7 lines.



The LG Electronics LG G5400 has minimal dimensions; a size of 86 x 46 x 22 mm and a weight of 85 g are more than okay.



The battery of the LG Electronics LG G5400 isn't too bad either, it will last 230 hours on standby, or you'll have to make 3 hours of calls.



The LG Electronics LG G5400 being only a dual-band phone certainly is a disadvantage; the manufacturer should have made a bigger effort there. But he obviously concentrated all his energy on data transfer with the LG Electronics LG G5400.



Accordingly the LG Electronics LG G5400 has a Java-engine with a memory of 60 KB. But the address book and the SMS-archive of the LG Electronics LG G5400 fill some of that memory. GPRS is also included in the LG Electronics LG G5400, just as a WAP-browser and an infrared-interface. With this equipment the LG Electronics LG G5400 can also handle MMS.



Polyphonic ringer tones, a phone book for 200 numbers, organizer, vibratory alarm and a text-input assistance program are some of the other features of the LG Electronics LG G5400.



Of course there are entertainment-features, too, otherwise the LG Electronics LG G5400 wouldn’t be so trendy. That’s why the LG Electronics LG G5400 has a music-composer, voice dialing, wallpapers, screensavers and a lot of games. A camera is not available, though.



The conclusion about the LG Electronics LG G5400 is that LG has managed to fabricate a pretty and well-equipped mobile phone, but that can't be all the company has to offer. A camera would be nice and a few additional gadgets would get the LG Electronics LG G5400 some extra credit.



Besides that the LG Electronics LG G5400 makes a pretty good impression!



It was worth a try, a top-device except for the missing camera and the dual-band restriction.





Test report of the LG Electronics LG G5400:



Technical features: +++

Quality of reception: +++

User-friendliness: +++

Standby time: +++

Design: ++++

Instructions manual: +++

Value for money: ?

Overall result: +++





++++/excellent, +++/good, ++/satisfactory, +/unsatisfactory