Camera Phone Reviews

The LG KG320 slim candybar tri-band GSM handset is only 0.39-inches thick. It sports a 2.2 megapixel camera with flash (upgraded from the original 1.3 megapixel when the phone was first announced).

Other features include:

* 176 x 200 pixel display
* Bluetooth
* 128MB memory
* playback of MPEG4, MP3 and AAC files.

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Mobile-Review reviews the LG KG320, and notes: "Though the handset’s rear is not as flat as its front panel and the first thing your fingers will fumble is the camera’s cover, which sticks out from the shell by approximately 1,5 mm. In order to unveil the lent, and simultaneously start up the camera application, if the keypad isn’t locked, you need to slightly press the cover. In sum it takes nearly 7 second from the moment of releasing the cover to actually snapping a photo. The shutter has two narrow slits, so it won’t muffle the sound coming out from the speakerphone located right under it, when it is slid open. Quite good solution, especially taking account of the fact that all ring tones and songs are spread via the loudspeaker located on the phone’s rear. Comparing the K320 with Nokia 6230i, LG’s device tops in this face-off owing to higher volume and better low frequencies, though yields to Motorola E398. The camera’s module is edged with a ring made of silver plastic. A tiny mirror, which appears to be a decorative detail rather something of much use, and a LED flash are placed to the right of the camera’s lens. If you are going to shoot in poor illumination, keep in mind that the best distance for these conditions is 35-60 cm. The bundled flash can be also used as a flashlight."

CNET reviews the LG KG320 and writes, "While the sound quality from the onboard loudspeaker and headphone was good, the image quality from the 1.3-megapixel could only be rated average at best. As with most camera-phones, pictures shot in daylight turned out sharp, but the night pictures were mostly unacceptable, even with the flash light on. Like the KG800, the earphone connector doubles as a charging and USB port. This can be restrictive for the phone as you are able to perform only one task at any one time."

MobileBurn reviews the LG KG320 and writes, "The LG KG320's 1.3 megapixel camera is capable of capturing images in five different resolutions - 72x72, 220x176, 320x240, 640x480, and 1280x960. The KG320 provides quite an impressive range of settings for you to tweak with. Brightness can be adjusted to one of five settings, white balance can be set to auto, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent, or daylight, and a 4x digital zoom is provided. In order to zoom, however, you need to change the resolution of the picture first. Changing it to 640x480 will allow you to zoom 2x, and changing it to 320x240 will allow you to zoom up to the maximum 4x. This was extremely cumbersome, since it involved so many steps just to get a zoom. Additional effects such as sepia, black and white, and negative color tones are also available. A big letdown here is the time the camera takes to activate - the user is left waiting for three seconds before the camera starts, and shutter lag is an agonizing three seconds on top of that."