I’ve talked about the KF600 in brief before but having played with it the past week I thought it apt to talk about the LG KF600, our new mid-range touchscreen phone.

The phone’s most distinctive feature is the dual screen. The first screen is a 240×320 pixel 2″ LCD screen, the same top-quality screens on many of our other phones. The second is a 240×176 pixel touchscreen called the InteractPad. The InteractPad replaces the standard navigation keys on the phone with a set of contextual icons that change according to what you’re doing. For example, when navigating the menu it displays a set of arrows, while when composing text messages, it provides buttons to change input settings or insert symbols.

The InteractPad is customisable, so you can have your favourite functions available on the main screen. It also allows for handwriting recognition, either via a stylus (availability varies according to country) or just your thumbnail (which I found surprisingly easy after a little bit of practice). Like the touchscreen on the Viewty, the InteractPad has haptic feedback (i.e. it vibrates with every press), meaning pressing it is more intuitive to handle. The overall effect is a compromise between full-touchscreen phones like the Viewty, and more traditional interfaces, with an ultimate focus on being as user friendly as possible.

Both screens can be skinned according to eight different themes, including four by the renowned late pop artist Keith Haring, or customised with your own wallpaper. Speaking of pictures, the phone comes with a 3.0 Megapixel camera (capable of video), and also has an MP3 player. It come with 25MB of internal storage and an SD card slot capable of taking up to 4GB capacity.

It has a warm feel to the hand and is pretty slimline, at just 14.1mm thick and weighing 107 grammes. It comes in pastel pink, shiny pink, wine red or good old-fashioned black. For a closer look, take a look at the KF600 Specification, or better still check out the demo video below to get a real feel for it: