Hands on with the Arena

February 17th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 

The Arena is, unsurprisingly, a popular phone on the LG stand but we managed to pry one loose for a few minutes and record a quick video demonstration of the UI. In what has to be the most unstructured presentation I’ve ever done (it was the first time I’d picked up the phone) you’ll see me navigating some of the menus, tuning the radio and playing some music.

You can see the result on Youtube or below. (Once again, thanks to Frank on LGBlog.de for taking the video).

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  • http://www.mobilesmods.com djk

    This phone is slow, screen effects take too mutch times for a real use, i bet this closed system is undocumented for developpers too..so what interest ?

  • http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog Karl @ mobile-phones.co.uk/blog

    It’s too early to tell if the phone will be slow at launch. The UI software is probably at an early beta stage. I think the Arena looks to be an exciting prospect, the cube UI in particular looks very interesting.

  • Conrad Chase

    The phone is VERY FAST! I do not understand why djk is spewing misinformation?!
    It does not use a closed OS. SDK’s are gladly distributed to any developers who request them. The OS supports java so any existing java apps can easily be ported.
    I had an in depth look at the phone last week and it is very impressive.

  • http://www.latest-mobilephones.com/category/latest-lg-phones latest lg phones

    great looking phone, hope this will fly.

  • http://www.mobilesinfos.com DjK

    By slow i mean it take to much time to access functions, not slow by bad hardware, interface take time to show the page you want, too much effects, it’s nice but i don’t want something nice, i want something fast to call rapidly my contacts. And for sdk i mean sdk for interface moding or widgets creation, not java, java is not usefull on these phones, i own a Renoir and no documentation about modifying interface or create widgets, need hacking for that. Java loose a portion of screen on touch screen phone, for emulated keys, so better to wrote an application on native Os langage. Lg is know by some users/devs to not distribute documentation about that.

  • http://uk.coolestgadgets.com Marc

    It didn’t seem slow to me, certainly it was comparable to any similar device I’ve used and I didn’t find myself waiting around for things to happen. (except the first time into the media player)

    As to an SDK, who knows? I’ve not heard one way or the other yet whether they’ll open it up. They did mention a download store at the launch so I presume there must be some way of getting apps on there! (anybody from LG want to comment on that?)

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