LG Prada 3.0 review

LG has also added social aggregation in the form of a homescreen widget and a sub-section of the Accounts options page, where you can add your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace accounts. It’s a limited selection of services, and there’s also no way to merge duplicate contacts from different services, but we liked the widgets; there’s one that displays favourite contacts, one that shows a stream of updates and one that lets you show the updates of selected people.

There’s a dedicated camera shutter button, but it’s on the top of the phone next to the USB port, which is unusual but not impractical. The camera takes surprisingly noise-free snaps, although up close you’ll notice heavy noise reduction, which results in a smudged look. The LED flash works well to lighten up dark shots, and you can also shoot Full HD video – however the resulting video is extremely jerky, and we’d advise dropping down to 720p to get smoother frame rates.

We really liked the Prada phone 3.0: it’s light, slim and fast, and its custom design looks great. We also liked LG’s custom Prada skin, but the lack of Android 4.0 is a black mark. The phone is also quite expensive, and we think you’d have to be quite a big fan of Prada to opt for this phone over its rivals at this price point. If you shop around, you can get an HTC Sensation XE for the same price SIM-free, which has more performance and features and has just received an update to Android 4.0.