Lg Arena - Is Its New Interface As Good As The Competition?

The new LG Arena sports a brand new interface, called S-Class, that will take the Korean manufacturer's phones to a whole new evolution of intuitiveness. But has it already been left standing by its competitors? Let's find out...

LG Arena - pure class (S-Class, that is)

LG have set a few benchmarks in their time, with phones like the Viewty, and now, they've set a new one with the stunning LG Arena. There's one simple reason why that is: the interface. You see, the LG Arena is the first phone form the Korean manufacturer to use their new S-Class interface, which presents everything as icons on a 3D cube, that you spin around using your fingertips. It's an incredible interface, and it makes the LG Arena a phone that begs to be touched and caressed. Combine that with a 5 megapixel camera, and a superb media player, and you get what amounts to one of the best multimedia phones in the industry, with the LG Arena.

Nokia 5800 - taking Symbian to new heights

Two phones from Finnish manufacturer Nokia have opened up Symbian to the modern world, as they're the first two to include full touchscreens. First up is the Nokia 5800, part of their XpressMusic range. The 5800 features a keyboard-less design, making the touchscreen and the interface all important. And what an interface it is, with full finger-touch controls, and a superb user experience, that really gets the best from the phone.

Of course, the Nokia 5800 is more than just an operating system, and features such as the 3 megapixel camera, super-fast internet access and the brilliant XpressMusic media player lift it above its rivals. Put simple, the Nokia 5800 is taking Symbian to new heights that it's never achieved before.

Palm Pre - the most intuitive phone ever made?

However, there's an upcoming phone that can top the user experience seen on the LG Arena. That may be the pinnacle of LG's evolution so far, and the Nokia 5800 may have a brand new version of Symbian to run on, but the Palm Pre is new in every sense of the word. With Windows Mobile growing in user-friendliness and raw power, it's down to a brand new operating system to really wow us. Say hello to WebOS, as found in the stunning Palm Pre.

This takes phone interfaces to a whole new level, easily surpassing the supposed king of mobile phone interfaces, the iPhone. The Palm Pre does this by simple expedient of being at least as user friendly as the iPhone, but with vastly more power and potential. Everything becomes interconnected and synergised, so that the contacts menu on the Palm Pre links into your maps, which links into the browser, which links into email and so on. Everything is interconnected and intuitive, and on top of that, the Palm Pre has one extra thing that the iPhone can't manage: true multitasking. The Pre is simply one of the most important phones ever to have been announced, and unfortunately, as good as the S-Class interface is, it just can't top WebOS...

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