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It’s amazing to see how companies like Samsung and LG have seen a big splash in the low-end touch-screen market when the iPhone has come and swept the smart-phone industry.

The design segment, sometimes, matters more than the features and LG Cookie Pep is an example of the same. This mobile phone  weighs only 87 grams and you will, actually, feel that when handling the phone. The buttons on the side is chromed and they are all nice and tidy. Button on the front panel allows a large number of simple key operations like coming to the home screen, answering or disconnecting a call. So, you have the top power button that also functions after standby / sleep.

Cookie Pep has a 3MP camera but misses on Flash and autofocus and has a large resistive touch screen. The resistive touch screen is optimized for finger input and IMO works better than the Samsung Corby or the Nokia 5800. But you can not compare it to a capacitive touch screen. Opera Mini works on this subject and you’d do much better with it. But typing on the keyboard is a pain, especially if you are an iPhone addict. In the portrait mode, the keyboard is a T9 / Multi-press and landscape mode is a full of QUERTY. The interface is slow, not in terms of responsiveness, but the notifications that appear. As if you delete a text, it would lose about one second to give you a ‘notice’. Like Corby, LG Cookie Pep lacks a chip in the touch-down operating system, even if they managed to extract the best performance of the touch screen. The 900mAh battery is working well. However, the spec sheet mentions a conversation three hours on average. The photo quality is nothing great, just strictly OK.