LG Prada (KE850) review: The first phone with a capacitive touchscreen — released before the iPhone.
The capacitive-touch pioneer.
The LG Prada (KE850) holds a genuine first — it shipped with a capacitive touchscreen months before the iPhone was announced. A fashion-house collaboration with a feature-phone OS, it couldn't capitalise on the breakthrough, but its place in touchscreen history is real.
01Display
50/10050/100 trails the 55-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2007.
02Camera
38/10038/100 is one of the weaker camera results among flagship phones of 2007 — 16 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
34/10034/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2007 — 8 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
50/10050/100 is one of the weaker battery results among flagship phones of 2007 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
74/10074/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2007.
06Value
48/10048/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2007.
- First phone with a capacitive touchscreen — beat the iPhone to market.
- Prada fashion-house design.
- Slim, light 85 g glossy body.
- Schneider optics.
- Feature-phone OS, no app ecosystem.
- 2G only.
- Tiny memory.
- 2 MP camera.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 2-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .