Its designer and its swish with a Prada logo on the phone, a Prada leather protective case and in a Prada box; that these days serves as a jewellery box for me. Not that I brought it because of its designer labels but because of its amazing features.

LG KE850 Prada Silver was a touch screen phone, the first mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen and no need for a stylus, with an amazing main Screen Size and Resolution of 240 x 400 pixels, 3 inches.

The touchscreen automatically adapted to whichever application you were using and meant there was no need for buttons, just 3 small slim ones at the bottom of the phone, leaving maximum space for the impressive 16 million color LCD display.

As the first touchscreen phone of its kind, it was not only my first touch screen phone but anybody who brought it, and yet it was not expensive at all even at its time of release in January 2008.

The camera was a step up from my first flip phone the Razr at 2 mega pixels with a built in flash, video capture also and a SD memory card slot that meant a lot of the photos of the first 2 years of my daughters life were taken on my phone.

The LG Prada Silver weighed 85 grams and was 98.8 × 54 × 12 mm thick; or should I say thin. It had no need for a slide out QWERTY keyboard like its predecessor; it had a virtual one.

The QWERTY keypad was a winner for me and a feature I had never had on a phone before. If you loved texting and browsing the internet this was the phone for you, which makes sense because it came from ‘Phones 4 U’

It was also an impressive mp3 player and a radio feature, which by the time of its release was starting to become a standard feature for the latest most expensive model phones.

When I took the phone to america with me on vacation in 2008 it impressed everyone who saw it, the popular phone of choice being a sidekick with a QWERTY keypad but without touch screen capabilities.

LG claimed that the iPhone stole its design from the Prada phone and I have to say it was a great prelude to my first iPhone, a sturdy phone that is still intact and working to this day.