The level of redundancy is asinine no matter who your target audience may be, but on a phone intended for novices, there's no excuse to introduce such nonsensical complexity into the equation.
But, police say, there was no activity on Kopetsky's cell phone after she walked out of school, indicating that the battery went dead or was removed from the phone.
As it stands, LG made the best design decision it could, but with the phone's gawky dimensions, there's just no elegant way to make use of this phabletry.