LG Rumor Black Cell Phone
Phone description
The LG Rumor is an affordable slider style phone with a full QWERTY keyboard designed for those individuals who need to stay in touch on the go. Key features include a 1.3 megapixel camera with 2x zoom, Bluetooth, MP3 player and an expandable memory card slot with up to 4GB of storage capacity.
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Closely Related StuffAt a Glance: What’s Good: Compact, rugged design with full QWERTY keyboard; Easy to use; Auto-rotating display; Good SMS, IM, and Email integration
What’s Not Good: Limited functionality beyond voice calling and messaging; No Power Vision access makes for slow Web browsing; Reports of laggy software and keyboard issues (I encountered none); Weak camera
Bottom Line: Rumor is a basic candy bar phone with a focus on messaging, and in this regard it really shone in my tests. I found the handset easy and fun to use so long as I kept to its strengths: Messaging and more messaging with voice calling and limited Web and media functionality thrown in. Rumor’s comfy QWERTY board, rugged design and soft-grip finish, and auto-rotating display make it a solid choice for cell phone users who value texting as much (or more) as voice calling.
Specs:
Make/Model: LG Rumor
Network: CDMA
Data: EV-DO (1x RTT)
Carrier: Sprint (Locked)
Size: 109 x 51 x 17.8 mm
Weight: 117 g
Form Factor: Candy bar with Horizontal Slide-Out QWERTY Board
Display: 2” Color LCD, 176 x 220 resolution, 262,000 Colors
Memory: 16 MB built-in, microSD card slot
Notable Features: A-GPS with location based services; 1.3MP camera; Email and IM clients; Auto-Rotating Display
On the eve of Noah, Courtney, and camera man Doug heading for CTIA in Las Vegas, Noah filmed episode 3 of his new unlocked review series. This video highlights the happenings at Motorola this wee, the new Billshrink.com website, and what did the FedEx man just deliver for Noah to review next! Looking for a great messaging phone to use on the Sprint network? Well, Noah has found one in the LG Rumor. The bar style device come equipped with a slide out QWERTY keyboard that when opened, automatically switches the phone to messaging mode. Other key features include a 1.3 megapixel camera with 2x zoom, media player, and expandable memory card slot. Okay, here's the deal: If you want a question answered reasonably quickly, post it right here on PhoneDog.com as a comment to a blog post. All of the uTube vids are up here as individual entries, so you can comment away right here.
If you ask me a question via YouTube messaging, I'll probably get to it. But it'll take awhile. Nothing personal, I just respond to the PhoneDog messages and comments faster. And we like the traffic on our blog comment rolls,... At a Glance:What’s Good: Compact, rugged design with full QWERTY keyboard; Easy to use; Auto-rotating display; Good SMS, IM, and Email integration
What’s Not Good: Limited functionality beyond voice calling and messaging; No Power Vision access makes for slow Web browsing; Reports of laggy software and keyboard issues (I encountered none); Weak camera
Bottom Line: Rumor is a basic candy bar phone with a focus on messaging, and in this regard it really shone in my tests. I found the... IntroductionA growing number of consumers use their “cell phones” more for messaging than for actual voice calls. Texting, IMing, and Emailing from handsets has become more and more popular amongst privacy-minded teenagers, business folk, and people like me who sometimes just don’t like talking on the phone. As such, when shopping for a new handset many people now try out the keypad before holding it up to their ear - messaging-related ergonomics and software are just as... Design & FeaturesRumor is, on first glance, a somewhat chubby candy bar phone with a standard dialing pad, D-Pad, display layout on the front and a camera on the back. My review sample is finished in all-black with chromed silver plastic trim, and the soft touch paint used throughout made the handset really easy to hold onto. Sprint also offers Rumor in white and green color schemes.
What sets Rumor apart from your basic bar phone - and justifies its somewhat chunky... Usability & PerformanceI tested Rumor on Sprint’s CDMA network in the San Francisco Bay Area with generally quite good results. Signal strength and voice quality were very good in most cases, and callers were able to hear me loud and clear with only very occasional minor static. The integrated speakerphone was okay in a pinch but not great, and the handset worked well with mono and stereo 2.5mm headsets (not included). I also wired some higher quality 3.5mm headphones... ConclusionAll in all I really like Rumor. It’s designed to do two things well — make phone calls and send messages — and it succeeds on both counts. While power users want their handsets to do everything including high-speed Web browsing and advanced multimedia playback, Rumor isn’t for power users. Like it’s cousin, the Alltel Scoop, Rumor is meant for budget-minded folks who text as much as they talk, if not more. As such it packs a very usable full QWERTY keypad... No user reviews available yet...No reviews have been submitted for the LG Rumor Black. Be the first to share your opinion and experience with this product or service and influence others and their buying decisions. It looks like Noah answered your question :)
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Dear Patty:
Thanks for writing. Yours is a good, and often-asked question. The nice thing about choice is that there's an option for I think the new rumor has the next generation of iPhone to have 30 and maybe even 60Gb of storage. Which makes sense considering most competing models in that price point have at least Rumor has it that Apple is going to release a new 16 GB version of the iPhone next week dubbed the "iPhone Extreme".
Source: Gizmodo 2007 started off with a lot of phones on display at CES and one more being previewed at MacWorld. But many of the more exciting new handsets, including the LG Shine, Nokia N95 and N76, Apple I never thought I'd utter the phrase "return to the peace and quiet of the Las Vegas Strip," but today I did. Rumor has it some 150,000 attendees crammed into the Las Vegas Convention Center Greetings from Las Vegas, where the biggest week of the year is set to kick off: International CES 2007, the world's biggest showcase for the newest products and trends in the world of Consumer The original source of leak/rumor that Gizmodo covered says AI will ship with a 1GB Memory Stick M2, which makes sense since AI will be so thin. Microdrive is an IBM product, anyway, so you won't The latest rumor is 1st quarter of 2007, but who reallty knows.
I heard a rumor that Samsung is going to make a new version of the Blackjack.
Does anyone know if this is true?
If so I am going to wait.
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