The Good: The LG CU500 is the first carrier-offered HSDPA phone in North America. It’s a quad-band world phone with a great slim design, external music buttons, and a camera with a rotating lens. Features include a 1.3-megapixel camera, an audio player, a Micro SD memory card slot, a speakerphone, and access to exclusive content, courtesy of Cingular Video and Cingular Music.
The Bad: The LG CU500 has two superskinny function buttons on the side that are difficult to press; we also didn’t like that you have to remove the battery in order to get to the Micro SD card slot.
The Bottom Line: The LG CU500 is one of the fastest phones we’ve ever tried, with swift downloads and impressive video streaming speeds. The feature set is impressive; the picture and audio quality are great; and the slim, attractive design is a bonus.
LG went over the ocean to Russia to introduce its new Shine phone. Much like the Shine slider phone, the new design keeps the model simple.
The KE770 comes as a 9.9mm thick handset, slimmer than the regular Shine’s 14mm waste. Otherwise the specs remain pretty much the same. Continue Reading »
Verizon Wireless today announced the planned release of the LG VX8700, available online at beginning April 6 and in stores April 17.
Highlighted by an ultra-thin shape, sleek metal finish, and mirror-like screen, the LG VX8700 offers multimedia features such as access Verizon Wireless’ VCAST Music and Video, Get It Now and Mobile Web 2.0. Continue Reading »
The Good: The LG enV offers an impressive feature set, an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard, and decent call quality.
The Bad: The enV’s streaming video quality could be better, and the boxy design has its quirks. Also, its external display is small and not very useful.
The Bottom Line: The design still isn’t perfect, but the LG enV is a high-quality messaging and multimedia cell phone.
