- Uniquely designed, square flip phone in black with full QWERTY keyboard inside
- Sprint Mobile Broadband Network via EV-DO connectivity; Sprint TV and Sprint Music Store enabled; GPS turn-by-turn directions via Sprint Navigation
- 2.0-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music streaming, MicroSD expansion to 16 GB, access to personal email and instant messaging
- Up to 5.5 hours of talk time, up to 168 hours (7 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: handset, battery, charger, USB cable, quick start guide
Amazon.com Product Description
The stylish, uniquely designed LG Lotus flip phone for Sprint offers the perfect combination of both style and substance with a full QWERTY keyboard that is ideal for quick text messaging, email or instant messaging. In addition to fast 3G speeds from Sprint’s high-speed EV-DO network, you’ll enjoy GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service as well as access to Sprint TV’s video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound. The Lotus is also a great choice for a cellular audio player, with access to the Sprint Music Store for over-the-air downloads and wide multiformat support for loading your music onto optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 16 GB in size). Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, access to personal email, full duplex speakerphone, and up to 5.5 hours of talk time.
The LG Lotus flip phone is hip to be square, with external music playback controls and a full QWERTY keyboard inside. |
Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.
Sprint brings you closer to this season’s NFL action with NFL Mobile Live, which enables you to listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. Sprint is making it easier to follow a specific team by carrying a live radio broadcast for each game, including pregame and postgame reports in most instances. NFL Mobile Live also allows NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time directly from their phone. Key information for individual players will be easily accessible, including real-time game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles and photos. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers.
The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song–one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that’s right for you.
This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone–by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, “Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street.” As you approach the turn, you will hear, “Turn right on Elm Street.” Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it’s easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.
With Sprint Mobile Email, you’ll get easy access to your favorite home email services including AOL, Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN/Windows Live Hotmail and more. And Sprint Mobile Email Work enables you to access email from corporate servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 (with the latest software update).
Sprint One Click’s customizable home screen enables you to optimize your experience by providing quick access to the things you use the most. |
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Phone Features
The innovative LG Lotus flip phone is the recipient of the Red Dot Design Award–one of the largest and most renowned design competitions in the world–for its original form factor. This square flip phone measures just 3.3 x 2.4 x 0.7 inches and weighs 3.7 ounces, making it perfectly pocketable. It has an external 1.3-inch LCD screen (160 x 128 pixels, 65K colors), which displays incoming calls and provides current time/date, signal strength, and battery life. You can control music playback when the phone is closed with dedicated buttons right below the screen.
Flipping the cover open reveals a small, full QWERTY keyboard that’s ideal for quick text messaging, email or instant messaging. The interior also includes a five-way navigator, send/end keys, and soft navigation keys. This phone features Sprint’s new One Click navigation interface, which places eight shortcut tiles along the bottom of the home screen. Instead of navigating through endless phone menus, you can put the things you use the most–features like call logs, texting, Web access and GPS navigation–right up front with instant information related to each feature. For example, when you scroll to text messaging, you’ll see the number of new messages received and a single click takes take you to the newest messages. Here’s how it works:
- Add your favorite items to the carousel, which is a row of tiles along the bottom of your phone’s home screen.
- The carousel can hold up to 15 tiles, which you can add, remove and rearrange to suit your needs.
- Highlight a tile to reveal its menu on your home screen.
- Add up to 8 “bubbles”–at-a-glance items that display on your home screen, like the weather or your daily horoscope.
- Browse and download new tiles from your phone’s “Personalize Home Screen” tile. New tiles are available every two weeks.
- Press your navigation left or right key to select a tile; up or down to select a bubble or menu item.
- The “Home” tile always stays put, so you can easily get back to your default display.
Sprint’s One Click navigation interface. |
The phone includes an 80 MB internal memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards up to 16 GB in size. The phonebook can store up to 600 contact entries, each with up to seven numbers, three email addresses, a web URL, IM screen name, and a picture ID. Other features include a one-touch speakerphone, speed dial (98 entries plus one voicemail default), and voice-activated dialing.
This phone provides the latest version of Bluetooth connectivity–version 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), which makes pairing with the included headset as well as other Bluetooth devices a snap. And with EDR, you’ll get a faster connection than with the previous version 1.2, which makes transferring files and using the phone as a modem for your laptop hum along nicely. And with the embedded A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of Bluetooth stereo headphones or other compatible devices. This phone also enables you to send contacts and calendar events, send pictures to a Bluetooth-enabled printer, and save up to 20 Bluetooth pairings
The 2-megapixel camera offers four resolution options for still images (1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240 pixels), and it features up to a 15x digital zoom (depending on resolution setting; 1600 x 1200 does not support zoom), brightness and white balance controls, a self timer, and an in-phone image editor. You can print photos directly to compatible PictBridge printers via the included USB cable or via Bluetooth. You can also capture video clips in three resolutions (320x 240, 176 x 144, and 128 x 96 pixels), with video length of either up to 35 seconds (for sending via messaging or mail) or up to 1 hour (for saving to your memory card).
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The digital music player supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, and MP4A files, and it allows you to play music in the background while you multitask in other applications on the phone. It also has an airplane mode that turns off cellular connectivity while allowing you to continue to play music. This phone is compatible with real-music ringtones, and you can also set voice memos as a ringtone. You can record voice memos up to 10 minutes in length. It comes with 33 unique ringtones and you can also set the phone to vibrate and silent modes.
Other features include:
- Personalize your phone by downloading unique ringers and assigning them to numbers in your address book so you’ll know who’s calling by the sound of the ring or style of animation
- Wireless Backup to manage contacts list in the event that the phone is lost, stolen or damaged
- Download and play entertaining, interactive games that you’ll want to play all the time
- USB mass storage capabilities and charging via computer
- Organizer tools: alarm clock, calculator, scheduler, document viewer, notepad, world clock, EZ tip calculator
- Bluetooth version 2.1 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), HID (support for mice or joysticks), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)
- Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) rating of M4 for hearing aids operating in the acoustic mode
Vital Statistics
The LG Lotus weighs 3.7 ounces and measures 3.3 x 2.4 x 0.7 inches. Its 900 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.5 hours of talk time, and up to ___ hours of standby time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as Sprint’s EV-DO data network.
I balked at the form factor at first but after checking out the cnet review I wanted to check it out in person. Went to a nearby sprint store and still thought it looked funny but the functionality of this phone is sick! Gps, email, texting, internet, phone – it gives my wife’s blackberry curve some serious competition. And the menus and options for every feature are very well thought out and executed. Give this one a serious look even if your friends make fun of you for having a ‘chick phone’. I’ve even grown to like the chunkiness of it.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have had 2 lotuses go bad on me in under 6 months. The phone works great at first but eventually the screen will start distorting until it is unusable. Search around, this is a common problem with this model. The LG warranty is nearly worthless, as they don’t understand that many people now ONLY have cell phones. They want you to send you phone in for 2 weeks. And if they replace it, they give you a used one.
Rating: 1 / 5
Never dropped it, kept a protective rubber cover on it & only used it for calls & texting(by the way, there is a delay in texting which is frustrating.) Stored a few pics but never used pic. mail. After only 4 months, it failed to start up this morning. Took it for diagnostic test & was told I need a new phone but they didn’t tell me what caused it to kill over. My replacement phone should arrive in 3-4 days but I hope that it is not a lemon as well. The guy @ Sprint told me they get alot of Lotus phones in for repairs.(not good)
Rating: 3 / 5
Ok, I fell in love with this phone when I first saw it. Reviews were good…etc. After having it for almost a month, today I’m exchanging it for a blackberry. Theres just little things about it that irks me.
-The volume is not loud enough for me at all
-Theres a delay on the keypad or whatever. It takes too long for me to exit apps like facebook.
-The shortcut youtube icon does not work right so I go to youtube on opera mini
-Most of the time I can’t watch long youtube vids and sometime the phone just shuts down while I’m tryin to watch a vid.
-Sometimes the phone just shuts down period
-My picture mail comes in all funny and you CAN’T get moving pictures aka gifs. So animations will come in like stills.You won’t get the joke. lol
-For some reason I can’t download songs from my mac itunes but maybe I just don’t know what I’m doing.
-Theres a delay when texting. If you a pro texter like me, you WILL be annoyed!!
-Texts come out like a thread for each contact(this maybe a pro for you but its a con for me)
-I’ve had more calls drop on this phone than I ever had on any phone
-Receiver volume way too low for me. Bad ears maybe? lol
-The phone is a lil too slim for me but I like bulky phones.
-The phone flashes for nothing. The music buttons just flash while phone is closed and it doesn’t mean you got a message
-Have not been able to use it as a modem on my mac. Not sure if its even mac friendly
-Battery life is VERY short. I have to charge it at least twice a day and I don’t even use the internet on it that much at all.
Here are the PROS
-Awesome camera/camcorder. Its very CLEAR.
-querty keyboard is nice. I can type fast on it. Its fat finger friendly.
-Screen is a nice size also
-Its a flip phone(main reason why I got it)
-If you get this DEFINITELY download opera mini (its awesome)
-It is easy to access your email
-Internet speed isn’t that bad
-It has a nice notepad app
-The carousel comes in handy sometimes
I use to have a sanyo 7500 and that phone was PERFECT.
If the cons I listed don’t bother you AND you really want this phone, get the phone. BUT if you are looking for an entertainment purpose phone get the IPHONE. Biggest mistake I made was renewing with my current service and not getting the phone I really wanted. I’m a youtube junkie so it would only make since to get the iphone. The lotus is NOT the IPHONE. I thought it would be a mixture between the blackberry and the IPHONE. NOT!!
These are real issues. My real opinion. If you get this phone, believe me you’ll have these issues too.
Rating: 3 / 5
I originally bought the LG Lotus in March. That phone would never allow updates, and unlike all the other cell phones I’ve had since buying my house, this phone only rang half of the time. I brought it in to find out what was wrong, and the Sprint store said it was faulty. They ordered me a replacement, which I found out upon arrival was a refurb, which I immediately could tell did not work. The earpiece had some plastic part stuck and I could barely hear callers, as well as the keyboard’s “p” not working. They ordered me another one, which was brand new, and it works ok, but not as well as it should. I still miss half the calls placed to this phone (I only know this because of the number of voicemails I get without the phone ever ringing.) I’m very frustrated with it for missed calls. Other than that, it’s really great for texting. The internet is alright. I will not get another, and I will get a new phone as soon as my plan allows. I do not recommend this phone.
Rating: 3 / 5