- Candybar-style phone with slide-out QWERTY keyboard in blue
- Easy access to text/IM messaging, email (web and POP3/IMAP), and social networking sites like Facebook
- 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture; MicroSD expansion (up to 4 GB); Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity for communication headsets
- Up to 4.5 hours of talk time; measures 4.49 x 2.60 x 0.55 inches (WxHxD)
- What’s in the box: handset, battery, charger, quick start guide
Amazon.com Product Description
If you need to stay on top of your text, email and instant messaging as well as your social networks, LG’s affordable Rumor for Sprint makes it easy to quickly communicate thanks to its slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The Rumor is also a great choice for a cellular audio player, with wide multiformat support, a 2.5mm headphone jack, and up to 4 GB of storage via optional MicroSD memory cards. Other features include Bluetooth connectivity for communication headsets and dial-up networking, a 1.3-megapixel camera/camcorder, real music ringtone support, speakerphone capability, and a GPS receiver and access to Sprint’s optional turn-by-turn navigation services.
Enjoy advanced wireless services, like web access, email and text messaging with Sprint PCS Vision. |
Sprint Service
Sprint PCS Vision gives you instant access to amazing things you will really use, every day. You’ll enjoy advanced wireless services, like web access, email and text messaging that is easy to learn and use anytime. Sprint Mobile Email enables access to email from popular providers simply by entering username and password with no downloads required. Plus, with the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network you get the nationwide coverage and voice clarity you’ve come to expect from Sprint.
Sprint offers a variety of messaging options beyond text including Voice SMS, which allows you to record a voice message and send it to any mobile phone, email address, or landline phone just like a text message, and Text to Landline, which allows Sprint subscribers to send a text message to a landline phone where it is automatically converted to a voice message.
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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.
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.
Phone Features
The Rumor offers one touch access to messaging through a softkey from the idle screen and it automatically populates the messaging menu when the slider is opened. You’ll enjoy easy access to Sprint Mobile eMail to check and send mail from multiple accounts through familiar providers including Yahoo! AOL, Gmail and Microsoft Live. It also provides quick access to instant messaging services including AIM, MSN and Yahoo! as well as several popular social networking communities, including Facebook and Xanga. To personalize the text messaging experience, the Rumor offers the ability to assign “text tones” to address book entries for audible identification of text message senders.
Catch up on gossip when you’re on the go with the LG Rumor, which offers a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and easy connectivity to popular IM networks and even Facebook. |
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The Rumor’s face has a 176 x 220-pixel LCD (262K colors), five-way navigation toggle, soft keys, and numeric keypad, and it smoothly slides open to the left to reveal the QWERTY keyboard (which automatically switches the screen to landscape mode). The internal phonebook has a 500 contact capacity, each with space for five phone numbers, email and Web addresses, and a memo. You can also assign a photo ID to a contact entry, as well as assign it to a group as well as to a specific ringtone.
The 1.3-megapixel camera provides three resolution options (1280 x 960, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240 pixels), and features up to a 15x digital zoom, brightness and white balance controls, self-timer, and in-phone image enhancement. It also provides support for PictBridge technology so you can print your photos without the need of a PC (either using USB or Bluetooth). You can record video at two resolutions–176 x 144 and 128 x 96 pixels–at up to 2 hours for saving to memory card or in 10- or 20-second lengths for sending via messaging or email. Videos can be used as ringers and screen savers
Because the Rumor is Bluetooth enabled (version 2.0), wireless communication headsets can be configured with the phone for total hands-free operation. It also provides profiles for hands-free (v1.5), dial-up networking, object push, basic printing, file transfer, and phone book access. You can save up to 20 Bluetooth pairings.
Other features include:
- One Touch Messaging Access: Ability to access the messaging menu with one touch. The softkey from the idle screen takes you to messaging menu.
- Built-in Ring Tones: Choose from 30 built-in ring tones, offering a variety of traditional ring tones as well as polyphonic melodic ring tones (up to 32 chords) and vibrating alert
- Media player supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, M4A, MID, AMR, QCP, 3GPP, MP4, 3G2, 3GPP, M4V, and PMD formats
- Speed dial (98 entries + 1 voicemail default)
- Tools: Alarm clock, calculator, scheduler, notepad, world clock, EZ tip calculator, D-Day counter, unit converter
- USB wired connectivity to your PC, with mass storage capability
- One-touch speakerphone
- Voice Memos (up to 10 minutes; can be set as ringers)
- TTY/TDD support; M3/T3 hearing aid rating
- Web browser: Infraware Polaris 5.01
- Flight mode enables you to listen to music with cell radio turned off
- T9 predictive text entry
Vital Statistics
The LG Rumor weighs 4.1 ounces and measures 4.3 x 2 x 0.7 inches. Its 950 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.5 hours of talk time. It runs on the 850/1900 CDMA frequencies.
Texting keyboard, nice colors (I have a royal blue), it’s a camera, it’s a camcorder, it’s an mp3 player, it has video options, you can get ringtones from [...]for cheap (you only pay for the minutes you use on the internet downloading the songs/wallpapers, whatever), after a a few seconds of inactivity, it locks so you don’t waste the battery as much (just unlock/lock it by pressing and holding the back button for about 2 seconds), you can surf on the internet (it’s free/or isn’t free depending on the plan you get), tons of settings and tools to fool around with and much more.
This is the first phone that was an mp3 player, a camera and a camcorder all in one (for me) so I’m enjoying taking pictures and listening to music very much.
There is only one super-small issue that shouldn’t be a big deal and might happen with other phones too – when someone texts you, and you don’t reply but you DO see the message that was sent, the phone acts like you never saw the message and counts it as a missed message.
Very minor like I’ve said but I just thought I’d mention it. The pictures that it takes are pretty good as long as there is good lighting.
4 stars.
end note: Get the LG Rumor. It’s a great phone, and although I’ve only owned two cell phones in my lifetime I think that’s saying something. My first phone was a Virgin Oystr and you couldn’t go to[...] because it wasn’t compatible. If you get this phone I promise you won’t regret it. Plus, it’s a phone that not many people go for, I think. Most everyone is going after the iPhone or Blackberries which are too expensive/and aren’t worth it from what I hear.
The main downfall with this phone I’ve had for almost 2 months now is that the camera works on and off. Sometimes when you try to access it it works fine, and other times, the screen goes stationary and doesn’t go to the camera at all so you must wait and then come back to it.
Rating: 4 / 5
This phone is kind of a piece of junk. My daughter has went thru 3 of them with SPRINT, it has a problem of turning itself off and on for no reason at all. Plus, it loses its signal quite often and we live in a decent sized METRO area. It is ok, I guess, if you get it for free, but don’t pay for it if you are looking for a replacement.
Rating: 2 / 5