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.
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.
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.
Preloaded with Sprint Navigation, this phone provides full-feature GPS navigation including voice and on screen turn-by-turn driving directions and more than 10 million business listings.
And with the optional Wireless Backup service from Sprint, you can automatically store your phonebook contacts on the Sprint network, allowing them to be instantly updated in the event your phone is lost, stolen, or replaced. It also allows you to manage your phonebook contacts through a Sprint web page.
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.
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:
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)
34 unique ringtones plus vibrate and silent modes
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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Good phone. Rant is better.:
I had this phone for a year and used it often - all features except anything internet related as I don't have that service. But I beat mine up and got a Samsung Rant 2 weeks ago. So read this review if you are debating between the LG Rumor and Samsung Rant. i wrote this review to highlight pros, cons and differences...not all available features are discussed. Personal Highlights...
* great for texting
* love candy bar phones - flips are annoying and feel too delicate to me
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This phone is outrageous.:
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 http://www.myxer.com 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... more info
LG Rumor Review.:
THE GOOD
The LG Rumor has a lovely design, with a built-in hidden QWERTY keyboard for easy messaging. Features include a 1.3-megapixel camera, an MP3 player, Bluetooth, and more. It provides easy access to Facebook, plus it supports Sprint Navigation. THE BAD
The LG Rumor does not have EV-DO, and surfing the Web can be quite slow. The screen has poor resolution, and the camera has no flash. THE BOTTOM LINE
Though the LG Rumor is not as fast as we'd like, it's still a great... more info
Very Nice:
Over all this phone is very nice. I've had it for a while and I've certinly put it to the test. It's been dropped, thrown, and even submerged in water for about 2 seconds and it still works fine. One thing that has occured because of the daily ware is a really annoying creaking noise when I type. It's usually just w/ the numbers but it sometimes w/ the qwerty keyboard. I highly recomend it as a first or second phone for ages 12-25. The texting is awsome and there's no fuss of adding names and such to the... more info
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