Product Details
- Binding: Wireless Phone
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- Brand: LG
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- Color: Black
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- Features: Candybar-style phone with slide-out QWERTY keyboard in black/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; 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), Includes: Battery, Charger
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- Label: Sprint
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- Manufacturer: Sprint
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- Model: Rumor
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- Product Group: Wireless
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- Publisher: Sprint
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- Release Date: 2007-10-28
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- Studio: Sprint
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- Title: LG Rumor Black Phone (Sprint)
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- UPC: 652810513883
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- Variation Description: Black
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Avg Customer Rating: 
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. 
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.
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Customer Reviews
Chic and Sweet
I've had this phone for a little over a month now, and I've had texting for a couple of weeks. The buttons are small, so you have to get used to them, but its an awesome phone. :) Very easy to figure out and VERY easy to type with! My friend Mellisa is mad at me because she has a "regular style" phone and it takes her forever to text, but it takes me a few seconds. :p
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Good Phone, but there's room for improvement, 3.5 stars,
I wrote this review for the white color, and copied it here for the black/blue one.
Pros:
-Uses Sprint Vision (Not Power vision - EV-DO) so I didn't need to change my plan. -but this may be a con for others-
-Qwerty key pad
-1.3 Mp camera
- Applications: Facebook, Aim, Instant messenger, Email, internet.
-Micro Sd slot so you can store more music and pictures
-Bluetooth
-size and weight is great and the raised buttons make it easier to dial.
-music player sounds pretty good
Cons:
*Some of my con's are quiet specific to things that I usually want/need in a phone, and didn't realized until after I had received the phone. Its still a good phone, but I would be happier if it had some improvements.
-Camera doesn't have a flash.
-QWERTY key pad should have a button for the period, you need to "shift" then hit the period.
-The typing software can use some improvement, such as predicting words and such. The feature is there but lacks accuracy.
-Screen needs better resolution & colors. currently 176x220 pixel resolution.
-*Can't use own music (on SD card) as ringtones,
-*Difficult/can't use own pictures (from SD card) as the background/screen-saver.. I still can't figure it out.
-*Short cut navigation key for some reason the category "My content" doesn't let you make a shortcut for the sections within it. I want a shortcut key to Google maps, which is within 'my content', but it doesn't allow it, the best it will do is let you shortcut to 'my content' and then you have to scroll from there which is kinda annoying..
-*The idle/key lock screen is always the black screen with the time that you can't change.
-*There isn't a flashing light to tell you of a missed alert, until you click on a button and see the black/keylock screen. Else the phone just looks like its sleeping, so you have to consistently click on the buttons to see if you've missed any alerts.
Pictures you take with the phone look pretty well (granted you have the prefect lighting) on the computer, but everything on its low resolution screen makes photos seemed washed out and blurry.
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Great phone for text (or e-mail if you have vision)
This phone is a great phone if you text a lot (or want to text alot). Also, the phone makes it very easy to access gmail, aol mail, hotmail, yahoo mail etc. If you do add an e-mail account on the phone, I would reccommend switching to the vision unlimited data plan (I think it's either $15 or $20). I've never had a problem with the keyguard feature that others reference above. The only thing I've noticed is that the phone doesn't sound great if you're in the wind (but what phone does?). Great speakerphone and easy mute/unmute.
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Really cool
This phone is really cool. It's great if you like to text! Personally I think it could have a little more battery power, but it's wonderful if you like to text. When I first got It, I was The envy of all my friends. I definatly would recomend this phone!
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Great phone for the text addicted
I've had this phone for about a month and I'm absolutely in love with it. The slideout keyboard makes texting a whole lot faster and easier. Its sleek and stylish with very good voice quality. The camera isn't the greatest, but it does work for taking okay quality pictures. My only complaints about the phone are the keyguard, which can easily be deactivated by sliding open the keyboard. I have a one year old son who is constantly messing with my phone, and also constantly calling random people. Secondly, sometimes when going through screens, the phone lags. Its usually only for a couple seconds, but its enough to screw you up forcing you to back out and start all over again. OVERALL FABULOUS PHONE.
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