LG CU500 Reviews
October 24th, 2006 - Posted in LG
DigitalTrends reviews the LG CU500 and writes, “As a thin black clamshell, this quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE world phone is sure to remind folks of the Motorola RAZR; at 3.8 by 1.95 by 0.76 inches, the CU500 is roughly the same size and at 3.7 ounces, just .21 ounces heavier. What’s radically different about the CU500 from the RAZR are the front music transport controls and external access to the camera/video recorder functions, with the external 1.2-inch screen serving as a viewfinder. Up top is the camera, mounted in a swivel barrel that rotates 180 degrees. The earpiece is actually a stereo speaker array.”
CNET reviews the LG CU500 and writes “The 1.3-megapixel camera has a 4X zoom and takes photos in four resolutions (160×120, 320×240, 640×480, 1,280×960) and three different quality settings (Normal, Fine, and Super Fine). Other camera settings include a self-timer, a reverse view mode (for upside-down shots), white balance (Auto, Daylight, Incandescent, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Night mode), color effects (Color, Sepia, Mono, Negative), multishot, and three shutter tones (plus a fourth silent mode). There’s an image editor that lets you resize, crop, color effect, and rotate your snapshots. … We found the picture quality to be quite good for a camera phone, though it struggled with low light environs.”
Infosync reviews the LG CU500 and writes, “Call quality on the LG CU500 was fine, but not excellent. Because the microphone extends closer to your mouth than on other clamshells we’ve tested, the CU500 does a good job of picking up soft voices, but it also picks up breathing sounds a bit too loudly — indeed, callers reported static that was revealed to be breathing sounds. Still, we were able to speak softly on a crowded New York street and be heard by our callers and voice mail recorders. No voice dialing is available, which is a strange given the phone’s music ID capaibilities. Conference calling is easy: while on one call, you simply dial the second number and join the two. The dedicated application switcher also allows you to access any of the phone’s other functions during a call. “