LG Rumor Touch From Virgin Mobile – Review, Specification, Features, Price

LG introduced the Rumor Touch to the market in March 2010 as the next iteration to its successful Rumor series that sport the sliding five row QWERTY keyboard. To remain competitive, LG has upgraded the display to 3 inch touch sensitive screen. LG has also included definitive internal changes to the phone to make it a worthy successor to the Rumor line. This phone was first available in the prepaid line up with Sprint, and with the Virgin Mobile being owned by Sprint, some of the same phones have appeared in the Virgin Mobile lineup also.

LG Rumor Touch From Virgin Mobile

Specifications

• Display: 3 inch (240 x 400 pixels) 262K Color TFT Touch Resistive LCD
• Keyboard: Sliding Five Row QWERTY keyboard; Control & Navigation keys below screen
• Network: Dual Band CDMA2000 1X (800 and 1900)
• Connectivity: Stereo Bluetooth v2.1 with EDR
• Camera: 2 Mega Pixel
• Image Resolutions: 320×240, 640 x 480, 1280 x 960, 1600 x 1200
• Video Resolutions: 176 x 144 (QCIF), 320 x 240 (QVGA), 128 x 96 (Sub QCIF)
• Digital Zoom: 15x
• Audio Out: Standard 3.5 mm Jack
• USB: microUSB 2.0
• Storage Removable: microSD, microSDHC (32 GB Max)
• Navigation: GPS
• Java: Java, MIDP 2.1
• Battery: Lithium Polymer 1250 mAh

LG Rumor Touch From Virgin Mobile

Features

The LG Rumor Touch comes with a not so competitive 600 entry address book. Though, each contact can store up to seven phone numbers, email address, web site address, street address, instant messenger name, birthday, a short memo, job title, employer name and photo ID. There is the standard array of applications; tools and features like vibrate mode, speaker phone, SMS and MMS support. Notable features include, Stereo Bluetooth and GPS including the Spring Navigation support. The phone can also act like a USB flash drive with the Mass Storage mode. Wireless backup allows saving your data on the phone without physical connections. The phone supports web email from AOL, G-mail, Windows Live or Hotmail, Yahoo mail and other personal and work email services. Dedicated applications for Facebook, Twitter and MySpace enable you to keep up to date with your social networks. The phone supports EV-DO Rev 0 and the 3G support gives reasonable performance for Sprint 3G services. The music player is simple and functional, allows the management of your media through playlists and offers simple playback options. Images from the 2 Megapixel camera are sharp but acquire a orange tint in low light situations. The video recording capabilities were also reasonable, and both the imaging and video controls are shared between the two modes.

Verdict

The Rumor Touch from LG is a touch screen feature phone aimed at the messaging and telephony users. The phone has good voice call quality, social networking support, music and emails. The full five row QWERTY keyboard is well designed and keys spaced for ease of messaging and extensive typing in mind. The overall interface on the phone is very messaging friendly. However, with just average imaging quality and less than ideally responsive screen score major negative points for an overall good solution for those interested in messaging and voice calls only. Overall, for the price range, the phone is well designed with solid construction and decent performance and is a strong contender for the target market.

Price

The LG Rumor Touch is available for $149.99 without contract from the Virgin Mobile prepaid lineup. In this range there is tough competition for this feature phone as there are some decent smartphones also available in this price range with contract.