LG CU500 (AT&T)

Owning a Cingular store I get to play with all the new gadgets that come out. The LG CU500 has got to be one of the best phones out there. First of all It looks really nice. It has a pretty thin profile, excellent keypad, extra large screen, and a swivel camera. But this phone is not all looks. It is jam packed with tons of great features.

The 1.3MP swivel camera takes excellent pictures. The high quality screen displays the pictures even brighter and more clear than most phones.

It has a built in MP3 player and what I like most about the phone is the external MP3 control buttons. You dont even have to open your phone to play music.

This phone is UMTS and GSM. UMTS is a new technology that is much much faster than GSM. This allows for streaming video and extra fast internet browsing. UMTS is a little bit faster than 3G. It is like saying 3.5G which is very fast for a phone.

Overall it is a great phone and feels very good in your hands. For its price it is an excellent phone.

it has good features nice camera its a replacement for the same phone sounds very good the battery doesnt last long on most

Much nicer than the former LG CU400 I had. Lots of features, nice design , and better camera.Fewer side buttons to get in the way. Would get excellant if I could transfer the phone book to computer. Neither phone allows this.

this is one of the best phones on the market today for around $100 bucks,their is only one flaw,you cant store pics or video to the micro sd card from the phone.the phone is very well made and can take a beating,this is truly the best phone for the money,hands down!

I appreciate that what was advertised - a cellphone that I purchased, is as they described. If in the market for another cellphone, I would not hesitate in attempting to purchase from them first.

Well I need a phone and I've had my eye on this particular one since it came out a few years ago. So I took the opprotunity and bought it. Its great I love it!

The phone has numerous features, however the memory card that was shipped with it locked up the phone. Once it was pulled the phone worked. Also the battery will not stay charged. (The past two days it has been charged fully and not used during the day yet the battery completely discharged without use.)

it was supposed to be little bit crack and not all damaed!!! i can't see anything at all.i will appreciate a repy to this message from seller thanks in advance. have nice dayand nice rest of the week

all good product ok a++++++++++ and good seller and buyer ok !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a ++++++++++++++++++++++++

One of the best cell phones that is available for the AT&T network. It has the best features for the price.

I bought this phone as a backup for my blackberry pearl 8100, which is fragile and has had some breakage issues in the past. The LG CU500 is a very good phone with several useful features, and I've experienced no problems with thus far.

The keys are comfortably spread out, making texting much better than many phones I've used in the past, including a Samsung M500 and, even more significantly, a Razr (which sucks for texting). The texting has nothing on the blackberry, though, which has a half qwerty keyboard that is great...much better for texting than any phone with a normal keypad. Call quality is average, not as good as the blackberry, but the phone is also a quarter of the price, and it doesn't hinder performance enough to really complain. Texting and talking are my two biggest concerns with a phone, and in that respect, the blackberry pearl wins, and is still my primary phone. It also has email integration which just can't be found in older phones, like the CU500.

There are a few other factors I can compare in which the LG soundly stomps the BB, the most significant being media. While the Pearl has a newer, better display, its speaker is not that great, and the LG can blast music really clearly. It also has a cool musicID feature, which I think might charge per song, but if you let the phone "listen" to whatever's playing on the radio, it will identify the song and artist (i tested it with my computer, worked great). I'm not sure about video playback but I don't really care, because watching a video on a phone is going to suck regardless, though I do know that the CU500 can stream video over the fast data network, I just haven't tried it. This does bring me to my next point, however...

The primary reason I bought this phone, to use as a backup, was because it runs on AT&T's 3.5G HSDPA network (Blackberry can only run Edge) and has bluetooth capabilities. I've paired my blackberry to my laptop with bluetooth and the phone nearly killed itself, it won't sync with the desktop manager, can't be used as a modem, etc. etc. The LG seamlessly paired with my computer (running XP pro), and I had the high-speed dial-up connection running without any trouble at all through the standard XP bluetooth modem (just put in the right initialization commands, username, and password, which can be found online). Tried normal web browsing with Firefox and the speed is unbelievable...it's like using broadband over a 54 Mbps wireless router...not as fast as a normal cable modem, but pretty close. I used an internet speed test and got about 550 kbs download speeds and 300 kbs upload speeds, though I can't attest to how accurate those tests were. Regardless, I was very happy with the computer pairing, and I'm waiting to get in a USB cable to see if it's faster than the bluetooth modem connection. The downside is that the browser on the CU500 completely blows, the blackberry's is much better (and this particular blackberry has the worst browser in the whole BB family), therefore, if you want fast data browsing and don't have a laptop nearby, you're kind of hosed. Still, the 3.5G network is sick, and everything I've tried to do with the CU500 has worked.

It has normal phone texting and a crappy browser, those are my biggest complaints. If it had a blackberry keyboard (a blackberry flip phone would be the best phone I can imagine), the LG CU500 would be my main phone without a doubt, it is definitely the best non-smart phone I've ever used.

This phone is very nice. It is compact and has many features that I love. It is lightweight and fits nicely in my purse or my pocket.

I love this phone!!! In my personal opinion it's the next best cell after the Rzor. The screen is decent size, bright, and vivid! If it seems like you are not able to hear your phone ring because of being in loud places all the time, or your phone doesn't have much volume, you will not have that problem with this phone. My nephew and I both have one and it's hard for us to wake up in the morning, but the ring on this phones can go up so loud that it sounds like someone is listening to a loud radio (GREAT FOR AS AN ALARM CLOCK)!!!!!

This is a great phone, excellent sound crystal clear, I liked it so much I bought another for my wife and she loves it to. I really was interested in a good sounding phone. And so far every one that I have talked to said I really sound good, I have owned about 12 phones and this one for the price is the best for me.

What is so great about the LG CU 500? Everything? The sound quality is awesome. I can hear everyone I speak to, perfectly. Even the speaker phone has a great range. I put the phone in the back seat of my car on speaker phone, and the person heard me great. I didn't even have to yell. The camera is good too. The pictures are really on point. The camera pictures seem to have better quality then some of these digital camera out. The keypad is very easy to dial and to txt message with. The battery does lasts a very long time. I downloaded songs to a Sd micro chip, and the songs sound so good. I love this phone.

i like it a lot of feature this cel are nice i love it make the life in touch with tomorrow high perfomance im very happywith this cel phone

Aren't these reviews supposed to be about the phones and not the sellers??? What's wrong with these guys???
The phone is fine to me. Just a simple phone with camera, mp3, bluetooth and speaker. It worked great for me when I owned it, till I sold it to someone on here complaining the battery died after one day from when they received it. Are you kidding me? How am I supposed to know it's going to die after one day. It worked fine for me. And if they wanted a full description of the phone...they could have looked it up or asked me more questions before bidding on it. duh.
Well that's ebay for you.

Item exactly as specified and prompt delivery! Phone was in great condition. Delivered in 2 business days!

I love this phone it has everything I need plus. This phone takes gr8 pics. (the swivel lens is very handy too.) It is light but not flimsy. I liked my daughters so much I bought one for me, and my son bought one too. One of the best phones I've had.

overall I like the phone a great deal but it does have its faults. While you can't talk on the speaker-phone while it is closed and the battery does not seem very well attatched, it has a large display option and a lot of other bells and whistles that seem to work properly. I am well pleased with the phone and the price range for the item.

oh i liked the fact that there were mutipule phones involved, but i didnt like the fact that the seller did not explain the product in full. i then bought mutipule phones that in fact did work, but not to their fullest. i decided to buy it becuase my old phone broke and had to get a new one.

I bought my first CU500 phone almost 2 years ago, and today I bought a third one for my girlfriend. This phone is very easy to use, has a good hinge and great sound for a phone. The small size fits easily in a pocket. The phone features a 1.3mp camera, video @ 15fps, lots of room for ringtones or pictures, 3g for fast internet connections, and java games. Easily runs mobiTV with no lag at all. It has expandable memory with a micro SD card, up to 2 gigs of additional memory. With a conversion program, I have been able to put 6 full feature movies (90 minutes + each) plus over 250 mp3's on a 1 gig memory card.

I would definitely recommend this phone to anyone who is looking for a fun phone without spending an arm and a leg.

Already had one, not the most durable phone on earth, but great features. Since the cost has come down you cant do much better.

I had this phone and wanted the LG CU500 (AT&T) phone again. This was a affordable price, and fast shipping. It has a loud alarm. I use it to wake me up for work, better than a traditional alarm clock.

This Seller Said that this item was in good condition and worked fine. When I got it I found that the phone does not charge without having to hold the charger a certain way. As well as the phone being in very poor condition. I let the seller know this. Their communication really is not good. Over all I was not happy with the service or merchandise.