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Manufacturer: LG Part number: RUMORTOUCHBLUSPT
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- The LG Rumor Touch is a touch-screen messaging phone from Sprint with a user interface that makes text messaging a breeze.
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CNET editors' review
LG Rumor Touch - blue (Sprint) price range: $0.00
- Reviewed by: Nicole Lee
- Reviewed on: 04/02/2010
- Released on: 03/28/2010
The good: The LG Rumor Touch has a unique text-messaging-friendly interface, plus it has a five-row QWERTY keyboard. It also has EV-DO Rev. 0, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headset jack, e-mail, and easy access to social network sites. Call quality is great as well.
The bad: The LG Rumor Touch's keyboard layout could be improved, and the photo quality is average.
The bottom line: The LG Rumor Touch is a touch-screen messaging phone from Sprint with a user interface that makes text messaging a breeze.
User reviews
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great phone if u like the touch screen
by neverreviewedb4 on May 23, 2010
Pros: nice QWERTY keyboard. good sound clarity on in the ear and on speaker
Cons: touch screen
Summary: I don't like touch screens so this review may not be helpful to you if you do like them. I figured I'd try this one since I loved ...
Summary: I don't like touch screens so this review may not be helpful to you if you do like them. I figured I'd try this one since I loved the slide out QWERTY keyboard and the phone got such great sound quality reviews. I primarily use my phone as a phone so sound quality is a crucial issue for me. It is a good phone however, if you are not a touch screen fan or if you do not have nimble fingers, I wouldn't recommend this phone. In order to dial a number you have to go through a combination of at least 3 keys/menus - if the phone is locked, you have to unlock it, then hit the dial pad and then dial or use the speed settings. This is very problematic if you drive a lot, as I do. It's also just annoying. Talking on the phone should be simple, but it isn't with the Rumor Touch. Also, if you want to make a call from your call history, you have to use the mini-chicklet sized buttons on the touch screen - I am a mid-30's woman with relatively small fingers. Despite that, many a time I've mis-hit the screen and gotten the wrong result. That said, I like the weight of the phone, the ease of use and the style. I never texted before getting the Rumor Touch and it has been a breeze. I think I'd be in love with the phone if it had hard keys for dialing. As an aside, a word of warning - if you are not sure about getting a touch screen phone, be careful where you buy - if you buy directly from Sprint they will charge you a $35 restocking fee once the phone is activated. I didn't realize this (my bad). If I had, I would've bought from Radio Shack as I usually do. The only reason I bought from Sprint in the first place was to avoid the $18 activation fee on my upgrade. Now I have to pay the restock fee, PLUS, in case you didn't know - once you ask Sprint for a return kit, if they don't log the phone back into their system within 30 days, they will charge you a $200 fee - REGARDLESS of if they received the phone back. So, if you change your mind about returning the phone, not only will you be out the $35 restocking fee which they take up front and will not refund to you, but they will also further charge your credit card $200 for the inconvenience of having sent out a return kit. BOTTOM LINE - DON'T BUY DIRECTLY FROM SPRINT.
11 out of 13 users found this user opinion helpful.
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bad phone for texting. Touchscreen not very responsive.
by MyOPinion4u on July 9, 2010
Pros: The phone is inexpensive and sound quality is good.
Cons: Unless you have preset up a group, it is not possible to send a message to multiple recipients. How lame is that!?!?!?!
Summary: I didn't have the phone for more than a few days. Scrolling on the touchpad was next to impossible. This made accessing menus that didn't fit on the ...
Summary: I didn't have the phone for more than a few days. Scrolling on the touchpad was next to impossible. This made accessing menus that didn't fit on the display screen more time consuming because you had to slide out the QWERTY keyboard. Setting an alarm time or entering a time for a calendar event was very frustrating. I'll play with the phone a few more days to see if I get used to it but most likely I will end up returning the phone to Sprint.
Finally figured out how to send message to multiple recipients (no thanks to Sprint Customer Support). It's more cumbersome than other phones I've used. Still trying to get used to this touchscreen.
Updated on Jul 10, 20106 out of 7 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Locks during phone calls, does not allow me to hang up
by rockrooky on April 2, 2011
Pros: good pictures
Cons: Locking in and not allowing me to hang up creates overage charges and sloppy ends to my phone calls
Summary: I hate my phone. It locks in during phone calls and does not allow me to hang up, creating overage charges. The Sprint repair guy says it cannot be repaired ...
Summary: I hate my phone. It locks in during phone calls and does not allow me to hang up, creating overage charges. The Sprint repair guy says it cannot be repaired and he is seeing a lot of problems with this phone. Sprint is dragging its feet letting me replace this phone and I am still working on that.
5 out of 5 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Phone broke after a 1 1/2 months
by rehabnurse1107 on October 18, 2010
Pros: User friendly
Cons: After a month and a half the phone stopped working totally
Summary: Phone worked great until about three days ago. I went to use my phone one evening when I realized that it seemed to reboot it self but wouldn't complete ...
Summary: Phone worked great until about three days ago. I went to use my phone one evening when I realized that it seemed to reboot it self but wouldn't complete the process. The screen kept flashing the Rumor logo with a "please wait". I couldn't turn it off or on either. Took the battery out to see if it would help, but nothing. Phone is in the shop now and I am being told this a common occurrence with the phone. Apparently nothing can be done and now I am looking at getting a refurbished phone because I am past the 30 day guarantee. Nothing like paying full price for a phone, having it work for less than 2 months to only end up with a reject that will probably do the same thing in the future!!
5 out of 5 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great phone, if it worked right
by Dlegoflamb on May 23, 2011
Pros: Good texting qwerty board. Easy to use.
Cons: Touch screen is frustrating. Low quality, durability. Camera is grainy.Calls drop.
Summary: While I love the Rumor design and qwerty, this is my third Rumor, and they all end up having the same problem. The touch screen is off and won't ...
Summary: While I love the Rumor design and qwerty, this is my third Rumor, and they all end up having the same problem. The touch screen is off and won't calibrate, the phone reboots sometimes when sliding closed, delayed reaction with texts and touch screen. I have to frequently take the battery out and restart the phone just to receive texts. Frequently I accidentally "cancel" texts because the reaction time is so slow I end up trying to send a second time . I won't bother buying a Rumor again.
4 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Touch is too touchy
by gogotexas on October 1, 2010
Pros: I like the long battery life
Cons: It does a lot except when you want to use it as a phone to make a call
Summary: It has an auto-lock that you can't override, so you have to continuously be unlocking the phone during the call to access the number pad or speaker phone mode....
Summary: It has an auto-lock that you can't override, so you have to continuously be unlocking the phone during the call to access the number pad or speaker phone mode.
The phone is not loud enough to hear the person talking in any kind of noise.
The auto redial is annoying on every call when you try access the key pad
Hard to see in sunlight
The bubbles won't let you access other features until you address them
Key pads a little small4 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great Msg phone. Touch screen was ok.
by JDcruz185 on July 13, 2010
Pros: Touch screen. Send multiple messages with pics and video. Large 3in Display played a huge part in my purchase. Fast EV-DO data.
Cons: Poor web browser. Touch screen can be funky. Sprint TV was just awful.
Summary: Love the 3in display and touch screen. I like the camera options but you can only zoom in camcorder but not camera hmmm? Get the Opera mini browser ASAP, it ...
Summary: Love the 3in display and touch screen. I like the camera options but you can only zoom in camcorder but not camera hmmm? Get the Opera mini browser ASAP, it works great and give you true HTML experience minus flash. A decent PDF viewer and few other tools. A good music player and ability to download music on the fly. Now the sprint tv is my biggest complaint. Even with all my ev-do bars I rarely can get anything at all. Now to the media player, it plays mp4 but it is a bit choppy just enough to annoy you. Hate to get off track but the Opera mini will jam up if you play youtube on it. The stock browser works the best youtube and that's it. All in all I bought it to replace my palm centro which had such a lil screen and buttons though it was a great media player without a doubt. The LG rumor touch is a good buy for a 3in screen msg phone with great features.
Got off phone with sprint. THE RUMOR TOUCH HAS A DEFECT IN SPRINT TV. Tech support told me this. New update does not fix it. 2nd Rumor Touch so this seems to be the whole line of LG Rumor phones. Customer Service was horrible but the tech guys are honest.
Updated on Sep 8, 20104 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Offers some of the best features for non-smartphones.
by smurphy2013 on September 11, 2010
Pros: Good feature set for non-smartphone with email, Facebook, Twitter, Opera Mini, and has touchscreen; touchscreen is pretty accurate; 3G is definite plus; bubble-style texting interface is handy; includes predictive text feature for a decent keyboard.
Cons: Touchscreen can be a pain when scrolling through menus; Hello UI hard to get to, therefore kind of useless; keyboard layout not great; game selection sucks unless you are willing to pay; data plan priced like smartphone; Sprint's network; camcorder
Summary: Verizon has its Envs and Sprint has its Rumors. LG and Verizon obviously have a decent partnership, because the Rumor Touch is not the Env Touch. However, the Env Touch ...
Summary: Verizon has its Envs and Sprint has its Rumors. LG and Verizon obviously have a decent partnership, because the Rumor Touch is not the Env Touch. However, the Env Touch was an editor's choice, so it's pretty hard to be as great. That being said, the Rumor Touch is pretty decent in its own right.
Forgot to mention some tech things:
User Interface (Touchscreen):
The touchscreen is not bad for a resistive one, but it is still resistive. Scrolling through menus often results in the accidental selecting of an icon, and keep your fingernails long. All in all, though, it is responsive enough for all but those who have been using capacitive screens since 2007. And let's face it, if you have been using capacitive screens since '07, you're probably not going to buy this phone anyway.
Overall, the UI is simple enough to understand and navigate, and the menus are easily customizable in an intuitive and simple way. The Hello UI is cool, but it's really hard to get to, and so I, for one, never use it, which is a real shame because it is a great concept, just poorly executed. Still, BREW (Qualcomm's OS, used on the phone) is simple and straightforward and will appeal to the heavy texter, and even the average one.
Features
The Rumor Touch has a great feature set for the most part, with dedicated Google Maps, email, Twitter, and Facebook apps. It also has both a default browser and the excellent Opera Mini, which is speedy and easy to use and great over a 3G connection. The email app is far from spectacular, and only works with Yahoo! and Gmail (so I couldn't hook up my Verizon account), but hey, it's there, and most people I know use Yahoo! and Gmail anyway. Still, it's really not a Blackberry. The Twitter and Facebook apps are similar to the email in that they are far for great, but they're there and that's a bonus any day on a feature phone (P.S.--I don't use Facebook and Twitter, so I really haven't used them except to see what they were--you should get a second opinion on them.). Google Maps is an awesome app that works as a GPS; it's kind of slow, but it will help if you are completely lost and need help, which is really what it's supposed to do.
There are plenty of web applications you can download through Opera Mini, but there is very little freeware. There are a few decent ones for free, but prepare to pay if you want anything truly productive. The games on the phone are bad; Tetris is the only one that comes with the phone and is free; Prepare to pay 5 bucks for everything, literally everything, else.
Media
There is a microSD slot on the phone that can support up to 32gb microSD cards, so if you use it, you can put all the music on it you want, provided you buy the card. The multimedia is not bad. Sound quality is good, and videos are pretty much what you would expect from a 240x400 screen--kind of watchable.
The camera is not terrible, but not terribly good either. It takes 2.0 megapixel still, and auto-adjust but lacks any decent zoom feature. In short, it's a standard featurephone camera. Never use the camcorder. Never. Please. It records at QVGA resolution (320x240) and is really bad. That said, so is pretty much every non-smartphone camcorder on the market.
None of the browsers on the phone have any sort of Flash Player, but they will play YouTube videos. If you choose "standard quality," the phone usually has no problems playing the video. You can also choose "high quality" on YouTube, but the phone often stutters and the quality is not much better--meaning bad.
Other Things of Importance
The phone, despite being pretty much all plastic, feels pretty sturdy.
Sprint's network is, in my opinion, bad. Really bad. If you use and like Sprint, hey, have fun, maybe it's great for you, maybe Pittsburgh, PA is just a bad area for them. I don't like it, but it's not bad enough to be a deal-breaker for me.
Call quality on the phone is good, not amazing, but not bad either. It will be just fine for just about everybody.
Wrap-up
There was really nothing about this phone that really blew me away, but there was nothing that made me cringe either. The good things about this phone definitely outweigh the bad, and the few bad things are really mostly minor and hardly deal-breakers.
For everyone except heavy smartphone users, this phone will be great.
Updated on Sep 11, 2010
The phone has a microUSB port that can connect to your computer so you can share your media, provided your media is on the microSD card you shelled out the extra cash for (though the phone does come with a 1GB card. The microUSB also serves as the connection to the charger.
There is a 3.5mm headphone jack, as usual. There is a dedicated camera button and volume rocker on the left (when looking at the screen) side of the phone, and there is a dedicated power/screen lock button on the right side. These are basic but still good additions to the phone.5 out of 7 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Totally in love with this phone!!!
by athomas863 on May 17, 2010
Pros: The touchScreen is quick, and i'm one of those women who like to get nails done, and the touch screen registers my nails. the camera takes amazing pictures and it's not bulky phone.Txting is very easy..i must say i am 200% satified
Cons: Nothing really bad about the phone at all. It's an awesome touchscreen with full slide out Qwerty keyboard!
Summary: If you want a phone a little on the cheaper side but has awesome features...i would say this is definatly the phone to go with! i'm very happy ...
Summary: If you want a phone a little on the cheaper side but has awesome features...i would say this is definatly the phone to go with! i'm very happy with this phone, can't find anything i don't like about it.
5 out of 7 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great Phone with some confusing interface.
by ACPuff1233 on June 28, 2010
Pros: I got a brilliant red color. The touchscreen is pretty responsive and it's very durable.
Cons: The way they have the menus set up. They don't have the side button for the voice command, you have to do it manually.
Summary: I just got this phone today and I like it pretty much and I have a pretty good feelings about the 2 years that I have to use this phone. ...
Summary: I just got this phone today and I like it pretty much and I have a pretty good feelings about the 2 years that I have to use this phone. Before I have a chocolate phone in Verizon, but I switched to Sprint because people around me kept saying that Sprint's better and I wanted to pay less for my very first touch screen phone. When I started playing around, I tried to find the ringtones, but it was very confusing....It was way different from Verizon Phone'ss interfaces and setup. This phone doesn't even let be put a big clock or something on the main screen. So the main screen is blank with just your screensaver. Although it's sort of boringish, it had all what I needed which is why I'm satisfied still.
3 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: LG
- Part number: RUMORTOUCHBLUSPT
- Description: A successor to one of Sprint's most popular messaging devices, LG Rumor Touch enhances messaging capabilities with a large 3-inch WQVGA touch screen, 5 line QWERTY keyboard, and 3G data capabilities providing quick and easy social networking access at the touch of your fingertips. Keeping connected is easy with the stylish LG Rumor Touch with quick access to threaded text messaging, instant messaging or Email and with 3G data, whether the user is updating their status on Facebook, uploading a photo to Photobucket or looking for the coolest hangout with it's built in GPS. Exclusive to Sprint, LG Rumor Touch features a 2-megapixel cameras and camcorder and calendar features.
General
- Packaged Quantity 1
- Product Type Cellular phone
- Form Factor Slider - Full keyboard,
Touch screen - Phone Design Slider
- Integrated Components GPS receiver,
Digital camera,
Digital player,
Voice recorder - Antenna Internal
- Width 2.2 in
- Depth 0.6 in
- Height 4.2 in
- Weight 4.7 oz
- Body Color Blue
Cellular
- Technology CDMA2000 1X
- Service Provider Sprint Nextel
- Input Device(s) QWERTY keyboard,
Touch sensitive screen Messaging & Internet
- Cellular Messaging Services MMS,
SMS - Instant Messaging Services Yahoo! Messenger,
AOL Instant Messenger Service (AIM),
Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger) - Messaging & Data Features Microsoft PowerPoint support,
Microsoft Excel support,
Mobile blog,
Microsoft Word support,
PDF support - Downloadable Content Screensavers,
Audio files,
Ring tones,
Wallpapers - Mobile Services Sprint Music Store,
Sprint Music,
YouTube,
Sprint TV Communications
- Data Transmission EV-DO
- Wireless Interface Bluetooth
- Bluetooth Profiles Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)
- Communication Features Internet browser,
Mobile Email client Phone Features
- Phone Functions Voice control,
Call timer,
Conference call,
Flight mode,
Speakerphone,
Voice dialing,
Vibrating alert - Polyphonic Ringer Yes
- Additional Features World clock,
E-911 compliant,
Intelligent typing (T9),
PictBridge direct printing,
TTY compatible Organizer
- Personal Information Management Calendar,
Calculator,
Unit conversion,
Alarm clock with snooze,
Reminder,
Alarm clock - Phone Book Entries Qty 600
Memory
- Supported Flash Memory Cards microSDHC - up to 32 GB
Digital Camera
- Sensor Resolution 2 megapixels
- Still Image Resolutions 320 x 240,
640 x 480,
1280 x 960,
1600 x 1200 - Digital Zoom 15
- Self Timer Delay Yes
- Special Effects Normal,
Negative,
Black & White,
Sepia - White Balance Presets
- Video Recorder Resolutions 320 x 240 (QVGA)
- Features Video recording
Navigation System
- GPS Navigation GPS receiver
- Navigation Software & Services Sprint Navigation
Display
- Type LCD display - Color
- Technology TFT
- Diagonal Size 3 in
- Display Resolution 240 x 400 pixels
- Color Depth 18-bit (262000 Colors)
- Multi-language Menu Yes
- Display Languages English,
Spanish - Features Wallpaper,
Screensaver Connections
- Connector Type Headset jack - Mini-phone 3.5 mm
Battery
- Technology Lithium polymer
- Capacity 1200 mAh
- Run Time Details Talk - up to 420 min
Miscellaneous
- Compliant Standards HAC(Hearing Aid Compatible)
- Included Accessories Power adapter , Power adapter
Product series
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LG Rumor Touch - blue (Sprint)
Manufacturer: LG
Specs: Sprint Nextel,
CDMA2000 1X,
Up to 420 min,
With digital camera / digital player,
4.7 oz,
2 megapixels,
3 in -
LG Rumor Touch - purple (Sprint)
Manufacturer: LG
Specs: Sprint Nextel,
CDMA2000 1X,
Up to 420 min,
With digital camera / digital player,
4.7 oz,
2 megapixels,
3 in -
LG Rumor Touch - blue (Sprint) - Refurbished
Manufacturer: LG
Specs: Sprint Nextel,
CDMA2000 1X,
4.7 oz,
3 in
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