LG CU515 review

The LG CU515 phone is a clamshell, about two and a half inches tall and about one and a half inches wide when closed, and not very thick, making it about the size and shape of the popular Motorola RAZR. (With the CU515’s mainstream features, this probably was not an accident.) There is a bright, colorful screen that takes up most of the top half. The bottom half is a flat circular dial for quick access to email, phone, PC connection and file areas, as well as general menu navigation. The dial is surrounded by two traditional menu keys, call start and call end buttons, and other keys for quick access to the camera and other functions. A large number pad is below the dial. The keys are not raised, but the considerable size and slight indentations between buttons makes it easy to dial numbers fast.

Close the clam shell and a small black-and-white screen shows the current time and date as well as the email, battery and music status. A small pinhole above the screen is the camera lens. On the left side of the phone are the volume buttons and the Push To Talk key. the right side are two holes: one for the optional headphones and one for the microSD card.

Things are equally simple, if not decent on the inside. The LG CU515 hums on AT&T’s 3G network. AT&T’s MEdiaNet is like the internal Internet information hub, and from it you can quickly access the latest news. Most impressive are the minute-plus video clips available on the spot. A 90-second highlight of last night’s game could be downloaded in a few seconds. You can also press a button to turn the video widescreen (literally, as it requires holding the phone to its side like a toothbrush), which is a nice, if unnecessary perk. The real Internet was almost as fast, as we were able to zoom from URL to URL pretty efficiently. There isn’t much internal memory, but it is compatible with most, if not all microSD cards.

The LG CU515 comes with a power plug… and that’s it. No headphones, microSD card or other items are included. There also isn’t a USB transfer wire, despite the fact that the box touts the CU515 as a music phone.


Source : http://i4u.digitaltrends.com/