LG Rumor LG260 Phone, Black (Sprint)

LG Rumor LG260 Phone, Black (Sprint) Features

Additional LG Rumor LG260 Phone, Black (Sprint) Information

Catch up on gossip when you're on the go with the LG Rumor, which offers a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and easy connectivity to popular IM networks and even Facebook. Sprint Service
Sprint PCS Vision gives you instant access to amazing things you will really use, every day. You'll enjoy advanced wireless services, like web access, email and text messaging that is easy to learn and use anytime. Sprint Mobile Email enables access to email from popular providers simply by entering username and password with no downloads required. Plus, with the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network you get the nationwide coverage and voice clarity you've come to expect from Sprint.

Sprint offers a variety of messaging options beyond text including Voice SMS, which allows you to record a voice message and send it to any mobile phone, email address, or landline phone just like a text message, and Text to Landline, which allows Sprint subscribers to send a text message to a landline phone where it is automatically converted to a voice message.

Preloaded with Sprint Navigation, this phone provides full-feature GPS navigation including voice and on screen turn-by-turn driving directions and more than 10 million business listings.

And with the optional Wireless Backup service from Sprint, you can automatically store your phonebook contacts on the Sprint network, allowing them to be instantly updated in the event your phone is lost, stolen, or replaced. It also allows you to manage your phonebook contacts through a Sprint web page.

Phone Features
The Rumor offers one touch access to messaging through a softkey from the idle screen and it automatically populates the messaging menu when the slider is opened. You'll enjoy easy access to Sprint Mobile eMail to check and send mail from multiple accounts through familiar providers including Yahoo! AOL, Gmail and Microsoft Live. It also provides quick access to instant messaging services including AIM, MSN and Yahoo! as well as several popular social networking communities, including Facebook and Xanga. To personalize the text messaging experience, the Rumor offers the ability to assign "text tones" to address book entries for audible identification of text message senders.

The Rumor's face has a 176 x 220-pixel LCD (262K colors), five-way navigation toggle, soft keys, and numeric keypad, and it smoothly slides open to the left to reveal the QWERTY keyboard (which automatically switches the screen to landscape mode). The internal phonebook has a 500 contact capacity, each with space for five phone numbers, email and Web addresses, and a memo. You can also assign a photo ID to a contact entry, as well as assign it to a group as well as to a specific ringtone.

The 1.3-megapixel camera provides three resolution options (1280 x 960, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240 pixels), and features up to a 15x digital zoom, brightness and white balance controls, self-timer, and in-phone image enhancement. It also provides support for PictBridge technology so you can print your photos without the need of a PC (either using USB or Bluetooth). You can record video at two resolutions--176 x 144 and 128 x 96 pixels--at up to 2 hours for saving to memory card or in 10- or 20-second lengths for sending via messaging or email. Videos can be used as ringers and screen savers

Because the Rumor is Bluetooth enabled (version 2.0), wireless communication headsets can be configured with the phone for total hands-free operation. It also provides profiles for hands-free (v1.5), dial-up networking, object push, basic printing, file transfer, and phone book access. You can save up to 20 Bluetooth pairings.

Other features include: Media player supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, M4A, MID, AMR, QCP, 3GPP, MP4, 3G2, 3GPP, M4V, and PMD formats Speed dial (98 entries + 1 voicemail default) Tools: Alarm clock, calculator, scheduler, notepad, world clock, EZ tip calculator, D-Day counter, unit converter USB wired connectivity to your PC, with mass storage capability One-touch speakerphone Voice Memos (up to 10 minutes; can be set as ringers) 34 unique ringtones plus vibrate and silent modes TTY/TDD support; M3/T3 hearing aid rating Web browser: Infraware Polaris 5.01 Flight mode enables you to listen to music with cell radio turned off T9 predictive text entry

Vital Statistics
The LG Rumor weighs 4.1 ounces and measures 4.3 x 2 x 0.7 inches. Its 950 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.5 hours of talk time. It runs on the 850/1900 CDMA frequencies.

What Customers Say About LG Rumor LG260 Phone, Black (Sprint):

When I tried it a second time it ripped out the thing in the phone and destroyed my charger. That one was fine until one day it just wouldn't charge.

I have had three of these phones because they just keep breaking. My sister bought this phone for me and I have had a rumor for a little over a year now.

I took it to the store and was offered a referbished one. The first one was kinda my fault but the other two just spontaneously destroyed.

The second one, the screen went static and I couldn't use the screen and after a few days of static blob mess the screen went white and nothing could be done. I tried it with mine and someone elses cord and it didn't work.

All in all do not buy this phone without a warrenty.

I have had this phone since july 2008. The third phone keeps shutting off when the battery is fully charged. since then i have had to get 3 new phones. the first 2 would fade out when i tried to type with it and got to the point where the screen would go black. It doesnt make any sound when it shuts off so i have no idea if its on or not until i check. i also get texted messages and voice mails anywhere between 2 and 24 hours late.stay away

He did not drop it. We sent this phone back to Samsung as it was still under the 1 year warranty. The only con I can think of is that the LG Rumor does not support the faster internet-accessing protocol EVDO -->What is with the Samsung's LCD screens breaking so often.When my husband and I decided to upgrade, I went with the LG Rumor and he went with the Samsung Rant. So instead of paying full price to replace the blackjack he just bought a iPhone at the Apple store for 199 instead.

My husband did not drop the phone, the LCD just has this big black spot and the rest of the screen was light up in white and rainbow colors. For those debating between a LG Rumor or a Samsung Rant, I've decided to also post my review on the Rant here. He says don't even bother trying to fight with the service folks. Maybe if they wore looser pants or lost a few pounds. Now they want $85 to fix the LCD.

He talked to managers and supervisors there and they all told him he should not have his phone in his pant pocket as that would add pressure to the phone and breaks the LCD. hehe. Surprisingly even though the Samsung Rant is heavier and sturdier in appearance the LCD screen of the Rant broke a few months into use. This is very bizzare to me. There are no scratches and the screen was not cracked so I don't understand why we have to pay to get it fixed.

My coworker had the same situation with a Samsung Blackjack and the LCD screen gave out while it was still under the 1 year warranty. Thank God I picked the Rumor, even though it looks cheaper the darn thing has lasted through plenty of drops to the hard pavement, whereas my husband and coworker broke their Samsung Rant and Blackjack by sticking the darn phones in their pant pockets. but in all seriousness I'm pissed that I have to pay for the replacement of an LCD on the Rant when it is under warranty and it was not dropped on the ground.

I love this phone and it makes texting so much easier. For about 6 months, I had the free Razr I got when we signed the contract, but I finally got fed up with it and bought myself a Rumor on ebay. The Razr was my first actual phone and I didn't realize I would be texting so much. Battery life is pretty good with the amount of texting I do.The only thing is that I've heard the LCD screen cracks a little more easily than other phones, but mine hasn't cracked. (Actually, I bought two partially-working phones-one with a cracked screen and another with a bad motherboard- and worked my magic to form one working Rumor, which was about half the price of buying 1 working one off of ebay)

Alot of reviewers complained about the ring tone not being loud enough or the speaker volume not being loud enough. I originally purchased this phone online from Sprint and the phone that I received in the mail was defective and I had to return it to exchange the defective one for a working one. But once I got the working one I was pretty happy. Well, those people must be deaf cuz the volume on this phone is loud. (>~