Another smartphone from LG mobile company under the label S series is the LG Optimus One P500 model. The phone was first released in Korea on October, 2010. There are two compatible networks for this device i.e. the GSM network (quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, UMTS/HSDPA/HSPA) and the CDMA network (EVDO Rev. A 800/1900).
The form factor of LG Optimus One P500 is a slate phone with touch-screen display. The dimension of the phone is 113.5 mm (4.47â€) in height, 59 mm (2.3â€) in width, 13.3 mm (0.52") in depth, and 129 grams (4.6 oz) in weight. The display features TFT LCD 256K colors, 3.2 inches (diagonally), 320×480 pixels HVGA at 180 ppi pixels density and 2:3 aspect-ratio wide-screen. It also includes multi-touch capacitive touch-screen, A-GPS, S-GPS, accelerometer sensor, proximity sensor and push buttons.
The LG Optimus One P500 comes with the Google’s operating system Android 2.2 (Froyo) and it is upgradable to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). The GSM model is powered by a 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, while the CDMA model is powered by a 600 MHz MSM7627 processor. It also includes the memory of 512 MB RAM and the internal storage of 512 MB Flash EEPROM (140 or 170 MB user available). Additionally, it can be expanded with a micro SD card with up to 32 GB (2GB included in package).
In terms of camera factor, the device has been equipped with a 3.15 megapixels camera that can capture photo with the maximum resolution of 2048x1536 pixels with autofocus, check quality, geo-tagging, face detection, smile detection, and beauty shot features. It also can record video with VGA quality at 18 frames per second. The battery of 1500 mAh provides the standby time for up to 700 hours (2G network) or up to 550 hours (3G network) and the talk time of up to 8 hours (2G network) or up to 7.5 hours (3G network).
For internet access, the LG Optimus One P500 supports for GPRS Class 10 (32 - 48 kbps), EDGE Class 10 (236.8 kbps) and 3G HSDPA (up to 7.2 Mbps). For alternative wireless connection, the device supports for Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and Wi-Fi hotspot capability. For local connection, the phone supports for Bluetooth 2.1 (A2DP) and micro USB port. The default web browser of this phone supports for viewing HTML pages.
Other impressive features include the integrated social networking, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Digital compass, YouTube, GTalk, Stereo FM radio, Video player (DivX/Xvid/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV), Music player (MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+), Document viewer/editor, Organizer, Voice memo, and Predictive text input.
For the conclusion, the LG Optimus One P500 has an attractive price with good performance in its class. All of the applications and the multi-tasking activities are running smoothly. However, the minus points of this phone are the low quality camera, there is no flash for camera, screen’s low resolution and there is no Flash support in its web browser. [IS]
