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Design:

This LG handset is particularly designed for those who are obsessed with messaging.  It is a slider, candybar phone with a full QWERTY keyboard.  I say “candybar” because it weighs 117g and has a height of 109mm, width of 51mm, and a depth of 17.8mm.  It’s by no means a flimsy or delicate phone.  LG built this solid phone to last.

The Rumour has a single two inch screen that displays 10 lines of text.  It also has 262K color 176×220 pixels of resolution and automatically switches to landscape mode when the QWERTY keyboard is slid out.  The screen display’s coloring and contrast is of moderate quality.

On the right spine is the jack for the 2.5mm headset and a MicroSD card slot that’s capable of holding up to 4GB of memory.  This equates to 4,000 songs.  The left spine has the camera and volume buttons.

Messaging:

What the Rumour does to messaging is what the bazooka does to hunting.  It’s a messaging power machine.  This is thanks to the Instant Messaging via Windows Live and mobile email in addition to standard picture, video, SMS, and text messaging.

The phone can store up to 260 messages in the inbox and 50 in the out with up to 140 characters per message.  Each text message can be sent to a total of 25 recipients.  The mobile email can be synchronized to a corporate email account using your contacts and the company’s directory.

Media, Battery, and Web Browser:

The LG Rumour does well as a MP3 player, also supporting MP4 and AAC, aw well as other music files.  It’s easy to transfer music files from your PC onto your handset with the help of a compatible USB cable.  It’s easy to download ringtones to your handset through Bell Mobility.

The web browser is able to “optimize” regular HTML sites so that they can be viewed on the small screen.  The speed isn’t great but suffices for simple viewing of news, weather, account information, ringtones and music downloading, and such.

The Li-Plymer, 950mAh battery will give you roughly 4 hours of talk time and 2 weeks at standby.

Camera and Battery:

The Rumour sports a modest 1.3 megapixel camera.  It will take decent pictures.  Three resolution options are available:  1280 x 960; 640 x 480; and 320 x 240.  To overcome the (relatively) low megapixels, the view mode, color tone, white balance, image enhancer, and brightness settings can be adjusted to make the pictures nicer.  If a picture of Canada’s pristine outdoors is taken with this phone, it will hold up rather nicely. 

Audio resolution is 176 x 144 and video is128 x 96 pixels.  You can record videos from a mere 10 seconds to a whopping 2 hours with suitable video sync and a reasonable frame rate.

Overall Ruling:

Now this isn’t a smartphone and doesn’t function like a business smartphone but for the average consumer, it’s plenty satisfying.  This is especially for those who’d rather text and chat than talk.

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