LG KP500 Cookie Phone Touchscreen with Handwriting Recognition

LG KP500 Cookie with Handwriting Recognition

LG KP500 Cookie Phone Touchscreen with Handwriting Recognition. Designed to allow more people to experience a taste of touch technology at an attractive price, the LG KP500 Cookie is packed full of advanced features usually found exclusively in premium full touchscreen handsets. Its easily accessible multimedia features--available through widgets as well as shortcut icons--provide a fun and easy mobile experience with a single touch of its 3-inch screen. It comes with a stylus that tucks away in the back of the phone and features easy-to-use handwriting recognition.

Camera quality isn't that great, but like most phone cameras the quality is grainy, I only use it rarely as I have a good quality digital camera for that. Overall it's a great little phone that is considerably cheaper and less bulkier than the i phone. And if you need accessories then eBay is the place to go, I picked up a great leather case that fits perfectly, and a car charger. I have had the phone now for 7 months and am pleased with it so far. 

This is a very nice phone with great features. It has a rubbery feel to it (doesn't scratch easy) and a beautiful screen. However, if you buy it unlocked for U.S. use, the MMS (picture, mp3 messages) will not work! I was surprised. Everything else works though, even text messages. I talked to AT&T to try to make it work, but after an hour on the phone they said it cannot be done because this unlocked phone is not available in the U.S. Therefore not all features will work. But if you can live without MMS, this phone is awesome. 

this phone works great for me. It is quad-band and GSM phone which means it has a removable sim card that I can use a pay as you go sim card when I go back to the UK, and then switch it back while back in the US. Unfortunately your limited to AT&T or T-Mobile in the US as the other carriers don't use GSM phones, not sure why?. The phone itself which I bought in the UK has an adapter for 110/220v for charging in other countries which is a nice touch from LG (I once fried a US adapter by plugging it into a UK socket, duh!). It comes with a screen protector and the casing feels nice and not too cheap. The touch screen itself is bright and easy to navigate and the inclusion of a stylus that fits in the base of the phone makes it very handy when texting. The phone houses a slot for a micro SD card up to 8gb, which is ample for mp3's and photo's or video's. I don't like that you have to use the supplied headphones in order to listen to music as they aren't that good and would have preferred the ability to use third party phones.

recently flashed the phones firmware to the latest version which is V10n and the phone is so much better.

The touch screen works a lot better than before and the slide bar can now be used without having to press hard.

The firmware install is a little tricky and can only be done on a windows operating system, but is well worth the time as the phone's performance is so much better. Do a search for KP 500 firmware v10n update.

Manufacturer	LG
Compatible networks	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 HSDPA -
Availability	Available. Released 2008, December
Form factor	Bar, Touchscreen
Dimensions	106.5 x 55.4 x 11.9 mm
Weight	89 g
Operating system	-
CPU	-
Memory	Internal 48 MB, microSD, up to 16GB (verified)
Data inputs	TFT resistive touchscreen, 256K colors, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, Handwriting recognition
Display	240 x 400 pixels, 3.0 inches
Rear camera	3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, Video QVGA@12fps
GPRS	Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G	-
WLAN	-
Bluetooth	Yes v2.0 with A2DP
USB	Yes, 2.0
Others	- SMS, EMS, MMS, Email - WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, - Stereo FM radio with RDS, - MP3/WMA/AAC player - MP4/H.263 video player - Organizer - Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) - Voice memo - Predictive text input- Standard battery, Li-Ion 900 mAh