LG Rumor Touch LN510 - Blue (Sprint) Cellular Phone

Pros: Good feature set for non-smartphone with email, Facebook, Twitter, Opera Mini, and has touchscreen; touchscreen is pretty accurate; 3G is definite plus; bubble-style texting interface is handy; includes predictive text feature for a decent keyboard.

Cons: Touchscreen can be a pain when scrolling through menus; Hello UI hard to get to, therefore kind of useless; keyboard layout not great; game selection sucks unless you are willing to pay; data plan priced like smartphone; Sprint's network; camcorder

Summary: Verizon has its Envs and Sprint has its Rumors. LG and Verizon obviously have a decent partnership, because the Rumor Touch is not the Env Touch. However, the Env Touch was an editor's choice, so it's pretty hard to be as great. That being said, the Rumor Touch is pretty decent in its own right.

User Interface (Touchscreen):

The touchscreen is not bad for a resistive one, but it is still resistive. Scrolling through menus often results in the accidental selecting of an icon, and keep your fingernails long. All in all, though, it is responsive enough for all but those who have been using capacitive screens since 2007. And let's face it, if you have been using capacitive screens since '07, you're probably not going to buy this phone anyway.

Overall, the UI is simple enough to understand and navigate, and the menus are easily customizable in an intuitive and simple way. The Hello UI is cool, but it's really hard to get to, and so I, for one, never use it, which is a real shame because it is a great concept, just poorly executed. Still, BREW (Qualcomm's OS, used on the phone) is simple and straightforward and will appeal to the heavy texter, and even the average one.

Features

The Rumor Touch has a great feature set for the most part, with dedicated Google Maps, email, Twitter, and Facebook apps. It also has both a default browser and the excellent Opera Mini, which is speedy and easy to use and great over a 3G connection. The email app is far from spectacular, and only works with Yahoo! and Gmail (so I couldn't hook up my Verizon account), but hey, it's there, and most people I know use Yahoo! and Gmail anyway. Still, it's really not a Blackberry. The Twitter and Facebook apps are similar to the email in that they are far for great, but they're there and that's a bonus any day on a feature phone (P.S.--I don't use Facebook and Twitter, so I really haven't used them except to see what they were--you should get a second opinion on them.). Google Maps is an awesome app that works as a GPS; it's kind of slow, but it will help if you are completely lost and need help, which is really what it's supposed to do.


Media

There is a microSD slot on the phone that can support up to 32gb microSD cards, so if you use it, you can put all the music on it you want, provided you buy the card. The multimedia is not bad. Sound quality is good, and videos are pretty much what you would expect from a 240x400 screen--kind of watchable.

Wrap-up

There was really nothing about this phone that really blew me away, but there was nothing that made me cringe either. The good things about this phone definitely outweigh the bad, and the few bad things are really mostly minor and hardly deal-breakers.

For everyone except heavy smartphone users, this phone will be great.

I just love it, better and faster than the Instinct s30 I replaced.The screen is actually more sensitive and vibrates every time I touch it, didn't took me long to figure this phone out. And the best part of it, there will be times that I can't afford the family data plan($129.99), with this phone, I can easily switch to a cheaper talk plan ($69.99) anytime with no problem at all. Unlike some other smart phone, you're stuck with with the plan. My husband only use it for calls but I'm very tech savvy, I use web, social networking , navigation & all other apps all the time. Will probably use this phone for a long time until it breaks on me. By the way, I'm a cheapskate too, not ready to spend a lot of money to buy other phone that have the same functionality as this one. I watch my money very close!

When you can't afford a real expensive touch screen phone plus you hate that most touch screen phones are really huge. This LG RUMOR Touch is the answer. The touch sensitivity isn't fantastic, but it works. Love that it's smaller than most touch screen phone. and of course the slide out keyboard rocks!

I bought my Rumor Touch because I wanted a new phone that fit my needs,but not too complicated.So far, I am very happy with the simple,yet effecient function of this phone. Super easy to text,or attatch a picture to a message. One touch social networking,is a breeze. I linked my E-MAIL to it, and I can check it with one click also. I delete useless E-mails throughout the day,and I don't have a full box at night. It has a full Q-WERTY slide out keyboard,and it seems to be a lot tougher than most true smart phones.It takea a nice picture,no flash though. I would reccommend this for an entry level smart phone,or if you don't need a $400 phone. I am very happy with it. It is a solid,well made phone from LG. I have several other LG products in my home,so I went with an LG phone, and I am glad I did.

I love this phone!! Great for texting. This phone is very easy to navigate through. The slide out QWERTY keyboard makes texting very easy. The only problem with the keyboard is the top row of letters is very close to the numbers. For example: when I type the word very, it comes out as very6. Thats the only problem I notced with the keyboard. Calling is dificult especially when comes to ending your call. Touch screen is not great but works ok. One of the phones pros are when you recieve a text message or voice mail a bubble will appear on the home screen and tell you who the message is from and show part of the message. Love the camera- photos always come out great. Video camera is a nice feature and has pretty good sound quality. Overall the phone is great and I would definitely recommend it for a good starter phone.
(updated September 24,2011) I have had my rumor touch since June and had to get a replacement because the touch screen would not work correctly. The person who worked their said that with this particular phone, to much exposure to the sun can mess up the touch screen. Although I was able to get a new one for free through our phone plan, I was rather disappionted with the touch screen quality.