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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2358 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Purple
• Brand: LG
• Model: LG600PPKIT
• Released on: 2007-10-28

Features

• Uniquely designed, square flip phone in purple with full QWERTY keyboard inside
• Sprint Mobile Broadband Network via EV-DO connectivity; Sprint TV and Sprint Music Store enabled; GPS turn-by-turn directions via Sprint Navigation
• 2.0-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music streaming, MicroSD expansion to 16 GB, access to personal email and instant messaging
• Up to 5.5 hours of talk time, up to 168 hours (7 days) of standby time
• What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, USB cable, quick start guide

Amazon.com Product Description
The stylish, uniquely designed LG Lotus flip phone for Sprint offers the perfect combination of both style and substance with a full QWERTY keyboard that is ideal for quick text messaging, email or instant messaging. In addition to fast 3G speeds from Sprint's high-speed EV-DO network, you'll enjoy GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service as well as access to Sprint TV's video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound. The Lotus is also a great choice for a cellular audio player, with access to the Sprint Music Store for over-the-air downloads and wide multiformat support for loading your music onto optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 16 GB in size). Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, access to personal email, full duplex speakerphone, and up to 5.5 hours of talk time.

The LG Lotus flip phone is hip to be square, with external music playback controls and a full QWERTY keyboard inside.

Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

Sprint brings you closer to this season's NFL action with NFL Mobile Live, which enables you to listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. Sprint is making it easier to follow a specific team by carrying a live radio broadcast for each game, including pregame and postgame reports in most instances. NFL Mobile Live also allows NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time directly from their phone. Key information for individual players will be easily accessible, including real-time game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles and photos. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

With Sprint Mobile Email, you'll get easy access to your favorite home email services including AOL, Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN/Windows Live Hotmail and more. And Sprint Mobile Email Work enables you to access email from corporate servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 (with the latest software update).

Sprint One Click's customizable home screen enables you to optimize your experience by providing quick access to the things you use the most.

Phone Features
The innovative LG Lotus flip phone is the recipient of the Red Dot Design Award--one of the largest and most renowned design competitions in the world--for its original form factor. This square flip phone measures just 3.3 x 2.4 x 0.7 inches and weighs 3.7 ounces, making it perfectly pocketable. It has an external 1.3-inch LCD screen (160 x 128 pixels, 65K colors), which displays incoming calls and provides current time/date, signal strength, and battery life. You can control music playback when the phone is closed with dedicated buttons right below the screen.

Flipping the cover open reveals a small, full QWERTY keyboard that's ideal for quick text messaging, email or instant messaging. The interior also includes a five-way navigator, send/end keys, and soft navigation keys. This phone features Sprint's new One Click navigation interface, which places eight shortcut tiles along the bottom of the home screen. Instead of navigating through endless phone menus, you can put the things you use the most--features like call logs, texting, Web access and GPS navigation--right up front with instant information related to each feature. For example, when you scroll to text messaging, you'll see the number of new messages received and a single click takes take you to the newest messages. Here's how it works:

Sprint's One Click navigation interface.

• Add your favorite items to the carousel, which is a row of tiles along the bottom of your phone's home screen.
• The carousel can hold up to 15 tiles, which you can add, remove and rearrange to suit your needs.
• Highlight a tile to reveal its menu on your home screen.
• Add up to 8 "bubbles"--at-a-glance items that display on your home screen, like the weather or your daily horoscope.
• Browse and download new tiles from your phone's "Personalize Home Screen" tile. New tiles are available every two weeks.
• Press your navigation left or right key to select a tile; up or down to select a bubble or menu item.
• The "Home" tile always stays put, so you can easily get back to your default display.

The phone includes an 80 MB internal memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards up to 16 GB in size. The phonebook can store up to 600 contact entries, each with up to seven numbers, three email addresses, a web URL, IM screen name, and a picture ID. Other features include a one-touch speakerphone, speed dial (98 entries plus one voicemail default), and voice-activated dialing.

This phone provides the latest version of Bluetooth connectivity--version 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), which makes pairing with the included headset as well as other Bluetooth devices a snap. And with EDR, you'll get a faster connection than with the previous version 1.2, which makes transferring files and using the phone as a modem for your laptop hum along nicely. And with the embedded A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of Bluetooth stereo headphones or other compatible devices. This phone also enables you to send contacts and calendar events, send pictures to a Bluetooth-enabled printer, and save up to 20 Bluetooth pairings

The 2-megapixel camera offers four resolution options for still images (1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240 pixels), and it features up to a 15x digital zoom (depending on resolution setting; 1600 x 1200 does not support zoom), brightness and white balance controls, a self timer, and an in-phone image editor. You can print photos directly to compatible PictBridge printers via the included USB cable or via Bluetooth. You can also capture video clips in three resolutions (320x 240, 176 x 144, and 128 x 96 pixels), with video length of either up to 35 seconds (for sending via messaging or mail) or up to 1 hour (for saving to your memory card).

The digital music player supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, and MP4A files, and it allows you to play music in the background while you multitask in other applications on the phone. It also has an airplane mode that turns off cellular connectivity while allowing you to continue to play music. This phone is compatible with real-music ringtones, and you can also set voice memos as a ringtone. You can record voice memos up to 10 minutes in length. It comes with 33 unique ringtones and you can also set the phone to vibrate and silent modes.

Other features include:

• Personalize your phone by downloading unique ringers and assigning them to numbers in your address book so you'll know who's calling by the sound of the ring or style of animation
• Wireless Backup to manage contacts list in the event that the phone is lost, stolen or damaged
• Download and play entertaining, interactive games that you'll want to play all the time
• USB mass storage capabilities and charging via computer
• Organizer tools: alarm clock, calculator, scheduler, document viewer, notepad, world clock, EZ tip calculator
• Bluetooth version 2.1 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), HID (support for mice or joysticks), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)
• Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) rating of M4 for hearing aids operating in the acoustic mode

Vital Statistics
The LG Lotus weighs 3.7 ounces and measures 3.3 x 2.4 x 0.7 inches. Its 900 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.5 hours of talk time, and up to ___ hours of standby time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as Sprint's EV-DO data network.

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Customer Reviews

Great phone!! Not for Smartphone Users though!
This phone is excellent!! It isn't a smartphone so for those of you coming from a Centro, or Touch Diamond, Iphone etc... you may be disappointed!! This is a great phone for texting, e-mails, voice calls etc...The calls are clear, the speakers are very nice and loud, no distortion what so ever, texting is a breeze on the keyboard. Although it is square it is very comfortable to hold, and even in your pocket. It isn't the thinnest phone around but a nice size. I did however have to disable the One Click UI in order to stop the slight lagging problem so now it works like a charm. It even gave me longer battery life when I did this!! For a basic phone user this phone is excellent, the browser could be better so Opera Mini was installed and now it is everything I could ever want in a phone. Of course everyone has their on opinion so there will be some that may hate this phone but if you want a small stylish phone that is great for texting, email and voice calls then this is the phone for you. I would like to warn you though, Sprint has disabled the feature to load your own custom ringtones vis USB or bluetooth, so you'll have to send them to your phone via WAP or via text. You also won't be able to use songs or mp3's from your SD card as ringtones either. You can however use video ringtones instead in 3g2 format. Aside from that I like this phone and those little problems aren't much to me because I have internet & texting on my plan!! Get this phone, you won't be sorry!!

Missed calls
I got this phone about a week ago, the first one I had to take back the next day as the keyboard kept typing two letters at a time.
The new one works, but since I have found several things I don't like, including the ringtone thing. It doesn't keep beeping or flashing to let you know you have a missed call or message. It only does this once. I have found that closing the cover when hanging up doesn't turn off speaker phone. The one touch screen is to big, and has features that I don't use that I can't remove because the screen needs 7 icons at all times. I don't have internet on my phone, so email, google and the rest I don't want to see.
The GPS worked very nice, but I haven't found out if you can close the phone and just listen to the voice directions or not. The map screen is easy to read.
Texting is easy, although I still don't have that keys figured out. I can find how to change the functions, but the manual doesn't say how to stop the function change once you are finished. It does change back but I don't know how I got it to do that.
Lastly, if you are going to buy this phone, buy here as Sprint charged me $200 and gave me a $50 dollar coupon to send off, but they didn't tell you the original price of this phone was $149.00.

Beautiful (but strange) design, more of a messaging phone than anything else...
When I saw the LG Lotus (Sprint), I thought the design was strange but beautiful. But some people think the Lotus is just ugly. Those same people grow to like or tolerate its design, while others say they would never own it. Let's just say that it's a sight for sore eyes to some, and an acquired taste for others. Which one are you? What do YOU think of its unique design?

This new flip phone, when closed, resembles a makeup compact, and it vaguely looks like the Motorola RAZR when open. It comes in two designs: a black one and a purple one with flowery-like designs emblazoned at the front of it. It has two screens. The external display is the smallest of the two, but still large enough to make it useful, and you get quite a big screen when flipped open. The Lotus has a 2-MP camera, a dedicated vibrate switch, a headphone jack, a slot for a memory card and another for an USB plug.

As for functionality, you can do plenty with the Lotus. With its comfortable QWERTY keypad you can text and e-mail with ease. You can also browse the web and get around with Sprint's lightening fast 3G network. (I was very impressed with Sprint's network. I used to have Sprint back in 2001, and I hated the constant dropped calls and having no signal in certain areas.) I'd say it could rival AT&T, even Verizon, in terms of call quality and 3G speeds. The Lotus has a built-in GPS system, several messenger apps for IM'ing, and YouTube and Facebook capabilities. (However, I think you can only view YouTube on the web, for there's no dedicated YouTube app, at least not on the phone I tested. Others have said that it does have a YouTube app, but it does not work properly.) Even though the Lotus has all of the aforementioned features, it is not a smartphone. The features, while nice, have their limits, and the browser isn't the best out there. Battery life is middling as well. It will drain pretty fast if you use this for more than just calling and texting. And that, in a nutshell, is what this phone is: a messaging phone. It is perfect for texting. The QWERTY keypad is by far the most outstanding feature about this phone and you will be happy with this if you're a heavy texter. The Lotus is also mainly targeted to women, with its pretty lavender design (and name) and makeup compact-like appearance. I suppose men can use the plain black one, but based on the Sprint commercials, this phone's major target is female. So, guys, if your girlfriend is a technology buff, likes attractive cell phones, loves to text, and enjoys some quick web browsing and checks e-mail while on the road, and is on the Sprint network, then get her the LG Lotus for Valentine's Day. (Or, in this case, for her birthday or anniversary.) You can't go wrong with the price. With a two-year contract, you get it for $99, or for $49 if you order it on Amazon or other select online stores. Not a bad deal at all!