LG KP500 Cookie Pink

LG KP500 Cookie Pink is definitely not a surprise from the company who was expected to deliver something of great caliber meeting the requirements of its users and competing against the top brands like Nokia, HTC and Blackberry.
LG KP500 Cookie Pink can be considered to be a comparatively cheaper phone if you look at the kind of features it has to offer its users. Apart from features, this touch screen phone does its job quiet decently as well. Don’t forget that LG KP500 Cookie Pink has got its name from a tasty cookie and it is as good as it. Living up to its name, the handset has made a reputation for itself in little time and that is the smartness of this smart phone.
The sale of the LG smart phones has indeed ramped up with LG KP500 Cookie Pink which has been developed for the segment of smart phones of low and mid range. The market share of LG was gradually decreasing and with the current recession eating up most sales, LG had to come up with something substantial. This is exactly what LG KP500 Cookie Pink is: a smart phone that not only makes big statements but also lives up to the expectations of its users. The best point about LG KP500 Cookie Pink is that anyone can afford it because of its cheap price yet features of a good phone.
Definitely one cannot expect WiFi technology and GPS in this handset but a very promising OS and technical support is there to woo all LG users. Definitely a good handset to consider if you are looking for a smart phone!

Pros:
• The best quality of the handset is definitely its being a highly cheap and affordable touch screen phone.
• Some of the greatest features to support the user is all one can desire for.
• The Bluetooth 2.1 is excellent in LG KP500 Cookie Pink.
• How can we forget the green coloured screen and UI? Excellent is the word to describe the same.

Cons:
• In today’s world, a smart phone not having WiFi and 3G technology is a shame. It was not expected from such a features rich handset.
• Battery is not at all good in LG KP500 Cookie Pink and need a lot of work on its indicator as well.
• Headphones are almost useless. LG KP500 Cookie Pink could indeed have had better headphones.
• Firmware can be called buggy. Although it is not a major problem.
• Worst hit case is that the handset is a bit slow. So if you are a fast and furious kind of a person, LG KP500 Cookie Pink is definitely not for you.

Review LG KP500 Cookie Pink

LG KP500 Cookie Pink is a good handset introduced by the company at the right time when the users were looking forward to meet up to the requirements of some good features which were affordable. Looking at the specifications of LG KP500 Cookie Pink one can notice that dimensionally the handset is awesome and the same holds true for its looks and appearance. The handset measures 106.5mm by 55.4mm by 11.9mm, which makes it quite a slim handset for its size and features.
Weighing 89 grams, the handset offers a good display 3 inches screen with high WQVGA screen resolution and GPRS and EDGE connectivity. Memory wise the handset is good and offers 48MB internal memory along with an option of extending it furthermore with a MicroSD memory card support up to 16 GB. Other interesting features of the handset include Bluetooth 2.1, accelerometer, Flash UI, FM radio with the support of RDS, Document viewer for DOC, PDF and XLS files, MPEG4 video player and Java MIDP 2.0. To have a better idea about LG KP500 Cookie Pink and its various features, let’s study the phone in detail.

Build Quality design and appearance
LG KP500 Cookie Pink definitely understands the importance of simplicity and the kind of elegance it offers. The handset is quite simple yet elegant and actually looks cute. A huge display adds on to beauty that the users are looking forward to and the minimum buttons below the display screen is quite appealing. Measurement and weight wise the mobile phone is a treat to look at. Its comfortable to hold and carry and comes with a nice stylus. Although the screen is good enough to encourage finger touch for operations, yet for style, you may use the stylus.
No matter you like casual phones of elegant business like phones; LG KP500 Cookie Pink fits every user’s requirements aptly.
Talking more about its quality design, the handset has a 3 inch wide screen along with three basic operational keys which add on to the elegance and simplicity. A metallic lining runs throughout the circumference of the phone and that is the only and minimal design one can see on the face of the handset. At the bottom is the stylus slot and MP3 camera stands at the back all alone.

Display
A good display is what makes LG KP500 Cookie Pink so much loved and adored. 3 inches wide screen of 240 by 400 pixels screen resolution with Flash UI makes the handset pretty cool. The screen is touch quality and comes with a stylus. A good resistance, accuracy and sensitivity can be expected from the screen of LG KP500 Cookie Pink. Navigation is fun and display can be called 100% accurate in the handset which gets full marks for the same.
The choice of accelerometer in itself is too good. The screen automatically keeps changing between the portrait and landscape mode as you keep moving the phone. This is very beneficial in viewing images and playing games.

Interface
Again a high point of LG KP500 Cookie Pink, display would never let you down in the handset. It is user friendly and really stylish and cool. Because of UI based upon Flash, it is even more useful. In fact, it has a great reminding value to the OS iPhones and one can easily associate to Prada and Renoir when you see the interface of LG KP500 Cookie Pink. Apart from being high in functions, the interface of LG KP500 Cookie Pink is quite intuitive and responsive. It won’t let you wait for long.
One can view Entertainment, Communication, Settings and Utilities as main four tabs in which the interface of LG KP500 Cookie Pink is divided. The animations of UI are excellent and the dual home screen is exceptional.

Multimedia
LG KP500 Cookie Pink is quite good when it comes to multimedia operations. The display is large and hence it is quite exciting to view photographs, videos etc on the large display of high resolution. However, the files have to transcoded for video playback as the handset does not support formats like DivX and XviD. The quality of video playback is still nice and enjoyable. The best part is that videos can be played in both landscape modes as well as can be viewed full screen. Video screen shots are also possible in the handset.
An audio player is also available on LG KP500 Cookie Pink with very nice and user friendly interface. EQ presets and album art are easily supported on the music player. Tracking records is also possible according to the genre, album, artist, recently played audios etc. a custom playlist can be made by the user of his choice of audios and the best part is that just like a PC, one can minimize the music player for furthermore convenience.
Even the quality of audios is very good and if you are a music lover, it would aptly satisfy you. All basic features of a music player can be found in the music player of LG KP500 Cookie Pink. The only shortcoming that we encountered here is the lack of audio jack of 3.5mm in order to plug in your own earphones.
How can we forget here to mention the image gallery which possesses a very cool interface? Both portrait and landscape modes can be employed to view images and all the basic editing functions including zooming in and out can be performed here. Sharpness, colour contrast, saturation, brightness are regular features but what makes LG KP500 Cookie Pink distinguish is the red eye removal effect.

Camera and Other essential features
Let’s start here with the FM radio supported by RDS integrated in LG KP500 Cookie Pink. The reception of FM is really at par with some of the best mobile phones. Then comes the camera with as high screen resolution as 2048 by 1536 pixels. The MP3 camera that the mobile phone sports is really good but lacks in auto focus and flash features which have almost become a must in any handset of its caliber. The present day requirement of mobile users is such that they want a good camera which LG KP500 Cookie Pink failed to understand.
Apart from what we have discussed, there is a very basic problem with cameras without flash that they cannot take shots at night. Thus, the camera of LG KP500 Cookie Pink is of no use to a user who is fond of clicking every moment with his mobile camera. Otherwise, the camera is decent enough offering bright shots and accurate contrast option.
There is an option of video recording at 12 FPS which is a QVGA resolution. The best thing is the camera interface in the handset which is amazingly user friendly.
Some of the other essential features include connectivity, which has to be good. Unfortunately there is no WiFi and 3G technology, which is a major shortcoming of the handset. Definitely LG KP500 Cookie Pink could not make it for the loss but has provided the users with excellent Bluetooth. The experience of browsing is decent.
In case you use your handset moderately, with completely charged battery it would last moderately but otherwise the life span of Li Ion 900 mAh battery is quite short. If you are a music clover, then you have to keep charging your handset on a regular interval of time.
Rest good applications in the handset include alarm, calendar, voice recorder, manager, calculator, stop watch and web browser. But one thing that would never let you down is the call quality. No matter what, the quality of calls is excellent being the basic purpose of the phone and one cannot forget mentioning and praising that.

Final Words

Looking for GPS, WiFi or 3G? This is indeed not the right place. The same holds true for those who enjoy having a good camera in their handset. But if these things do not hold a place of importance in your priority list, LG KP500 Cookie Pink can be reasonably a good handset.
Here is a detailed verdict of how we rank the handset.
Look, Design, Feel
In the age of iPhone, the user would find every smart phone with the same kind of features and same kind of appearance, which LG KP500 Cookie Pink is also following religiously. Definitely it cannot be said that iPhone and LG KP500 Cookie Pink can be competitors but if you do not want to spend that much and are happy with a phone rich in features, then this 89 grams weighing mobile phone which is as thin as 11.9mm would be a decent choice to make.
The appearance of the handset is definitely a plus point in LG KP500 Cookie Pink which has a metallic band around the entire phone. The phone looks simple yet smart. A stylus is provided with the phone but one need not use it on its big screen which is comfortably accessible through finger touch as well. The large screen is as wide as 3 inches and below the screen one can find easy access Call, Application and End keys.
Features
LG KP500 Cookie Pink is definitely rich in features but what is more important here is how good or bad the features are. The handset scores seven out of ten in this domain. There is no 3G, a biggest shortcoming of the phone. The same holds true for WiFi technology. One definitely gets Bluetooth, which is good. Office Viewer is a good feature here. Unfortunately the video support is not as good as it should have been and the 3.2 megapixel camera does not have auto focus or flash. Emailing and web browsing are slow on LG KP500 Cookie Pink. Messaging is not really an exciting feature in the handset but the user interface is quite good and comfortable. The screen resolution is high and one can get 262K colour display, which is good enough.
Connectivity
Since the handset holds quad band GSM network, it can work all over the world ignoring the fact that it is solely a 2.5G device. LG KP500 Cookie Pink has been incorporated with EDGE technology that is essential for quick data transfer. The Bluetooth 2.1 support is a blessing after we know that there is no Wi-Fi. USB 2.0 is good for connecting to wired devices while A2DP support enables in better connectivity in terms of music gadgets. Not at all a bad choice!!!
Performance
LG KP500 Cookie Pink could definitely have delivered better. But unfortunately the biggest lacking point of the phone is its bad battery which offers only 3.5 hours of talk time with a fully charged battery and a standby time of 2 weeks only. Even the indicator of the battery has many flaws and can not be termed as accurate in any sense.
Value for Money
This domain completely belongs to LG KP500 Cookie Pink. An affordable smart phone is definitely better than the low cost iPhone which is almost like a toy. If your budget is low and you want a mobile phone from this segment of phones, then LG KP500 Cookie Pink would be a better and smart choice. The high point is its touch screen which is indeed wonderful.
In short, LG KP500 Cookie Pink is a nice phone depending what are your requirements. The handset is good looking and has an interface which is quite pleasing. The price of LG KP500 Cookie Pink is determined intelligently and that is the reason why it is quite popular amongst the masses.