subject: What The Lg Optimus One P500 Smartphone Offers. [print this page] Released by LG under a several different names depending on the country and network, the LG Optimus One P500 is a budget smartphone. If you are looking to upgrade from an regular cell phone to a smartphone, but are budget conscious, this may be a phone of interest to you. In this review, we'll be looking at the good and not so good features of the LG Optimus One P500 smartphone.
The LG Optimus One P500 uses the Android 2.2 operating system, but is soon due for an upgrade. The 2.3 OS of the Android, also known as Gingerbread is about to be released. You will be able to upgrade if you want to if you have bought a phone that still uses 2.2. Another option is just to wait until the phones with the new OS installed are available for purchase. There will probably be some improvements as well as a variety of changes to the phone. While many hope that the Gingerbread OS will offer improvements that will take the LG Optimus One P500 phone to the next smartphone performance level, the reviews of it will have to wait until it is officially released.
Because they are easier to use and made for typing, the smartphones keypads are much better than the basic cell phone. The LG Optimus One P500 offers the option of having a typical mobile phone setup or QWERTY which is like a computer keyboard or typewriter.
If you plan to use your smartphone to do a lot of text messaging or writing notes to yourself, then this is a very useful feature. To be truthful, because the buttons on the keypad are rather small, it isn't easiest one to use. While typing on the LG Optimus One won't be as easy as typing on the more user friendly keyboards on the more expensive smartphones, it will be easier than typing on a typical "dumb phone".
The LG Optimus One P500 does allow you to play videos just like all smartphone. The problem here is that the resolution of the display on this phone doesn't support all videos. RockPlayer is an app you can install to improve video performance. If you don't mind ads, you can install the app for free, or pay for an upgraded versions. There may be certain videos you won't be able to watch or flash based web pages you won't be able to load because the LG Optimus One P500 doesn't support Adobe Flash. This phone does lack the hardware specs so the Android flash app doesn't work on it. If you really need a smartphone for watching videos or loading websites that use flash, then this is one is probably not the right choice.
Dumb phones or cell phones that aren't smartphones might stop being used with the advent of the The LG Optimus One P500 according to some technology experts. This phone offers you many of the features of the higher priced smartphones and at such a low price, there isn't any reason not to get one.
