LG Optimus One P500 Review - Review: LG Optimus One P500 Android smartphone

LG's first Android phone in India was a veritable disaster. It failed to impress on nearly every front and apart from the spacious full QWERTY keypad, it had nothing going for it. It had a poor display, outdated software, sluggish interface, poor call quality and horrible battery life. Their second Android handset in India, the GT450 Optimus, unfortunately never reached us for a review, so we don't know for sure how good or bad it was.




LG's latest Android phone in India is the P500, also called the Optimus One. Unlike its predecessors it makes a good first impression, with Android 2.2 Froyo being pre-installed and other features such as DivX/Xvid support. So we took it for a spin to see for ourselves whether it's any good.

18 November 2010 – The LG Optimus One is one of the first Froyo (Android 2.2 Operating System) devices on the planet. We were lucky enough to receive a review unit way before the actual sales campaign started, so we had plenty of time to test the device and write a proper review.

I’d like to take this opportunity to commend LG for such foresight and would like to recommend such a method to competing device manufacturers. I speak for many of my peers when I say that we don’t really care about the song and dance routines, usually downright awful, that we are subjected to at some launch events.

Anyway, the latest news from LG is that a million Optimus One devices were sold around the world in the first 40 days and that itself sums up what we are about to say about this phone. It is a great product with a correct price point and something we totally recommend to our readers if they are looking to buy a new phone.




In the box
- Transceiver unit
- 1 standard battery
- Charger set
- Headset
- Manuals

Exterior, Controls and Screen
The Optimus One is also known as the P-500, and in the United States it is also known as the Optimus S (Sprint) and Optimus T (T-mobile) or the Vortex (Verizon) which will be launched on November 18.

What we have is a solid device that feels like a well-rounded pebble. The navigation buttons are on the front below the screen as usual. A toggle button is on the right while a headset jack and the power on/off button is also on the top of the device. A micro USB port is at the bottom of the phone and the data cable plugs in here to transfer loads of goodies from your own desktop PC.