Sprint adds LG LX290 to portfolio, Tour chuckles smugly
Next up in today’s line of handsets eager to fight their way into the pockets of the 14-and-under crowd is LG’s LX290. Available nary a day after Sprint’s BlackBerry Tour hit the scene — just to help ensure our readers would barely blink — this latest offering from Sprint features, well, basically nothing:
ENTERTAINMENT & PERSONALIZATION
- NFL Mobile Live providing live audio broadcasts of every regular season game and watch the live broadcasts of all NFL Network games. Get real-time red zone alerts, scores, stats, live NFL Network 24/7 and more. Manage your fantasy football team like a pro with up-to-the-minute insights, analysis, stats and alerts.
- 1.3 MP camera with 2x digital zoom and Picture Messaging to shoot, share, print high-resolution digital photos instantly, and upload photos directly to social networking sites.
- 2.5 mm headset jack
PRODUCTIVITY
- Sprint Navigation with GPS-enabled audio and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, one-click traffic rerouting and more than 10 million local listings
- Four conveniently-located shortcut keys for quick access to texting, email, personal calendar and alarm
- Easy, one-touch access to all your personal and work email including AOL/AIM, Yahoo!, Windows Live (Hotmail and MSN) and more
- Record a voice message and send it to as many as 25 friends at once, without even making a call
- Built-in productivity tools such as planner and scheduler, memo pad, world clock, alarm clock, calculator and more
SPECIFICATIONS
- Dimensions: 4.09 x 1.94 x 0.63 inches; 3.6 ounces
- Display: 1.33 x 1.77 inches TFT (240 x 320 pixels QVGA and 262K vibrant colors)
- Standard Lithium (LiIon) battery: up to 6 hours continuous talk time*
Imagine… A handset with specs so sparse that a 2.5mm headset jack is actually worth highlighting. Right on. The LG LX290 is available immediately for $29.99 after mail-in rebate on a 2-year contract. The line forms to the right this time.
[Via Press Release]
Whoa. I hope the line isn’t too long at my local Sprint store.
These whack phones always sell. Moms buy the crap outta these for their very undeserving children
allmost as bad as the tour, which is very bad
win mo user^
I have no respect for win mo…thus, no capitalization.
@ Blackberry hater, upset because he signed on for the latest Razor and is stuck for 2 years. This phone is major upgrade from his Razor.
Why do you even waste time and precious interweb space with this SHIT?
@ bb sucks
Is that you glansburg hiding behind a new name?
I think others will agree.
I’m not hating, just stating.
LoL has Glansburg even posted since the myspace thing? Lmao Glansburg is the new Backbeat hahaha
@ kenny817
Nope.lmfao
Back on topic, these will sell like crazy to the “tweens”
Atleast it has oneclick, which is far better than the surge crap that nokia just pooped out.
But will it… blend?
The tour sucks, for as much hype everyone was making about it, you would think it was a palm pre or iphone, but insted its just the same old same old, in another package
“blackberry sucks” is just upset because he forgot to do his chores, and his mom won’t buy him a new Tour.
“Blackberry Sucks” sounds like an Apple FanByatch
Since the Tour has a complete-no-strings-attached unlocked GPS, there is a good reason glansburg is hiding.
Anyway, back on topic, sprint isn’t having the Tour, as of today (-official launch day) most of sprints employees never even heard the name for crying out loud. The july 12 date was just a foolish ploy, a classic “12 year-old me too” moment, resulting in many pissed off customer’s, nice work, don hesse.
Blackberry Sucks wants my Tour.
tour sucks. another new cdma blackberry without wifi? these are a dime a dozen. when can blackberry finally get it right?
Anyway this phone is boring but then again it is a low cost feature phone so i guess it has the right to be. just wish they upgraded the camera to at least 2mp
hey sorry, I had a busy day, but I’m glad you guys noticed I hadn’t pointed out that the Tour still doesn’t have wifi.. and is well, still lame.
Additionally, the name Steven Glansburg is from the movie Superbad from the line “What? you want me to sit here alone and eat desert like I’m fucking steven glansburg?” Unfortunately I can’t take the claim for the myspace profile as I am not dumb enough to use my real name on here. So, uh sorry Kenny et al.
i knew you were smarter than that stevieG
Stevie how are ya? Buddy!?!
BTW at least “crippling” is out of your lexican, for the time being………..GPS unlocked, ha? Yesterday some1 pointed out that ATT needs wifi to compensate of their lack of coverage in many important parts of the country, so true, isn’t it!?!
JoeTour, despite what you may think I have never been an advocate for a carrier and you are right, At&t sucks.. a lot, so wifi helps.
However, the iphone is the phone I really like having and I don’t have much of a choice in the carrier its on. I was on t-mobile 7 years prior to getting the 3g iphone… so if anything I feel for them.
In all seriousness, if the Iphone was on Verizon exclusively, I would be a Verizon customer. It really has nothing to do with the network for me, but I do understand the disdain many have for At&t.
As far as your Tour goes.. that’s great they stopped messing with the “crippling” of the gps, hopefully the carrier as whole continues on that trend because once they have LTE I’m assuming they will have many more options for phones like the rest of the GSM world.
Steven, Nice way to zip up that post. Let’s see what BGR has for us going tommorrow,
ummmm, you are wrong my friend. the tour is available for Sprint. Sprint did a soft launch online and via telesales starting July 12th. infact mine is coming tomorrow.
Sprint is Basically maaking sure that every possible dimension of phones are covered. This is just that plane jane phone that sprint has been looking for. Used to be that a simple phone was a measily flip…not anymore, now u can get a measily slider. At least u have a choice between 2.