LG CU500 3G Phone

The LG CU500 is an HSDPA phone that’s exclusive available on the Cingular network in the United States. Not sure if they are going to have it in other countries soon… Running on the back of the Cingular’s UMTS network, the LG CU500 is one of only a handful of HSDPA high-speed 3.5G phones on the market anywhere in the world.

The first thing to note is that UMTS in the US is not the same as UMTS everywhere else in the world – it’s an 850/1900 MHz UMTS device rather than the UMTS 2100 MHz standard that pretty much everyone else uses. It does have quad-band GSM and EDGE support though, so you can still continue to use the LG CU500 more-or-less anywhere in the world.

The CU500 touts an internal 65K color TFT with resolutions of 176 x 220 pixels and external 65K color TFT with resolutions of 96 x 96 pixels.