LG Optimus One P500 review: One and a half

06 December 2010
The LG Optimus One may not be your average killer gadget, but it sports a tempting pricetag, solid build, a nice looking set of features and Android 2.2 Froyo. And with the Optimus One in your hand, you are free to mock and tease those...

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  • Manodroid
  • QHa
  • 08 Mar 2011

SD card issue ,card getting unmounted when using 16 GB ,little dot like Dust went into the display no clue how it went. Other than this cool smart phone fr little money

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    • rajan
    • vI7
    • 02 Mar 2011

    hey...i have changed my keyboard settings to android, it comes with three possible settings: normal, qwerty and android. Since I have changed to android , I am not able to get back to my normal settings. This is cool but I would like to know. Thanks

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      • Anonymous
      • 02 Mar 2011

      @master f puppet : hey bro , i do have an aircel an bought the lg p500 recently, but cant seem to get the pocket internet right, tried what u had suggested. is there a specific tab to enable gprs??. i nust enabled aircel gprs

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        • AnonD-2674
        • t@x
        • 28 Feb 2011

        For those who are suffering from Aircel Pocket Internet which is not connecting to apps:.. I got it fixed.. follow my instruction

        goto Settings-> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile Networks

        In mobile networks -> Access Point Names -> Click New APN

        Name - Aircel GPRS
        APN - aircelgprs.po
        proxy -
        Port -
        Username -
        Password -
        Server -
        MMSC -
        MMS proxy -
        MMS port -
        MCC - 404
        MNC - 41
        Authentication type - None
        APN type - default (Important don't forget to write/set default)

        save it and select Aircel GPRS and enable gprs mode.. you should be able to use all the applications which uses internet..

        Sharing is Caring.. All the best guys

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          • sourabh
          • uty
          • 25 Feb 2011

          hi
          phone is very good in this price Rs.11900/-
          I am a mobile repaier
          ican also use E63,E52. Iphone 3gs,htc xv6700,5233,5130,2730,7210but igot it's realy good phone my first lg phone

          well don lg

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            • Anonymous
            • vGv
            • 21 Feb 2011

            Here is a video of LG Optimus one running on Gingerbread(Cyanogen7 mod and is still is development stage)

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WWRc2YXVp0

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              • lazan
              • syH
              • 20 Feb 2011

              Carloz, 06 Jan 2011I have had the Optimus One for a month.Nice phone but some ... moreHi,
              I also had problems when first updating the software on my P500 where it reached 4% and stopped. Had to remove the battery and replace it to reboot it. I was lucky because the phone still worked. This happened twice then I installed pc suite on another pc and the update worked. I think (hope) that it was just part of a bigger problem with connecting the phone to pc suite iv and running synch & backup.
              This was on a computer running WinXp SP3 Media Centre Editon and I got the "The device cannot be opened because another program is currently using it" message every time I tried to connect. The only way to connect was by plugging the phone into the pc with the usb cable then powering the phone off, then on again and then I had problems where the phone just stopped responding mid operation.
              The problem was with Media Center Scheduler and I solved it by stopping and disabling it in Administrative Tools / Services. No more connection problem. I don't use MC anyway so it wasn't a problem for me and I have yet to see if disabling it permanently affects any media file operations.

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                • shobhit
                • K6m
                • 14 Feb 2011

                hi i bought this phone almost a month ago it has got nice battery backup wonderful features and lot of ram.Ram is actually(256+192mb that's448Mb out of which 419 MB is for applications and rest for threshold.
                the phone is nice but not for gaming if you plan to play high end games. playing angry birds is fun with 3g off but it hangs a lot. waiting till it gets the gingerbird upgrade the best android for gaming and it doesn't hang like the nokia s60 smartphones good one from LG.

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                  • Jack32
                  • YQN
                  • 06 Feb 2011

                  Do O1 need task killer like ATK ? I heard that Froyo don't really need task killer. Is it true? I am using ATK and battery is good (a day on normal usage).

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                    • deep
                    • vIb
                    • 06 Feb 2011

                    hi guys i bought my optimus 2 days ago and now i see a very serious problem in the phone i.e- dust enters inside the screen and what happens after say a month,i searched the web and saw people facing this problem a lot , so guys do notice the dust in daylight on the lower part of the screen which is quite irritating , can anyone help me clean it ,how but ,poor build quality is what is responsible here anyways otherwise it rocks

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                      • 2@q
                      • 31 Jan 2011

                      i am not getting marathi or hindi sms& emails any software or setting on lg p500

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                        • ankush
                        • upb
                        • 31 Jan 2011

                        hey friends ,
                        I have bought my phone 15 days back and
                        now I have serious problem with it . It eats
                        up my battery really quickly. With 4- 5 hours
                        of continuous usage it drains my battery .
                        The application pops up out of nowhere
                        even after closing it properly , I have
                        installed task killer as well but it is of no
                        use . I even went to LG workshop in
                        pitampura New Delhi where they updated
                        my software but it don ' t help either .
                        I am very fed up, can my phone be
                        replaced ? please help me , for this I shall
                        always be obliged.

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                          • w6L
                          • 28 Jan 2011

                          Kev, 13 Dec 2010Can this phone be used for video calling considering that t... moreya u can by downloading tango frm android market but the oppsite person should have the any android phone

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                            • ajay
                            • w6L
                            • 28 Jan 2011

                            Anonymous, 12 Jan 2011Hi Friends, Can anybody tell me about LG Optimus Battery... more15 hours continous

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                              • boris
                              • 7tx
                              • 26 Jan 2011

                              i bought my optimus one two weeks ago and its awesome on its feature
                              before buying this i strongly copared it with galaxy3 but i found that it had got a more better ram (twice of it)and more better quality screen than that,and it had got two qwerty key pad to make typing more simple.and battery back up is great,even build quality is superb and because of this my friends are very much jealous of my last but not the least optimus one

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                                • optimus
                                • ii7
                                • 26 Jan 2011

                                Awesome phone, simply loving it, hardware / software rocks....

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                                  • @ce hacker
                                  • RKk
                                  • 25 Jan 2011

                                  For guys who bricked their phone while updating, did you updated your os from your homesite or not?, that is if you are living in india kindly update the phone from lg india otherwise it will brick since the updates are location specific!

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                                    • avishek
                                    • uCr
                                    • 23 Jan 2011

                                    this phone simply rocks

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                                      • Sahilzxs
                                      • 2SZ
                                      • 21 Jan 2011

                                      Saurabh, 02 Jan 2011hi every one, just bought this awesome phone. but the prob ... moreHey, did u finxed the prob or still having the same.... Pls. advise howz is this phone fne..

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • mS2
                                        • 18 Jan 2011

                                        simply the best low-cost android smartphone out there now. design, specs, performance, variety (colors) all head over its competitors. Well done LG