What happens when you fuse a digital camera and a high-end CDMA mobile phone? The LG LP5500.
With its heavy, shiny metal touch to it, this phone is just the right gadget to give me back hope in powerful CDMA Handhelds. LG has come out with the LG LP5500 (aka LG KV5500), a 5 megapixel camera phone with built in GPS receiver.
Standard features include Media Players, a miniSD slot and Bluetooth.
To put these pixels to good use, the LP5500 also comes with a buil-in Flash and a decent sized screen. You get then the Dica phones or the LG-SV550/KV5500/LP5500.

The 5 megapixel camera has Autofocus and Strobe Flash (a first in mobile phones). Another first is “Semi click shutter” which is present in digital cameras, on pressing the shutter half way the lens autofocuses. The screen can rotate 180 degrees. It also has a burst mode of 6 pictures. More features include:
. 2,62,000 color TFT display (176 x 220 pixels)
. 5 Megapixel Camera with Autofocus, Lens cover, Half click shutter
. 30 FPS Video Recording, TV Out
. 64 chord polyphony, SMS Filter, MP3 Player
. Mini SD Card slot, USB Port, Infrared, GPS
. 109 x 50 x18 mm,

This phone is being released mainly in Korea, but also in smaller lots this phone is sourcable in China.
3 responses so far ↓
1 MurungoSvein // Apr 12, 2007 at 9:24 am
This phone looks very nice ! However, I wonder if it can be used also in GSM networks ? Or doesn’t such phones exist ?
2 danten // Apr 12, 2007 at 9:34 am
Hello and good day!
As a first input there’s the Motorola A860 with dual (CDMA 800/1900 and
GSM 900/1800) which is quite a sleek phone.
Also Samsung has several models that does dual mode:
SCH-W569
SCH-W399
SCH-W379
W219
W109
You can review the phones and their prices here
Other providers of dual mode phones include Huawei and ZTE. I’d recommend the the Motorola A860 though.
3 test // Apr 12, 2007 at 10:16 am
LG LP5500 works in CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO (the third generation of networks) networks at 2,4 MHz frequency. The device has chipsets by QualComm built in – the main of which is indexed as MSM6500. Here are the main capabilities of MSM6500 chipset:
* Supports CDMA2000 1X Rev. 0 and Rev. A, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. 0 and GSM/GPRS networks
* ARM926EJ-S™ microprocessor core
* Two QDSP4000™ high-performance digital signal processors (DSP)
* ARM® Jazelle™ Java® hardware acceleration
* Support for BREW® and Java applications
* Qcamera™: Up to 1.3 megapixel digital images
* Qtv™: Playback at 15 fps QCIF
* Qcamcorder™: Record at 15 fps QCIF
* Q3Dimension™: Up to 50k 3D triangles/second, and 400k depth-tested, textured and 1M depth-tested, shaded 3D pixels/second fill rate
* gpsOne® position-location hybrid assisted-GPS (A-GPS) solution
* Digital audio support for MP3/AAC/aacPlus™
* Integrated Bluetooth® baseband processor support
* Support for mobile receive diversity (MRD) solutions for enhanced data throughput and an improved user experience
As can be found from the characteristics, the chipset supports not only Bluetooth, GPS, but what is more it can operate in GSM/GPRS networks. So it turns out that the Korean engineers, have purposely limited the handset’s capabilities, which are already incorporated into the chip, measuring 14 х 14 mm. On the other hand, the device is aimed at the home market in the first place, where no GSM 800/1900 Mhz mobile operators exist. To run GPS and Bluetooth, the developers would need to suffer additional expenses and find more place in the small case of the phone. Thus LG took a decision to pick only USB, IrDA port, available only for transferring the phone book back and forth, for communication purposes. Of course all this can’t be satisfactory nowadays, that’s why miniSD memory cards extension slot with maximum capacity of 1Gb comes into the limelight. In return for the functions not featured by the Korean engineers, the company applied some ideas of its own. For example they optimized the camera, since the chipset was designed for matrixes up to 3 mpix and enlarged the display.
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