LG KM500

  • Released 2008, March
    155, 15mm thickness
    Feature phone
    50MB storage, microSD (dedicated slot) slot
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  • 2.0"
    240x320 pixels
  • 2MP
    Video recorder
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  • 800mAh
    Li-Ion

LG KM500 - Specs

Network Technology GSM
2G bands GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
  GSM 850 / 1800 / 1900 - American version
GPRS Class 10
EDGE Class 10
Launch Announced 2008, February. Released 2008, March
Status Discontinued
Body Dimensions 101.5 x 48 x 15 mm (4.00 x 1.89 x 0.59 in)
Weight 155 (5.47 oz)
SIM Mini-SIM
Display Type TFT, 256K colors
Size 2.0 inches, 12.4 cm2 (~25.4% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 240 x 320 pixels, 4:3 ratio (~200 ppi density)
 Downloadable wallpapers
Memory Card slot microSD (dedicated slot)
Phonebook 1000 entries, Photo call
Call records 40 dialed, 40 received, 40 missed calls
Internal 50MB
Main Camera Single 2 MP
Features LED flash
Video Yes
Selfie camera   No
Sound Loudspeaker Yes
Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
3.5mm jack Yes
Comms WLAN No
Bluetooth 2.0
GPS No
Radio No
USB Proprietary
Features Sensors
Messaging SMS, MMS
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML
Games Yes
Java Yes, MIDP 2.0
 MP3/WMA/ААС++ player
Voice memo
Battery   Removable Li-Ion 800 mAh battery (LGIP-300G)
Stand-by Up to 250 h
Talk time Up to 3 h
Misc Colors Black
SAR EU 0.59 W/kg (head)    
Price About 70 EUR

LG KM500 - User Reviews

  • I have it an have used for an year bt has crashed n has nt found softwares to flash it...where do i get them..??

  • Hai Can I get the battery of this model

  • Have it less than a year now and it's gone for repairs, again. Good camera, good mp3 player but if it fails me again it's gonna go.

  • The most retarded phone ever. I've been using it for 4 yrs. It's funny when it starts to play music, wonder around the menu, by it self...xD The display sometimes goes crazy like a screwed TV.The USB connection sucks. But talking about music,it's really good.

  • This cellphones uses to have many problems. It´s to break the USB/Power conector, and when u fix it, u have the risk to damage the motherboard tracks. The conector it´s not so strong , and it´s weird, only cells from LG uses this weird USB conectors. They may have to revise the making of such Cellphones with those conectors.

  • i used this phone from one year.this phone has a very good feature . it is a very stylish phone and very light n weight.very excellent in battery and have good function.

  • good buttons, metal skin at the back make it stylish, a good music phone, smooth slider(better than samsung slider phones. power saving option .. bad battery life, very slow when you open images. hard uploading music and takes an hour. i rate this phone 8/10 ..

  • I got this phone for about a year now and i'm very happy with it... i've got nothing to complaine, they could just make it a better job with the baterry, it could last longer and it could be abel to see pictures and listen to music at the same time, but besides that i think it´s a good phone

  • waste of time.it drops call,it goes off on its own,etc

  • it´s not a good phone, i´m tyred of these! is everytime turning off allone, and don´t have memorie for more than (mor or less) 60 mensages!!! i don´t know why i by this, i´m really really furious whith my phone, i´m reciving now mensages from 2 mounths ago.... i´m disapointed whit the lg ... an i will never by something from lg again....

  • i've got that phone about 1 year, and when im lestening to teh musci it turns it off! and it's too slow, and i tried to install three games and it did work. can someone explain how do that(games) my mail is [email protected]

  • i have lg km501 and it is similar with lg km500, only changed in color. the design is very good. the metal skin behind makes it elegant. the features are good but i am very disappointed with my phone. it is hard to open and i need to have patient trying ang trying to open it. my friends love it because of the design but somehow there are plenty of bad comments from them about the functions of lg phones.

  • Anyone know where I can get a replacement speaker for this phone? Mine collected way too much iron filings and took a dump recently. Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks!

  • Phone SUCKS!! shuts off al the time I always end up playing music when I don't want to. doesn't hold all my contacts and is super slow unless you take the battery out once a day.

  • try lg km501. .

  • I got the cell as a gift as well,and trust me it gets me mad.The cell would just go blank,then i would have to constantly turn the power button on in order to get service.When i would be on my cell,it would cut off as well.According to where i am,most times i cannot get service.This is not due to the company that i am with,but it has everything to do with my lg km500.

  • this phone sucks,the settings is always changing on its own,the camera doesnt work gd,the headset size is bigger than my ear hole, worst buy ever,try d nokia 5700,its better 100%

  • the phone is ok but shuts down most of the time if i i m listen to music now that is bad but love the sound,camera very gud for a 2mp phone

  • i have this phone for 8 months now. its actually a gift.i actually brought this one to the lg main repair site here in our country because one time my battery was drained and it never opened again. my only problem is, ive been dealing with the pictures/songs/video that was deleted on my phone. it appears over and over again and it cant be removed. i don't know if my phone has virus or what. or because of the memory card. and can i put a 2gig mem card here? please help me.. or do i need to get this one repaired again and pay over a hundred bucks? thanks and please reply!

  • for the manual check this link i hope it helps u

  • LG KM501. This phone is good. The speaker & the 2mp camera is really impressive. The design $ its features is good. The problems that I had encountered are; the battery is not working normally but still not the worse & the cam flash. When you use to turn on the flash and click the okay/cam button, the flash will automatically shut down (only happens when taking a photo not video)

  • I have bought this phone but manual was missing; cannot find any manuel for the KM50 anywhere on the plane; please gime me a help.

  • iuse this mob for like 8 months and im iver satisfied my software died once but it was a quick fix and no othere problems since then and after teh software change cell have been more stable in terms of software i recomend to anyone that wanna get cheap mob with good camera and perfect music reproduction :D

  • does anyone know if the KM500 is the same as the km501? it's hard to find information about the phones on lgmobile.com and i only got in Taiwanese :-( Need help, thanks!

  • only had it for 5 months & my screen went out on it wasnt good phone

  • Hi I got a KM500 on Friday I took it off and can't get it back on can anybody tell if they experience this problem I like the phone a lot and don't want to change it.

  • Body and construction of phone is quite good, nice heavy feel in hands. Camera is very good for a 2mp, bluetooth works well and display is sharp and clear.There are sum issues with the music player (does not display album art)and manual eq preset, the ability to send flash wallpaper through bluetooth or USB mode is not possible!!! Only 2 themes available, an power save mode is mode is annoying. screen goes black all d time, guess like power save mean power save. Overall sound quality is good (Not a perfect as a Walkman's MegaBass) but i have to admit the sound clarity is a bit superior. I give it a 8/10.

  • Can u use this phone at an 850-1900 GSM?

  • Very good phone but have some issues. Playing E2E4Chess, when the pawns goes to the last square (it should be possible to choose another piece) but the game freezes. If you have 100 java games stored in external memory, and sends by Bluetooth to another handset, when you scroll the list of games occurs an overlap on screen.

  • this phone is really good mostly for its music features.(to every one) does this phone have another name like the LG SHINE?

  • Is this sambian mobile lg km 501

  • hi all please dont buy this phone its sucks battery life is poor unless u intend to be walking with a charger all the time picture quality good but the only thing though its very complicated purchase errisson instead

  • then u make 2 new mobiles hahahahh

  • i need to know how to trasfer pictures to the computer from the external memory...

  • Its not a bad mobile but the battry is giving shocks becuase i am using this phone from a week batrry shows a full frist two days then suddenly set off why this?

  • i threw mine 4 times and it worked lie u said. tytytytyty

  • in the mp3 player how do i get the photoes for the albums to show?

  • Hello Few things i like to say about the phone Ive been using it week and a half and this is my thought: The design: is perfect for my taste it rocks plus i like the power saving option so it saves the battery, plus i think it looks rather cool when its turend of. The performance: im not that much satissfied with it, in this week the phone blocked twice when i was listening some mp3 songs on it and also i noticed that even the battery is half full or full to the top the phone turens off complitly (asks for my pin code). The battery life is short it lasts almost 3 days (what do you have as an experience with this, does it last longer with you???) it says in the official release up to 25 hours music listening?????? Features: it has all that i need from bluetooth, to good camera, to mp3 player.

  • throw your phone down 5times

  • How cen i move my java games on the external memory (memory sticks)???

  • cool tel

  • moze li istovremeno da se slusa muzika i da se raboti nesto druga (da se gleda slika) pozz

  • Can we use this phone LG KM 500 oversea? (Vietnam)

  • super

  • If i want to buy it for me do you recoment it ? im a boy i like to listen music and talk at the phone . I saw on a page with phones that he has touch screen.

  • the phone is great but some promblems

  • the fhone is rocking

  • what is main feature which any other have not ....................?

  • This phone is so easy to use. It�s fast and has 3.5mm jack which you can plug the standard headphones. I use more with my car plugging in the AUX. It has all the shortcut keys and the pictures are good quality. I like where the keyboard block is situated. Is on the top right which it makes it easy to block quick. Another thing I like about this phone is the MP3 button which makes it quick to play your mp3 songs while you typing your sms or to do somthing else. I would recomend this phone who likes mp3

  • Cool phone!

  • You need to create a new playlist to prevent bloking

  • It's simply great. I can tell it as i'm using it... Thanks LG to give such such beautiful phone

  • Hello mates, i have been using LG for 3 months and here is my advice, don't every by such a kind of mobiles, in it lies a fundamental errors in software and its network is very bad when you are in a closed room the caller will listen to somewords and guess the others, very bad speakers. Cuz i respect GSM arena i advice all its users to get away from it. in my opinion the best mobile brands are 1 Sony Ericsson,2 Samsung,3 Nokia.

  • The mobile is blocke when play mp3

  • Its not available in Pakistan.

  • if it's turned off it's petty ugly. when it's on it's great

  • I have noticen only one in-depth review of this phone. seems like good alternative to Walkmans! ­

  • the top five on the side bar here are the top five in the US so you guys can argue all you want, but each respective brand will crank out beautiful phone about... every month. plus whats the point in arguing over which brand is better when you all at least have one phone in each brand that you like? sony ericsson and lg are fanshion phones with the included functionality, motorola is the mid-range phone leader (with the more than occasional super phone), samsung leads in the slider/thin/tech area for phone interface, and nokia has numerous low to mid range phones with their business and style N series phones. the only thing that should matter is which PHONE your going to purchase, because what it all comes down to is that the brand name is just a label they put on the front of a phone. within each brand, every phone is unique.

  • @kokokoko or whatever Which cellphone do you have? don't compare LG to SonyE, LG is better quality just not so driven by marketing, lets talk in half a year!!, this will be huge. Main differentiating thing....the design, SonyE W series are not even 20% of this design, nothing to do with that, don't underestimate LG.

  • @kookokoko Do you know anything about the mobile phone industry, or technology in general?? LG are a big company, with a very bright future in the mobile industry, one of the best up and coming companies. Please don't bash something just because you dont like it.

  • its a sony w but in lg look at the colors of the media player and the media player itself is a w series lg should shut down and let the big boys do the phones like sony and samsung and nokia

  • Great Design, Performance not bad.

  • Looks kinda cool for a mid-end

  • This excellent.

  • first!!!! and yes look poor features