Manufacturer and Model

Manufacturer
LG
Phone model
CU500
Year of release
2006

Appearance

Case type
Folding
Body length
97 mm (millimeters)
Body width
50 mm (millimeters)
Body thickness
19.3 mm (millimeters)
Weight
105 g (grams)
Volume
92.19 cm³ (cubic centimeters)
Body materials and finishes
  • Plastic
Colors

SD card

Types of Supported Memory Cards
  • microSD (Micro Secure Digital Card, TransFlash)
Maximum expandable memory
1 GB (gigabytes)

Battery

Battery capacity
1100 (milliampere hours)
Battery type
Li-Ion (lithium ion)
Charging the battery from USB
Call duration in GSM networks
5 h (hours)
Standby time in GSM networks
240 h (hours)
Call duration in UMTS (WCDMA) networks
3 h 30 min (hours, minutes)
Standby time on UMTS (WCDMA) networks
240 h (hours)

Screen

Screen resolution
220 x 176 pixels place #139
Screen technology
TFT
Color depth
16 bit (65536 colors)
Aspect ratio
1.25 (5:4)

Second screen

Built-in second screen

Main photo/video camera

Camera megapixels
1.2 Mp (megapixels) place #47
Maximum photo resolution
1280 x 960 pixels
  • vga (640x480)
  • qvga (320x240)
  • 768x1024
Digital zoom
4 X
Shooting settings
Video capability
Maximum video resolution
320 x 240 pixels
Movie speed
15 fps (frames per second)
Digital video zoom
2 X
Movie settings

SIM card and calls

Number of SIM-cards
1
MP3 ringtones
Polyphonic ringtones
Vibration mode
Speakerphone
Conference call
Speed dial
Video calls
Autodial
Sound indication of talk time
Ability to mute the microphone during a call
Extended phone book
Contacts in the phone book
500
Data exchange between SIM card and internal memory

Mobile communications

Cellular generation
3.5G (up to 42 Mbps)
GSM support
GSM frequencies
  • GSM 850 MHz
  • GSM 900 MHz
  • GSM 1800 MHz
  • GSM 1900 MHz
UMTS support
UMTS frequencies
  • UMTS 850 MHz
  • UMTS 1900 MHz

Internet data transmission standards

Data transmission standards
  • HSDPA (1.8 Mbit/s)
  • EDGE (E-GPRS, 384 kbit/s)
  • GPRS (64 kbit/s)

USB

USB connector

Bluetooth

Built-in Bluetooth
Bluetooth standard
1.1
A2DP support

Images

Installed image editor

Video

Installed video player
Supported video formats
  • MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14, .mp4, .m4a, .m4p, .m4b, .m4r, .m4v)
  • 3GPP (.3gp)
Streaming video

Audio

Installed audio player
Supported audio formats
  • AAC (Advanced Audio Coding, .aac)
  • AAC+ (HE-AAC v1 High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding)
  • AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate, .amr)
  • MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
  • MP3 (MPEG-1/2/2.5 Layer 3, .mp3)
  • WMA (Windows Media Audio, .wma)
MP3 support
Built-in stereo speakers
Streaming audio
Identifier of songs
Number of polyphony voices
72
Dictaphone
Voice notes

Control elements

Standard keypad
Russified input

Documents and office

Installed Organizer (PIM)
Email

Connectivity and synchronization

PC connection
Synchronization over the mobile network
Synchronization with services
  • Windows Live Messenger
  • Youtube Messenger

Software features

JAVA support
  • midp 2.0
Installed browser
  • HTML
  • WAP
Installed games

Receiving and sending SMS

SMS messages
SMS T9 support
MMS support
VMS support
Installed ICQ client

Additional features

Standalone mode (flight mode)

SAR level

SAR level
0.73 W/kg (watts per kilogram)