LG LX550 / LX-550 / LX-550 Sprint Fusic Power VisionSM Phone

by LG

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B000GT2RQA
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)

Product Description

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Slim, sleek, and incredibly powerful, the LG Fusic is designed to bring music and high-speed data access together to make one beautiful, harmonious handset. To make music navigation easy, the Fusic is designed with an external navigation pad similar to the most popular MP3 players. It even has an FM transmitter so you can listen to your tunes through your car or home stereo. The Fusic supports Sprint's awesome Power Vision high-speed data and media service, and it also features a 1.3 megapixel camera, advanced voice recognition, Bluetooth, a microSD memory card slot, and more.

The Fusic packs powerful features into a smooth design that's sure to turn heads. See it in 3D.

Design
The Fusic's trendy design dispenses with the humdrum clamshell look of the past, making this phone look and feel like a music player that just happens to be an incredibly powerful phone. The device sports a large 176 x 220 color display with 262,000 colors. The outside cover of the handset features a supplementary 96 x 96 full-color display that can display music player information, pictures, time, call information, battery and signal strength, and more. Meanwhile, handy media control buttons are placed below the outer display. Most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button on the handset's backlit control pad. A charging port and USB data cable port are placed on the bottom of the phone and, as mentioned, there's a microSD slot for memory expansion. Listen to your favorite music in stereo when using the included stereo headset. And if you want to make your Fusic match your personality, the front faceplate is replaceable.

Calling Features
The Fusic's internal phone book can hold up to 500 contacts, and the phone's picture ID system allows you to assign pictures and ringtones to your most common callers. The phone ships with many polyphonic ringtones, but for those times when you want to be discreet, there's a vibrating alert. A built-in speakerphone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to your ear, and advanced voice activated dialing makes calling your friends, family and associates easy. Simply say the name or number of the person you want to call and the number is dialed automatically without using the keypad. No prior voice training is needed. Lastly, because the Fusic is Bluetooth enabled, wireless headsets can be configured with the phone for total handsfree operation.

Messaging, Internet, and Tools
With support for Sprint PCS picture and video mail services, the Fusic is a messaging powerhouse. Shoot high quality pictures and video clips with sound and instantly send them to email addresses and or other Sprint PCS phones that are compatible with picture and video mail services. Or upload them to the Sprint PCS pictures Web site (sprint.com/picturemail) to create albums. You can also use the Fusic to send and receive email, exchange text messages, or join a chat room. Plus, the Fusic features an embedded SMS voice messaging client for quickly sending voice messages to other wireless users or any working email addresses.

The real power of the Fusic comes alive with Sprint's PCS Power Vision services. Relying on Sprint's new EV-DO high speed data network, Power Vision allows you to enjoy full-color video clips or live TV of the latest news, sports, and entertainment from CNN, Fox, The Weather Channel, and more.

You can also stream or download music to your phone with Sprint's Music Store service. Download stereo-quality, digital tracks instantly to your phone. Choose from hundreds of thousands of full-length songs from virtually every genre. Select songs directly from the phone and listen to them wherever you go. Even download them to your PC.

And last but not least, enhanced 3D games, personalized news and information tickers, and downloadable screen savers and ringtones are also available through the Power Vision service.

Sprint's high speed data network allows you to browse the web like never before while you're on the go. Check out full-color versions of popular web sites or purchase and download premium applications to your Sprint Power Vision Phone. You can also use the included USB cable or Bluetooth to connect to a PC, allowing Internet and email access on your laptop wherever you roam.

The Fusic is packed with useful tools to make your life more productive and fun. A voice memo recorder lets you record up to three minutes of spoken voice notes. The phone also includes an alarm clock that can be set one time or daily, a calendar with a to-do list and a scheduler, a calculator, a stopwatch, and a world clock. A PC synchronization application makes it possible to sync your phone's data with your PC.

Imaging and Entertainment
As mentioned, the Fusic features a powerful camera that can be used to capture and send video and still images. The camera also has an LED flash and a self-timer, as well as controls for brightness and white balance. A built-in media player lets you see and hear streaming and stored media, and it supports MP3, AAC, and AAC plus audio files. And where will you put all these pictures, videos and songs? On a microSD card, of course (sold separately). Don't forget about the unique FM transmitter, which makes it easy to listen to the Fusic's music via any radio tuner. The phone takes gaming to the next level, too, with support for advanced, action-packed 3D games.

Vital Statistics
The LG Fusic weighs 4.23 ounces and measures 3.78 x 1.89 x .78 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.5 hours of digital talk time. It runs on the CDMA 850/CDMA 1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Product Description

Now you don't have to juggle two devices. The Fusic™ by LG® is a phone and MP3 player in one. To make music navigation easy, the Fusic™ is designed with an external navigation pad similar to the most popular MP3 players.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great phone, September 16, 2006

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G. Gilbert "G. Gilbert" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LG LX550 / LX-550 / LX-550 Sprint Fusic Power VisionSM Phone (Wireless Phone)

When I bought this phone recently, the Sprint salesman said, "the only thing that this phone can't do is fly." He's right.

Major features on this phone (aside from good ol' features like "it makes phone calls"):

-The phone doubles as an MP3 Player, which works very well (the phone includes stero headphones - along with a hands free microphone. The cool thing about the headphone/microphone setup is that the microphone is the part that plugs into the phone, and then the headphones plug into the microphone: which means you can use any headphones you want with a standard sized headphone jack like that you'd find in an iPod or similar. Not only does that allow you to hear your music clearer, but you can also hear conversations better.

-The phone has a built in FM transmitter. Ignore the reviewers who said that they're transmitter didn't work: either they got a defective phone or they have no idea what they're doing. It's worked fine for me: in fact, used on my home stereo, I can be on the opposite side of the room. I particularly enjoy this feature because I don't own a car: I'm a member of Zipcar (zipcar.com) car sharing - so now I don't have to bring CDs with me as I'm changing from car to car - I just have to have my phone with me, which I would anyway.

-The phone has a Micro SD card slot for memory expansion. The phone includes a 64MB card (the largest card to be included with a phone) but it'd be wise to purchase a larger card eventually. Th card can be used for MP3s, photos, videos, files, etc. Also included with the phone is an adapter so that you can fit the micro SD card into a standard memory card slot. Files from the micro SD card can easily be transferred into albums and files on the phone. The phone comes with a USB cable which enables you to either use the phone as a modem, or to use the micro SD card as a flash drive - this is an awesome feature because it essentially makes the phone in a portable hard drive.

-The phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera/video camera. Not only can you take short 30 second videos to send (either to another phone, email address, etc...) but you can also shoot 'long videos' which can basically be as long as the micro SD card will allow before it's memory gets filled. There is also a flash included on the phone (the camera has many other standard features too, such as the ability to shoot black and white, sepia, negative, etc...) for being a camera on a phone, the photos that it takes are pretty sharp!

-The Phone has Sprint's PowerVision capabilities - you can watch live TV, check your email, browse the internet, check the weather, news, get maps and directions, etc... The Power Vision is much faster than Sprint's standared Vision services. You can of course also send and receive video and picture mail.

-Along with those major features the phone includes a slew other more standard features such as calandar, voice memos, alarms, Bluetooth capabilities, a music composer which allows you to create your own rings, etc, and a million other things.

Overall, this is a great phone that can do pretty much anything for you. The best thing is that all these features fit in a phone that has a shell that's smaller than the popular Razor phone (as far as overall dimensions go - it's not quite as thin as the Razor, but close).

You can't go wrong with this phone.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great phone, July 16, 2006

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D. Knight - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LG LX550 / LX-550 / LX-550 Sprint Fusic Power VisionSM Phone (Wireless Phone)

Ah, this phone is excellent. There is a wide variety of ringtones ranging from "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to simple Melodies. It is lightweight and it feels comfortable enough to hold next to your face while you talk. It is very user friendly and easy to get used to. Also, the dial buttons are very nice, unlike the Razrs. The screen quality is beautiful and the camera is very nice. Great pictures. You DO have to buy a seperate Micro SD card if you want your own music on it from your computor. Just put the SD card into your computor, drag and drop the music files, and you're good to go.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT, December 16, 2006

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Kristine (Champlin, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LG LX550 / LX-550 / LX-550 Sprint Fusic Power VisionSM Phone (Wireless Phone)

I got this phone in early September 2006 and paid $100 more for it than it costs now. Both my husband and I got the same phone. His phone may rate as high as a 2 or 3 but I'm giving mine a 1. I'm already on my second one. I have a lot of problems with the phone "echoing." Everything I say gets repeated back to me and I can't hear the other person. Sprint told me it was a problem with the phone and gave me a different one... but now my 30-day exchange period is up and this one is even worse than the first. It doesn't happen on every call, but it happens often enough to be extremely annoying.

Other problems -- BATTERY LIFE GETS A NEGATIVE 10. My battery is often completely dead after 1-2 hours of standby, non-roaming use. I've been stranded without a phone DOZENS of times. I charge it up all night, leave the house with it fully charged in the morning, maybe make one two minute phone call, and it powers off with a dead battery within 2 hours. I also have a tremendous problem with it constantly saying "Data Call in Progress." This is obviously what is running the battery down every day, but no one at Sprint can tell me what is making that happen and I'm not running any applications or making any data calls. I try dialing out, and I can't - it says Data Call In Progress. I try in vain to find anything that is running or making a data call, power off, pull out the battery, start back up -- and it still says Data Call in Progress. Then my phone powers off because the battery is dead. I've been trying to find a car charger and an extended life battery, but neither are available at my local Sprint store, on the Sprint website, or on Amazon as far as I can tell.

Camera -- I bought this phone because I wanted a megapixel camera and this seemed like it would be a good one. Every picture, however, is horrible. Much worse than the crappy old phone I had before that had a low resolution camera. Colors are distorted and you practically need to mount the phone on a tripod to get a steady shot (not that you can actually do that).

Music -- It's very annoying that the Sprint Music store launches every single time you want to play a song. Also, the Sprint music player can't play MP3s that you load from your computer. You can only play those through a separate part of the phone, and then it only works if the phone is OPEN. You also have to advance to the next song yourself because there is no play list of your own songs. It works fine for the songs you buy through the Sprint store, however.

FM Transmitter -- I've tried three phones now (my first one, my current one, and my husband's Fusic) -- in three different vehicles, and the FM Transmitter didn't work at all in any of them. The guy at the Sprint store told me that is common, his wife's doesn't work either. Apparently you will have better luck if your car has an antenna built into the face plate inside the car, or it would possibly work if you wanted to stick it in the back window closer to the antenna.

Vision - WHAT A HUGE RIP-OFF. My previous plan, which I used with my old phone that broke in half, included Vision for free. I didn't change my plan at all, I just changed our two phones -- so imagine my surprise when I found out that I was now being billed an extra $50 a month for Vision. I called them and they said my plan included regular Vision and this phone doesn't work with regular Vision so they automatically "upgraded" me to Power Vision Ultimate for $25 per line. Information that would have been useful for them to share with me before I bought this phone. There are some cool features with the Sprint On Demand, such as movie listings and Mapquest locations on your phone, but the few times I've actually needed to use those services, the Sprint network has been down and unable to connect. Plus - $25 per line per month for Power Vision and that doesn't even include text messaging??

Alarm - you can't change the interval of the Snooze. You could do this in my old phone and it was very handy.

Receiving Calls - I'm not sure if this a problem with the Sprint network or with this phone, but half the time, these dumb phones don't ring. My husband and I have tested it (because it causes many an argument when you call someone ten times and they don't answer and then you found out the phone never rang). We have tried it out at home. Both phones turned on, both show a full signal, both have the ringer volume on... but we try calling them, either from a landline or from the other phone, and it goes straight into voicemail and never rings at all. Then the voicemail indicator goes off and you have the message, but the phone never rang and nothing shows up in the missed call log. That's happened when other people have tried to call me too, from other wireless networks. The phone just goes straight to voicemail. This doesn't happen all the time either, but I bet it's at least 30-40% of the time.

Overall, I'm extremely disappointed and not at all happy to be stuck in yet another two year contract with a crappy, useless phone that is never there when I really need it. Either the battery is dead, I can't call out because it's stuck in some mysterious data call mode, or the stupid thing just doesn't ring or register my calls. However, at least if you buy it now, you'll save $100 over what I paid for it.