LG KM500 Released in Romania

LG Romania announced the official release of LG KM500, one of the company's latest music-oriented mobile phones, created to answer the needs of users who want to enjoy an advanced mobile music experience.

Already released in other European and Asian markets, the KM500 is now available on the Romanian market too, for retail prices of around 700 RON ($300 or 195 Euros).

First announced at the beginning of the year, during MWC 2008, together with no less than other 11 new LG handsets, LG KM500 is part of the South Korean company's fresh line-up of music phones, which also includes the KM330 and KM710 models.

LG KM500 has a pretty nice design, coming in a slider form factor and offering a big navigation wheel that has as main role offering easy control over the music functions of the phone. This navigation wheel was also included by LG in the newer KM710 and we will probably see it in other future phones too. Aside from the "music wheel", the KM500 also offers an alphanumeric sliding keypad, designed in the same manner as all the latest sliding keypads that come from LG.

The complete list of features that LG KM500 offers includes: a 2 inch TFT display with a QVGA resolution (240 x 320 pixels) and 256K colors, Music player with support for MP3, WMA and AAC++, a 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth 2.0, voice memo, USB, WAP 2.0 browser, tri-band GSM connectivity with EDGE, a 2.0 Megapixel camera with flash and video recording, 50MB of internal memory, plus microSD card support – in case you'll find the 50MB insufficient for all the music you want to store on the phone (and you most probably will).

LG KM500 weighs 155 grams, measures 101.5 x 48 x 15 millimeters (when closed) and includes an 800 mAh battery that should keep the phone functional for up to 3 hours in talk-time mode and up to 10 days in stand-by mode.