The LG Cookie has proven to be one of the most popular handsets of recent times, selling in millions around the world. The Cookie name is going to spawn a whole range of handsets from LG in 2010, and leading the charge is the LG GS500 Cookie Plus.
The Cookie Plus takes everything that made the original Cookie popular, with the ‘Plus’ on this device coming in the form of enhanced data connectivity options, with the inclusion of 3G with HSDPA Mobile Broadband offering downloads at up to 7.2Mbps. This will really help deliver a solid web browsing performance on the device, but HSDPA is not yet enabled in all areas, and some parts of the country still lack even 3G coverage, in which case the handset utilises Class 10 GPRS and EDGE for data transfer.
Like its predecessor the Cookie Plus delivers a high quality 3.0 inch touchscreen, with the display supporting up to 256,000 colours and with a pixel resolution of 240 x 400. The Cookie Plus runs on a cartoon style Flash UI, with bright colourful graphics and a wide selection of brightly coloured themes to compliment the graphical style of the phone. As with the original Cookie, the Cookie Plus is clearly aimed at a younger user, people who appreciate cartoon style user menus, funny noises and cartoon icons. The resistive display allows for handwriting recognition on the phone, and this works well with the editable screenshot MMS application. This app allows you to take simple screenshots on the phone, and add your own message written across the image, and then send via MMS. For example, if your football team has beaten a rival supported by a friend, you can take a screenshot of the score, and add your own message before sending the image to ‘console’ your friend!
Many applications can be quickly accessed on the Cookie Plus via the handset’s support for Widgets, with up to 40 applications being accessed via Widgets on the device. Widgets support applications like quick access to weather news, and also social networking. Social networks are the real big change for mobile devices in recent months, and it seems that any handset that wants to have success with a younger audience needs to include support in some way for services like Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, MySpace and the rest. The Cookie Plus delivers social networking support in spades, offering live updates direct to the main standby screen on the phone. The whole layout is very intuitive, and very simple to use, and gives a pleasing experience. LG have also included LiveSquare, which allows you to peer manage your favourite contacts via a graphical display on the phone.
Other features on the handset are as you would expect from a mid range mobile phone; the Cooke Plus offers a 3.2 Megapixel camera, which is enabled for video recording. Although the Cookie Plus is a 3G handset, there is no front facing camera, so no video calls. Aside from the already mentioned social networking support, more traditional messaging is well catered for, with SMS and MMS plus support for multiple email accounts. The Cookie Plus also includes a document viewer, so you can view, but not edit, office attachments such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and .pdf files.
The Cookie Plus offers the bare minimum in media support, with a standard media player which supports a variety of media and audio formats, plus there is also a stereo FM radio with RDS support. There is ample memory available on the device for storing media, with support for memory expansion via MicroSD memory cards; the Cookie Plus can support up to 16GB memory cards, room for thousands of music tracks and images.
The LG GS500 Cookie Plus, then, ticks all the right boxes for a mobile phone of its genre, and sits well as an interim handset in the Cookie range. With up to 10 handsets due to be released in coming months under the Cookie name, it will be interesting to see just what LG will have to offer. As for the Cookie Plus, it should hit the market sometime late in Q2, probably around March/April time.
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3:53 am
This model is lighter than any of my other phones and retains all the features I rely on. This mobile feels good in the hand and the call quality is excellent. I've waited a couple of years for a new phone and this one was worth the wait!
11:08 am
The GS500 is NOT supported in the UK. I have been to the applications/games part of the site and the phone is not listed. After emailing them LG say they dont support this phone - WHY??? it is there phone they so they should support it!! So now I have a phone with which I can not add anymore applications to. Seems stupid to me.
Also has anyone else actually looked at the apps part of LG site in the UK? They have this retarded system where you have to earn points to download stuff - so it takes several weeks of regular activity to actually get anything from them - now some of us have a life, some of us work long hours and dont have the time to prat about like this, why not just have an option to pay a small amount for stuff instead!!
LG - life is good - i dont think so - LG - life is insane with these idiots!!!
7:35 am
How do you take a screen shot with it? because i did it once but i dont know how i did it