The KP500 (marketed as LG Cookie, or Cooky in South Korea) is a

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mobile phone. LG targeted the entry-level touchscreen market keeping the cost of the Cookie as low as possible by omitting some of the features found on high-end products like

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, such as

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, 3G or

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. It was announced on 30 September 2008. The LG Cookie became highly popular in the market. It recorded over two million unit sales worldwide in the first five months after its launch in December 2008. It sold 1.2 million units in

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, 600,000 in

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and emerging markets, and 100,000 in

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, where LG claimed that it was the most popular handset as of March 2009. LG planned to expand the Cookie’s availability from 40 to 60 countries as part of its push to hit 13 million in sales worldwide. The phone was originally released in four colors: Black, Vandyke Brown, Anodizing Silver, and Elegant Gold. This was later increased to ten colors including white, pink and purple. LG Cookie candybar-shaped telephone 2012

LG Cookie candybar-shaped telephone 2012

Its main feature is a 3-inch, 240 x 400 pixel touchscreen, powered by an

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CPU with a

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of 175 MHz. It has a 3.15 MP camera capable of capturing still images and MPEG-4 video capture at 12 frame/s, but has no flash module. The LG KP500 Cookie also has an FM radio receiver with RDS and an

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with support for auto-rotating display.Pocket-Lint: LG announces KP500 "most affordable" touchscreen phone
/ref> Software installed on the handset included a document viewer for

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, XLS, and PDF formats, and a

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2.0 games player. The battery is capable of standby time of up to 350 hours and talk time of up to 3 hours 30 minutes. Other revisions carrying the Cookie name would also be later released: Cookie Fresh, Cookie Lite, Cookie Style, Cookie WiFi, Cookie Gig, Cookie 3G and Cookie Plus all in 2010; Cookie Tweet with a

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keyboard, and Cookie Duo in 2011; and Cookie Smart in 2012. The LG Cookie's successor, LG Pop, was introduced in late 2009. Their rivals are

Samsung Tocco The Samsung SGH-F480 (marketed as Tocco in many English-spoken countries, or Player Style in France) is a touch-screen mobile phone announced in February 2008 and released in May 2008 by Samsung Mobile. The F480 is available from Orange, T-Mobil ...

as well as cheaper and functionally-reduced version, Samsung Tocco Lite as well as the world's first Android phone,

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and touchscreen Symbian phones,

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and

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References

External links

Official LG KP500 website

Stress test of a cell phone LG KP500

Unofficial LG KP500 Support Forum

LG KP500 Wallpapers Download Link

Sample photos of the LG KP500 with detailed Exif-data
{{LG phones KP500 Mobile phones introduced in 2008

See also

References

External links