Nifty Little Gadget: LG Fusic Cell Phone

With so many different cell phones and features to choose from, it is a difficult task deciding which cell phone to go with. In my quest to buy the best phone for my dollar, I have bought the new LG Fusic from Sprint.

The LG Fusic is not a phone for beginners to the realm of the cellular world. It comes with a plethora of features, including an MP3 player, FM transmitter, high speed internet capabilities, the ability to use your phone as a wireless internet connection on your laptop, and Bluetooth. I bought this phone mostly for the MP3 player with FM transmitter feature. However, I was a little dismayed to find out how difficult it was to use the feature.

Loading songs onto the LG Fusic is no problem. It comes with a micro sd card complete with an sd adapter to plug into a USB device for your computer. After that, it's simply drag and drop. You can instantly play your MP3's through the phone's headphones, included with purchase. However, getting the songs to play in the FM transmitter is quite another story. The files need to be transferred into a folder called media in order to implement this feature. As it turns out, after speaking to a specialist, if your MP3 files have any kind of extension to them, they will not go into the media folder. The specialist at the store also said that the LG Fusic is very picky about what files it will accept into the media folder. I have also found that LG brand in particular is the worst for reception, while it's competitors Sanyo and Samsung are at the top of the list in that category. LG is the top brand for features in a cellular phone, though. That is if you can figure out how to use them!