Virgin Mobile LG Rumor 2 Release & Pricing Official [LG Rumor 2 ‘Socially Connected’ Budget QWERTY Phone]

It’s now official – though, arguably, it’s not all that much to get especially excited about –as Virgin Mobile USA have now released the LG Rumor 2 budget QWERTY slider phone with the texting friendly ‘socially connected’ handset now being up for grabs via its online portal.

The LG Rumor 2 is seemingly aimed at what we’d assume to be the teen/youth market in being especially suited to texting, on account of its slider style QWERTY keyboard, but, in the main, offering nothing by way of features away from what you’d expect from a budget handset all in a bid to maintain rock bottom pricing so those interested in the Rumor 2, and who are as yet unacquainted with what it brings to the table, should reel in their expectations accordingly.

The LG Rumor 2 comes with a 2” QVGA display, a wholly lame 1.3 megapixel camera (1.3MP – its inexcusable, even on a budget handset), integrated Bluetooth and, of course, inbuilt MP3 player and, whilst there’s more besides, it really doesn’t get anymore interesting, I’m afraid though, in fairness, that’s not strictly true as it does come with GPS functionality allowing for map based navigation. Oh, yes, and almost forgot, along with inbuilt web browsing the Rumor 2 also offers integrated with social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, et al.

In fairness, perhaps we’re being a little harsh here as, in mind of what we assume its intended market to be, its not a bad phone (notwithstanding the shameful camera resolution) and at just shy of $130 a pop you’d hardly expect prime features – though, personally, we feel that its somewhat overpriced, considering.

UPDATE: We’d like to thank Virgin Mobile USA for dropping a comment to clarify that the Rumor 2 is not 3G despite what their official product page  states. We have, of course, mailed them back with a screen shot to advise that they are, as at the time of writing, showing the handset as 3G.

UPDATE: Virgin Mobile USA have mailed us back and confirmed that they are correcting their site to remove the ’3G’ element. Thanks SA.