AT&T launching LG CU575 "Trax" HSDPA musicphone later today

With those last minute bugs now apparently eradicated, LG has officially announced plans to deliver their 3G CU575 "Trax" clamshell to AT&T. Touting 850/1900MHz HSDPA 3.6Mbps-capable downloads and quad-band GSM, this flip fancies itself a part-time media player with the inclusion of a Touch Pad bar and up to 4GB of microSD expansion for your AAC, MP3, and WMA music files. Still no word from AT&T but we expect the announcement later today with all the pricing detail you crave.

Update: The joint press release is finally out: available August 14th for $130 after mail-in rebate and two-year contract.

Read -- launch announcement
Read -- CU575 specifications

[kyle allen @ Aug 13th 2007 3:10AM]

wow.. i remember back when it was cool to have breakout or a calculator on your phone.

[trancer @ Aug 13th 2007 3:31AM]

ha, apparently someone has already bought this and reviewed it on amazon. search for yourself.
Although in reality the person who wrote that review was probably referring to the older LG CU500.
Still i think its funny.
Hmm... We'll have to wait for full specs, but so far this phone doesn't seem that great.
65,536 colors for a main display?? What year are we in...2004? 1.3mp camera?
AT&T's 3G Samsung SGH-A707 (SYNC) has a 2mp with 262,144 color main display. What's all the hype?
Maybe i'm being to harsh on this phone. I'm all for new phones and new competition. I just wish they would give us the good stuff already.

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 13th 2007 10:27AM]

Not LG's coolest offering.
The word "tepid" comes to mind actually.

I already have a VX8600. This wouldn't be much of an upgrade at all.
More of a slightly downslope sidegrade.

[Jeff @ Aug 13th 2007 11:29AM]

no lanyard loop = paperweight

[Eric Schreiber @ Aug 13th 2007 11:47AM]

I remember seeing this in an ATT store like 2 weeks ago.

[Scott @ Aug 13th 2007 12:00PM]

We got a whole box of these to sell last month. We sold afew of them the first day and then they were mysteriously recalled acouple of days later. The recall reasons were for "quality standards". I don't know it wasn't that great of a phone while we had it, kinda cheap looking.