Recently I purchased an LG CU500 phone from a Cingular. The phone is pretty cool and has a nifty built in mp3 player that even has buttons on the outside of the phone for playback. The box and manuals have microSD logos plastered all over them.

I figured a 1GB card would do nicely for holding a good amount of music, and Kingston 1GB cards can be had for a mere $16! My freshie 1GB card arrived and I promptly placed it in the phone, but the phone would not recognize the card. I tried to re-seat the card several times, but the phone refused to recognize the card.

I placed a call to Kingston’s technical support line to report the problem. The chump on the phone told me that they have had numerous incidents where this phone does not recognize Kingston memory cards. He suggested that I call LG, which I did.

The LG rep was very short, and before I could even finish explaining my issue, she told me that they didn’t support the Kingston cards in the LG CU500. Pretty pissed at this point, I asked her why they would put the microSD logo on the phone. Her only reply was that they did not know that the phone wouldn’t work with the Kingston card until after they had shipped them all. Yeah, right.

So, I purchased a microSD card for a phone that advertises microSD capability, and yet, I cannot use the card. I can only RMA the card for the same thing, so that won’t help me – seems ebay is my only option to unload this card, and frankly, ebay is such a p.i.t.a. that I’ll probably just toss the card in a drawer to rot. Maybe someday I’ll have a need for a 1GB microSD card. OH KOOL.