Yes I own the phone, and I assure you I've played with it well beyond anything it was intended for. It can be as feature rich as it wants, it doesn't change poor hardware and interface. I should have known better considering the stupid thing uses bluetooth 1.2. A 6 year old standard that been updated twice since. Of coarse this doesn't just effect the phone because any bluetooth product you use with it is automatically drag down to 1.2 standard. Any battery life, pairing, security, quality enhancements your 2.0 products have are moot because those benefits don't work with 1.2.
I don't know what processor they're using but it's terribly slow. Loading music library, picture viewing, gifs. All things my crappy old sony from 2 years ago can do much faster. Speaking of, why can that old sony, even with it's smaller screen, view text documents but this can't?
Stero bluetooth, micro SD card (some), voice activated dialing, 2mp camera with video. This is all stuff my 2 year old mediocre phone could do. These aren't "features", these are givens with even the bottom barrel phones now. As far as "multitasking" goes, that slowness I hit on is going to come into play MAINLY when you try to do all of these nifty things you mentioned. Scrolling is horrible, anyone who's used my Vu knows how frustrating it is trying to go through a long long list and select something. That alone has convinced anyone that's tried it that it's crap.
The shortcuts aren't customizable. When the last time you had a phone that you couldn't customize shortcuts on? I have to click through 3 different menus to get to things I use on a regular basis. Maybe you're used to phones that force you to make your own ring tones and sound files for alarms, but I've never had a phone that had a size limit on files for basic functions, I could just use any sound file I had on there. If you leave the phone on silent the alarm doesn't sound. How do you fk that up? Worse is, despite still pushing this phone neither ATT or LG plan any fixing anything. As soon as the phone was put out they were basically done with it. No extra themes, no more apps, no software fixes or firmware updates, just push them out, change the color and move on.
The only thing I got out of this phone is knowing not to buy any LG products in the future.
You seem easy to please so try not to take offense when those of us with expectations of a decent phone "knock it" because we're dissapointed. Glad it works for you and now you can get a new one in "wine", enjoy.
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Yes I own the phone, and I assure you I've played with it well beyond anything it was intended for. It can be as feature rich as it wants, it doesn't change poor hardware and interface. I should have known better considering the stupid thing uses bluetooth 1.2. A 6 year old standard that been updated twice since. Of coarse this doesn't just effect the phone because any bluetooth product you use with it is automatically drag down to 1.2 standard. Any battery life, pairing, security, quality enhancements your 2.0 products have are moot because those benefits don't work with 1.2.
I don't know what processor they're using but it's terribly slow. Loading music library, picture viewing, gifs. All things my crappy old sony from 2 years ago can do much faster. Speaking of, why can that old sony, even with it's smaller screen, view text documents but this can't?
Stero bluetooth, micro SD card (some), voice activated dialing, 2mp camera with video. This is all stuff my 2 year old mediocre phone could do. These aren't "features", these are givens with even the bottom barrel phones now. As far as "multitasking" goes, that slowness I hit on is going to come into play MAINLY when you try to do all of these nifty things you mentioned. Scrolling is horrible, anyone who's used my Vu knows how frustrating it is trying to go through a long long list and select something. That alone has convinced anyone that's tried it that it's crap.
The shortcuts aren't customizable. When the last time you had a phone that you couldn't customize shortcuts on? I have to click through 3 different menus to get to things I use on a regular basis. Maybe you're used to phones that force you to make your own ring tones and sound files for alarms, but I've never had a phone that had a size limit on files for basic functions, I could just use any sound file I had on there. If you leave the phone on silent the alarm doesn't sound. How do you fk that up? Worse is, despite still pushing this phone neither ATT or LG plan any fixing anything. As soon as the phone was put out they were basically done with it. No extra themes, no more apps, no software fixes or firmware updates, just push them out, change the color and move on.
The only thing I got out of this phone is knowing not to buy any LG products in the future.
You seem easy to please so try not to take offense when those of us with expectations of a decent phone "knock it" because we're dissapointed. Glad it works for you and now you can get a new one in "wine", enjoy.