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LG VX4600
LG VX4600 Phone from Verizon Wireless |
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It's a good phone
5 out of 5
This phone is extremely durable and easy to use. The buttons are easy to press, easy to remember, and easy to see. I only have two small problems with the phone.
1) It has no speakerphone. If it does, I can't find it.
2) While it looks like it only works with a cradle charger, there is a small rubber plug on the bottom of the phone right on the edge of where the silver stops and the blue starts. The button is indistinguishable from the rest of the phone, but it has a small arrow engraved. I've owned the phone for almost 6 months and just found this tonight.
The loudspeaker plays ringtones very clear at full volume. It does have a vibrate-only option, but it's not included in the volume options. It's "manner mode." To engage this, if the phone is closed, you must press the bottom button on the left side and hold it for around 2 seconds. It'll vibrate to let you know it's in manner mode. If the phone is open, you must press then star (*) key and hold it for 2 seconds. To turn manner mode off, simply hold the button again or turn the volume up on the side of the phone when the phone is open.
All in all, despite the lack of a speakerphone and the hidden extra charger slot, this phone is a definite 5/5 stars mainly because it has incredible signal no matter where I am. I have never seen this phone go below 2 bars, and I live in a rural area.
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Good phone as long as you don't need a headset.
4 out of 5
I've had this phone for over a year now and I will be upgrading it soon. The standard features of the phone work very well. The reception and clarity is very good. The LG contacts list is great. Even the battery life is good.
The main drawback that I have is that the usage with a headset is limited. When using the headset you cannot place or answer a call while the phone is closed. Because of this I went though 2 plastic holsters in 6 months then decided to just use my pocket. It also makes it difficult to use in the car.
It also does not allow full duplex through the headset, meaning that if the person on the other end is making noise they can't hear you. This extends to if there is background noise on their end like wind or a loud room.
I gave this a 4 because the majority of the functions work fine. It's the headset functionality that keeps it from getting a 5.
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very good phone with only minor drawback
4 out of 5
pro: solid, cool looking, much better than VX4500, nice material and workmanship, cool external display, loud speaker and microphone , people say they hear me better than T-mobile Motorola V300, very loud ring tone (good and bad), strong vibration(good and bad). Desktop charger make charging handy. Real Aluminum front cover looks very cool.
cons: screen is dim for today's phone, screen look like a cheap phone, can not compare to V300. not many good ring tone, no game, ring can be too loud and often scare me when it rings. Vibration is so strong, when place on table it make very horrible noise. Very common for today's phone, the clip exposed the phone for scretch. I prefer the pouch belt clip like the one come with Motorola V300. If you want this phone, better buy a leather cover or a aftermarket pouch that fits. Pouch from V300 is too big for this phone. After 2 week of use, I already scretch the cool looking front cover. phone get warm after 15 minutes of use. You can only get this phone online, such as amazon.com. I bet this phone cost more to manufacture than the Vx4500, and look so much better than Vx4500, so they don't offer it in the store. They want people see the bland Vx4500 to buy more expensive phone.
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Phone is good. Activation was a nightmare.
4 out of 5
First of all I must disagree with three points a previous reviewer made. The phone does have a "vibrate only" mode--to activate it, simply hold on to the asterisk key (or the microphone button if the phone is closed.) This turns on vibrate and silences all other sounds. In addition, the phone does allow you to silence the ringer. To do this, open the phone and use the volume rocker button on the left hand side of the phone. Third, you can talk on the phone while it charges. You can either use a headset or you can simply grab the charger and hold onto it to press the phone to your ear. Either this reviewer was using a completely different phone or s/he did not read the manual.
Because the phone does not have those deficiencies, it really is a pretty good phone. Like other reviewers, I find it slightly annoying that you cannot leave the outside display on, especially because I do not wear a watch. However, pushing the button to turn on the display is no big deal. I also find it a bit annoying that the external display goes into a marquee mode, scrolling the information horizontally. I would also point out that the color display can get washed out if you're in bright sunlight.
Otherwise, the phone has some good features. I like how LG allows you to have more than one number for each name in your address book. (Some phones make you program a different entry for each number, which is silly when you consider that one person can easily have four phone numbers.) I also find the menus to be easy to navigate. There is no camera, which I like because all I want to do is make phone calls.
Activating this phone was a nightmare. For some reason Amazon shipped it without activating it. So I took it to the Verizon booth in Circuit City, where he could not activate it because he claimed that there was no suitable electronic serial number on the back of the phone. (The number he needed was on the box, which I had left at home. So bring the box with you when you try to activate it.)
So I went to a different Verizon store the next day to activate it. First he tells me that the necessary number was indeed on the back of the phone and that person I saw at Circuit City did not know what he was doing. Despite this, it took over two hours to activate the phone. Supposedly this was because this particular model had never been sold in the Verizon store and therefore it was not in their computer.
Thus, although I like this phone and I got a good deal on it through Amazon, I will never buy another phone from Amazon because of the activation hassle. Instead I will just buy one in the store. Of course your mileage may vary--maybe my activation hassle was a unique one.
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Nice solid basic phone, but with some little drawbacks
3 out of 5
One of the most solid phone I have seen, nice touch, but the exterior is too smooth, i have drop it several times because I don't have a good grip of it, and I miss the grip I can get from Motorola V300. The screen is very dim, even it's at max bright ness. I think LG intentionaly make the low end phone screen this dark, so I will like the more expensive one. If all u need is making calls, this is fine. If you have a polorized sun glasses, don't get this phone. The screen look completely dark under polorized sun glasses. Ring tone is so loud, even the lowest setting will scared me when it rings. No single ring tone does not scare me from this phone. No speaker phone, oh, i miss speaker phone. Lucky I switch to VX6100, which has a very good speaker phone. Battery don't last that long, but I never run out of it. I like the dock charger, even it's large, but I will always like to put my phone on the charger, that's why i never run out of battery. the external sub screen is probably the biggest attration of hte phone, but it don't seem the visible under sun light.
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