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LG Cookie KP500
by Thebaker50
I had my LG cookie about a year ago on a 2 year contract with vodafone for around £10 a month. This came with 100 mins and 300 texts, and this was my first (and only) touch screen phone, and at the time of purchasing this phone, I was quite excited by the prospects of owning a touch screen phone (this was back when the Iphone was still a ... pretty new thing).
When sold I was told that the LG cookie had a good battery life. After owning the phone, I disagree, as there came a point where if I used the phone for much (say if i recieved a phone call from a friend asking if he wanted to meet up, I went there, phoned my mom to let me know where I was, and phoned to ask for a lift), then the battery would really struggle. And the phones maximum time on standby was about 2 and a half days. This was made worse by the fact that the worlds most incompetent man was tasked with making a unlock screen button not only as a plastic button on the side (which was very good) but on the screen itself as well, meaning it constantly unlocked itself and phoned people from your pocket! (Unlike iphone, and other phones, you dont have to slide to unlock, or press for 3 seconds or anything, just 1 touch and it unlocks, so every time anything presses on your pocket, your phone would unlock!) I wasted a lot of minutes and battery life false calling people.
Ok, so maybe at least this phone was response and value for money? I mean at the time it was advertised as the cheapest phone with an accelometer? BUZZ... wrong again... The phone was woefully slow, and texting with the qwerty touch screen was even more difficult that a normal phone (as the touch screen wasn't very good at selecting the button you pressed, so it could take 3 or 4 goes to get some letters!). Furthermore, this accelometer must have been broken or something in my phone. Because the amount of times i turned my phone on its side to engage qwerty keyboard and nothing happen was unbelievable. And if anything did happen, there was always a delay.
Infact, there was a delay before anything happened for anything. Pressing contacts, there was a delay, open message, delay. Always this 5-10 seconds delay as the phone had a think about what it would do next. This was particulary annoying as sometimes you werent sure if you pressing the screen registered or not. So naturally you press the screen again... only to find out know you have clicked twice and the phone is now automatically phoning someone... again!
Ok... so what about styling? This to be fair was a good point on this phone, it looks slick and the part. Sadly this for me is not the most important thing, as i would rather a phone that worked than looked good, but thats just me.
What about aps? Well I never surfed the web on it, but from online reviews i gather it wasnt great at that either. And you had a pitiful amount of pre-installed apps, with everything that adds on either costing money or these "lg points". Whatever at this point i was so fed up with the phone i gave that a miss.
Let me put it this way.. during my 2 year contract I gave the phone to my brother, who broke his, and took a phone called Saegeam. Just encase you never heard of them, neither had I until i got this phone... off my grandma who didn't need it anymore. Its a phone thats at the time i got it about 14 years old or so. And honest to god I prefered it, because I could call people, forget to charge it a few times, and text people. Ok it doesnt look at that, but to be honest, I really dont care about that from my phone.
THe 2 other things I will give it are signal and sound quality, but the signal strength may have been down to vodafones signal range being very large near where I live. The sound quality is average, not good, not bad.
So in summary?
A TERRIBLE TERRIBLE phone. I will never buy from LG again, I know at the time this was marketed as a cheap touch screen, but cheap is definately not cheerful here. Seriously dissapointed with this phone, and wouldnt recommend it to anybody. Infact I doubt I will go touchscreen again due to this phone just being so annoying and difficult to use.
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LG Shine KE970
by MikeBorry
~ LG Shine K970 ~
Oh how I loved this phone!
I loved the colour (I had a pink one)!
I love the mirror screen!
I loved everything about it!
My mum and I were sat in the kitchen drinking a cuppa and I was flicking through some magazine or another, and I happened to comment how much I liked this phone - ... The LG Shine K970.
I thought it was a very quirky looking phone and I really did fall in love with it.
About 5 weeks later it was Christmas and on Christmas Eve my mum brought me up my presents in a big bag, all sellotaped up I may add! (She knows me too well hehe!).
Anyway I opened the bag and after putting out all my childrens presents I put mine out, of course I had a feel and shake and apart from a few way off guesses I had no idea at all what my mum had bought me!
In the morning my boys were all so excited and my pressies were left untouched until my boys had opened theirs, then my hubby started passing me mine and I was like a big kid, ripping them open and loving it totally!
I was passed a rectangular shaped pressie and I first thought it may well have been hair straighteners, ripping open the side I saw a white box and then tearing off the paper I was so happy to see my lovely new LG Shine mobile phone!
The box was lovely, it was white with a sort of pattern and a little sleeve was slipped over the top with a picture of the phone and what not.
I slipped off the sleeve and opened up the box, there sat inside was a beautiful shiny phone. The body of the phone was all a pink metal and the screen was a mirror.... Perfect for a girly girl like me! The bottom of the phone slid down to reveal the key pad. It wasn't a touch screen phone but it did have a little scroll bar which is also a button and it came with a little phone charm type thing that was actually a buffer to keep the screen sparkly!
On the back of the phone was the camera lens and flash and turned to the side, it looked like a snazzy digital camera.
The phone features protective stainless steel casing which still looks imacualte today, it shows very minor use, although it was actually used for quite some time.
The fantastic screen is very bright and easy to see when in use and acts as a mirror when not in use.
It is also an MP3 player with great sound quality.
The camera is a generous 2MP with 2x digital zoom, the photos I took were good quality and I had some snaps developed in Asda and they came out really well.
It has Bluetooth and of course the multi function scroll key.
It came with some quite cool screensavers and in general I really liked this phone, it held its charge really well and probably needed charging once every 2 -3 days depending on how much you used it.
Although there are much better phones available now this was a great phone at the time, I still have the phone but unfortunatly the LCD screen is broken and that was my reason for changing my phone at the time, however writing this review has prompted me to look on ebay for a replacement screen and having one at a decent price I have bought one!
Until my son jumped on it, quite hard I must add, this phone was very robust. I had no trouble getting used to it and thoroughly enjoyed using it.
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LG Chocolate KG800
by jeremyjiao
I got this phone in the bright pink shade a few years ago as a present, and I must say I was very disappointed with it.
First of all, it cost quite a bit of money for little to none outstanding functionality. Yes, the keys on the front of the sliding panel are touch screen and light up- but I found that this hindered the ... performance of this phone rather than aid it- for example at times it would be irritatingly unresponsive and I would have to press down with all my might on it several times in order to get it to respond, but at others, a slight brush of my fingertips would make a call to some random person on my contact book, and on its way, losing me several pennies of my credit.
And back to the non outstanding functionalities: it could make calls. It could send texts. It could take horribly blurred pictures, short videos and maybe play a game or too. Nothing too out of a simple brick phone's league, apart from its touchscreen buttons (and I have given you my view on that). The internet, I found, was so excruciatingly slow and not worth the money you have to pay for it that I only used it once and never again.
But the main problem that has made me so distraught about this LG product is its quality. After mere months of obtaining this phone, I found that it was slowly deteriorating... The phone's batteries lasted for a very short time, the buttons' response decreased and the screen and phone exterior scratched so much if I didn't know myself I would have thought it was a couple of years old AT LEAST. I hardly received any texts straight after they were sent (crucial messages reached me hours or even days after). Bear in mind that this had not been under heavy use- I did not throw this phone around on the floor or anything. I even took the trouble to buy a phone pouch for it. And then one day, it happened. The phone just... died. Completely. It wouldn't turn on, wouldn't charge at all. I even tried it with my friend's LG cookie (or some other touchscreen LG phone anyway) charger which fitted in this one, and, surprise surprise, no response. I didn't even try to get it fixed. I'd had enough of it. I bought a new phone which far exceeded its predecessor and the phone has been rotting at the bottom of one of my drawers or other.
My advice? Don't buy this phone, I have been most severely disappointed by it. In fact, this has put me off the LG company's products completely. I would have been better off with my previous, sturdy old brick. This has been a complete let down for me and it cost over a hundred pounds (though it might be cheaper now, I got it when it was a relatively new product). What a spectacular waste of money.
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