My Wife LOVES This Cell Phone!
Written: Jul 02 '04 (Updated Jul 06 '04)
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Pros: Excellent phone with great reception and ergonomics and simple to use.
Cons: The one self healing incident LOL
The Bottom Line: It has everything but a camera feature which I think is a waste. Best cell phone I have seen yet with easy to use interface.
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| pfc5's Full Review: LG VX4400 |
I have had my Verizon service for over two years so my service plan had expired, and I could change services anytime I wanted. I used this to my advantage when I called Verizon to get a new phone. If they wanted to keep me as a customer they had to give me a great deal on a new updated phone. I got it for free (with 2 yr. contract) and a $50.00 rebate to boot. I chose the LG VX440 because it was a flip phone and has a color screen WITH A DISPLAY ON THE OUTSIDE as well. Why is that important with a flip phone? Because when someone calls you want to know WHO is calling before flipping it open and thus answering it. The color screen didn't matter as much to me as getting the flip phone (wife really wanted this feature). The keypad on this phone looks great with blue backlighting on the keypad that are easy to read at night while driving, and the buttons have a great (read NOT hard plastic) feel to them and are large enough to make dialing very easy with one hand. By having a rubbery like feel to the keys you are less likely to slip over to another key when dialing and avoid dialing the number wrong. It has an easy charger that we just place the phone in when we get home so we never run out of battery power on this phone.
This phone has great reception and is pretty easy to operate. I think Verizon wireless service has the best reception in the northeast, but I give a lot of credit to this phone because it does have better reception than the Nokia phone we had before it. The LG VX4400 has a lot of great features that are easy to use. Actually my wife plays with these features much more than I do. It has a button on the side that cycles thru three different ring modes. They are full ring, vibrate only ringing, and silent. All you have to do is hold the button in for it to change to each setting. This is much easier than making changes though menu selections IMO. It comes with about 30 different ringers so you can mix it up if you want, depending on your mood. This phone has a very easy redial function as well. Why is it that cell phones don't have a dedicated button to redial the last number either called or received? It seems to me that it is more important on a cell phone than on a regular phone to have this feature.
The ONLY negative thing I can say about this phone is that it didn't work ONCE when my 12 year old son took it when he went sledding. He said he didn't drop it, but it didn't work when he got home. After letting it sit on the charger over night it worked fine again. We assume that it "shut down" because it was a very cold (zero degrees) day when he had it out sledding. It has never happened again so I chalk it up to a fluke thing.
Verizon actually gave the phone for free, but with the $50.00 rebate I actually got paid for "buying" this phone. Of course I had to renew for a 2 year contract.
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Amount Paid (US$): -50.00 after
Recommended for: Stylish Trendsetters - Hip and Trendy
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