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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
3.5 stars
"I don't want to like it but I do"
Pros: Very sturdy, good call quality, good workmanship, simple to use, good price, camera, memory card support.
Cons: Bland design, limited features, battery life, pixel-ly gallery, "SETTINGS SAVED!" screen, cannot change banner.
Summary: I've had this phone since it came out in September through Fido. After day one I haven't been crazy about it. After ANY settings are changed, the phone comes up with a "SETTINGS SAVED!" screen coupled with a noise that both annoys me and cannot be changed. The banner cannot be changed. The clock on the front of the camera has a background picture that is permanent. Pictures are needlessly grainy in gallery mode, due to resizing. The only way to view at full size is to set it as background. The two colors available are dark blue or aqua blue. Both are sort of girly (I took it apart and squirted dark red).
Dispite this I have found that it does it's job well. I've dropped this phone and put it through the clothes wash and it still works without issue (though the battery lasted less than 6 hours in idle mode after it's bath). Inside the phone is well padded, particularly behind the screen. The small buttons have a quality rubbery feel to them. A very good T9 texting ability, allowing you to circulate between words with the same characters and add your own words to the T9. You can save numbers to either the phone's internal memory or a memory card inserted behind the battery; handy if you break the phone, the card still holds contacts. Also, I have dropped only 3 calls in 3 months.
So although I don't want to like this phone due to it's shortcomings, it impresses me by taking all the abuse I can dish out and continues working.
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It would seem that the LG C2000 is to wireless phones what Timex is to wrist watches.
I have had no problems with the battery in my particular phone, and neither has my wife. I work 10 and 12 hour shifts every day, and my phone is on most of the time. At most, the battery indicator only shows one bar down (out of three) at the end of the day, even with sometimes several hour-long phone conversations. A few minutes on the charger puts it back at full charge. I have found that the battery recharges very quickly and holds its charge very well. Perhaps mine is a newer edition than those of some of the others who have complained about the battery life. Perhaps LG took the complaints to heart and improved the phone's performance in that area. I don't know that, but it is a possibility that would account for the conflicting reports.
All my wife and I need are the basics, plus the occasional snapshot or text message; and that is what the LG C2000 delivers. Our primary concerns are phone functionality with the convenience of wireless, not the "gadget factor" as I call it. This phone provides that plus a few "gadget" functions.
As for the functionality of the address book, it does what a wireless phone address book should do: it provides the names, numbers, and e-mail addresses of those with whom we communicate on a regular--or even infrequent--basis via phone and/or e-mail and a means to connect with that person via phone, text messaging, or e-mail.
I don't know of a wireless phone that prints letters and envelopes for USPS mail, so there is no need for mailing addresses. The address book does store photos of contacts if so desired. I fail to see a practical use for that feature, though, unless it is someone with whom the user is only briefly acquainted, but if the user needs a photo to refresh his or her memory, why would he or she have that person's contact info in the address book in the first place? It seems to me to be a feature that plays to the gadgetholic rather than serving any necessary or useful purpose.
Duzey is right. The LG C2000 IS a tough little cookie.
One might even venture to say, "It's a duzey!" -
nice free phone but can't listen to a cd from my bedside cd player. The phone is placed on the table also. Loud intermittant noises (electronic and not incoming calls) from the sony player. Have to place phone across the room to avoid noise. BTW makes a lot of noise from Sony player with player's power off???? Maybe just an old analog guy lost in this digital world.
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