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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
3.5 stars
"Excellent phone with a couple of deal-breaking drawbacks"
Pros: Intuitive touch screen, user friendly interface
Cons: Battery life, ascending ringtones
Summary: I used this phone for nearly a week and loved the phone itself. I found it very user friendly and easy to navigate between phone, contacts, messaging, tools, etc. A couple of touches was all it took to navigate almost anywhere. Sound quality and Bluetooth connectivity with my Acura were excellent. However, a couple of issues caused me to return the phone: battery life and ascending ringer. I am not a heavy phone user, but 1 day to 1 1/2 days was the most I could get out of a full battery charge. I was seriously afraid that if the phone had to search for a signal any while traveling or if I had to use the phone quite a bit one day, that I would wind up with a dead battery before getting a chance to recharge at night. The second issue, the ascending ringer, could not be changed and did not get loud enough to hear before the caller would hang up or the call would go to voice mail. This resulted in me having to check my phone periodically and return missed calls. I used my previous phone on vibrate a lot with a belt clip, but the vibrate on the Glimmer was also weak and hard to feel. So, overall, an excellent phone with need of a couple of tweeks.
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Good Afternoon! I'm an Alltel Regional Manager.
I see that many of you have sent me a PM concerning a private issue, I apologize but we have been very busy and I have not been able to see to your questions, I will try to do that this week.
GREAT NEWS! Thanks to your persistant calling and harrassing of Alltel agents, a software patch will be released from Alltel that will allow you to turn off the ringer issue, please expect that in 2-3 weeks.
For those of you that have already returned your LG Glimmer, you can go back and get it or simply wait for the fix, this update will be for the ringer issue ONLY, expect a future optional update for celltop, and the addition of the IM program through Alltel services.
If you would like to confirm this for yourself, please call Alltel at 1-866-415-0778 press options, 3,3,4,1,2 without listening to prompts, ask for a supervisor, then ask them to confirm this internal notification, it was released two days ago as of today 5/7/2008
As always, thank you for choosing Alltel and I am very happy that we are going to able to fix this for everyone!
Also, as with most luxury phones, the battery life is not going to be as good as a plain phone because of the energy all the features use. If your looking for something with better battery life, I would recommend the RAZR 2.
