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Features
The LG VX5400 doesn't come with a lot of features, so let's just get right to it. It comes with a generous 1,000-entry contacts list with room in each entry for five phone numbers and two e-mail addresses. You can also save callers to groups plus pair them with a photo or one of 12 ringtones and 6 alert tones for caller ID. Essential features include a vibrate mode, a speakerphone, text and multimedia messaging, a calculator, a calendar, an alarm clock, a stop watch, a notepad, and a world clock. A few extra advanced features include e-mail support, instant messaging, a wireless Web browser, voice-command support, voice recording, as well as Bluetooth support. The VX5400 can also support Verizon's VZ Navigator location-based service, plus the Chaperone Parent/Child application.
We didn't expect too much out of the LG VX5400's VGA camera, and photo quality was indeed quite bad, with images that looked washed out, blurry, with too much of an orange tinge. Camera settings include up to 3x zoom, three resolutions (640x480, 320x240, and 160x120), a self-timer, brightness, five white balance options, three shutter sounds (plus a silent option), five color effects, and a night mode. The VX5400 doesn't have a camcorder option.
You can personalize the VX5400 with a variety of wallpaper, display themes, and alert sounds, plus you can download more via the wireless Web browser. The VX5400 doesn't come with any games, so you'll have to download and purchase those as well.
Performance
We tested the tri-mode (CDMA 800/1900; AMPS) in San Francisco using Verizon Wireless. Call quality was amazingly good--callers often thought we were on a regular landline instead of a cell phone. There was a tiny bit of echo occasionally, but it wasn't a big deal. On our end, we also heard our callers loud and clear, with natural sounding voices and not much distortion at all. Speakerphone quality was also quite good, though there was a bit more echo and background noise. We paired the VX5400 with the Callpod Dragon Bluetooth headset and experienced good reception and call quality.
The LG VX5400 has a rated battery life of 4.7 hours talk time and 16.7 days standby time. We had a pretty decent tested talk time of 5 hours, 11 minutes. According to the FCC, the LG VX5400 has a
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"Terrific phone; simple, well made. Trimode might be handy some day."
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"If you are looking for an excellent phone without unnecessary bells and whistles, this is it"
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