LG VX2000 (Verizon Wireless)

Summary: The LG VX2000 is a mobile telephone, and as such does its duty well. There are few frills on this model - A monochome display, two games, two "background themes", text messaging, and no user-installable ringtones.

Calls are not dropped, and do not wane in low-battery conditions. The lithium-ion battery withstands a full day's worth of calling and charges well. Text messaging is adequate, but the VX2000 will begin to warn about memory usage after about 50 messages are sent and received. Though it offers English, French, and Spanish, incoming high-bit ASCII is not supported well, and typing accented characters is cumbersome. Some of the Spanish interface text is in English, such as "Bandeja IN/OUT" (Inbox/Outbox).

The ringer and speaker are loud enough to hear at low levels, and the speakerphone is adequate at two meters. The vibrating ringer saps the battery quickly, and is not noticeable when walking with the VX2000 in your pocket. The microphone is excellent.

The phone book, agenda, and calculator are somewhat cumbersome, but satisfactory for light day-to-day use. Typing in names with spaces in the phone book, such as "John Q. Public", can be annoying, as spaces must be entered twice. The caller ID information is based on the entries in the phone book, and occasionally has trouble identifying callers who do not have their area code(s) listed in their phone book entry. The calculator loses precision and will suffer overflow/underflow errors very quickly.

Mobile web browsing and voice commands went unused.