LG C1500 user reviews (AT&T)

Pros nice look, easy to use

Cons short battery life, mediocre call quality and signal stength, takes its time ending calls

Summary I was looking for a basic phone and at first, this seemed like a nice find. I've been extremely dissapointed ever since. The battery life has been VERY short. After two days on a full charge and average talk times, I found myself with a dead battery. This is quite annoying when I have several days a week where I'm away from the home charger up to 20 hours a day. In standby only, I've gotten a max of about 3.5 days on a single charge. The signal strength and call reception is very poor. I find people ask me to speak up constantly when making calls. Also, when walking around my house, the signal goes from weak, to weaker whereas my wife's 3 year old Nokia exhibits none of the same problems. The final annoyance is the delay of 2 to 3 seconds when trying to end a call by using the "END" button as opposed to simply closing the phone. Other than that, it's a stylish, relatively easy to use phone. However, this phone does a poor job of its intended usage: making calls! After a month and a half, I've had enough.

Pros Lightweight and small but big on features.

Cons Poor handling of phone numbers in e-mails.

Summary This is indeed a very nice little phone, with a nice set of features including Instant Messaging, SMS and a improved address book (compared to my old LG VX6000).

The downside is how it recognized phone numbers in received e-mails. Or should I say not recognize. It's not an issue with text messages from other phones, just e-mails containing phone numbers. Since I rely on this in my job, I'm a little bummed that it doesn't recognize the number unless the phone number has no spaces or separators in it. The "Extract Phone Number" feature will recognize 2125551234 as a valid number, but not 212-555-1234.

Despite this, I still give the phone a very high rating. I like this phone!

Pros Liked the size and weight. Comfortable to hold

Cons Totally unreliable

Summary After doin' much research here at CNET regardin' the 3 free phones I had to choose from for my new service plan, LG seemed to be the most logical choice...so I went for it.

I wasn't too thrilled about its looks when I first ordered it, but I quickly warmed up to it upon its arrival. Its just a shame that it didn't reciprocate those same warm feelings towards ME.

I had nothin' but major problems from day one with this phone. Being a previous Nokia user who NEVER had ANY prior problems with neither the phone nor my carrier (AT&T Wireless....whom I miss dearly), the experience I had with the LG C1500 was disheartenin' to say the least. Lack of service, voice mail problems, dropped calls, NO calls and all types of errors occured while usin' the LG. Even after my makin' half a dozen calls to Cingular to try and resolve the problem, which they just could not seem to do, I finally asked for a replacement phone.....another tried-and-true Nokia...which was sent immediately and which has been workin' like a charm since day one.

Accordin' to one of the many service reps I spoke with at Cingular, numerous complaints had been made about the LG C1500. I just wish someone had given me a "heads-up" about that before I ordered the blasted thing.

So on that note, I would not recommend the LG C1500 phone to anyone...not even to my worst enemy!

Pros Lightweight, Faux-color design, small, Cingular

Cons Small buttons, small screen,antenna, cloud(fixed external display9

Summary Overall i like this phone, but the antenna is a little problem. I can live with it I will recommend it to any body who wants to save money and likes it design.