LG CG225 (AT&T)

Pros: Huge External Display, Bright Images

Cons: Limitations with Text Messages

Summary: Desist from this phone, if you plan to receive/ send a lot of text messages. Next two years of my life got screwed up and I have to no way but to buy a pager. Text messages are completely unreliable.

For example,

(1) Many times, the screen gets struck when you click on 'view'.

(2) Try sending the following message from an email client (such as Yahoo Mail) to your phone -

Subject:
Test

Body:
Panchatantra is a fine collection of highly entertaining and educational stories from Ancient India. It is the most widely read Indian classic, translated into more than 50 languages. It has influenced The Arabian Nights, the Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and most notably in The Fables of La Fontaine. First told at least 1500 years ago by the sage Vishnu Sharma to three backward princes in an Indian king's court (who after hearing these tales became "as wise as the king of the gods"), its morals and messages are as relevant today as they were then.

You will not receive this message, and also all subsequent messages. The only solution is to restart the phone. Surprisingly, you will receive all messages after a restart.

Other cell phones handle huge messages by truncating and splitting, but CG225 just dies.