04-08-10, 01:21 AM
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Name: K. Von-Trapp
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Britain
Posts: 702
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Re: LG Rumor Touch?
I've had two LG phones in the past couple of years.
The first was the LGKS360. Really aesthetic phone, had a slide-out keyboard that was perfect for a textaholic like me - or so I thought.
Some of the keys didn't work, others jumped around when I was trying to write up a text, some turned the phone off mid-text. In fact the phone liked to spontaneously turn itself off in general, during calls, whenever I tried to send a text, whenever I received a text. And pretty much whenever it fancied. It didn't receive multimedia messages even though it was supposed to, and whenever I picked up a call I was unable to hear the person on the other end for about 5 minutes. My friends learned to deal with it but it was impractical when I was waiting for a call from potential employers.
It wasn't even that I'd mistreated my phone at all! My best friend bought one and had the same problems within months, and when another friend of mine bought one (and this was much later, a year after the phone's initial release) it had the same problems immediately. Eventually I contacted LG and they said that there was nothing that could be done and it was esssentially the phone's 'motherboard' (or hardware) that caused the problems.
So I bought another phone, my second LG. It's the LG GW520, a phone which LG specifically recommended to me because it's designed for texting. Great, I thought.
WRONG.
Again, the phone likes to turn itself off, particularly during mid-text, and it takes bloody ages to receive multimedia messages. Some of the keys jump around when I'm trying to write a message, sometimes the screen scrambles, sometimes the phone inexplicably freezes, sometimes it simply won't let me send texts. It doesn't allow you to store messages to an external hardrive so the phone slows down massively once you've got a measly 100 messages in your inbox, to the point where there's a loading screen.
It's a touch screen, but I find that it's so sluggish and unresponsive and clumsy compared to the iPhone.
In short ... read online reviews before you get it and see if people are having similar problems. I gave LG a second chance but I wouldn't ever buy a phone from them again and, if I had the money, I'd probably invest in an iPhone or Blackberry because they're the only models that have the same capacity as other pieces of modern technology. I get impatient because my phone is slow and rarely works - like everything else, it should generally work and at least be reasonably speedy.
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