LG In-Depth Cell Phone Reviews

LG Dare

What’s Good: Attractive, highly customizable UI with home screen shortcuts; Compact design with high-res touchscreen; HTML Web browser and Email app with EV-DO Rev A support; VCAST Music and Video Support; Rhapsody streaming music support; 3.2 MP camera with flash and VGA video capture; 3.5mm headphone jack; Accelerometer and proximity sensor What’s Not Good: “Full HTML” Web browser is mildly disappointing; Touchscreen can take a bit of...

LG enV2

What’s Good: Sleeker and smaller than the original EnV. Comfortable QWERTY keyboard and QVGA internal display make texting fun. Huge external keypad makes dialing easy. VCAST music and video support. Support for laptop tethering (phone as modem). What’s Not Good: External keypad makes the phone look like a retro calculator, although I suppose that could be seen as a good thing. Space bar is small and oddly placed. Verizon’s menu system...

LG Venus

What’s Good: Beautiful display; Context-sensitive menus; Extensive feature set; VZ Navigation works very well What’s Not Good: Half a touchscreen sometimes feels gimmicky and frustrating; Touch controls sometimes unresponsive; Poor voice quality with unacceptable hiss on some calls; Somewhat bulky overall Bottom Line: Venus’ half-touch/half-not display is an interesting idea that ultimately frustrated me more than it charmed me.  The...

LG Rumor White

What’s Good: Compact, rugged design with full QWERTY keyboard; Easy to use; Auto-rotating display; Good SMS, IM, and Email integration What’s Not Good: Limited functionality beyond voice calling and messaging; No Power Vision access makes for slow Web browsing; Reports of laggy software and keyboard issues (I encountered none); Weak camera Bottom Line: Rumor is a basic candy bar phone with a focus on messaging, and in this regard it really...

LG Muziq-LX-570 Black

LG’s Muziq is the follow-up to the Fusic, which was the first handset I ever used with the Sprint Music Store.  While Fusic received mixed reviews, I happened to really like the phone’s cheery, compact design and straightforward functionality.  Muziq picks up where Fusic left off, with a thinner, sleeker body, enhanced multimedia functionality, and integrated GPS. Beyond its thin clamshell design and solid feature set, Muziq brings...

LG KE970-Shine

LG's KE970 "Shine" is one of the most gorgeous mobile phones - nay, one of the most gorgeous handheld objects - I've ever come across. I drooled over it at CES in Vegas this past January, and again at CTIA in Orlando in March. I tend to favor a combination of features and style in my gadgets, but from the moment I first saw Shine's TFT display emerge from beneath it's mirrored front panel, I was in love. It almost didn't matter what Shine...

LG KE970-Shine

The LG Shine is the latest phone from LG and is a part of their new Black Series line-up. The LG Shine is also known as the KE970 and in my opinion is the slickest and sexiest phone to be released by LG thus far. When the screen is off it looks beautiful, the whole front panel is a mirror and looks all chrome. The back of the phone resembles a digital camera and is made up of stainless steel. Slide up the screen to reveal the awesome keypad...

LG VX-8600

LG's VX-8600 is the clamshell successor to their very popular "Chocolate" candy bar phone.  This dual-band CDMA cell phone for Verizon Wireless actually packs all of Chocolate's functionality into a sleek flip phone that I found easier to use and more attractive than the VX-8500.  Clad in shiny black with silver trim, the 8600 is a thin clamshell packed with multimedia features. The VX-8600 features a 1.3 megapixel camera,...

LG VX-8500-Chocolate

The LG chocolate phone was made and released for Valentines Day, hence the name Chocolate phone. The phone got very famous quite fast because of the design and futuristic look. Although the LG chocolate phone is more famous, the Samsung E900 is a direct competitor, but which is better for you? Even though the phone is called chocolate, it sure doesn’t taste like it!!    The LG chocolate is a slider phone and when open it...

LG VX-8100

The LG VX8100 is a stellar dual-band CDMA mobile phone with a plethora of features crammed into its sleek frame. Visually, it is a vast improvement over its rather blocky predecessor, the VX8000, and features like its 1.3 Megapixel camera, expandable memory slot, Bluetooth compatibility, and stereo sound put it in the top tier of full-service cellular phones. The new streamlined design of the VX8100 is very appealing, with graceful, stylized...