When Sprint came out with their new line of color phones, I totally ignored the LG because I was used to the old standard Sanyos and Samsungs. When I got the LG, I was not sorry. The phone has incredible features much more than the other Sprint phones color and non-color.

Here are the positive and negatives:

Positives (where do I begin?):
~ Absolutely beautiful 65K display
~ Blue backlit keypad and external caller ID
~ The battery life in standby is pretty good. I didn't use the phone for 2 days and the phone still indicated that the battery was full.
~ Why download ringtones with Sprint when you have an impressive 40 ringtones with the 5350. There's some standard ringers, some cute ringers, some strange ringers and some funny ringers. But there is a wide variety, something for everyone.
~ Totally customizable display:
1. You can change the color theme to match the various background images you choose. Much like you can do on a PC or Mac. (Very impressive)
2. You can change the menu style.
3. You can choose how the clock looks, either analog or digital.
4. You can control the color contrast.
~ In the phone book, you are not limited to the number of characters you can put per line like other phones that will remain nameless. Even the phone book is customizable. An entry put in can not only have its own ringer but its own picture. (Nice)
~ The 5350 has fun games, a tip calculator, a regular calculator, photo album, world clock etc.

The feature list goes on and on. When you get this phone you'll see everything.

Negatives (the quirks that kept this from getting 5 stars):
~ On occasion the phone has a tendency to restart itself, meaning, the phone would just shutoff then start back up. I asked the customer service reps at LG about this. Of course they were clueless.
~ The phone freezes up if your battery is almost dead for example if the bar on the battery is at one. So I make sure I keep this phone charged.
~ Once but only once, the background went out and I was left with a dark blue screen. I had to restart the phone. But don't worry it happened like I said just once. It was a fluke thing.
~ The buttons are placed awkwardly. More than a few times I accidentally pressed buttons that I did not mean to press because they were placed at weird locations and were too close together.
~ Accessories are hard to come by. I had to go to the LG website for a charger. .



Recommended: Yes

Amount Paid (US$): 199.00