Excellent features and function
Written: Nov 22 '02 (Updated Nov 22 '02)
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Pros: battery life, screen, memory capacity, airplane mode, size, price
Cons: low ringer volume, occasional sluggish response,
The Bottom Line: Excellent phone with great color screen, fantastic sound, long battery life, small size, and good reception. Price- and feature-wise, a much better value than the Samsung A500 or N400.
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| motegi's Full Review: LG LX5350 |
I purchased my Sprint PCS Vision LG 5350 phone in 8/02 and have been very pleased with its performance and functionality. I am a longtime SprintPCS user currently on my 4th SprintPCS phone. My previous two phones were by Nokia (yes Sprint sold Nokia back in the day) and Sanyo. I must say that out of all the Sprint phones that I have had the LG 5350 has been the best.
When I was looking to purchase a new Sprint phone in August I considered the Samsung offerings (N400 and A500). The LG 5350 is rated as having longest talk time battery life of the three (3 hours) and even with frequent use during the day I have not had any problems with low power (I recharge every night).
The LG5350's color screen is quite nice to look at and in my opinion holds its own againt the A500's TFT screen. The button backlight and screen backlight duration is user adjustable and provide excellent visibility in almost all conditions. However, the screen can get a bit washed out in extremely bright direct sunlight.
One of the selling points of the new Sprint Vision service is the ability to download ringers, games, and images to your phone from the internet. Sprint charges fees to download many of these files from their servers but many 3rd party sites have popped up to allow you to download ringers and custom images for free. The LG 5350 ringers sound amazing thanks to a 40 chord sound generator versus 16 chord of the two Samsung models' . In addition the LG comes with 43 included ringers versus 20 in the Samsungs. Already I have added dozens of new ringers and images to my LG5350. Although some of the literature states that the phone has only 1MB of storage capacity the phone menu shows 3MB available (many times more than either of the Sanyos). The only weakness as far as the ringers are concerned are that they are a little faint even on the highest settings and can get drowned out in loud settings or if you keep your phone in your pocket.
For me, one especially nice feature is the LG 5350's airplane mode which shuts off the wireless communications functions of the handset while allowing access to all the other functions (menus, phonebook, organizer, games). As I work in a hospital where wireless phone use is prohibited this function is very useful.
Some of the less favorable qualities of the LG5350 are its occasional tendency to slow to a crawl especially when starting or stopping the vision browser. Also the speed dial buttons require the user to press and hold the chosen button for several seconds longer than what I was used to with my old Sanyo SCP-4500 phone making the speed dial not nearly as speedy. Furthermore it takes longer for the LG5350 to regain responsiveness after ending a call or exiting a menu than my old Sanyo. As an aside, if some of the extra features of the LG5350 are turned off (GPS, etc) the speed improves noticeably.
Reception-wise I have found the LG5350 to be on par with my previous Sanyo phone. At a retailer display I observed the LG5350 to have better signal strength readings on screen than either the N400 or the A500. The Sanyo 4900 vision phone seemed to beat them all but it's sheer physical bulk kept me from considering it.
The size and price of the LG5350 are hard to beat. It is slightly larger and much less expensive than the A500 but considerably smaller than the only slightly cheaper N400. The phone appears to be very solid and well made with good quality plastics (which cannot be said of the optional Sprint swivel belt clip, beware). I paid $229 for my LG5350 in 8/02 at a Sprint Store. Since that time the price has dropped quite a bit making the LG5350 an even better value.
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 229
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