also known as LG UX830 , LG Vantage , LG AX830
LG Glimmer ReviewsLG Glimmer Reviews
11. Great phone.....NOT!!
24 Mar 2009 by Anonymous
10%1out of 10
this phone is a piece of junk... Dont get me wrong loved the phone when it was new. but the touch screen slowly went to crap. couldnt really do anything with the phone beside an expensive paper wait.
NONETOUCH SCREEN SUCKS
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12. short term use only
12 Mar 2009 by Lord Brock of Brick House
76.7%7.7out of 10
i received this phone as a christmas present and was more than happy when i saw it was an amazing phone. for the first two months i felt like some sort of god among insects with my cool touch screen phone that had a keypad as well. this would all end very soon. it starts with the thought that maybe you need to recalibrate the touch screen. so you do that a few times until it becomes a constant concern. you feel insecure about the size of your thumbs and think maybe you have horrible eyesight and are actually very bad at calibrating your phone that before then had no such problems. once you except the fact that it might just be the phone it takes the fact that youve given up on it very seriously and it decides to ruin your life by working opposite. you touch the bottom of the screen and the phone decides to tease you and do the touch vibration and go back a page or if your luck it will just click the button beside of above. this is where the you will more than likely become angered. you may want to throw the phone for for some reason you cant because the phone just looks so appealing and you do experience good days with the phone where it will do what you mean for it to do. if you only needed this phone for maybe a 2 - 3 month period i highly recommend it. it basically changed my opinion of lg. but if you accidentally use it for more than a 3 month period you will be harshly reminded of the reason why lg is seen as a generic cell phone company. goodluck
-amazing camera
-touch screen is beautiful when working
-option of switching between touch screen and keyboard is so amusing
-is a great conversation starter.-rectangular shape made of metal with a brand name.
-becomes useless.
-my cause excessive deep breathing and an increased heart rate.
-may lead to insecurities concerning thumb size.
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13. Lg ux830
10 Mar 2009 by Shannon
50%5out of 10
Before i got this phone i had the razr 2...i had problems with that so they let me pick out a different phone...so thats when i got this one...i thought it was perfect because it has a touch screen plus the keypad. The first month the phone worked fine i loved it!! But then my phone quit getting reception, i went to us. cellular to ask them about this and they said it was deffinitly the phone because i was in my coverage area and it would say no service. So about a month ago i had the phone sent in for repair...hoping that they would fix it..I got it back about a week ago and STILL NO RECEPTION! So i went back to us. cellular and they sent it in again..if its not fixed this time i dont know what they're going to do because apparently this phone is discontinued...this is such a big headache! I am very dissatisfied with this phone!
Very stylish phone.
Mp3 player
Camera with flash
Touch screenNo reception
Discontinued
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14. AWFUL
23 Feb 2009 by Anonymous
33.3%3.3out of 10
Like everyone else, I appreciated the phone when it was new. But, I've had it for about 5 mos and the touch screen went out after about 3 mos of use.
It started out subtle with no response when you touch it, then it mushroomed into a total non-functioning paperweight. The only way you can access the menu is through the touch screen. No manual overrides.
US Cellular sold me this piece. Their version is called the UX 830 and it is the worst phone I've ever owned.
Touch screen when it worked
Beautiful Camera
Nice video quality
Larger buttons for us fat-fingered peopleTouch screen when it finally goes out
No manual overrides
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15. Love the phone...if it would work
18 Feb 2009 by Lisa78
70%7out of 10
I've had the LG Glimmer since Jul '08, and my touch screen hasn't been working right for the past 3-4 months. That's my only complaint, although is a huge deal when that's the only way to get to the menu or into my text messages. When the problem started, it just seemed like it was a calibration issue because no matter what I pushed, the button above or below it would be selected instead. I tried calibrating it, and it showed I was pressing way above or under where I actually was. Now the touch screen only works when it wants to. Some days it works fine, but most days I have to press so hard I think I'm going to break the stupid screen. I know a few other people who have this same phone and are having the same problems - and from reading others' reviews, it sounds pretty common. I know I can just bring it in and have them send it in to be fixed, but it's frustating to pay $150 for a phone and get stuck using a crappy loaner phone for 2 months in the mean time.
Everything....except the non-functional touch screen
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16. lg glimmer.
14 Feb 2009 by cassee
36.7%3.7out of 10
I got this phone in the beginning of august 08. and it is now the middle of february..i was so excited to get this phone, my sister had got one just a couple weeks before me and i currently had the Razr which i was sick of. so i decided to get this.. and it is by far the WORST phone that i have ever had.. like everyone else says, you think it is great when you first get it.. but after a few months it stops working.. mine has held its charge alright.. and i love to text, i hate talking on the phone... and a couple weeks ago my touchscreen would stop working slowly, so i would wait a little bit and then it would be fine.. but now it has completely stopped working,. no matter how hard you try to press on it it doesn't work... it is the crappiest phone EVER.. i would never suggest someone to buy this phone. i paid $220 dollars for it.. and ive had it less than seven months and already it stopped working.. i had my razr for almost 2 1/2 years and i would take that over this phone anyday.
alarm only.
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17. LG Vantage/Glimmer My Review! :)
8 Feb 2009 by Claire
100%10out of 10
So, i just got this phone the other day.
and its .. AMAZING! the touch screen is great, and when you touch the screen the phone vibrates which is great, so you jnow you have pushed the button. Not that hard to get used to, the t9 is so easy to work with while touching the screen or useing the keypad.
I found that finding out how to put music onto my phone from computer was kinda hard, because it didnt just connect right away, so i had to research on how to make it work, then i found out you have to go to settings, then USB mode, then mass storage, then it will work.
I slide is lovely, it dosnt get stuck or slap down to hard. you can touch the screen with anything since it isnt heat sensitive like the iphone.
The things which i dont really like, are how the volume dosnt go up very loud, and the scroller could be better.
i love the moving backgrounds too, and how u can change the clock, and skins.
also there is a fast way to lock up the phone by holding down star. then a screen comes up where you have to type in the pasowrd so that no one can just go straight into your phone. but, while its locked, yu can still call people. which is a plus.
over all i love the phone,
its small pretty easy to use and just an AWESOME PHONE
Touch.
Moving backgrounds.
Skins.
Music player can play while txt etc..
Great txting with pad or screen
great annamations
thin and simple.
AWESOMEPHONE.Scroller
Volume
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18. is it too much to expect my touch screen to actually work?
6 Feb 2009 by r henry
56.7%5.7out of 10
I was pretty excited to get this phone in September. It was the only touch screen available at the US cellular store at that time that was not a blackberry and I wasn't interested in having to have the data package and all that so I went with this one. It was pretty neat at first but, after about 2 months, the touch screen slwoly stopped working. first I would go to create a text message and, when I'd press the "message" tab the "end" tab would press instead and it would just close out my message. I thought it was a callibration issue but it wasn't.
I just had to drop it off yesterday to be serviced because the touch screen barely works at all now and I can't even get to most of the features. It's going to be gone for 1 - 3 months? What crap. I paid 150 to upgrade to this phone and now I'm using this crappy penny phone instead for the next 1 - 3 months.
Now I found out that they've discontinued it and that I'm not the only one with this problem. Why discontinue a phone that's not even all that old? Because it's crap, that's why.
nice phoneif it worked
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19. great phone
30 Jan 2009 by hunter
93.3%9.3out of 10
i love this phone!!! it never freezes texts perfectly (iv never tried t9 but wats the point it only works with non text language =]) it holds its charge for at least 2 to 3 days and i text and call a lot. the only con that i can think of is that the scroll bar is awful. overall i would definetly reccomment this phone!!!
touch screen
long charge
good texting, never had a dropped call. (don't tell me that it's not the phone's responsibility not to lose a call because i have a friend with the same network but different phone and her phone drops calls all the time, no matter where she's at)
fits easily into pocket, locks so it doesn't push buttons when it's in theresmall scroll bar (an understatement)
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20. My experience with the glimmer
29 Jan 2009 by Wudnt u lyke 2 no
80%8out of 10
I love this phone! I don't understand why it's getting harsh reviews. I have had it since august 22nd '08 and it still works like the first day I got it. people who use the key pad to text on that say it's slow are retarded... Do you have speed messaging set to on? No, I didn't think so, turn it on proble solved, and the reason why it keeps freezing is probably cuz you don't have a screen protector. Like I said I've had my phone 4 6 months now, and it's like it's brand new
amazingnone
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