also known as LG UX830 , LG Vantage , LG AX830
LG Glimmer ReviewsLG Glimmer Reviews
21. I HATE THIS PHONE
25 Jan 2009 by Anonymous
36.7%3.7out of 10
I got this phone i Oct 08 and its now Jan 09. I loved this phone at first...i traded it for my blackberry pearl bc it had more memory space on it (when i didn't have a memory card). Anyways...I thought it was amazing i loved that it was touchscree and everything like that, but now that i've had it for a while i've been having tons and tons of problems.
First, it freezes non stop. Second, it will shut off randomly during the day. If not once a day, then every other day. Third, i just got a memory card to save all my photos too and it worked great for 2 days. Today when i plugged it into charge it said USB connected...which its done before and was no big deal...but today i went to look at my pictures and they are ALL DELETED!!! I'm so mad it was a waste to even buy a memory card. i would have been better without it. Its also got the little problems like that tiny scroll bar.
Oh and if you want to txt using the T9 and its slow for you...all you have to do is exit out of the chat thing and actually reply to the message its self. if you try using T9 on the slide out part it will be very very slow. So its kinda annoying.
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22. The Glimmer Has Lost Its Shine
21 Jan 2009 by chels229
50%5out of 10
I must say that when I first got the LG Glimmer (a year ago) I was completely infatuated with it. It was the first touch screen phone I had ever had and truly had a great experience with it. But as time went by and the newness wore off, I realized that it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. For it to be someone's first touch screen, I think it would be a good phone to start off with to catch a feel of the whole new "touch" world.
Now this is what I have to say for it. The scrollbar is ... well ... might as well be nonexistent. It's so small that you can hardly even see it. I didn't notice there even was one until a few months after I had it. The phone always freezes now. I've had calls coming in and all of a sudden the screen would get stuck and I couldn't cut it off so I would have to pull the back off and pull the battery out just to get the phone to cut off. The charge sucks tremendously. I'm quite the texter so if you plan on keeping your hands on this phone at all times, then this isn't the phone for you. Also, when you text with the pullout keypad, if you use T-9 texting, it's EXTREMELY slow. It won't catch all the letters and it ends up giving you a word that looks nothing like you texted. Also, if someone called on call waiting and I flipped over ... it would show that contact's name if I were to ever get another phone call without hanging up. Which is extremely confusing. Sometimes when I would flip over with a caller to another it automatically put me on through to 3-way calling. I definitely didn't like that one. It's just most of a hassle to deal with than it is to actually enjoy now.
Good Camera
Touch Screen
Touchscreen Keyboard & Keypad KeyboardWont Hold A Charge
Service Went Downhill With Time
Screen Freezes More Often Than Not
T-9 Texting Is Slow
Scrollbar Is Practically Non-Existent
Screen Gets Scratches Where You Always Use It
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23. worst
20 Jan 2009 by Anonymous
26.7%2.7out of 10
worst phone i have ever had it freezes up all the time. the ouch scrren is slow, and best of all it wont hold charge with perfect service. the usb port on the side the cover came off with in days. now i have to wrap the cord around the phone to hold pressure on yhe end to make it charge.
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24. Amazing Phone!!!
16 Dec 2008 by Paul
90%9out of 10
I just got this phone with U.S. Cellular a few weeks ago. A few of my friends had one, so i decided i had to get one! In the reviews below, I have read that the main complaint is the scroll bar. However, if you in your contacts for instance, you can just press in the middle or the bottom of the screen, and then slide your finger towards the top of the screen without lifting it up and that will make the contact list scroll down, which i find to be much easier than using the scroll bar. If you still think that's too hard, then why don't you just try typing in the first letter or so of that persons name. The camera is great, along with all the camera features packed in. Music player is fine, and the personalized menu(box with arrow in it) is great! It is also really cool that you can text or dial on the screen, or use the key pad. There is so much to love about this phone! It is definitally worth the money!
Camera
Touch Screen
Music Player
Everything else about the phone!Screen is pressure responsive, meaning it will respond to more than just a finger touch if pressure is put on it (un-like iPod touch or iPhone) however, it does automatically lock so you don't have to worry about buttons being pressed. Yet you can unlock it just by pressing unlock or the hold button.
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25. i just got one!
13 Dec 2008 by jennay
86.7%8.7out of 10
i just got a LG UX830 Glimmer and i really like it so far. It is hard to figure out sometimes, where to do this, where to find that, where to find all the features. but it'll eventually get you there. The touch screen is amazing. it's very nice, and large and easy to use. the slide is good, and i love how it vibrates when you touch it. I haven't had any problems with the ring tone yet... It is a bit bulky but it's because of the big screen. it's very "editable" you can edit , change, arrange everything on the phone so i think thats a big plus. you can choose whats all on the "menu icon" which i think is very helpful. i like the time and how you can drag the box around.
very "editable"
AWESOME camera
large screen
easy slide
good touch screen
many, many features
looks really cooltiny scrollbox
hard to get to the things you're looking for
audio stops playing if you turn up the volume or somthing
a bit bulky but makes up for it with the large screen
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26. LG Glimmer
30 Nov 2008 by Jessicamg24
100%10out of 10
I bought this phone about 3 weeks ago, and about 1 week ago I started working at US cellular. I absolutely love this phone. I have no problem with the volume of the ringer I think it is really loud actually compared to my other phones, although when using the MP3 player the volume doesn't go very far. But this is the first phone I have put music on and used fairly often, I love the accessibility of the music from the main screen and how it continues to play as background music. My favorite features of the phone is honestly moving the clock! I think its the greatest and brag about it all the time. I love the touch feature and how big the screen is. The phone is bulky compared the my previous razr however thats all worth the huge screen. I also love the News Event Manager. When your having a hectic day it is a great feature! It keeps you updated with all the texts or calls yo have missed and just makes life so much easier. I did not like that taking the phone was sideways at first but it was a simple getting used to and now it causes no problems. I love the alarm only feature so that when I go to bed the next morning I don't have to worry about my phone ringing in class the next mornning. The only problem I did have with the phone was the scroller on the side which is VERY small however it you just click in the dark area it takes you to approx where you want to be and in contacts you can scroll using the side up/down buttons, which was a great relief for me to find! However the side buttons do not work in other applications like scrolling through the music. I believe the phone is very user friendly. Yes the menu button is not very traditional however how hard is it to ask your provider the difference between the menus and such and after that I find no problems the icons are pretty clear to as what they are and honestly all that is needed to love this phone is a little playing with the abilities... Thats how you find the best way to use the phone.
Music player- Background player.
Ability to move clock!
Touch.
News event manager.
Easy connection with USB to computer to download music and pictures.
Alarm only.
Scroller.- Partially fixed by the side up/down buttons.
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27. good and bad your need to know review
30 Nov 2008 by Erik
73.3%7.3out of 10
better then MOST us cellular phones
The good, if you use your phone as much as I do..(roughly 5000+a month) its service for calls is GREAT. very few dropped calls, good battery life, and you can easily use this with the supplied usb on your computer..I had several other phone b4 this one that i have had over 100,000 total minutes on. THis phone will go that distance, on a scale of 1-10 I give it an 8
have had this phone for a while now and hers what you NEED to hear...the ringer is not loud enough but it looks like others are saying there is a fix, I'll try that next, texting is terrible IMO, BLUETOOTH...i have yet to get a good headset to work with this phone, I personally use the Jawbone and it disconnects CONSTANTLY, and yes I have tried to "re pair " the device.., music player not very loud, and it definetly had a learning curve.
The good, if you use your phone as much as I do..(roughly 5000+a month) its service for calls is GREAT. very few dropped calls, good battery life, and you can easily use this with the supplied usb on your computer..I had several other phone b4 this one that i have had over 100,000 total minutes on. THis phone will go that distance, on a scale of 1-10 I give it an 8I have had this phone for a while now and hers what you NEED to hear...the ringer is not loud enough but it looks like others are saying there is a fix, I'll try that next, texting is terrible IMO, BLUETOOTH...i have yet to get a good headset to work with this phone, I personally use the Jawbone and it disconnects CONSTANTLY, and yes I have tried to "re pair " the device.., music player not very loud, and it definetly had a learning curve.
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28. Usability *IS* important!!
29 Nov 2008 by ddouthitt
46.7%4.7out of 10
This phone has a lot of excellent features; the hardware is fantastic. The camera is 2+ Megapixels, the screen is clear, the capabilities are nice.
What really makes the phone poor for most people is the usability. Many folks have mentioned that it has a "learning curve" which is really a failure in phone usability. There should not be a "learning curve" to use a phone.
Some examples of the usability of this phone are in order.
Consider first how to get to the main menu. On the screen there is no discernable way to get there. There is an icon with four dots, an arrow to the right - neither are comprehensible. Both take you to a menu - which is which and what for? Answer: four dots = main menu, arrow = user-definable menu. Clear?
The main menu has more examples. At the menu there are four blocks (tabs??) off to the right; the phone icon and the gear icon are fairly obvious to modern users. However, the two in the middle are mostly incomprehensible to the first time viewer - and perhaps the longtime user. The first is (I presume) supposed to look like a clapboard from the golden age of film; it doesn't really. The icon with the three on it is almost entirely incomprehensible: after viewing the menu, I can only assume that it means "3rd party applications" since it has a "3" on it. What is the "3" sitting on? Have NO idea....
The Multimedia menu is bad, too. Consider that there are no less than three different icons that English-speaking users will associate with music playback: "Music", "Shuffle", and "Audio". "Shuffle" has nothing to do with "Music", and "Audio" isn't "Music" either (got that?). In fact, "Shuffle" has nothing to do with listening to music at all (make sense? Didn't think so).
Audio has to do with music FILES, although you can move, delete, copy, and rename all you want, you *cannot* play from this menu.
One more usability problem that should be mentioned: the END touch key. If you are done with an application, and decide to press the END key to go back to the menu... Ooops. It doesn't "end" the application, the menu, or anything else: it actually means more like "abort" in that it takes you all the way back to the phone's main screen. The "end" or "done" button is in actuality the leftward arrow.
And don't let's get started on the fact that this phone uses BREW instead of J2ME and the dearth of open source applications on the phone.
If there was a way to wipe the software off the phone and reimage it with something like Linux or other open source environment with good usability and J2ME and open standards, it would be great.
Slider works well; touch keys are okay. Display is crystal clear, physical buttons are good and well chosen and placed.Usability is poor; menu selections do not accurately reflect their purpose and choice of menu allocations are arbitrary. This phone is difficult to use (apologists will say it "has a learning curve").
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29.
25 Nov 2008 by Anonymous
100%10out of 10
This phone is GREAT. The only problem that I have is that now when I use other peoples phones, I assume theirs is touch screen also. I'm ADDICTED to this phone and it's awesome touch screen. Yes the ringer is somewhat quiet.. but there's a simple solution to fixing this people... Put your ringer to VIBRATE and RING at the same time.. so i f you can't here it you can always fell it in your pocket!
So stop whining about the volume because the rest of the phone is perfect.
-Anonymous
ME.OTHER PEOPLE THAT WHINE.
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30. WHAT AN ASOME PHONE
23 Nov 2008 by KNI
100%10out of 10
THIS WAS THE BEST OR ONE OF THE BETTER PHONES ALLTEL HAS HAD I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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