LG Muziq Reviews

11. So-so

20 Jul 2007 by Jason

56%5.6out of 10

I just got this phone 3 days ago. First, the positives. It's thin, comfortable to hold, and looks cool. I love the ability to expand up to a 4 gig memory card, and it's easy to change the card. So far, the battery life seems decent, even when playing music - nothing to complain about anyway. Now, the negatives. The sound quality of calls is not very good. I came from an older Nokia, and my wife has the Samsung M300, and voices sound much better on both of those phones. Even with a strong signal, there seems to be some background static, and the speaker just sounds "thin". Signal strength is as bad as any phone I've seen. In my house my old Nokia, and the wife's Samsung get 2 bars, and carry a call with no problem. The Musiq fluctuates between 0 and 1 bar, sometimes not being able to find a signal at all. Both of the other phones mentioned are internal antenna, so that's no excuse. The FM transmitter is a great idea, and works well if you can get the phone to within about 6 inches (yes, inches) of the radio. Even at that, there is some static from time to time. They claim it works up to 10 feet, but I can't put the phone on my center console or on the passenger seat and stand to listen to the garbled mess coming out of it. That said, it's still useable if you have a place to set the phone that's that close to the radio. The controls for the MP3 player are a bit annoying. To get the player turned on without opening the phone, you have to press and hold the camera button to unlock the external controls, and then press and hold the music button to turn the player on. And it doesn't always register properly the first try - you get caught up between "press and hold" messages, and it's not clear if it's registering when you're holding the button or if you have to let go and try again. It's way easier to just open the phone and press right on the directional pad. You can sort songs by genre or artist, but with 4Gigs worth of music, I wouldn't want to try to navigate through all of that - there's no spin wheel or quick way to get through a linear list of songs. It's click click click all the way down. All in all, I would say if you have a strong signal where you'll use this, don't have an iPod, and don't care a ton about call quality, then it's a good phone. The signal strength is the most annoying part for me. I'm on the fence - I might return this phone, but there's no other Sprint phone I really want!

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12. This is a great all-around phone and music player

17 Jul 2007 by Steve

94%9.4out of 10

Being with Sprint for 4 years now, I was a little skeptical to switch companies, but I REALLY wanted a Blackberry Pearl. So I switched to T-Mobile. Sadly I was not happy with the phone or the service. I'm not sure if it was the phone or the service but the quality of the calls were just not meeting the level I had enjoyed with Sprint. So I switched back.

Now back with Sprint (about a month ago) my only option was the Samsung UpStage. Which I utterly despised. The phone and mp3 player were easy to use and get used to, but the flipping was the most annoying thing EVER! Not to mention that only about 1/3 of my calls placed actually went through. Oh and the itty-bitty screen and lack of options on the phone side was a pain as well, battery life was also HORRIBLE with this phone. I couldn't even go a half a day without have to use the "bonus" battery wallet, which to me was actually a "bogus" battery wallet because it just doubled the size of my "slim" phone. So I returned the UpStage (after 1 week about 3 weeks ago) and got the Motorola KRZR.

I thought to myself, well, everyone and their brother has a RAZR so Motorola must've done something right, and it could only be better with an updated version right? WRONG! The first KRZR I got only worked for 3 hrs then would not power on at all. Returned that one for another KRZR thinking I would give it another chance. Well this one worked except for it's extreme slowness when navigating through the menu, or even typing in a phone number. There was a time delay to do everything on the KRZR. Soo....

I traded it in the new LG Muziq (yesterday) and so far have been extremely happy with this decision. I was even pleasantly surprised with the sound quality of the MP3 player when using headphones. The external speaker is just OK. And I have only briefly tested the FM transmitter and wasn't able to get it to work, but I'm sure I will after some tweaking. The screens (external/internal) are bright and colorful, texting is as simple as can be with the large easy to use buttons, the external navigation "buttons" work great as well, with a slight vibration to let you know that you have pushed the button, navigating through the menus is quick and easy, downloads are surprisingly quick, battery life is exactly what I would expect,pictures are as good as can be on a camera phone (I have never been one to use my phone as my primary camera so this is of little importance to me, but in a bind, it works fine) I'm not sure what else I can say about this phone. The only downside to this phone is the fingerprint magnet like cover. But it sure does look nice when it is fingerprint free! I'm not going to let that bother me though. I still love the phone.

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13. I like

21 May 2007 by Phone Geek

60%6out of 10

Yes tom the phone is ballin except the signal strenght (sucks) but the new model should take care of that also heard they are coming out with more colors

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14. Ballin'

21 Apr 2007 by Tom Cruise

42%4.2out of 10

This phone is totally ballin' all the way, yo. I love it. Good sound quality, horrible signal strength. All in all, good phone. (And yes, I am the real Tom Cruise).

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