LG Scoop

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LG Rumor

13 Nov 2009 Trish

2 out of 10

Oh beautiful, beautiful rumor.....perfect example of "looks can be deceiving" Its a piece of ***!!!! I bought my rumor end of February 2009, and it worked great. there were a couple times that it randomly shut off when I slid it open or closed too fast, but I thought hey, my bad.  Lets jump to October 2009. Everything went downhill FAST. My keyboard started lagging. I'm a fast texter, so I was happy that this thing could keep up with me.  October comes around and I guess it decided to give up on trying. I'd type out an entire text and look at my screen, only 4 or 5 letters would be up there, and not in order so I guess it just chose random letters to throw in.  Couple weeks of that and when I thought I couldn't get more annoyed, my keyboard quit all together. literally overnight. I was texting like crazy the night before, woke up in the morning, keyboard won't work at all, no matter how hard I pushed.  Well, I realized that when the keyboard quit so did the buttons on the side for camera and volume.  GREAT. Told everyone not to text me b/c I didn't want to text with the numbers on the front.  Well, a week later, it made no difference because MY SCREEN WENT OUT!!!! Now to be honest, it had a problem back in September where if I hit the "up" button my screen got pretty lines all through it and froze. sometimes it took hours to fix itself, most of the time I just had to wait for the backlight to go out. I got used to avoiding that button. One day I accidentally hit it and nothing. The problem had fixed itself. I was VERY happy. Until October. lol  So anyways back to the screen.  Screen went white with little vertical lines all through it.  Has been that way for about 3 weeks now. VERY VERY ANNOYING. Can no longer see anything at all, I hear texts and pix come in, but can't see them. can't see if I missed a call, or who is calling for that matter.  During the last 3 weeks, my charger messed up too. I heard a high pitched hissing noise, and leaned down to find it. My charger was making that noise. I immediately unplugged it and said Thank Gosh I have a car charger.  Granted, I have to mess with it to get it to charge, sometimes wrapping the cord around the phone helps, sometimes you just gotta hold it in.  Well, tonight it decided to quit completely. No matter what I do this fucker won't charge, and I'm pissed.  Never, EVER again will I get an LG phone.  

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Pros

comes in blue, my favorite color.

Cons

Keyboard quits-known issue
screen quits-known issue
charging port quits
lags, shuts off
Crap, crap, crap

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BAD PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10 Nov 2009 Connor l

4.7 out of 10

I have had this phone for a year and it isnt very good. The keyboards pretty good but not any shortcut keys and its smaller then most keyboards. The bad part of the phone is it sometimes just randomly turns off, the camera resolution is horrible, the speakers arnt very good, and it freezes. DONT GET THIS PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pros

easy to use
good for texting

Cons

Freezes
Shuts off sometime by itself
Bad speaker

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An Excellent Cheap Phone for Long Term Use

7 Nov 2009 Veie

8.7 out of 10

I have had this phone for about 1 and 1/4 of a year, so I have alot to say about this phone. About its form: the Scoop is not necessarily the slimmest phone you'll find, but it's nice and small and compact. It is very comfortable to hold if your typing on the QWERTY keyboard. For a phone like it, it has a very nice display size. When you slide it up to reveal the keyboard, it works on some type of spring. For the long time I've had mine, I haven't felt weakening of the spring. It still jumps up when you slide it. A text conversation is made easy using the chat feature. It's very well organized so you could get to your functions easy. It has the usual multimedia capabilities: Audio recorder, video, camera and a good music player. The Scoop has Bluetooth support, can hold up to 500 contacts, 300 inbox messages, 300 calendar entries and 100 memo entries. It also has a myriad of tools including: voice command, my menu, alarm clock, calendar, ez tip calculator, a notepad, a calculator, world clock, stopwatch and a unit converter. Of course with the good comes the bad. It doesn't have a large internal memory. Just 20MB. When texting and you need to backspace with the keyboard, it may delete the whole text. Also, another issue, sometimes, when you text, the typing is slow and the character you pressed appears about 1 sec. later. I just circumvent the problem using the keypad to text using T9Word. Also, I don't know why, it may just be my phone, but sometimes if left alone for long periods of time, it will power off as if the battery was taken straight off the contacts. On this phone, you can assign special ringtones to specific people. Well, when I use my software to add my own ringtones, it mixes up those special ringtones. So I have to go back and reassign those. Overall, I love my phone, it gives me what I need, when I need it.

Pros

Small size (for some people)
Comfortable to hold
Nice display size
Text conversation chat feature
Usual multimedia capabilities
Supports 500 contacts
Up to 300 inbox messages

Cons

Small size (for other people)
Small keypad keys (for some people)
Only 20MB internal memory
Sometimes the QWERTY keyboard acts up
Ringtones assigned to people sometimes screw after adding a ringtone to your phone
May power off as if the battery was taken off its contact

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