LG Secret Review

LG Secret Review

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Published on: 20 June, 2008 by PhoneArena Team

LG Secret Review

The Chocolate was the first global hit product of LG, being successful first in Asia and then, conquering Europe and America. The new product line was marketed under the 'Black Label' logo, which later became a symbol of the interesting and elegant vision of its models. The following year, Shine became the second generation of the series, also distributed on the three continents...

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I do agree this LG model has some weaknesses just like any other phone brands in the market. But why emphasise on these weaknesses in an unforgiving manner? I have read all reviews there is on the internet for past 3 months and came to a conclusion to buy this phone even though there are some weaknesses which i am prepared to live with it. I would like to share with you my experiences from a genuine owner's point of view.

I am the 1st to own this phone on 1st July, in Ipoh, Msia, $1999 retail price but got it for $1850 with 4gb card. Phone is beautiful, functions are great, but not so SMOOTH to use. Have to adapt to some flaws and take consolation from this beautiful form factor.

The menu operates slowly and nearly sluggish at times but still at a tolerable level. This sluggishness can be to your advantage bcoz you will have more time to FLASH your beautiful phone while performing a simple function. What's the use of buying an expensive beautiful phone that operates as fast as a Ferrari where it will be back in your pocket in a FLASH. Now, which type of FLASH do you want?? Just take your time to operate it slowly and call it LG Patience instead of Secret, then you will feel great about it.

Speaker sound is loud but treble too high despite equaliser settings. Using earphones sounds totally different and pleasurable. Videos are beautiful to watch with this screen, giving very high detailing and sharpness both 3gp and divx formats. Touchkeys are just a matter of getting used to it, which I require 7 days to have a good feel and minimal wrong presses. SMS a bit tiring due to the alphanumeric keypad average feedback. Visual & Audio Enhancement functions can be turned on & off but produce minimal results except draining the battery. Camera & Video menu settings cannot be operated speedily due to menu layout and touch sensitive keys. Pictures taken with sufficient lighting is beautiful but has an effect like wearing UV sunglasses. Objects with insufficient lighting will be discolored but u can tweak the settings. LED Flash totally useless for photography as it over-expose the object in focus. Videos are fun to use, especially slow-speed recording very useful. Imagine shooting a video of all the rooms in your house in 1 minute by running around, and then play back the video which moves slowly & steadily showing every detail of your whole house in 4 minute video which u can also add background mp3 music using phone built-in software. The LED Flash becomes useful for Video shooting as it illuminates like a torchlight in dark places. LG PC Suite Software can easily connect using bluetooth or USB which transfers files without hassle if you ......(secret!). One hint I can give you is, explore all the option settings available in Connectivity Menu so that you can set the right settings to use your phone with the PC efficiently. The manual is useless, many settings and sub-menus are not mentioned but have to be explored in all possible ways, horizontal, vertical, backflip, sommersault etc. gives you different/more options sometimes. The phone comes with a drama movie, which is called Battery. The battery life dramatically exhaust itself whenever you use it for games/videos/camera. My impression is the battery produces 45% energy compared with Sony K700i which is my previous phone. Probably the large display screen is the culprit. Try to turn off bluetooth, 3G, video & audio enhancements to save battery. Auto backlight helps too but if custom set to 50% would save even more. Signal strength is surprisingly better than my old Sony K700i. Oh yes, for all those who has been enjoying 3D Java Games, sad to say, this LG Secret could not run these games smoothly, it moves frame by frame, sigh! This is the only 1 flaw which I can't console myself, not even motion-sensor games.

Despite the negatives, which is bound to have in any other phone brands/models, I still love my LG Secret for it's Beautiful Looks and Great Features in such slim size and long lasting materials used which also makes it weigh expensively.

Ok, that's my 1st ever phone review and hope I am able to help those who can't decide whether to own this baby or not.
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phonearena hates everything that is NOT apple made or made by nokia....terrible how much they show their bias, but its great to see that the forum members here dont really listen to them. I know the iphone is terrible in sunlight, and has the worst battery life on the market right now, but they had the audacity to label it the Jesus Phone.


nerds.

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hey. i'm intending to get the LG secret soon and by reading this reviews you think i should get the secret? cause i really love it when i first knew it was out but im afraid that it might fail me just like my nokia 6300 which i bought less then a year ago. so do help me make the decision (: greatly appreciated.
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Easy. If you plan to carry it with keys in the same pocket, you don't have many alternatives (none that I know of).
If you don't, however, you can take a look at LG KC550
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/LG-KC550-Review-review-r_1995-p_6.html
A cheap 5mp camera phone with nice picture quality. And it received a 8! xD
It too has sluggish menus, the only negative side for me (I use a PC for stuff like internet, games and only need a good camera on the phone, okay, sometimes I'd love mp3 but not always and not without 3.5mm).
In any other case you should reconsider and not buy a mobile/cell phone at all, that saves a lot of money xD (joke)
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Completely biased!!!
It is at least strange to see design with 6,5 for a such beautiful design...

And it is crazy to see all numbers above 5 and the average is 5!!!! Magic???
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I enjoyed Phone Arena's video review page of some of the greatest phones. Can you update this review with a video review page? I guess LG didn't provide you with a unit for review, hence the black-label propaganda?? :-) PA, you just lost reputation.
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HAHA. i totally love all the feedback slamming the reviewer..it's quite entertaining..obviously this review is total crap....

i've owned this phone for about 2 weeks, and even dropped it once (i think i fell asleep holding it and flung it in my sleep, so much so that the cover and the battery even dropped out) it still works fine.

for me the buttons are pretty responsive if you touch them the right way, which does take awhile to get used to, but after that it's really smooth.

one thing that really peeves me off with this is the speaker...it is total crap. this applies only for ringtones... i can't hear my phone ringing when it's in my bag...and when i just want to listen to some music when im doing my big business, it just pisses me off because the sound is too sharp and ...just plain crap. motorola's speakers are 1,000 times better...i'm not joking. it is problematic if you rely on it for alarm. the alternative is to use audio software to jack up the volume to like 100-110db...but it's just a reflection of how poorly made the speakers are.

LG makes up for this with a headset that can take your own 3.5mm headphones, but i don't really like using my phone as a mp3 player..it's too bulky for me.

BUT, the call quality on this is really fab. I have not experienced any better. it is sooooo loud (too loud sometimes) and crystal clear.

interface is actually really good except for the fact that it can't be customised. when in the main menu you have the option of just pressing a button on the numeric keypad to get to an option. i totally love this as it means i don't have to press the touch-sensitive buttons to do all the work.

and design wise, i would rate it 10/10. it's awesome. if you complain about fingerprints, don't buy phones with large screens. just revert back to the old phones.... come on man, every phone with a big screen will get fingerprints on it! it's a natural effect. LG NAILED IT WITH THE DESIGN!
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ratings on 'camera'
lg secret:Resolution 7 Quality 6 Features, Comfort 7
samsung soul:Resolution 10 Quality 7.5 Features, Comfort 8
both with 5 mp. wat da? others review the secret with very good camera and even the best video capabilities, why is the rating so low. oh my. what is wrong with phone arena. atsk
yah. so biased. YOU AGREE?
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And BTW:It's so stupid when FANBOYS are reviewing phones....


PS. Bye Bye Phonearena.com....never see again
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I think also the review is not fair. LG secret works totally better than something which is expressed here. You have consider it that this phone is not a smart phone so you can not compare it with n82 or what else, that's only a slim fashionable phone, and in it's category is completely better than some otheres
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I must confess that I am really surprised with this somehow biased review. It seems that the "reviewer" really hates this phone. After reading Phone Arena's review on the LG Renoir I also noticed a strange behavior towards LG phones, It seem that no LG is good enough for Phone Arena....is it any phone???? So much fuss about IPhone, no 3G and no mms make it a really crappy device, still everyone praises it....I must be insane for not doing so! Rofl...
After watching the mega-comparison review of all 8mp phones it is clear that the Renoir is the big winner. Back to the Secret, I just tried one today, it responds really fast to touch (surprise surprise) and it's not sluggish at all, of course it could be better, yes it could. But then again, all phones released so far could be better. Take Nokia as example, if they wold put together all their expertise into one single phone (as any other brand could do) they would create the perfect phone. Let's see, N-Series, X-Press etc. All together=perfect phone. Of course they would never do this (can't really understand why) but costumers would be much happier...anyway, the Secret it's not perfect and it's not that bad either. Tempered glass (who has not seen the famous scratch proof videos - fire, keys, lighters, rubbed on tables and not a single scratch?) and carbon fiber are a guarantee of durability. Did LG do wrong in dropping support for this phone? Yes indeed a lot of ppl complains about this. No software update, shameful. But as I said it in the beginning, I did try the phone and noticed nothing of the stated in this review. I must say that along with GSM Arena and MobileBurn, Phone Arena is one of my favorite review providers. In depth analysis and videos make the whole shebang. Still cannot understand this "thing" against the Secret!!! Anyway, keep up the good work and please do try to be unbiased as Phone Arena has always managed to do so.
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