LG UX830

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LG Glimmer

30 Nov 2008 Jessicamg24

10 out 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.

Pros

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.

Cons

Scroller.- Partially fixed by the side up/down buttons.

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good and bad your need to know review

30 Nov 2008 Erik

7.3 out 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.

Pros

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

Cons

I 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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Usability *IS* important!!

29 Nov 2008 ddouthitt

4.7 out 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.

Pros

Slider works well; touch keys are okay. Display is crystal clear, physical buttons are good and well chosen and placed.

Cons

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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