LG VX5300

User reviews and rating

Average phone at the time

29 Nov 2008 Chubi Chan

5.7 out of 10

As the "proud" owner of a AX245 (only difference being a different outside design, and alltel's firmware instead of verizons), I am rather apathetic towards the thing. It's a solid performing phone that does everthing an "average" phone will do.

I like it's design. It's "nub" antannea let's me know that it's there, and not just some random chip inside the phone. Kinda also gives me a way to dig it out of deep pants pockets, or plug up that annoying hole in my pocket. The solid design allows the phone to take a bit more of a beating then the average RAZR. It's thick design isn't really off putting, or pretty, but it serves a purpose. The buttons feel like buttons, and not just some arbitrary location marked with a number like some fancy phones. It's very rare you'll actually accidentally press one button for another, and the back button is close enough and easy enough to access that it doesn't really matter anyway.

Some people underestimate the outside screen. Placing the clock on the outside screen, and just hitting a side vol. button has saved me AMAZING amounts of battery life, because I no longer had to flip open the phone and make the whole numpad and bigger screen light up and turn off when I wanted to know the time.

It's camera, while not good by anyone's standards, is sufficient at taking pics. to use as contact images, or for spur-of-the-moment images of funny situations, interesting things, and etc. I haven't really "run out" of space for images, as I only really keep contact images on it.

Bluetooth is hit and miss. I experienced worse than normal quality compared to some of my friend's bluetooth phones. I don't use it, so I guess that's alright.

Pros

Solid Design
Colorful, useful, outside screen
Nice buttons
Cheap
Nice features

Cons

Camera quality lacking
Bluetooth quality lacking
Call quality lacking
Bland design

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It's a functioning phone.

25 Oct 2008 Jordan

4.3 out of 10

If you only need a phone for calling, this phone is definitely functional.  It has been very reliable for me, at least as far as being able to send and receive calls.

However, I do have some complaints (in no particular order):
The phone is hideous.
The default ring tones are loud, shrill sounds.  The tone that I found least obnoxious was a simple beep.  You cannot really do anything about this unless you purchase overpriced ring tones on Get It Now. What is the point of polyphonic ring tones when one cannot stand them?
The phone cannot tell that 150 kilobytes is less than 350 kilobytes.
The antenna is especially annoying and especially outdated.

On a side note, no, I cannot hear you now, Verizon.

Pros

Durable.
Functional.
Cheap.

Cons

Ugly.
Not really customizable.
Very bad ring tones.
Still does not pick up well at my home.

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AAAAARGH

28 Aug 2008 xxmusicislifexx

2 out of 10

this phone is a piece of CRAP. i've had it for two years. although i must say, it's alright for a first phone. And it has withstood about two years of me dropping it once or twice daily. I've only had the locking-up issue twice. But I've outgrown it. I'm getting an env2 saturday. I can't wait. I'm sick of this phone.

Pros

good for a first phone, durable, ok camera, flash, txt messaging

Cons

UGLY, too basic for me, slow web browser, locks up occasionally, only stores 50 messages in inbox/sent at a time, ppl make fun of me for owning it

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