LG GU295 User Reviews

KJB1968 posted on 13 Apr 2011, 15:45

Excellent 9

Very 2011 for a slider phone!

KJB1968 has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

This phone has perfomed very well. The call clarity and volume is excellent. The menus and shortcuts are very easy to follow. I like that it is 3g and I can check all of my email accounts on the web very fast. I have found that Opera Mini is outstanding on here. I am on the web a lot and I have all of my stock quotes, news and bank sites saved to my favorites. This phone even plays videos very well and with no problems. The screen is small, but I am fine with this because I want clarity and accuracy more than I do screen size.
The technology is very up to date which makes web browsing and viewing links from emails and watching videos on youtube very easy.
I like the T9 texting feature. I can text faster than my friends who have QWERTY keyboards! The buttons are large and easy to see and easy to press. This is a very solid phone and I am extremely happy with it!

Build quality 10/10
Solid feeling and the spring for the slider is strong and enables it to snap back in place easily when closing or opening.

Reception 8/10
I have yet to have a dropped call, but sometimes the bars are very low to nonexistent in my apartment, but it seems to be getting great reception due to my not dropping any calls.

Call quality 10/10
The call volume is great and the clarity is the best I have used!

Internet 9/10
It is very fast with 3G and works very well with Opera Mini 4.3

Multimedia 9/10
Videos are very clear and seamless. Not choppy at all.

Camera 9/10
Camera works great and the video recorder is excellent. You can record for over an hour with it.

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 9/10

Text input 10/10

Display 9/10
Excellent, but not as good as the amoled touch screens out there now.

Battery 9/10

Pros

• Well built

Cons

gotthebareminimum posted on 04 Jan 2011, 02:19

Good 7

got a basic phone with the features I wanted, but doesn't perform as well as hoped

gotthebareminimum has owned it for less then month before publishing this review

Although I've had this phone for less than a month, I'm disappointed. Not with the call quality itself, but with a few simple features. The volume rocker can only be used for volume and not in things such as the camera (for zooming) and menus (for scrolling). The alarms cannot be adjust in their volume, you can't even have a vibrating alarm as far as I know. And finally the camera, the placement is a little more prone to being blocked, but not by much; no self portrait mirror; little flexibility in features, such as effects, and picture adjustment (I'm used to the features on a camera of a Samsung A737, which was my previous phone and also happened to function much better); and the pictures after they are taken, can't be edited on the phone and have to be edited on a computer (another feature that was nice to have on the A737). The menus tend to load slowly, but the battery life is great; solid phone; good call quality. Does what I want, but not as well as I had hoped. Eventually it boils down to being very basic to me.
Just for the heck of it, the SAR rating seemed pretty low (which is good), if that's a concern for you at all.

Build quality 9/10
solid feel

Reception 7/10

Call quality 8/10
Clear, but sound seemed only slightly little soft on my end; was told that my voice seemed to be more clear for the person on the other end

Internet 5/10
too basic of a phone, and too small of screen to have any reason to go on the internet on this phone

Multimedia 7/10
Not the best for listening to music, but still decent

Camera 6/10
Disappointed with features, brightness adjustment has to be done by going to the settings, can't zoom with rocker buttons

UI speed 5/10
Menus load slowly for a phone like this, even more basic phones load menus faster

Everyday usage 7/10
Does calls, pretty much I need

Text input 6/10
Odd trouble being able to use the T9, not as ideal as with a QWERTY

Display 8/10
Clear, and good for the size

Battery 9/10
Definite plus, I made a 2 and a half hour call starting at full charge, and the battery icon only went down one mark when I finished.

Pros

• call quality
• battery life

Cons

• features were not made to their full potential
• camera feature not the best
• volume rocker could have been used for more