LG Remarq User Reviews

honestgbfan posted on 05 Oct 2012, 13:52

7

Hmmm? not sure why?

honestgbfan has owned it for more than one year before publishing this review

Ive had this phone for two years. my contract ends this month and although its an older model phone i am seriously looking at getting another. I use this phone for my business. although I do not use Data I do text and call hundreds of times a week. I have dropped this phone I cant tell you how many times. And it still works. Never had a serious problem wth it and when I did have a prob I just removed battery and replaced it in about 30 seconds and everything was fine! Not sure what others are talking about as we have four of them and similar stories to mine, not theirs? Excellent reception every where I went when my wifes $500 phones (she has had 3 in same time frame and never happy with how they worked) didnt work. One of the remarq's was even dropped off of a roof. I dont use data so I left those at 2 for my rating which brings down overall score...For a "basic" phone this is the best I have ever owned in many many years! And in my business I offer cell phone service and all their available phones from all major providers other then ATT including some no contract companies. So I have my "choice" and this is again what I will probably get :)

Build quality 10/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 9/10

Internet 2/10

Multimedia 2/10

Camera 5/10

UI speed 2/10

Everyday usage 9/10

Text input 9/10

Display 6/10

Battery 9/10

Pros

• takes a lot of abuse/punishment
• keyboard is nice

Cons

• Im not going to comment on what I dont use

i776bd posted on 24 Jun 2012, 18:37

4

it ok phone

i776bd has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

Out of all phone i chose the lg Remarq. the phone is only good for calling and texting every thing else in not good. but the phone can survive anything i drop it down the stair and it still worked. i drop it on a tile floor and it still work. now if i had a smart phone it would brake if i did all that stuff.i left it in the heat my phone just shut off if it get over heated. but in the end it built good but you can't take good photo you can't play game and need more room to text.

Build quality 8/10 i drop it so many time and it still work

Reception 2/10

Call quality 7/10

Internet 2/10

Multimedia 1/10

Camera 2/10

UI speed 1/10 it dosen't move fast because if you type fast it freeze

Everyday usage 3/10

Text input 3/10

Display 2/10

Battery 2/10

Pros

Cons

• bad camera
• bad battery

Scott2007 posted on 01 Sep 2011, 15:43

4

Below Average phone

Scott2007 has owned it for more than one year before publishing this review

This is the only phone I have never broken myself, and a few months after I got it, the display starting reversing both content and color anyway. Text was backwards, yellow became blue, etc. Then it started going all streaky, like an old TV when it loses reception. Then it started going black during texting and surfing the net. The only way I could find to consistently fix this was banging the top of the phone on a hard surface. Not even a battery pull worked. I was told by a Sprint rep this was because the ribbon in the slide feature was malfunctioning. It has been highly annoying. Also, the signal on this phone is subpar, as sometimes it takes a full minute to connect a phone call or send a simple text message. Randomly the battery will not charge; I will unplug it in the morning after several hours on the charger and it will die before lunch. And very few apps work on this phone. The only one I have found that works is a mobile bible. All others route me through an advertisement that will not allow me to run the app. The keyboard is very nice, the easiest one to use I've ever had. I like that it is small in my pocket and easy to handle, but the drawbacks on functionality and build quality more than offset what few pluses this phone offers. If you plan on buying a new phone in a few months, this might be a good purchase, but if you want your phone to last a year, look elsewhere.

Build quality 3/10 The ribbon in the slider gives out early, leaving you with a black screen.

Reception 4/10 Seems to do ok where there is a great signal, but anywhere with two bars or less and it will not connect.

Call quality 6/10 Occasionally sound is distorted, but overall it's ok, when it connects.

Internet 3/10 Very slow, reduced navigational capability. Any website structured in columns requires you to reach the bottom of the first column before you can select anything in subsequent columns.

Multimedia 3/10 Does not support video, takes horrible pics, never used the mp3 player, so I can't comment on that.

Camera 2/10 Bad, just bad pics. If you don't have full sunlight, don't expect to see anything in the image.

UI speed 3/10 Even simple functions take a while to load, like a Fox News app that occupies 8kb of space.

Everyday usage 4/10 As long as the display holds out, it will do basic things. But it is not for the avid phone user.

Text input 8/10 Like I said, best keyboard I've ever had.

Display 5/10 Bright, but small.

Battery 8/10 Lasts a couple days on light use, easily a full day if I text all day and use the internet quite a bit.

spras posted on 03 Aug 2011, 11:23

1

Quite possibly the worst phone ever, and I only expect phone to be able make calls, so I'm not asking for much.

spras has owned it for more than one year before publishing this review

From day one this phone has had problems. I was able to update the firmware which fixed nothing. Sprint will not help me fix it. Calls rarely come in, text messages get lost, and when you receive a text that is more than 2 pages long it shuts down. When you finally get it rebooted the texts come twice or more. It stopped ringing only 2 months into owning it, it also stopped vibrating... pretty much it just takes up space in my pocket at this point.

Build quality 1/10 Odd shape, weird interface.

Reception 1/10 No matter where I am, I am lucky to get a single bar for the reception, this has been the case from day one. Often the calls are full of static.

Call quality 1/10 The calls get dropped constantly, in fact everytime I make a call it gets dropped

Internet 2/10

Multimedia 1/10

Camera 1/10 Worst camera I've ever seen on a phone. It has horrible resolution and quality, and almost no way of uploading them to a computer, unless you want to over pay for internet, which is super slow on this phone.

UI speed 1/10

Everyday usage 1/10

Text input 1/10 The letters are way to small and I end up having to edit 5 times over to fix horrible typos, plus no auto correct.

Display 1/10

Battery 3/10 Probably the only good thing about the phone is I dont have to charge it much, but thats probably because I hardly get to use it since the calls are always being dropped.

Pros

• None, dont buy this phone.

Cons

• Horrible overall

Brittany Fowler posted on 06 Jul 2011, 20:57

2

Not That Good Of A Phone

Brittany Fowler has owned it for more than one year before publishing this review

At first, the lg imprint was very cool. i got it since may 20th 2010 and i still have it now and it was pretty much a ripoff.. it was all good the first 3 months but then the camera and audio was starting to have really bad quality... i wish i had a new phone..

Build quality 8/10

Reception 7/10

Call quality 3/10

Internet 3/10

Multimedia 1/10

Camera 2/10

UI speed 3/10

Everyday usage 3/10

Text input 5/10

Display 3/10

Battery 4/10

Pros

• Slide out qwerty keyboard
• Speakerphone
• Bluetooth
• Customizable

Cons

• 2.5 headphone jack
• Mediocre Camera
• Bad Call Quality
• Bad Audio Recording Quality
• Little Display
• Slow Internet Speed

Andrew Moorehouse posted on 20 Oct 2010, 15:15

7

Metro LG Imprint

Andrew Moorehouse has owned it for less than 3 months before publishing this review

An all around decent phone. Definitely the best looking phone, in my opinion, that MetroPCS had for this price point. I was downgrading from a blackberry, and still found many of its features workable enough to make the transition easier than going to a regular clamshell or cheaper phone. I would recommend this phone to others who have MetroPCS or similar service, but am awaiting future releases. I give it a 7.0 out of 10.

Build quality 5/10

Reception 8/10

Call quality 5/10

Internet 2/10

Multimedia 2/10

Camera 2/10

UI speed 3/10

Everyday usage 7/10

Text input 8/10

Display 8/10

Battery 7/10

Pros

• QWERTY Keyboard
• Slide Open
• Decent Reception
• Camera
• Slim Profile
• Bright Screen
• Backlit Keyboard
• Keyboard layout

Cons

• No video
• No games
• Notepad character limit (160)
• UI not intuitive
• Call Quality can be fuzzy

Mech posted on 05 Sep 2010, 14:21

5

Software not supported

I bought the phone a couple of days. it was from Metro PCS so i dont really ahve any contract. but now am realizing that it doesn't download most of the applications like ebuddy, getjar etc. none of that is supported on the phone. it was cheap but wondering what's the use :( kind of disappointing as you would expect some basic stuff to be able to install those

Design 5/10

Features 6/10

Performance 4/10

Annv posted on 03 Sep 2010, 14:50

2

what do u want for a free phone?

  I got the LG Remarq free with my 2yr contract, and after only a month of having the phone i began having problems with the phone freezing and randomly shutting off. When I told the guy at sprint what was going on her said "what do you want for a free phone".
  The phone is a waste of money, it isnt free, I'm stuck in a $90 a month contract for 2 yrs with a phone that doesn't work, how is that free?

Design 3/10

Features 2/10

Performance 1/10

Pros

• keyboard is nice

Cons

• slow, feezes, shuts off randomly