LG VX-2000 Cell Phone
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- Connectivity: USB
- Style: Candy Bar
- Network Type: CDMA 1900 CDMA 800 AMPS
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Awkward features, overly complex
Pros
Good speaker volume.
Cons
Limit of 11 characters for phone book entry list display.
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
High-tech phone, many features - poor human interface.
I wanted a simple phone (color, camera and web browsing not desired) for periodic use. I bought the LG in preference to the Motorola alternative. It was not that I was enchanted with the LG, I just wanted a non-Motorola phone for a modest price.
I like the large keys, the physical size of the phone is appropriate and the speaker provides good volume. The weight is appropriate for the phone size.
If I could reprogram the phone book search, I would do it in a minute. Having to organize lookup as a free-form search, since the phrase can be found anywhere in an entry, is very awkward, especially since letter entry may require 1-4 keystrokes per letter.
When a phone book search results list is displayed, only the first 11 of the 16 are displayed. Since one of these is usually a blank, I had to abbreviate last names in order to see what the first name is on each entry. This is a particular drawback when calling family members, all with the same last name. I also encoded first names so that the free-form search would find as few unrelated entries as possible.
The documentation for the phone book and how to edit the fields after an entry is created is unclear. I did figure it out, but not from anything in the user's manual.
Using this phone is probably easy for the team which wrote the programming for it, but normal users will find it difficult to learn how to use.
I like the large keys, the physical size of the phone is appropriate and the speaker provides good volume. The weight is appropriate for the phone size.
If I could reprogram the phone book search, I would do it in a minute. Having to organize lookup as a free-form search, since the phrase can be found anywhere in an entry, is very awkward, especially since letter entry may require 1-4 keystrokes per letter.
When a phone book search results list is displayed, only the first 11 of the 16 are displayed. Since one of these is usually a blank, I had to abbreviate last names in order to see what the first name is on each entry. This is a particular drawback when calling family members, all with the same last name. I also encoded first names so that the free-form search would find as few unrelated entries as possible.
The documentation for the phone book and how to edit the fields after an entry is created is unclear. I did figure it out, but not from anything in the user's manual.
Using this phone is probably easy for the team which wrote the programming for it, but normal users will find it difficult to learn how to use.
