After a couple of months of usage I think this phone was a good purchase, but I have some complaints. The manufacturer does a fine job of touting the plusses, so I'll address the minuses. My most recent phone for comparison is the LG VX8100.
1) The ringer is muffled when the phone is in a pocket,... More
After a couple of months of usage I think this phone was a good purchase, but I have some complaints. The manufacturer does a fine job of touting the plusses, so I'll address the minuses. My most recent phone for comparison is the LG VX8100.
1) The ringer is muffled when the phone is in a pocket, so calls are easily missed. The selection of ring tones is poor from the standpoint of audibility. (Poor from any standpoint, actually.)
2) The screen is horrible in daylight. the 8100 was far better.
3) The speaker phone button is unwisely placed -- twice! -- so that it is easy to inadvertently activate it.
4) The volume control is screwy, sometimes indicating that I'm trying to adjust the headset volume when no headset is attached. When I did attach a headset, the volume was dismally low.
I admit that I'm a harsh judge of cell phones, which aren't first generation, after all. Overall I find the phone reasonably pleasant to use, but the poor screen and the hard-to-hear rings are unacceptable. By comparison, the 8100 had an easily heard ringer and a lovely screen, and if I could combine the best of the two phones I'd give five stars. (Sadly, there seems to be no chance that cell phone makers will combine all the best features in one phone, so my stars won't be spent.)
I've had very good experience with Verizon's GPS on this phone (except in the nightmare which are the roads of San Antonio). I have even found Verizon's customer service to be decent.
Of the three colors, only the black has the rubberized surface, which I prefer. I don't know if Amazon offers it, and most Verizon stores must special order it. (The black seems to be pictured on Amazon's product page, but I would call them to find out what they actually ship.)
You might think that the phone is masculine, but when I gave my wife a blue one she thought it was attractive, though it is not dainty. She might have thought differently if I had told her it was "ruggedized," so I didn't.
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