LG Shine Plus

Pro:
Full slide keyboard
Durability
Nice screen
Plays Videos(Limited extensions) and music

Cons:
-Texts continuously delete randomly for first couple months. Think it may be due to app or widgets causing some issue. removed most widgets and seemed to solve issue.

-Screen changes to a rainbow display and locks up, having to do battery pull

-Slow. I can type faster than my texts can keep up. Sometimes waiting 10+seconds for texts to load. (100 texts per conversation and 7-10K of texts in total)
-Support is poor from LG and Telus. Most reps were unfamiliar with it so I had to solve my own problems.
-anything with higher compression than AVI's wont work well, no matter which player.

I was worried that this was the benchmark for all android phones, but have been told by some telus store reps that this was a very low end and troubled android phone. Should have went with the Milestone.

But if you use it for a phone and text only. and keep all conversations small and keep deleting and cleaning up you may really enjoy this phone.
Switched to a 4 year old blackberry curve 8530, and it has been an upgrade oddly enough.

I've had this phone for 15 months. Within the first month I had it sent away because the touch screen died. Unfortunately I couldn't just return it then as Telus only gives you 2 weeks to test out the phone. I get the phone back, it works again. But it's not a good phone. It glitches, restarts on it's own, has a terrible layout. The only redeeming feature is the QWERTY keyboard - which is what I wanted when I bought a new phone. The phone is now 3 months out of it's warranty and doesn't work at all. It has stopped recognizing the Telus network and it requires a minimum $150 fix. I have to go back to my old LG phone which, despite having had a product replacement plan, still works. I didn't purchase a product replacement plan for this phone and now I'm SOL. So for the next 19 months of my contract I have to use my old basic phone as there are no other options without spending a minimum of $150. I didn't break this phone, it broke on it's own and now I'm supposed to pay for it or wait 19 months until I can get an upgrade. Terrible, terrible phone.

with my LG shine Plus right now. In June it will be a year since I have it. Lately I have been having issues with it. Like other reviews have commented that it will delete all my messages. I have pictures and videos of my grandbabies and a few times, I didn't get to download them and they were gone. Right now I can not text out to people - I get the texts but they don't receive mine. I am seriously looking into getting something different. Also I have had it where my daughter would text me and it would show up that someone else on my contacts list was the one who sent it. I reply back and it goes to the other person and not my daughter. I do enjoy using it but I drive a school bus and I need to keep in contact with the parents and if my messages are deleted, it could not be good and I can not text them back to let them know if I got the message.