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5 Responses to “LG VX8360 Phone, Silver”

1.   1spunkygal Says:
   March 19th, 2010 at 10:12 pm

   I am phone freak i admit it . I like what i call no nothing phones i don’t text or download or any of the other fluff the phones come with. We make calls recieve calls that’s it. I do love the weight & battery life of this phone. We do some heavy duty talking my husband is a truck driver so we average over 3000 min a month just between the 2 of us . The only thing i don’t like is the loud beep you get when you miss a call. I’m not sure if that feature can be turned off or not. This phone probably has way more features than we need but like i said it has AWSOME batter life. Thanks LG for such a quality phone. Rating: 5 / 5

2.   Tim Mooney Says:
   March 19th, 2010 at 11:11 pm

   I have this phone, and I like it. I use it more often as an mp3 player than as a phone, and this review will only talk about music.

   I don’t much like the process of transferring music from my PC to the phone. At first, I tried to use it as though it were a USB flash drive. I got this to work, but there were problems: many tracks showed up twice, and I couldn’t copy mp3 files I purchased from amazon. com to the phone.

   Then I started using Rhapsody to transfer files. On the whole, I don’t much like Rhapsody, but at least it’s less of a pain than iTunes. This works for all of my mp3’s, but it’s really slow, compared to just copying to a flash drive. I’ve discovered that some phones are intended to transfer files like a flash drive, and some are not. Too bad I received the kind that is not. On the plus side, this phone is engineered to allow you to download music directly to the phone from an online vendor. This is not a plus for me, but I’m sure some folks will like it.

   I also like the ability of this phone to send high quality stereo music to bluetooth headphones. (I’m using Audiovox’s ARWH1 bluetooth minibridge to receive the signal and drive a standard set of stereo headphones. It’s nice to listen to music without getting tangled up in wires. You can also use headphones with a microphone to talk on the phone, but I haven’t tried it. If you’re interested in this, you need to make sure the bluetooth device supports A2DP. ) Rating: 4 / 5

3.   G. Lavigne Says:
   March 20th, 2010 at 1:45 am

   This is my fourth flip phone. The Motorola I had was great but the service provider was lousy. The VX8300 was a terrific unit and never let me down. I picked up a Flipshot for the great camera but washed the thing and killed it. Thinking the VX8360 would be at least as good as the 8300 was a mistake. This thing sounds bad, opens awkwardly, doesn’t vibrate enough to let me know there’s a call when it’s in my pocket and gets terrible reception almost everywhere I go. Even the battery life is disappointing to me and I’m NOT a long talker. LG really dropped the ball on this one. Verizon should really upgrade their return policy. Rating: 2 / 5

4.   W. Metcalf Says:
   March 20th, 2010 at 3:02 am

   Had to pay $200 for this phone after I discovered my first free Verizon phone (The Knack) could not get reception in the middle of one of Verizon’s largest claimed reception areas. They told me this one might be better. It is. If I move around while talking I can sometimes get 2 bars (one bar for each hundred dollars I guess). I use only the phone (yeah, I’m an old guy). Had to have Verizon block web access because I kept hitting the unmarked web access key (costing me $4-$5 each incident, even though I always shut down before actually getting connected). Discovered I’m not the first to have to do this. Large keypad and display text are good for older users. Voice dialing of stored names is fair. Battery life has been good for me. Blue Tooth with a headset works well. I prefer a speakerphone to a headphone. This is one of the worst I’ve owned. A 3-step process for both receiving and calling: Got a call? Flip open. Use “send” key to answer. Now hit “speakerphone” to turn it on. Impatient callers will have hung up by now, especially if you let the phone ring a couple of times before answering. The speakerphone button cannot be used by itself to call out or receive calls. Both my speakerphone and earphone reception are broken, with constant drop-outs, always sounding like I have a really bad signal (bad circuit board joint?). Speakerphone is useless in a vehicle, unless you hold it near your face, negating the whole point of “hands-free”. Difficult to open the flip with one hand. I often leave it lying open to avoid having to paw at it. Side buttons preclude use of most firm-fitting generic holsters. And you WILL be hitting those side buttons frequently, whether you want to or not. LOOKING at this phone will scratch it. Software can be cumbersome, often requiring an extra step or two beyond other phones I’ve used (ie. setting an alarm, or setting to vibrate). If you frequent Karaoke bars, or were born after 2001, you might actually LIKE the provided ring-tones. For me, this has been a mediocre phone with poor reception and poor sound quality. Pay for this one at your own risk. Note: Reception may be Verizon’s fault. It’s hard to say. Their coverage is NOT as good as claimed. I’ll be returning to Sprint next time around for that reason alone.
   Rating: 3 / 5

5.   Polly Wolly Says:
   March 20th, 2010 at 4:38 am

   Shortly after purchasing this phone I found that even if the phone showed 4 bars when turned off at night, it was most often dead when I turned it on the next day. It’s been happening regularly since then. It seems like the phone loses power even when turned off. Phone was fully charge yesterday morning and turned off because I cannot have it at work, turned on for only about 2 hours after work, and this evening it shows 1 bar left. This seems to be an issue w/ these phones. There is a pretty long thread of complaints about this on the Verizon website. If you use your phone a lot (and most people do) you may want to reconsider buying this one. Rating: 2 / 5