LG VX-8700
Average Ratings
Georgeous
I bought my phone this morning and I am already obsessed with it. It looks awesome, is slim and lightweight and the sound quality is awesome. I called my roommate at work and she said it sounded like I was calling her from a landline. I don't use my phone for music so I can't comment on it.
Pros:
- looks awesome
- nice size, feels good in my hand and while texting
- sound quality
Cons:
- picks up fingerprints but not nearly as bad at the 8600
- display (both front and internal) hard to read in direct sunlight
- not too many ringers, but more than the samsung I exchanged for this one
Overall, awesome phone. The photos don't do it justice.
Great little phone!
Pro's: looks great, snaps open nicely, takes pictures pretty well, responds well to inputs, buttons click nicely, generally very well made.
Con's: the big one for me is the puny 50 text inbox and outbox - who in the world decided that made sense? You can plug a 8gb SD card in it and still, it can only hold 2kb worth of texts. It also lacks a real headphone jack.
Overall, I love this phone. I've owned it for years and I even dropped it in the sink once - the little white dot on the battery turned red, but I let it dry out and voila - no problem. I'm going to try to stay with LG phones.
REALLY AWESOME
I REMEMBER TOTALLY WHEN THIS PHONE CAME OUT. MY FRIENDS ALL GOT IT (WELL A LOT OF THEM and love it, and it has a 2.0 camera. Most of those people have different phones now, but the phone was really cool. The only reason it has a 4.5 is my friends camera stopped working and he had to get a replacement. bUT YEa awesome
LG 8700
Pros - Nice Looking Phone
Lightweight
Cons - Had to send in twice for repairs and it's still not fixed. When people call me, can't hear them, they can't hear me.
Sound quality is not loud for some ringers.
Great Phone
Just a great durable phone. Pictures and video are good if you're outdoors, indoors somewhat blurry. Not a good camera for low light conditions by any means. Great call quality and pretty good speaker phone, minus the fact that you can only activate it during the call. All in all a great phone.
Pros:
Call Quality
Speaker
Display Screen
Cons:
Could have done a better job with the camera
since this is a high end phone.
Great Phone
About the above review, with the freezing problem...i had 4 of the 8700's and not one of them had a freezing problem. I bought one for myself and loved it so much that I got 3 more for the rest of my family. The only problem I had in a year is one of the phones had a black spot when it took a picture. Overall this is one of the best from LG's lineup. However, I did think it should have MP3 player controls on front.
I wouldn't buy one again
I bought this phone when it was very new. I spent $150 after mail-in rebate on it. I was sold on it under the impression that it had good battery life. Unfortunately, I was in for a heck of a surprise there!
The normal battery never lasted more than 2 days for me and most of the time, I was lucky if it made it that long. The phone never died inside of one day but going for 2 was pushing it. This drove me crazy. Unfortunately, the extended battery pack looks like junk and makes the phone quite large... while only providing reliable service into the 3rd day, but rarely all the way through it. This would've been acceptable if it didn't alter the phone's appearance, weight, and comfort in my pocket so severely.
Other than the battery, the phone was nice.
It was easy to look at though after a year of service, it was pretty dinged up (even gentle use: I rarely kept it in my pocket with anything else.)
I have an Alpine Bluetooth kit that is notorious for echoing on the far end of my conversations: this phone did exactly that (but my new LG VX5500 does not... go figure.)
The camera is certainly better than most but still not nice enough to eliminate the need for me to carry a digital camera around when I want good pictures.
The UI wasn't unpleasant but wasn't worth calling home about either.
The phone did get remarkably hot during long conversations.
Minijack dongle (for those with wired headsets) was plain silly.
In the end, losing this phone and upgrading to the VX5500 has been the most enjoyable part of my cell phone owning experience in the last 5 years. I never recommended this phone to anyone and now that I've seen how much better the more basic phones do their job, I will never do so.
frustrations
I loved the look of the phone, professional and I could use it when I was out on a client meeting.
The camera was a plus. I liked having it being the mega pixels it was incase I didn't have my actual digital camera, it came in handy and had mostly good quality.
the Cons.
The phone freezes...a lot
Randomly turns itself off & back on
The clock on the front lights itself up when I'm not even near the phone to touch it
The vibrate option doesn't work anymore. No texting, no calling its ALL silent unless I have my ringer on, which I can't at work its required to be on vibrate.
The back where the battery is gets extremely hot when I talk on it more than 5 minutes.
I was excited to get this phone originally because I had the LG 8600 and it was horrible...now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
If this phone is in competition with the RAZR, it has a slim chance of winning, hands down!
Pros: I bought this phone because to me, it was Lucky-Goldstar's version of the RAZR. But this phone is lighter and faster in clarity and in reception. It has a 2.0 MP camera and if you have the memory chip, you can record up to OVER an hour's worth of video (comes in quite handy if you're bored at work and things are slow). The ringtones are off the hook-live instruments on some of them-the wallpapers are animated, and you don't get a whole lot of glare when you do a pic/video. All in all, this phone is a step up from my previous phone, the LG VX8100 (which was a TOP seller at the time), and I still have it to this day-this phone overshadowed the popularity of the Motorola V60 (yep, I had that one, too). I also appreciate the way you change the appearance of the display themes-business or metallic. But depending on your character to each his own. And one other thing, if you work, or reside by the waterfront, this phone-like the other LG phones-will NOT drop a call! You can have no bars on your signal, but the call will be crystal clear with no further problems!
CONS: One individual stated that he/she had went through SEVEN phones?!? Wow, I though it just me going through some bad karma or something! I went through THREE of 'em within six months! And I resolved at that point, no more LGs for me! I would say 'crash', but freezing sounds more accurate to describe why I went through so many in so short a time. But with LG's popularity, it's hard to resist them now! So I may give 'em one more go, I may not. Thankfully, my contract with this phone is halfway over. But despite some idiosyncrasies that this phone-as well as any other LG product-has had in the past, LG continues to rise no matter what. My only (complaint) was that it kept freezing! And one last thing, I don't know if someone else had mentioned this, but whoever your carrier is, MAKE SURE you have Assitant Backup so you won't lose your contact numbers! I learned that the hard way!
what a great phone!
i honestly have very few complaints about the Verizon LG VX8700. i bought it a little less than a year ago. it wasn't very popular at the time, but i have seen its usage grow significantly among the teenage population.
i was between this and the enV when i was choosing phones, because i thought i wanted the keyboard, but i'm so glad i got this phone instead. texting on the LG VX8700 is faster than most non-keyboard phones.
PROS:
just about everythingggg
the 2.0 megapixel camera is great...better than i've seen on almost any other phone
while it seems like a fragile phone, i've dropped it accidentally on hard floors and it never broke or malfunctioned
the phone is VERY *aesthetically pleasing*, very slim and lightweight
features on the phone are pretty good, it looks great, and is very *user-friendly*
my signal strength is usually very strong. the only places it drops out are basements and certain buildings, but that's to be expected, right? anywhere else i never have any reception problems
CONS: insignificant annoyances
the fact that the speakerphone can only be activated in a call could be annoying
the phone buttons can be a bit slippery because of being flat, but this is a minor annoyance until you get used to it
when you take the protective coating off, scratches happen a bit easily, but if you can take care of your phone there's no problems
battery life is ok, not the best but surely not the worst
i had to get the charger replaced just a few days ago, probably because i jammed it in too hard one night and broke it =]
if you need a great phone for a good value, with comfortable features and aesthetically pleasing design, buy this phone!
