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Expert Reviews from other websites (1 review)LG Viewty KU990 Review at Mobile Phones UK (1 November 2007)  LG Viewty KU990 Consumer Reviews (963 reviews)Write a review of the LG Viewty KU990! Please share your experiences to help other people choose the product that's best for them. This is a review site, not a forum, so please don't just ask questions. Please do not use swear words or offensive language, and please, no advertising! Reviewed by Karl on 03/02/2010I brought this phone because my Samsung G600 broke and I needed a quick replacement. For the money this is an excellent phone. The camera is brilliant and the touch screen is really easy to get used to (which is something I was worried about). On the downside it doesn’t pick up signal as good as my Samsung, so living in the country I get a lot more “Emergency calls only” and when going from a bad signal zone to a good one it takes a good 30 seconds to realise it’s got signal again. Other than that it’s a brilliant phone and well worth the money. Rating: Reviewed by Andyy R x on 02/02/2010 got this fone for my b day bot 7 months ago it is the worst fone i have ever had cant scroll or text due to touch screen and when i opened up the box all i get is a phone and charger no usb no ear phones the only compliment is the 5mp camera gonna beg my mam for the w595 Rating: Reviewed by katy on 01/02/2010 good phone, easy to use, have had no problems so far, i got this phone four month ago, and i still thinks its a brill phone. Rating: Reviewed by jim mcgee on 31/01/2010 brillant phone outstanding Rating: Reviewed by Suzanne Smith on 27/01/2010 I had the viewty, I loved the camera, the picture quality was good and the phone was easy to use, the size wasn't the best being quite a large phone. My love of the phone and the firm soon went downhill. Within 4 months the flash no longer worked. Within 8 months the battery life couldn't even last a day on standby!! LG customer services were as useful as a chocolate teapot!! They never got the phone fixed! Never again will I buy an LG phone, after getting my phone and having the problems, I soon discovered at least two other friends who also had LG phones and similarly the batteries on their models also gave out!! Again they had no joy with LG customer services... Rating: Reviewed by Bob Winhouse on 26/01/2010 An amazing phone from the touch screen to the camera simply outstanding. There are better smart phones out there but you won't find a better value for money phone then this one. Please don't call this phone bad beacause,and im sorry if had any faults, but i didn't. So dont call thtis phone bad please! Rating: Reviewed by Hawk235 on 24/01/2010 The LG viewty ku990 is a great phone to start with the cammera is just as awesome as u would think, i couldnt get enougth of the cammera,all my friends loved the cammera, sice i got the phone, but this phone didnt last me very long, i bought it on an 18 month contract and within the fist 3 months of having it it began to have touch screen problems, at 6 months it wouldnt turn on had to pay £45 to get it fixed, at 8 months i had conectivety problems, like sending and reciving texts and emails, at 9 months 120fps was gubbed and this totaly was the best thing about the phone, and at 10 months i couldnt hear people when they called me even on speaker, i had to say ill call u right back and i had to have it on speaker just so i could hear them, this phone isnt great at all for contract, get it yes but dont expect it to last more than six months... Rating: Reviewed by melissa on 23/01/2010 I am only 10 but I know a lot about mobiles and comps and things .this is a class phone , I have had had it since april 09 and not had one problem with it yet. sound is fairly loud , camera is quite good , the phone memory isn't great if you like a lot of songs and pics and that is the only sort of bad thing I have come across. REALLY DONT LISTEN TO THE BAD REVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Agung Ariyanto on 23/01/2010 I just bought my LG KU990R Viewty. The designed and the feature, I like it. But I want to know how to turn of the keynote sound ?, because it is very disturbing when we make a call or write the text message. So I hope anybody tell me how to solve this problem. Thanks Rating: Reviewed by Shazza on 21/01/2010 I am now 18 months into my two year contract - I absolutely loved it in the early days. Over a period of time the battery life has depleted to the point where I can only make one very short call before it switches off - I have bought a new battery for it but it is still doing the same thing. I am now looking at paying out my contract so I can get a Nokia E72 - I wouldn't recommend it to any-one. The battery life has always been an issue. Rating: Reviewed by Hayley T on 21/01/2010 The LG Viewty KU990 is a let down for me even know i've only had this phone since the middle of 2009 i very much HATE this phone my reasons for this is: the touchscreen freezes up alot, the pictures taken from the camera had originaly turned out great now have turned all pixelated and blurry, there are alot of delays in the recognition of collected activities and my standby battery power dies within 1 to 2 days of being charged. Rating: Reviewed by Joe Waters on 20/01/2010 The phone is pretty much bulletproof as far as im concerned i'v had mine for over a year dropped it millions of times I even dropped it in the sink by accident and after drying out it still works to be honost I wouldnt believe these reviews if you like a phone go for it Rating: Reviewed by emma on 17/01/2010 even though it has a fab camera and long battery life this phone is currently the worst phone ive ever had. This is because most days it would freeze and wouldnt work again for about 3 hours. This meant taking the battery out and putting it back in again but most of the time it made it worse. it also doesnt have a lot of memory and it woulnt accept a memory card. dont buy it !!! Rating: Reviewed by Tony on 16/01/2010 LG Viewty. Touch sensitivity is really rubbish, screen doesn't always move when required. I was sold it on the premise that it was Windows friendly (which strictly speaking it is)but the way it accesses it's own system is quite laborious. The sooner I can get rid of it and get a Windows Mobile based phone the better. I use Outlook as a Diary and a Windows based system on your phone means that all the menus etc are the same both on the phone and PC. Rating: Reviewed by Hannah x on 16/01/2010 I like this phone, but i don`t love it! .THE 5MP CAMERA IS GREAT! and is great quality,with light in dark.The music player is good but could be abit louder.The touch screen is responsive but sometimes takes a while to load things like pictures,videos,music.The only thing i hate about this phone is THE VIDEO CAMERA IS BAD! its blury and the sound is not brilliant it is not 5mp standard.The look of this phone is generally good but it could be thinner. overall i would recommend this phone,but not if you need a phone with good video recording. Rating: Reviewed by J Knight on 15/01/2010 I loved this phone, awesome camera, awesome Internet, awesome touch screen.... You can see where I am going with this. The Viewty will be remembered as one of my best phones I have ever had, I never had one problem with it. Rating: Reviewed by jacob on 13/01/2010 brill phone just how do u delete music lol Rating: Reviewed by Shannon on 13/01/2010 Well, i have had this phone for nearly 2 years now, it was really good! but now, its starting tio get a really crap phone. the touchscreen dont work no more, the camera is broke and so is battery, after its been replaced. It's a really pretty phone and ive loved it, i havnt left the house without it. been good its really good signal, i have never not had signal with this phone. Rating: Reviewed by harley on 12/01/2010 I've had this phone just under 2 years and, at first, i absolutely loved it. Picture quality is good, as is video recording. Sound quality on everything is amazing, music, phone calls, text alerts. There is also picture editing software which is quite fun to play with at first. Texting is as easy on the touch screen as it is on normal buttons. Full qwerty keyboard WAS good. Feels comfortable in the hand, sturdy but not ridiculously heavy. The back panel is metal which i loved and the screen has not got a scratch on it. However, in the past 6 months things have gone downhill. Whenever i send a text none of the letters i press are the ones that show up on the screen, calibrated it many times with no change. Same problem with making calls. It takes one hell of a long time to turn on, not just the first time. Loading pictures and music is now very very slow, even after deleting all of them and just having 5 or 6 of each. Sound quality still very very good though. Also, i'd love to know if other people have had this problem, but whenever it's cold, it dies in about 2 hours. I work outside and even with the phone in my pocket it's dead in a couple of hours, not helpful. The internet on it is very good, a bit slow but what can you expect. It does charge to use the internet but if you don't use it for very long each day like me, it's not too bad. The screen also freezes all the time, especially when i need to make calls and video calling doesn't work, i've taken it into the o2 shop and they said it should work but they can't help me. I don't use it anyway though so no big deal. Overall i'm pretty gutted that it doesn't work like i expected it to. Although i probably should've learned from my past mistakes of buying LG, as every LG phone i've had has been terrible. I wont be recommending it. Rating: Reviewed by Tom on 09/01/2010 Got this phone and thought it was amazing. However now the battery life has become worse eg if i look at pictures or play one song it will just turn itself of, i then cannot even turn it back on untill connected to a charger. once connected i then turn it on and it tells me the phone is charged. Rating: Reviewed by Danielle on 08/01/2010 The phone was good when i first got it, after 8 months of having it, the bluetooth doesnt work at all, it says i do not have a memory card when i do, chooses when i can recieve my calls, delays my texts,touch pad is starting to go, the headphones that come with the phone don't work but yeah apart from that its a great phone. Rating: Reviewed by stephh on 05/01/2010 this phone is really good, its got an amazing camera with a big external memory storage although my only problems is that it needs charging everyday otherwise it is left with a little bit of battery Rating: Reviewed by bob on 31/12/2009 rubbgish phone always screen needed repalccing are new firmwire for it Rating: Reviewed by charmaine on 29/12/2009 comes with no games no music no stick ( screen gets dirty) bluetooth does'nt work other than this it is a good phone with a light weight and good camara sound is good and it is what i need on a phone love the text key board feature and the hand writing feature it is overall a good phone but i have seen better the phone is a good and reasonable price so it is a 3 star phone not bad Rating: Reviewed by Anto on 29/12/2009 I can't believe people write a reviews on a phone they have owned for only two weeks or a month... I'm using this phone for 7 months now and it is rubbish, I'm only using it for the basics now i.e calls and txt messaging what a waste of my upgrade. The camera is terrible try and take a picture in daylight you can't even see the screen so it's hit a miss whether you capture what you intended to photograph. Bluetooth keeps on disconnecting from my car when trying to make calls, I tested this with my old phone and it worked fine so it's not my car. Txt message capacity is rubbish even though I bought the external memory card. Battery life is bad too all in all a terrible terrible phone buyers beware. Rating: Reviewed by faaye on 27/12/2009 this is a GREEAAT phone. easy to work and everything, to be honest there's nothing bad about it. FIVE STARSS ! :) <3. Rating: Reviewed by steph on 27/12/2009 I recently got the LG Viewty for christmas, the same as many other people have. I think it is an exellent phone with its 5.0mp camera, touch screen and also a large screen. The problems I have with this phone is that it only comes with one game; DEMO Bejewelled and that you would need to pay £2.50 for the actual game of it- which i did.. The camera sound is rather loud and so if you want to take a picture in a quiet enviroment or in the classroom without a teacher hearing then this isn't the phone for you as there is no way that the phone sound can get turned down. Also, when I wanted to put some pictures from Christmas day off my phone onto the computer, I realised that it was not possible because when I got the phone, the only items that came with it was a sim card, recylce bag for my old phone, the phone, information booklets and a charger... none of these gave me a USB link. The handset memory is good, I havnt got a memory card for mine yet and i have managed to have 3 videos, 7 peices of music and around 50+ pictures. Rating: Reviewed by alix on 22/12/2009 its slow and never does what you want it to. Rating: Reviewed by shahzeb on 21/12/2009 well i have had this phone for 4 months now and im now going to sell it. this phone that im using is a ku990i viewty and it is a bit better than the normal ku990. i found this phone to be quite good and enjoyable and i would recommend this to people who want a touch screen phone at a affordable price. the touch is great on the phone as it make a good sound when u touch it and the camera is AWESOME!! the music player is alright but the volume could be higher. the battery is alright not that good though it can last 6 hours if it is fully charged. im on 3 so i get quite a lot of internet allowance and the internet is slow but alright. i would say it is better than the lg cookie as this phone has got a better camera. the viewty is a good phone but im not fully satisfied with it that much as i want a higher tec phone. the viewty is good for people who want a touch screen at a good price. Rating: Reviewed by kyle luke selby on 17/12/2009 not rate good tbf Rating: Reviewed by Josh on 17/12/2009 Got this phone today is brilliant ticks all the boxes for me good camera,3G and just ovrall a good handset Rating: Reviewed by alan on 15/12/2009 I love this phone Rating: Reviewed by sam on 12/12/2009 jus luv it Rating: Reviewed by Graham McGrane on 11/12/2009 The LG Viewity is the worst phone i've ever bought, it holds just 120 text messages, the phonecall quality is terrible anything over two minutes and you struggle to hear what the person is saying to you, it takes about 15 seconds to load a photograph and 20 to load a video which is bad if you just want to look through your pictures, its got lots of good features but they're outwayed by the bad. Rating: Reviewed by Min on 09/12/2009 THIS IS A VERY GOOD PHONE (: It is one of the few phones which has pink color originally :D but the problem is that it has very short battery life and it does lags sometimes (: you can consider buying this phone but i dun think you will cos there are better phones now (: *thanks for reading my comment:D Rating: Reviewed by Darren D on 05/12/2009 After being told that the Viewty was better than a Nokia E71 I tried it out. Fully charged, loving the touch screen and 5mp camera, but less than 8 hours later the battery died. Without text, net or calling I struggle to get 10 hours!!! Pathetic battery power, now talking to 3 about the problem! Rating: Reviewed by P McQueen on 04/12/2009 Have upgraded my phone with 3 mobile to the lg viewty KU990i. Initially very happy with every day use. After 3 weeks the battery life diminished considerably, last only 12 hours. Sent away for replacement phone. This has not been done. Original phone sent back and told until LG can find a way to solve this problem, I am stuck with a mobile phone that requires to be plugged into the mains to guarantee good usage. Where is the mobilty in that. Very, very disappointed with the phone and the service from 3 Rating: Reviewed by Mick Hinton on 04/12/2009 Had the Viewty on contract from 3. In terms of what the phone can do it's great, but the battery life is ridiculously bad. On one occasion the battery only lasted half an hour, yes thats right, half an hour. This make the phone only mobile as long as you are near a mains point. After much discussion with 3, they have now changed the phone for me, I now have a nokia E63 and already the battery life is better than the Viewty. I can not recommend the LG Viewty at all due to the poor battery life which never lasted a full day from day one (and that is purely standby, no calls, no text). Rating: Reviewed by Jet on 03/12/2009 My monthly contract with o2 has come around again and I can't see a new phone I would rather have than the viewty. I have now had this phone for 24 months, last year I didn't bother upgrading for the same reason. It has been a brilliant phone. I got used to the touch screen very fast and have found no problems with it. The camera has been the best feature in my opinion, with the internet/browsing being the worst. I think in another 12 months this phone will still compare well against the other touch screens. Rating: Reviewed by mike on 01/12/2009 had the phone 11months and 27 days,battery eventually stopped charging at all.carphone warehouse sent it for repair,came back with engineers report saying customers fault!cannot repair under warranty!!what a rip off.it is obviously a manufactoring fault after reading all the reviews on this site.am now sending it back to where i got it from at prepaymania and we will see what they say.i will keep this site informed. Rating: Reviewed by Holly on 30/11/2009 I absolutely love this phone!Ive had it for about 15 months and Ive never had a problem with it. Its easy to work out how to use and Ive never been able to text so fast!! Its got a good battery life and the memory is good too. However...The camera has produced some good pictures and some very bad ones too. For a camera phone some of the pictures are quite bad quality really. I also find it hard to keep the keypad locked too, its too easy to knock the keypad lock off. It likes to unlock its self and type in random numbers and nearly ring people on my call lists!!! Not good! The phone has been dropped from all sorts of heights (accidently) and still survived without freezing, breaking etc. I would recommend it and its not going far from me anytime soon... Rating: Reviewed by becky :) on 29/11/2009 thankyou for all your comments soooooo glad i bought this phone it is awesome i think this phon is great but it is one of those phones that you either love it or you hate it but I LOVE IT!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by John on 28/11/2009 It's an outstanding phone with its overwhelming features like a 5.0 camera,Fm Radio, internet. Rating: Reviewed by Nathan on 27/11/2009 hey i bought the phone from phones4U and the battery life was like 5 hours on standby and it died almost instantly after a phone call and it was only 2 weeks old. Rating: Reviewed by JOHN GOLDER on 27/11/2009 Hi! there, I received the LG990i for my birthday (15 November 09) and found it quite easy to get to grips with (even though I am 60+). the use of this phone is so different from any other phone I have had,and i love it but I am disapointed with one thing, the standby time and battery need charged every day as I keep the phone on 24-7, any other phone I have had would last anything from 3-5 days on standby so you can see how disapointed I am, but still love the ku990i. however I am thinking of returning it unless I can find out if there is anything can be done to rectify this as it maybe a software issue. Rating: Reviewed by Sam on 22/11/2009 This phone is rubbish, scrolling very fiddly, very slow, doesn't even come with a stylus or anywhere to put it if you do have one, it just hangs off the side. The camera is amazing tho but playing music through the speaker sounds awful. Am selling this and geting the Nokia 5800 now. Rating: Reviewed by Iain on 21/11/2009 Hello, I have had the viewty for numerous months now and i have enjoyed it to an extent i suppose. The touchscreen, at first i was happy with it. My first touchscreen phone! Ovcourse i was happy but then i compared it to my friends iphone, and my friend tocco and my other friends tocco ultra.It felt so levelled down compare to those. The screen is resistant alot of the time. But this phone was made more than 2 years ago. I would of have the phone a 3.5 but im feeling generous (: Rating: Reviewed by Amalie on 21/11/2009 I've had my Viewty for seven months now, and i'm fairly impressed. It took me at least a month to get bored of it, which is amazing because i usually get tired of my phone after less than a fortnight. I should start with the camera, because thats the 'main' feature. To be honest, i was kinda dissapointed. It doesn't seem much better than my LG Chocolate, which was like 3megapixels. It does however have many settings which entertained me for ages when i first got it, but the editing option is very basic, dissapointing and VERY hard to use! The only other complaint i have is that it takes forever to actually take a picture, which means i miss important photo-taking oppertunities. Next up, texting. I didn't expect it to be AMAZING, but i expected it to be easier than it is. It is very hard, in my opinion, even now after seven months, but that is also because it is on the point of breaking... For about two months now, the touch pad has been really bad. Like, really bad. Unfortunatley my phone company refuse to fix it for free, and for this reason i'm thinking of getting a new one. The predictive texting option has forgotten all its words, and when i try to add another new one, it wont save. Which sucks. :( Other than that, i loved it while it lasted. Great phone, in my opinion, and if it wasnt broken, i wouldn't change it. :)x Rating: Reviewed by luke calvert on 20/11/2009 brill phone get 1 the fab better than the iphone ! ! ! ! Rating: Reviewed by Sean on 18/11/2009 The battery life on this phone is terrible, the touch screen has nearly enough packed in and had it sent off nothing changed, Not a good buy i recommend sony ericssons Rating: Reviewed by Tess on 13/11/2009 This was the best phone I have ever owned! I miss it so much, but sadly it made it's last call earlier this year :( There was nothing this phone couldn't do in my opinion! I am someone who generally gets bored of phone models prettily easily and gets a new one every year, but had the warranty lasted longer than a year, I would have kept this one for ages! It's been on the market for a long time, but I'd still recommend getting one. It is a little large, but you quickly get used to that. I got the Nokia 5800 after the Viewty, and I sure wish I hadn't, Its been less than a year and already I can't stand it. Go for the Viewty! Rating: Reviewed by Terry on 13/11/2009 Good points: Looks Multiple Features Bad points: Like all colour LCD screens, you can't see it in bright sunlight, so forget about those sunny beach photos and calls. Battery Life is very poor. Does not work well in a low signal area. My ten year old Nokia 3310 beats it on this hands down! Rating: Reviewed by Kris on 13/11/2009 Trying to write messages is an absolute nightmare. It's impossible to build up any kind of speed because it misses half the presses you make unless you're extremely heavy-handed. Every time I try to write 'just' it puts 'jptp', even after correcting it time after time and adding 'just' back into the dictionary by hand. To move backwards through the message (to fix the stupid errors) you have to tap the screen to move the caret, which almost always moves to the wrong place. If you want to move the caret to the end of the message then good luck - chances are you'll end up pressing the 'attachment' button instead. It looks nice at first but after about a week of trying to send messages you realise it's just a gimmick phone with no real substance. I'm going back to proper physical buttons. Rating: Reviewed by john on 12/11/2009 just a couple of things im having trouble when i open, say e bay my mob goes to the LG icon and will not let me view the page. num 2 i had taken some photos thought that i put them into a file and seem to have lost them i have tried everything . even the mobile shop ass could not find ? any ideas would be great full other than that phones great many thanks useless Rating: Reviewed by Drea on 10/11/2009 Had the viewty for less then 18 months now along with a friend. The phone has stop charging and the warranty has expired. Rating: Reviewed by Jessica on 10/11/2009 i cannot stand this phone! it is a good phone and the camera and memory is good but i cannot stand the slowness of the phone. it also randomly freezed and sometimes doesnt click on the thing that i want (yes i have collaborated it) DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE Rating: Reviewed by Josie on 09/11/2009 I've Had This Phone For About 6Months Now And It's Worked Pretty Well For Me (y) The CAmera Is Brilliant If You Have it On The Right Settings! ALthough The Style Of It Isn't Very Exciting, But In The Phone Is REally Good. It's Very Easy To Scratch The Screen Though, As I Dropped It And Now As A Long Line Goin Across The Screen, To Be Honest It Doesn't Bother Me Much THough. THe Internal Memory On THis Phone Is OK, It Holds About 7 Songs + BOut 300 Pictures, So It's Not All Bad (: The Battery Last's About 4 Days Without Using It Very Much, But If You Use Music Or Internet THen It Does Seem To Go Down Quite A Bit. The internet Is Very Fast + Good For Facebooker's (y) It's a Very Easy Phone To Use, But THough If You Like Texting Alot I Wouldn't Really Recommend It. Hope This Helps ;] x Rating: Reviewed by Jay on 07/11/2009 I think this is a cool phone. The camera quality is ver good, and movie making is brilliant. It is hard to text with, but you get used to it. I only give it a 4 star because it is a Brick, and the lense on the back is massive, it makes it ugly. Rating: Reviewed by clayton on 07/11/2009 a rubbish battery dont save to mamory card Rating: Reviewed by amy on 06/11/2009 had this phone nearly 2 years and still love it although the battery life is not good at all now... its a great touch screen and perfect for the internet! plenty of options when texting and big buttons on the screen for those with big fingers!! recommend this phone! Rating: Reviewed by keifeira on 05/11/2009 this is the only phone to ever last me 18 months, its a great phone and battery life is amazing. i would highly recommend this phone. recently upgraded to a se satio and to be honest, the satio is nothing compared to the viewty. Rating: Reviewed by lorna :-D on 04/11/2009 I found this very good , but i had a few problems with it. The camera on the front broke, the touchscreen kept on freezing, the phone kept on deleting everything off of it. sond quality isn't great and texting is slow, i dont like how the stylus hung from the phone. The good things were the camera, the bluetooth, the memory. the battery life is goood for the first couple of mounths but as i am a 14 year old girl, i use my phone quite a lot so that is probably down to overuse. it is muh better than the iphone. my iphone kept breaking so i swapped it for this. all in all a good phone. although i had to get rid of it because it broke, i found the phone i have right now the w995 much better to be honest, but it is much more expensive ... this phone is very reasonably priced and is decent value for money. :-D Rating: Reviewed by Hu on 01/11/2009 Takes a bit of getting used to, but I like it - good screen, decent picture quality. I had terrible problems with battery life after I bought a case for it - the reason was the magnet on the clasp! I ditched the case and now I charge every other day. My main gripe is the software (nothing came with the phone). The LG update manager is hopeless, you seem to need to run this before you can get PC sync. Really shoddy, getting this to work is still work in progress. Rating: Reviewed by Nigel Gardiner on 01/11/2009 This has got to be the best phone I have ever owned! It is absolutely fantastic. I have told all my friends about it and 5 have bought one, all with no problems whatsoever. The camera is unbelievably good, and all the other features are as good or better than anything else available. For such a small battery the life is amazing, and the screen is so clear and easy to use. 5 stars is not enough! Rating: Reviewed by KA$H on 31/10/2009 abosulutely rubbish phone, has been giving me nothing but grief. bought it for £70 and ends up costing me £50 additional for repiar as it was not responding when being touched and now fdor some reason it doesn't play the videos on the memeroyc ard but rather on the external memeory which is sa complete joke. nit happy at all woith phone, thinking of getting teh smart version or any other touchscreen phone Rating: Reviewed by Laura on 29/10/2009 I got this phone around May and have had no problems with it what so ever. The battery life is great, the touch screen has perfect calibration, great camera, bluetooth, internet, good memory, high quality pics and videos and a lot better and easier to use than other phones such as the iphone! When out with friends and taking pics it is perfect and phones are mainly used for talking to people, texting, taking pics and sometimes email. I got my phone from Argos for £99.99 on pay as you go with Vodafone. For that price and quality i would give it 10/10. A lot better than other phones, reasonable price and perfect at practicly everything. What more could you want. I would definately reccomend this phone to anyone. I have owned lots of phones in the past and this one is by far the best! x Rating: Reviewed by katherine on 29/10/2009 i've had this phone almost 2 months now (it was a birthday present) and man is it terrible! the touch sensitivity has completely gone. i find myself press buttons 5 times before they respond, making it incredibly hard to text! freezes when i take pictures. can't put a memory card in because it just doesnt pick it up. won't sync with my computer. gets unbelievably hot when i'm in a call. screen scratches really easily - unfortunately the screen protector came off mine, so now i keep it in a cloth pouch to protect it.. yet its still scratched! i don't like the fact i can't customise much of it, and the menu is set up in such an awkward way! i don't like the lack of applications either! previously had a sony ericsson K750i for three years, wish i'd stuck with it as the picture quality and everything is just so much better than this phone. gonna try and exchange it because i'm sure it shouldn't have lost touch sensitivity so quickly! Rating: Reviewed by harry bell on 28/10/2009 very good phone bought this for 109.00 good buy.need a good memory card but dont buy without only holds 5 songs overall a good buy Rating: Reviewed by Tom on 27/10/2009 As I have had this phone for 16 months now, i think i have a very valid opinion: for day to day use, which is most likely what this phone is for, then it's awfully annoying. The screen is 'laggy', slow in other words, there is no multi touch and my screen is peeling off, literally coming off in the bottom left corner. It's got a very bad user interface and I detest everything to do with it. I am getting my phone upgrade next week, I don't know what to get....the Nokia N97 is definetly top of the list at the moment. Rating: Reviewed by Fostino Elias(Chinsapo 1, Lilongwe, Malawi) on 27/10/2009 its still a classic phone in the LG mobile world Rating: Reviewed by danny on 27/10/2009 bought 2 second hand ones now , ovr last 18 mnths. Like it a lot , tho there are some quirks. However, now noticing battery probs like every1. I think so anyway. i.e the phone will just turn off for no reason, as battery seems to have some charge. Anyone had same? Have 2 baterries , 2 phones , both same thing. maybe me? Rating: Reviewed by Becky on 25/10/2009 I've being borrowing my brothers phone, which is the LG Viewty for just over a week and the only compliant i can think of is that it doesnt have a stylus and some of the texting things cant be fiddly when you've got a certain word wrong, but apart from that i absolutly adore it, it really is amazing Rating: Reviewed by Chloe on 25/10/2009 My old phone didnt have a good camera so i heard LG had this phone coming out. So i saved up my money as it isnt cheap and waited for its arrival. I wish I hadn't. This phone is very poor. I've only had it for less than 6 months and so far ive had all these problems. 1 - touchscreen isnt sensitive and had a mind of its own. At the start i thought this was just me but after looking at other reviews i realised it wasnt. 2 - battery life is poor. I do use my phone a lot so i charge it every night and always have done. Unfortunately this phone get worse with time. Now my battery last 12hrs max. 3 - Within the first 2 weeks the colour ran in the top right hand corner. I hadnt dropped it either. I recieved i new model due to this for free from 02. 4 - Due to the size you can't keep the phone in your pocket but its screen scratches very easily. Looks like ive had it years. 5 - On a saturday night i called my friend at half 7 everything was ok then. By 8'oclock my phone would let answer calls but i couldnt hear anything and the other person couldn't hear me either. Tomorrow i am taking the phone back. I don't want a new model due to the number of problems i have had with it. I will be contacting LG about the phones faults too. Very disapointed with the phone for its price and length of service. However the camera is very good. I grant them that but unfortunately its faults over weigh the good point. Hope you have better luck than i did if you have chosen this phone. I think if you are havign problems LG should be made aware of the faults. Something needs to be done. Rating: Reviewed by Paul W on 22/10/2009 I have had an LG Viewty and its the worst phone I have ever had, constantly freezes, resets its self randomly, wont allow you to upload any more than 2 songs at a time, picture quality is also not v good, especially as its supposed to be a 5mp camera. The software that comes with the phone is rubbish, will never find it using bluetooth and with the lead it somtimes does not work Then 8 months on whilst flicking through some photos the screen goes yellow and says re-freshing so its been binned! Giving this phone 1 star is being too kind! Rating: Reviewed by Sumiiiiii on 21/10/2009 this fone is okai..the only problem is that i have network coveage but where the sybol for reception is,it changes from the letter 3g,H,G...it will let me recieve messages and make outgoing calls but will not let me send messages..why is that?does anybody know how to solve this matter?without going to a shop Rating: Reviewed by Darren on 21/10/2009 I have had this phone for 2 days it's not a iphone but its the next best thing. I have tried most of the touch screen phones on the market and this is the best iv come across. I am 100% happy with its performance and usability. It's nice, sleek , customisable , and very user friendly. 10/10 in book. Rating: Reviewed by zoey. on 20/10/2009 i love this fone. its amazing. the only problem is battery life (n) Rating: Reviewed by jjwacko on 19/10/2009 ridiculously bad. I bought this phone about six months ago and the screen has already gone black. touch screen is'nt very good. Wont read all music files i put on it. so slow. Screen scratches so easily. very hard to use took me five months just to find the timer. although it has a 5 megapixel camera it is really bad. i was dissapointed as i had the sony ericsson K800i and that was amazing. After having only sony ericssons i decided to get something different and regret that i did. People at I know have also got them and they are also dissapointed. DONT GET THIS PHONE. IT IS SO BAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Belinda on 18/10/2009 I signed on a 2-year contract to have the Ku990r at no extra cost. Sms is my main mode of use and this is my first PDA/touch screen phone. So far I have gotten used to sms via the touch screen keypad. The “touch vibrate” function is cool! The tactile feedback simulates using a physical keypad. Although a couple of keys can be better placed IMO – it’s way too easy to trigger the “save to draft” mode. The thing is to remember is not to choose either “Yes” or “No” (the latter discards the sms w/o saving it). Hit the “c” cancel button instead to get back to typing. I can’t believe how long it took for me to figure that out!! :O I explored and found another useful tip. To delete more than 1 sms at a time, select the little “menu” icon on the lower left corner of the screen. Do not choose “delete”. Instead select “mark/unmark”. That will bring you to a screen where you can mark the messages that you wish to delete. Then hit the “delete button” on the bottom centre of the screen. Some users may have not discovered this function, since there were complains regarding the inability to mass-delete messages. Who can blame them… the KU990r manual that comes with the phone is SAD. Hey LG, it doesn’t matter how great the product if your customers don’t have proper instructions on how to use it! I am not sure if the above applies to emails since I don’t use the email function. I can listen to audiobooks on the Ku990r and also watch mp4. Waiting to free up space to test m4v files. To other Mac users like me, you will find bluetooth is easy for transfering of files. What is more problematic is doing it via the miniUSB cable. Unfortunately KU990r is not compatible with Macs (mass storage device mode). In my case, I can’t eject the phone properly from my Mac. The phone keeps reconnecting itself to my Mac! So you either have to unplug the cable with fingers-crossed or power down your Mac to disengage the phone. The latter is a real pain. LG Helpline couldn’t help…they just kept saying their phones are not fully Mac-compatible. I bought myself a miniSD card reader, so will try that method next. I have not found a good way to read ebooks – does anyone know?? The KU990r pdf reader is lame and essentialy not condusive to reading ebooks. I downloaded several applications eg. Mobipocket Reader, but can’t figure where to store the pdf files for the application. The LG technical desk at Vivo City tried unsuccessfully to help. Well, guess can’t fault them for lack of familiarity since those applications are not LG proprietary software. The LG battery is weak. 1.5-2 days if I only sms and switch off the phone at night. An hour of listening to audiobook will consume up to 50% battery strength. Other users have commented LG battery life is susceptible to overcharging. I bought an extra battery AND a timer plug for paranoia sake. Last comment. I can’t seem to get the hang of the touch screen scroll function. I keep over- or under- shooting my mark. I think its just me. I use the camera toggle wheel instead for better control. All in all, I can live with this phone since my needs are fairly basic. Now, if only I can read ebooks!! Rating: Reviewed by sanjibob on 16/10/2009 this fone is great Rating: Reviewed by mick richardson on 16/10/2009 a big dissappointment -sent the first one back as the radio didnt work -second one the same--the speaker broke after 2 weeks as im in thailand its near impossin]ble to get it fixed -its cumbersome heavy and not at all easy to use i wouldnt recommend it my first lg will be my last -im sticking to samsung the tocco lite is a dream and no problems Rating: Reviewed by Roxie on 16/10/2009 Had this phone for over a year now and am getting a a new one. I liked this phoned but is now quite annoying. It has no widgets and only one game. Good camera and video, not good voice recording. Hope I could have been of use. Roxie Rating: Reviewed by Tom on 15/10/2009 I brought LG Ku990i a couple of months ago since then the back cover has come loose and i've lost it. The easy release button for releasing the back cover is poorly designed for this to happen. Contacted LG about this. Customer care is non existant.I have other LG products but because ive never had any problem with them I never knew how bad the customer service for LG is.I was given number after nimber to ring where no one could help and when they said they would ring back they never did. Rating: Reviewed by JJ on 14/10/2009 Found the viewty impossible to use. If you wanted to look up a phone number, you had to scroll through a list of names : for example, looking up surname beginning with L, you select J - L button and then had to scroll through all the names beginning with J and then K and finally L. This took a bit of time. Found the screen unresponsive, even when using the stylus provided. Swapped this phone for a very basic model. So much happier now. Rating: Reviewed by Belinda on 14/10/2009 I have had my KU990R for 6 weeks now. I signed on a 2-year contract to have the Ku990r at no extra cost. Sms is my main mode of use, this is my first PDA/touch screen phone. I have gotten used to sms via the touch screen keypad. The “touch vibrate” function is cool! The tactile feedback simulates using a physical keypad. Although a couple of keys can be better placed IMO – it’s way too easy to trigger the “save to draft” mode. The thing is to remember is not to choose either “Yes” or “No” (the latter discards the sms w/o saving it). Hit the “c” cancel button instead to get back to typing. I can’t believe how long it took for me to figure that out!! :O I explored and found another useful tip. To delete more than 1 sms at a time, select the little “menu” icon on the lower left corner of the screen. Do not choose “delete”. Instead select “mark/unmark”. That will bring you to a screen where you can mark the messages that you wish to delete. Then hit the “delete button” on the bottom centre of the screen. Some users may not have discovered this function as there were complains about the inability to mass-delete messages. Well, who can blame them… the KU990r manual that comes with the phone is SAD. Hey LG, it doesn’t matter how great the product if your customers don’t have proper instructions on how to use it! Not sure if the above applies to emails since I don’t use the email function. I can listen to audiobooks on the Ku990r and also watch mp4. Waiting to free up space to test m4v files. To other Mac users like me, you will find bluetooth is easy for transfering of files. What is more problematic is doing it via the miniUSB cable. Unfortunately KU990r is not compatible with Macs (use mass storage device mode). In my case, I can’t eject the phone properly from my Mac. The phone keeps reconnecting itself! So you either have to unplug the cable with fingers-crossed or power down your Mac to disengage the phone. The latter is a real pain. LG Helpline couldn’t help…they just kept saying their phones are not fully Mac-compatible. I bought myself a miniSD card reader, so will try that method next. I have not found a good way to read ebooks – does anyone know?? The KU990r pdf reader is lame and not condusive to reading ebooks. I downloaded several applications eg. Mobipocket Reader, but can’t figure where to store the pdf files for the application. The LG technical desk tried unsuccessfully to help. Well, guess can’t fault them for lack of familiarity since the applications are not LG proprietary software. The LG battery is weak. 1.5-2 days if I only sms and switch off the phone at night. An hour of listening to audiobook will consume up to 50% battery strength. Other users have commented that the LG battery life is susceptible to overcharging. So I bought an extra battery AND a timer plug for paranoia sake. Last comment. I can’t seem to get the hang of the touch screen scroll function. I keep over- or under- shooting my mark. I think its just me. I use the camera toggle wheel instead for better control. All in all, I am fairly happy this phone since my needs are fairly basic. Now if only I can read ebooks! :) Rating: Reviewed by Jiver1 on 14/10/2009 WARNING. My daughter has this phone which is good until you try to get a warranty repair done. Let me explain. The LCD cracked whilst she was sat next to me using the phone. I sent it back under warranty but was told this wasn't covered and would have to pay £60.97 to have it repaired. My advice to you would be to consider this very carefully when making your choice. Rating: Reviewed by Bart Mcwala on 11/10/2009 This is the worse phone ever!!! The touch screen is slow im always having to update my music player 24/7 even if i havent downloaded any music. My bluetooth won't let me connect with Nokia, Samsung phones da stylus is hard to use when texting and the sound quality just sucks and the cameras rubbish "5mp" more like 1.3mp Idon't recommend this to any one don't buy this piece of trash!! Rating: Reviewed by josh112 on 10/10/2009 this is the best phone ever its better than the lg cookie and the prada but quite hard to scroll down:( Rating: Reviewed by Mr R.T.Fishall on 05/10/2009 As an "Old Fart", who after over 10 years with my old mobile, a Nokia 3310. Yes, I did say 3310, I bought this phone. I guess it will supply all my needs after a three week night school course on how to use all its features! Still, one of the great things about being old is that you don't have to worry about the "Street Cred" of your phone when all you want is a telephone! lol Rating: Reviewed by sam2974 on 04/10/2009 i really cant say much besides its the best phone out Rating: Reviewed by jj on 04/10/2009 sehr gut Rating: Reviewed by whale on 03/10/2009 far too laggy Rating: Reviewed by john sodden on 03/10/2009 john 4oct. i have had some problems with my battery only holding a charge for 18 hours or even less carphone warehouse not very helpfull as they say that sounds about normal as L.G has not identdefide afault has anyone ales had this as to me it is usless so ican only say it is rubbish. any coments thanks Rating: Reviewed by Joolz on 01/10/2009 Phone is ok but try getting your pictures off the phone onto your computer .. its nigh impossibe. You have no software disc with this phone ! Rating: Reviewed by Craig on 30/09/2009 where do i start? The battery dosnt seem to last, the phone only reconises my memory card when it feels like it, with photos on it it slows the phone down, and it keeps turning itself off if somthing taps against it in my pocket. not to mention the dificulty i have navigating the menus. DONT recomend it at all. Rating: Reviewed by Liban on 29/09/2009 Absolutely rubbish I would not reccommend it in the slightest very boring and unrelaible had 3 different handsets (yes 3 LG Viewties) all had issues they were brand new from carphone warehouse. LG should stick to making fridges and TVs not mobilephones or laptops! Rating: Reviewed by George Khoury on 29/09/2009 I have owned the viewty for the last 1 - 2 years and quite frankly this is the worst phone that I have ever operated or owned. The phone boasts a great camera and I will not decline this fact. For most probably the camera on this phone is the only properly functioning property that LG has mastered to build. Aside from the properly working camera, nothing else works properly: 1- The messaging module is terrible. It shuts down at will, closes the editing screen without you even trigering an event to close it. The phone exists the module without saving your messages at its own will. 2- The touchpad system is improperly implemented. The phone does not distinguish adequetly the user input and always misinterpurts the demands of the user. 3- The music player, the video editing software, and the word document reader are useless and quite slow. 4- The bluetooth is a pain to operate. 5- The battery dies rapidly without much use. One last note this phone is sturdy given it is still working after all the slamming and boxing it recieved a few minutes ago. Rating: Reviewed by Steve on 29/09/2009 Had it a couple of months and sent it back. phone is good but battery life poor. lasts approx 24 hours on standby. 3 told me today LG have ackowledged there are battery issues. simply no good to me if i have to charge it up every night. if your thinking i may be using it a lot, let me clarify. in the space of 24 hours i received 2 texts, no phone calls made or received. next thing i know phone has turned itself off again, due to flat batter. Rating: Reviewed by Razzaaaa! on 28/09/2009 i have had the lg viewty for 3 months now and there is good and bad points for it. some of the bad ones are that when you first have it and you haven't had a touchscreen before so this will happen to all people with first time touch screen phones is that it is really annoying because you cant do it. But dont worry, after awhile you get used to it so theres no need to go throw your phone at a wall or something :P Another bad thing is that 1 of my friends that also has this phone absoloutley hates it, she says it freezes 24/7 and dont work properly, i have told her that mine does not does this but she says it starts to do it after about 6/7 months so has anyone else had this problem after that amount of time? This phone, i think, is very good for taking pictures becauuse of the 5mp camera but the problem is when you have it the video only lets you record for 7 seconds, does anyone know how to change this? Overall i think this phone is good for taking pictures, texting and calling people and that is all a phone needs to do right? except videos which my phone dont seem to do for some odd reason. So my advice to people who want to buy this phone is you should get it if you only want it to show off to your mates or something, texting which is pretty hard to do at first and sometimes when you have got used to it and calling which is easy any other things like internet it is hard to do since it is touchscreen ygm? hope you have fun with your new phones and can some people please answer my questions xx Rating: Reviewed by elysa on 28/09/2009 this phone is realy bad i got it last mounth and tuch screen has movied and i have to charge it everyday dont get this phone Rating: Reviewed by ... on 27/09/2009 This phone has its good and bad points but they are mostly good, i have had this phone for at least 3 months now and so far i have been fine with it, apparently though when you have had it for a bit longer it does start to freeze, does anyone know about this that has had it for longer than 3 months? Another bad thing about this phone is that it can get annoying because of the touchscreen so if you have had it for a while and its annoying you, you do get used to having a touch screeen! It is very easy to scratch the screen and all over the phone i have many but it still works which is the main thing. i recomend this phhone to people who just want a phone to text, ring, show off, and take pictures on because you cant really do anything else. thanks for reading Rating: Reviewed by tomme on 25/09/2009 lol, i know people will probably slate me now, but i did keep this phone for alost 8 months until i had no choice but to change it. th reason i got a new phone was that the battery didnt last, to begin with the battery was ok (compared to sony ericsson etc...) but not great. towards the end of 7 months the battery was lasting about 1 day, granted i used it a lot on my 30 minute bus ride to and from work but tha to me does not constitute over usage as i have done this all my life. a few days before changing this phone i would have to charge it in work, usually just after lunch, then on its last day of survival i charged it 4 times. it charged for the night, got used on the way to work but turned off after 30 mins being off charge (not all of that time was on the journey as i took it off charge before leaving home) it was used during lunch and cut out after 20 minutes, then it was used on the way to an aunts house where it lasted 5 miniutes. i charged it for 1 hour in my aunts house which after it lasted for an amazing 30 minutes (with no useage at all), after that i decided i had to use my old phone which had lasted me 15 months while being my contracted phone, 1 week when a friend lost their phone and is still working now as i type this message an amazing 4 months later. as for the camera, 2 meg isnt a really good camera when you think that at the same time there were 5meg phones out, the xeon flash lasted me 2 weeks, apparently the phone wasnt classed as faulty because the flash's do tent to break. during the time i had that awful piece of equipment i could only take pictures in good lit areas which being 20 years old and having a social life wasnt very practical when clubbing. sound..... oh boy, oh boy, oh boy... quiet!!! i had to go on youtube and find out how to turn the volume up on the internal settings as here was no point in a phone you cant hear. while on holiday i dont expect to need to take a mini systyem(doubt the airport would allow me to take one with me), so i use my phone, when getting ready for nights out how am i meant to hear my music play? i will tell you how i did it... i bougly a megafone while out there, balanced the phone on its side and placed the speaker near the mic of the megafone....... i could actually hear it at a decent volume! but on a good note, the phone was simple to use and the touch pad never gave me any problems except when i was too drunk to use it. anyhow, thats it. and take my advice, dont get this phone!!! Rating: Reviewed by Robert on 25/09/2009 As I come to the end of an 18 month contract, I can state with certainty that this has been by some way the worst phone I have ever suffered. The battery standby time has been around 12 hours (assuming no usage)and purchase of a new battery had no effect, it is impossible to see the screen outside in daylight (compare the i-phone!), it doesn't hold its coverage and often has to be switched off and on again in order to obtain coverage,scrolling is frustratingly bad unless I use the wheel....the list goes on. I have been regularly tempted to take a hammer to it as my service provider could find no fault with it and was completely unhelpful. Rating: Reviewed by Claire on 24/09/2009 I've had the Viewty for about 9 months now. I used to love it, but not any more. I got it because of the 5mp camera and all the stuff that you can do with it (I'm big on taking photos from my phone)! I can't fault the camera. I think it's fantastic. Although it's tempremental when I'm trying to upload photos to my laptop. Sometimes they'll upload, sometimes they won't. But my gripes with this phone are these. Like I say, I've had the phone a while & about 5 or 6 months ago the touchscreen started to do it's own thing. You press for something & it brings something completely different up. Didn't bother me at first cos it didn't happen too often, but it's just got worse & worse, to the point sometimes where I'll just like to throw it against a wall!!! Annoying at the best of times, but worse when you're trying to text. It takes me forever to text a message because of this. Which brings me to my next gripe. I send & receive a lot of text messages rather than phoning. A bout 4 months ago I stopped receiving all my text messages, to the point where now I only receive a few. I have missed quite a few important messages because of this. I don't really use the phone for anything else so can't really comment on anything else. I'm just so fed up with this phone now. I have been to my network provider who have told me it's a problem with this particular phone which they're only recenntly hearing about. They offered to replace my phone but for the same one, just a new one. Seems pointless if it's just going to happen again. I've still got another year left on my contract before I'm due for an upgrade, but I'm SO fed up of the problems I'm having with this phone, that I've gone out & bought a new phone. My sister has an LG Secret & has had nothing but problems with her phone. It's been sent for repairs so many times cos everything keeps going wrong with it. So my advice would be to stay away from the LG Viewty & stay away from all LG phones, no matt er how nicce they look. I'm generally disappointed, because when this phone works, you can't fault it. I loved it. But when it doesn't work, you just want to chuck it against the wall!!! Rating: Reviewed by annonumous on 23/09/2009 i have the lg viewty and at first i thot it was great but after a while thu fone started to turn itsef of the earfones do not wrk properly and the battery life has gone from being reely gd and lasting a couple of days to dieing wen i play about three songs it also switches itself off wen i use the internet wich it didnt used to do or the camera and i am now not happy with the fone it has gone from being great to the most rubbish fone ive ever had and i no many people hoo have an lg tht switches itself off and has had the same problems as me so i wood not reccomend this fone to anyone :(( Rating: Reviewed by Jeff Lewin on 23/09/2009 Whilst the phone itself is fine. Along with a decent camera. The connection to p.c is absolutely rubbish. I spent hours trying to download the usb drivers, and LG pc suite. This was a total waste of time. It simply will not connect. LG offer no support whatsoever. The model is not even shown on there own site. They are clearly aware of its problems. Yet choose to ignore them. And the customers that purchased it. Try Googling LG KU990/LG KU990i. You,ll come across endless sites and forums showing these very problems. I ended up using bluetooth to transfer pics and vids. Both time consuming. And frustrating. As they are still selling this phone, knowing that it will not connect. Then I feel there is a "trade discription" issue. Avoid this product like the plague. I shall never buy LG again ! Rating: Reviewed by miya on 22/09/2009 it is brilliant the best phone ever get it is really cute Rating: Reviewed by hayzy00 on 22/09/2009 this phone is the poorest escuse for a touch screen to date. your lucky if you only have to calibrate it 4 times a day. Mine has now got so out of sinc i cant even calibrate it. ive never dropped it or damaged it in anyway. if u want a phone to shout and swear at for pretty much most of your day then go ahead. u Rating: Reviewed by Danny on 21/09/2009 Well ive had the LG Viewty for 6 months now and i have to say i think its a pretty good phone the camera and video player are great and the flash is brilliant. The viewty also has good internet connection is pretty goood keeping in mind when the phone was released. The battery life is ok but not great and when playing music with out headphones it can sound really tinny but thats what you can expect from any phone. all in all the viewty is a very goood phone and even to day the viewty isnt showing its age. Rating: Reviewed by Karl from Derby on 21/09/2009 Had the LG Viewty for 18 months and absolutely love the phone, gave me no trouble at all. Would recommend the phone to anyone. Rating: Reviewed by Deneez on 21/09/2009 I am loving my new Viewty Light BUT I dont like the battery life I hardly use my phone an odd text and perhaps one or two short voice calls per day and I can hardly get through the day without having to charge my battery. HELP Rating: Reviewed by cathy x on 18/09/2009 im getting a new one of these as i just sent 1 back because my sim card wouldnt work. i found that i got fingerprints all over the camera, but i loved it. recommended! Rating: Reviewed by your mum on 17/09/2009 awesome. Cool. Rating: Reviewed by Heather Mcneill on 17/09/2009 My advice for thoose of you thinking of buying the viewty is DONT seriously shut this page down and choose another phone. I thought the viewty would be getting old by now but i still see people buying it and regreting it. I got my viewty last september and loved it for the first week and then i got to using it and discovered loads of stupid things. Viewty dosen't let you do much in bulk if you want to save your contacts to your sim you've got to do them individually. The music player isn't very loud no matter how high the volume is and the camera is just about average. Its chunky and looks like a camera rather than a phone. The internet is slow and usually takes me 5 minutes to load one page just to click a button onto the next page. The pen on the outside is annoying and the battery life is pretty rubbish. All in all any good points i could say about this phone wouldn't make you want to buy it once you consider the bad parts. Seriously don't buy it!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Steve on 15/09/2009 I've had this a while now, and overall I'm very happy. Looks like a camera not at all like a phone. Easy to use, touch screen works, good photo quality. Hasn't crashed yet. Good price (I got it unlocked from a UK high street retailer for £99.99). Battery life a bit short but OK you just charge it overnight. But I've only used it for phoning texting and photos, nothing else. Can't comment on internet connection, radio, MP3 player etc. Minor niggles: - handwriting recognition for texts. Great idea, but it too often fails to recognise the letter you've written, even when you've done it clearly, so you lose too much time backspacing; - still on texting, I've tried all 3 texting methods (handwriting, keyboard and keypad) and while using the touch pad is cool I haven't managed to text faster than on my old push-button mobile. Too much backspacing with all the methods. - no stylus in the box. How stingy can you get! You really need a stylus, but you have to buy a pack of nintendo styluses (I say a pack as you keep losing them since there's nowhere to fasten a stylus to the phone!) - no lens protection (so a pouch is essential - do NOT chuck it in your pocket with your keys); - no optical zoom on the camera. - as everybody says, stupid place for the scroll wheel around the lens. - very minor niggle, but there are no proper smileys available. But overall you can't really complain at this price. Good value for money. Rating: Reviewed by Jenny on 15/09/2009 I was looking for a phone that had a good camera, to save me having to buy a digital camera, so when I read the description for this phone I thought, great! I bought the phone and was surprised to see it didnt come with any software? (every other phone I've had came with software..) So then had a look at the manual and it says you just connect the phone to your pc and away you go, but nothing happens, so I can't put my photo's onto the pc. The battery goes flat very quickly, and when browsing the web it's not very easy to use with the touch screen, like scrolling down the screen its very awkward. It's the most exspensive phone I've bought and certainly the worst, very disappointed, I wouldn't recommend it, and won't be getting another LG phone again. Rating: Reviewed by Lydia on 15/09/2009 I found this phone to be ok . The front camera has altoghether stoped working and the phone freezes up often. A few times the touchscreen jst stops working. THe camera is good and has excellent battery life ... i only had to charge it once this week and as i am a fifteen year old girl it has lasted ages! ... after a few months use the screen becomes very scratched as my cover peeled off ... photos are really hard to get off of the phone as it doesnt come with a usb conection ... all around it is a decent phone but i woldnt really recommend it to anyone my age . Rating: Reviewed by will on 13/09/2009 great phone but battery life not brill and screen prone to scratching Rating: Reviewed by pindy on 12/09/2009 this is the beast phone I have ever seen it is so much better than the Iphon arena Rating: Reviewed by julie on 12/09/2009 I have had this phone for over a year and have found it to be great. It may seem big to some people but if like me u are clumsy with phones it has taken all the knocks i have given it! This was my first touch screen phone and i found it to be excellent, it is responsive and fast. I have not had one single problem with it. Battery life is one of the best i have had. I am due for an upgrade and am not even sure i want one, if i do i will be keeping this in case i don't like my new one. Love it, buy one! Rating: Reviewed by Not a happy custemer on 09/09/2009 Buyer Beware this phone dose not come with free usb data cable our cd software you have to pay extra money of these. I bought the LG Viewty KU990 because it had a good equity camera & thinking that usb cable & cd came as standard for its ¤180 price tag. So i had to pay ¤20 extra for a usb date cable and i have to go through a lot of trouble finding the software on the internet. my view on the LG Viewty KU990 is i hate this phone and at times find it hard to use. A message for LG why sell a camera phone with no usb cable our software how am my going to upload my pictures on to my computer by magic. I give the LG viewty one star. Rating: Reviewed by lesley on 08/09/2009 hi, i have the lg viewty phone and i love d fact its touchscreen, its the most by far favourite phone i have bought yet an i do guy alot of mobiles in a space of a year... but the lg viewty is definately worth buyin there just so much i love bout it and as for battery life i can near go a week b4 i have to recharge it again....altho i have found wen usin the mp3 player and blastin out a few tunes it will eat up the battery juice!! but apart from this i like it, i love it, i cant get enough of it !!! xxxx Rating: Reviewed by Jason on 07/09/2009 I have had this phone for almost one year, when I first bought it. I experienced a problem, battery goes flat within 8hours although I only text say 10 messages a day. But then I got it back and they fixed it for free under warranty. After that it was great, battery lasts me 4 - 5 days. I would recommend it to anyone. Sadly I have sold this phone recently, because I am to upgrade to a newer phone :)A SE perhaps :D Rating: Reviewed by zaaaamey on 04/09/2009 I actually really do love this phone! Iv had it for about a year and loved it, but it just seemed a tad boring, so much that i didn't use it at all for a while. Also its just fudging broke! So the port for the charger, usb and headphone dosent work!! & Iv got 6 friends now with the same phone and 4 of them have also broke. So i wouldent buy it. Im actually looking for a downgrade now. The camera isnt all it cracked up to be (but having the camera on the frount is REALLY good) and its just fustrating to text & scroll. And after time it slows down LOADS. But its really stylish and nice, but nothing special really. Every ones got it now any way :L Rating: Reviewed by Doug on 04/09/2009 I bought the phone at phones4u after reading good stuff in all the reviews. I use it for about 10 minutes a day and the battery is dead after 2 days. The 5mp camera produces fuzzy images, it's useless indoors and the HSDPA / EDGE is no faster at accessing the internet than my old K550i even though the 'HSDPA available' signal is showing. I tried to take it back after a couple of days but the wide boys at Phones4u (I did buy it in Essex)aren't interested, so we're off to court. Maybe I got a dud but it's the only LG product I've ever bought and it's definitely the last. It was the only time I'll ever use Phones4u as well. Anyone know where I can buy a K550i? - I had one for years, it's a great phone Rating: Reviewed by Nick K. on 02/09/2009 I purchased a pre-paid LG Viewty KU990 six days ago and the battery problem is a real pain. I've had a Nokia 6230 for nearly two years and it lasts a good five days on a single charge, including talktime. A very reliable phone but I got a bit bored with it and wanted a screen big enough to do some groovy stuff when I'm out and about and can't be bothered lugging a laptop around for web connectivity. Not wanting to go back on a contract I decided to get a (relatively) cheap & cheerful Virgin pre-paid and liked the Viewty specs; however, very disappointed so far. For a 5MP camera the quality of the images are rubbish and the battery is flat within 24 hours on standby with a full charge. If I so much as think of using any of the functions, e.g. making a call, it dies due to lack of power. Frankly, I reckon the manufacturers published Talktime and Battery standby figures are pure fantasy. Wish I'd read some reviews online before I purchased the Viewty because the battery life appears to be one heckuva a big problem. What good is a mobile phone if the battery dies every time you want to use it. No wonder many reviewers say 'don't expect an IPhone killer'. Mind you, considering the price difference I don't know how anybody could. When you've used a quality brand for so long its hard to break your expectations, I've always had a Nokia. I was dubious about the switch at first because I've had a couple of bad experiences in the past with an LG DVD player and an LG PC CD/DVD drive; however, asking around some mobile phone shops in advance I was informed LG's were very reliable and sold well with few returns. Once again I found LG's website to be a letdown when I went searching it for firmware upgrades and support, just in case there was a workaround. So far LG you have failed to win me over and I keenly await a response to the email I left your Support Techies. (To be continued...) Rating: Reviewed by AdEs on 02/09/2009 I had the silver KU990 and it was just an OK phone. Not better than any of the other ones I've had. The worst thing about it was the touch screen sensitivity. I had never felt such a bad response when pressing it. My TYTN II and the Treo 680 were WAY better! I had to press so hard my fingertips were sore! The UI was laggy and almost not customizable. It works as a phone. But way below average. I wouldn't recommend it at all. The browser was fine, though. But again I almost had to grab the screen "massage" it real hard for it to work. Rating: Reviewed by Dave Harris on 01/09/2009 Well, it's early days but after a week of having the phone I think it's great so far. My main gripe having owned the k800i (which I loved!) is firstly, the 5 mega pixel camera can't compare to the k800i's mere 3.2. Whilst it isn't bad, it not as great as expected and struggles to produce a good pic if it isn't bright, natural light (nomatter what settings you change!) It also suffers if you do not keep a rock-steady hand when taking the pic - you almost need a tripod as even pressing the shutter can be enough to make a massive difference to the pic quality (especially in poor light conditions). Might I add, the colour is not as rich as the k800i. Now, about the battery life...the first day I had the phone it was attrocious! I was tempted to write my critical review there and then as it died with no warning little over half a day and at a time when I really needed it. Before jumping the gun, I charged it few more times overnight and the charge has held longer each da y. To those who have slated for the battery, I would say that firstly...give the battery chance if you have only just bought it, ensure that you have the brightness settings turned down and bluetooth off (when you can) If all else fails, there are some high capacity batteries that should give you adequate life and they are cheap if you look around. I've seen many negative reviews about the phone and mostly, (other than those that appear to have aquired faulty handsets) it appears to have been from those who havent read the instuctions/forums, haven't given it sufficient time to get used to, or have expected it to be like the iphone (picked it for its looks). I believe that even by todays standars, it is a great phone at a great price and I would certainly reccommend as long as you are patient and are prepared to read and find solutions to any problems you encounter. Rating: Reviewed by Banny on 01/09/2009 Bought this phone 2 weeks ago. It's a great phone. An absolute must for all gadget loving poeple out there, and people who are computer literate. Not so good for the opposite kind of person. Its different. when held, it doesnt 'feel' as good as the Iphone, but its more robust, almost masculine! lol The camera is top notch, lens does need a cover tho. That's my only gripe. It's chic in a retro kind of way. Its very 007 ;-) Love it! Rating: Reviewed by Susan Boyle 8 ma dog on 31/08/2009 Terrible push in plastic screen no capacitor like on my iPod touch camera isn't great quality either it's fuzzy don't fall for the 5.1 megapixel gimic battery lasts 1 hour even when switched off what a will say though is it had a good speaker and music player so they did do something right not ma kind of phone so dying to sell it would not recommend to buy Rating: Reviewed by daniel lynch on 31/08/2009 great phone but the problem is the net cuts out and the makes the phone turn off then on.i had to replace the phone 3 times and the problem is still there,how ever apart from that this is a cracking phone Rating: Reviewed by Nishat Farooqui on 30/08/2009 I LUV DIS FONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok m not officially required to comment on dis fone ad i had it only for 2 dez....but i tell u dis fone ROCKSS!!!! its got all d features of a VIEWTIFUL fone...its a true beauty.......except for d camera its not as clear as nokia N95 or oder nokia 5mp cams...but everythin else rocks.....incase ur d kinds a person who changes mobile evry yr or so u shud go for dis one....LG...Looks good.....likes good and leaves good.....IT ROCKSS!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Ornela on 29/08/2009 I got this phone 2 weeks ago. its amazing i love it. the battery life culd be a but better but that depends on how much u use ur phone (i use mine allot) the camera is amazing and so is the layout of the phone. the touch screen responds brilliantly. overall amazing phone... i highly recomend it. Rating: Reviewed by Amy on 27/08/2009 I got this phone in January and i loved it! It was really good, but then, slowly, the battery got worse and it became that i was struggling to find reception in certain areas in my house, yet, when i had a samsung phone i found signal everywhere, at first i thought it was just o2, however, my mum is on o2 and finds signal everywhere. Also, the phone doesnt work with windows vista! i haven't been able to put any photos onto the computer, which is a shame, because the camera isn't too bad. And finally, my touch screen is dying a bit too. If i go onto messages and try to touch inbox, it scrolls down and goes onto drafts. It is so annoying! If you want a phone, just for a couple of months, it's great. :) Rating: Reviewed by georgia on 27/08/2009 The LG Viewty looks great but does it feel great? it's a good price in CarphoneWarehouse but it only comes in silver and black, some peoplemight be phone consious abotht eh thickness of the phone but if you are not the i strongly recommend this phone to you. Rating: Reviewed by faz on 25/08/2009 viewty is a cheap goodlooking phone whith good features its a tough phone i would recommend it for people from the age 12-16 nice phone Rating: Reviewed by Eddie on 25/08/2009 Dont buy the touch screen is rubbish On the camera you have change where you want to store the photo e.g handset or external memery and the defult is the handset! And then it says the external memery is busy when its not. Its so fustrating!!!! I brought a ipod touch and the srolling is so much better than the veiwty. Trust me dont buy wast of money mainly because of the touch screen. Rating: Reviewed by Gemma on 24/08/2009 i got this phone 18th january contract £15 a month GREAT deal i love it and almost everything about it but i really dont like the texting much i always press the wrong letters but other than that it is the best fone eva i acidently put it in the washin machine and it survived which is amazing for a touch screen also my viewty has suffered many a fall but it is still going strong and i love the internet connection. thumbs up for the viewty Rating: Reviewed by Jaz on 23/08/2009 word of advice: change the camera settings to 5MP . there are two options: 3mp or 5mp. i suggest you alter your camera options before reviewing about the camera phone:) if you still have problems with camera quality then good luck i guess:) Rating: Reviewed by debs on 23/08/2009 i have had this phone from 3 mobile for some months and the features on this phone are good and easy to use it takes good quality pictures and video although when recording live music the sound can be appalling my biggest gripe is that the battery life in my phone is virtully non existant i do not get more than 12 hours daily of very light use (one or two texts and literally sitting in my bag with all power saving modes on) obviously if i actually use the phone like any normal user then i will get much less battery time. LG ONLY GIVE A 6 MONTH WARRENTY FOR THE BATTERY the phone has a 1 year warrenty (not that anyone will tell you this when you take out the contract) as i unable to send it away for repair in time i am now having to buy a new battery myself. Also paying an extra £7 just to have this phone over and above my usage contract so its pretty annoying that im now stuck with it. So all in all it's a decent phone if it would only stay alive long enough for me to enjoy using it !!! Rating: Reviewed by Al on 23/08/2009 Had this phone for 6 months and I'm really strugging with it. The touchscreen is very difficult to use for texting, especially if you have fingers larger than a childs. The touchscreen doesn't always work and I find myself having to press it 3 or 4 times before it works. I don't like the way photos are displayed/organised but maybe that's coming from Sony Ericsson phones. Poor battery life as well make it a real disapointment for me. On the plus side the camera is very good as is the screen display. Rating: Reviewed by Gertrudiie on 23/08/2009 absolutly pathetic phone Rating: Reviewed by bethany on 21/08/2009 I have had the viewty smart for about 6 weeks now, initially the handset felt tricky to use, as my last phone the samsung tocco was extremely simple, however i have now got used to the format of the phone. The cube concept allows four photos to be used as backgrounds which is a nice feature if you like to keep changing screens. However i have found i tend to just use the main home screen as from here its easy to navigate to most applications on the viewty smart. The multimedia page feels pointless, unless you like to listen to music alot, which i dont. Most of the features work well, i have had no problems with internet and sound quality is very good. The only thing that has to be said however for the camera is that although it takes brilliant pictures, once they have been sent to another phone which does not have an 8mega pixel camera or more, the pictures become disjointed and extremely blurry.This is a huge problem if friends or family do not have the technology on their phone. Despite previous reviews i have found that i have to charge my phone daily and this can be a problem if out and about, as when the battery life starts to fade it dies quickly. The positives of this phone is how simple it is to use despite its array of applications, the touch screen is extremely responsive and many of the phone profiles for silent mode or flight mode,for example, can be altered to cater to whatever alert you choose. For example i have altered mine so even in silent mode my messages are silent but when my phone recives a call it vibrates. This is a big bonus as sometimes set profiles do not cover the alert you desire. This phone is not 100% perfect but it is close, its a brilliant phone to have despite its little problems. If you want technology thats easy to use the lg viewty smart is a perfect answer. Rating: Reviewed by paul bringe on 21/08/2009 Absouloutly stunning i love it and i have only had it one day it holds a load of songs! Rating: Reviewed by sophie on 21/08/2009 i had this phone for a couple of hours and i really like the phone. my sister has the same phone. it really eay to use. i been reading reviews on this website for a week before i got it and i was in 2 minds to get it but now i have got it i am going to keep it until i dont know. i recoomend it to anyone who like new phones and everyone will like it. Rating: Reviewed by Jack on 20/08/2009 don't buy it worst phone ever trading it for nokia 5530 stay awawy Rating: Reviewed by Zac on 17/08/2009 This is a good phone for its price. it has many features and is great value. although when you dig deeper you find that it feels porly made and cheap. also the touch screen isn't as responsive as some of the other phones on the market today. Another point is that it doesn't have the appealing interface as some newer phones such as samsungs new touch screen phones. I am buying the samsung s5600 soon and judging by current reviews i would highly reccommend it. more features, more responsive touch screen and more interesting interface. Rating: Reviewed by bOB on 17/08/2009 This mobile phone can be summed up in one word "Junk". Don't buy it it won't work with any conmputers it won't do what you want and after two calls the battery is dead, boy oh boy LG have a real pig here! Rating: Reviewed by Matthew on 17/08/2009 I have had this phone about a week, so I can't comment on its reliability. There are certain things I like on the phone: It looks lovely, the camera is certainly better than that on my old D600, the touchscreen works well and isn't too fiddly, its battery life is sufficient for me (upwards of 48 hours) and it seems sturdily built. Other things are not as impressive: Carphone warehouse sells it with none of the accessories and the data cable is surprisingly hard to come by, the PC software isn't top notch, some of the translations on the phone and software are dubious ("press the centre of blinking" - ??), it refuses to connect to a PC via bluetooth, the menus sometimes experience minor delays and its reception is much poorer than my trusty D600. Overall I'm happy with the phone and will keep it. There are just a few oversights which mar the experience somewhat. Reading the manual carefully is a must! Rating: Reviewed by David Gomes on 16/08/2009 I've had this phone for one month, and just like a few reviews below say: you really need to read the manual. I think that you should have a Micro SD card of 4GB: it's important. I can watch my favorite youtube videos really fast in it, and I also can transfer episodes of good TV shows to the mobile phone and watch them with great quality and speed because the screen is really big. Just wanted to tell that about it if you want to buy it. I think it's an outstanding phone apart the battery life... ~David Rating: Reviewed by Django on 16/08/2009 I bought this LG KU990i 3 days ago and I have fully charged it twice but the phone battery kept going flat almost after 5 hrs. Goof design but worst usability for normal customers. I would even recommend this phone to my enemy. It's a shame that such a lovely phone can be brought down by a poor quality battery. Rating: Reviewed by eve on 16/08/2009 i hate it its clumpy and the screen scratches really easily, the touch screen messes up and shifs over for example you press 1 and it thinks you pressed 3.. the battery life is rubbish sometimes only lasts one day, it also hangs up by its self halfway phone calls.. really good camera tho! Rating: Reviewed by tatooandy on 14/08/2009 just bought my 2nd viewty what a great fone love it loads, got my 1st viewty dec 07 on 18 month contract when it ran out my service provider had none in stock so got samsung soul instead. not being one to judge without giving a fair chance tried soul for couple of months but no joy missed my old viewty so much so i just got another for £90 even though this model is 2 years old its still an amazing fone i never had any problems with scrollin txtin cam or battery just plain and simple it does what it says on the box exceptionaly well, full of features great camera love the touchscreen and its so easy to use even for people like me who dont read instructions. cant wait til contract runs out cos i'm gonna get viewty mk2 (smart i think its called) i would buy one but i couldn't resist ku990 for only £90 in high st store 10/10 for this great peice of i phone busting peice of kit Rating: Reviewed by Ollie on 14/08/2009 this phone is a ok phone but to be honest the novelty of the touch screen wears away you get your finger prints on it it is difficult to navigate. the camra is great and so is the video but if you ask me i would go for a samsung or sonny erricson this phone is to big and not practical and breaks easily Rating: Reviewed by E'W from brum on 13/08/2009 Brill fone (: Rating: Reviewed by Blue Laybourne on 12/08/2009 Hi I have had the LG viewty for less than a day now, I know its not a lot of time of having the phone to be reviewing it. I think the lg viewty is ok theres not much you can do on it. Rating: Reviewed by Martin on 12/08/2009 Sending it back again, last time the fault was "inactive usim", couldn't be repaired so they sent a replacement, complete with scratches. This time it won't accept incoming calls. It's strange that although LG list lots of other phones on their website, they don't list this one as a Viewty or K990U, strange......unless it's made in Korea and badged as a LG product, they wouldn't do that would they ? Guess I'll just keep sending it back till the guarantee runs out. As soon as I get it back, I'll bang it on Ebay and get what I can for it, let some other unfortunate have a go with it, with all the outstanding reviews on here, should be plenty of takers. Rating: Reviewed by Rob C on 12/08/2009 An excellent phone - but it is totally let down by its battery life. Even without making any calls, the battery often runs out after just over 12 hours. A new battery fails to make a difference. A search of the web shows that this is a common problem. A real shame, because although it now looks quite dated, this is still a decent phone. Rating: Reviewed by benjamin abraham-dolohov on 11/08/2009 the LG viewty is an amazing contraption and i love it! much recommended. Rating: Reviewed by Lindsay on 09/08/2009 Well first things first i absolutely love this phone! i've had it for 2 months now and im so happy i chose it! The only bad things i can say about it are the battery life is pretty bad, mine needs charging near enough every night, but i do use it lots, so depending how much you use it will depend how many times you'll need to recharge it! And also make sure you get a screen protector when you buy it, within 3 days of having mine i scratched the screen, but purchased a screen protector soon after and i can't even see it now. But apart from that it is such a good phone, the camera is awesome and so is everything else! Rating: Reviewed by Molly on 09/08/2009 I Am Getting The Viewty Lite In a few Weeks And I have Read Probaly All the Reviews Possible And I love The sound of This Phone.:) It's Just To Bad That The Purple One At The Capphone WareHouse is MOre Money Than The Silver And Black! :( Rating: Reviewed by chalky on 09/08/2009 Kev...what a total load of rubbish... belive me, affter a while, you'll hate this phone. I have had it for 12 months now and cannot wait to smash it. first, texting.... The T9 is useless and couldn't predict its own birthday. When you add a word to the dictionary, it sometimes uses this word ALL the time, even if you have only ever wanted to use it once. Other times, it forgets the word after a couple of days and you have to add it to the dictionary again, and again, and again.... For some reason, it belives the number 47 is used more than the word 'is' is used, it is terrible. Typing, when connected to the internet, is slower than you can imagine, if you can type pretty quick, it does not show the letters on the screen, and then all of a sudden it 'catches up' with you in a massive rush, very annoying. When i select 'messaging' and then press inbox, or write message, it sometimes scrolls slightly, but the item is not selected, hit it again, and it scrolls a little again.... again, very annoying. The internet locks up sometimes, and just says connecting constantly, then the signal dissapears. Wont be long before your hands free option is not working, callers wont be able to hear you, so hands free has to be turned off. When in a call, and you need to select options, ie, numbers 1 - 5 or whatever, you have to unlock the phone, then activate the numerical pad, all this whilst in the middle of a call !! scrolling the screen through text messages or contacts can be eratic, not all the time, just now and then, but when it happens, its again, annoying. this phone seriously needs a firmware upgrade. Contact LG and they direct you to the firmware upgrade page on their website. You download a piece of software, conect the phone, which is then scanned, and tells you that your phone does not support the software? that is just pathetic. in short, once you have got over the initial 'oooh I have a nice new phone' you'll see the problems and hate it. I will never ever buy another LG product, and have told the company, who weren't interested. Rating: Reviewed by Rhys :) on 09/08/2009 Yes the Viewty is something to be excited about for the first few month of having it, but then you realise how slow it is, the more things you have on there, the longer it takes to load your inbox, iv'e had the viewty for nearly a year now, and i cant wait to get rid of it in october. Rating: Reviewed by jack on 06/08/2009 the lg viewty is two slow it freezd some tims with is sogie Rating: Reviewed by chloe on 05/08/2009 Overall this phone is brilliant. The 5 megapixel camera is really good and is handy to snap any photos of detailed scenery while on your travels without taking a bulky and expensive digital camera. The touch screen is really easy to operate, and the styler easily ties on to the top of the phone. The menu on the viewty is realy simple to use, you bearly need to look at the manual. However the only downside is the bulkiness of the phone, its very heavy to carry, and does tend to take up a lot of space in both your bag and pockets. Rating: Reviewed by sania on 03/08/2009 the lg viewty is an amazing phone the camera is 5mp and has flash and all extras it very good Rating: Reviewed by Awkeelaw R. on 30/07/2009 -frankly.i love the phone.i qot it today.and i aqree with everythinq you put in thee article.it is qreat.and to all the idiots who think naviqation is hard...take yur biq finqers off the screen &+ qet the pen...like me.=].but the battery life is short.but its alot of stuff it has to keep up...so buy two batterys and keep them with yhu.[charqed] thats what im qoinq to do.=].....ohh text messaqe! bye! Rating: Reviewed by Jack on 29/07/2009 I got the ku990I and did not get the usb cabel software or stylus which is bre annoying ! Rating: Reviewed by Shambob on 28/07/2009 Good features such as the camera, screen size, modem capability are let down by the interface. Not at all easy for texting-maybe this is a feature of touchscreens. Scroll/zoom wheel just a bit too awkward to allow one-handed use - and doesn't allow you to scroll when using it with the internet. Very few decent applications available, and none with touchscreen. Could let you customise it more. Rating: Reviewed by ME on 27/07/2009 The phone was great =] but mine got stolen =[ shows how much people want it x Rating: Reviewed by The G on 27/07/2009 this phone is not the best. i had problems with it about 2 weeks after purchase it started to slow down loading was a a long wait. there is no boubt that the camera is an exelent piece of work and the slow motion feature is exellent (great for recording stupid stuff at school) if you were to buy this phone you are making a bad choice there are just as good phones for a lower prices with better features. Rating: Reviewed by Aaron on 25/07/2009 lg viewty is one of the best that lg heave ever brought out to me,it has all the latest technology and even at a reasonable price. the camera is fantatsic and it is just like a normal camera iv used this phone for special occasion for taking photos and i even prefer it over my actual camera. overall i give this phone a rating of 5 stars Rating: Reviewed by Jessica on 25/07/2009 The LG Viewty is brilliant and fun, i would recommend it to anyone! Rating: Reviewed by will on 24/07/2009 This phone is awful. So thin scroll bar it is hard to scroll up and down. Doesn't hold much music only about 10 mp3 songs and 10 pics. The camera is good but hard to navigate and the size of the phone is huge to thick to fit in your pocket. Rating: Reviewed by hannah on 24/07/2009 Well im only 13 but please read this review before contemplating buying the viewty (KU990). My dad bought me LG viewty for christmas 2009 after months of deciding & reviewing almost every phone on the market. The viewty had good reviews & seemed fine, but it wasnt for me. I find the phone hard to control & i don't like the setup of the menu. There are no shortcut keys & you have to be like a statue to take a decent non-blurry picture. Also after 3 weeks of using the phone the screen just stopped workin altogether & my mum had to pay £40 for a new screen. Also the phone sometimes freezes & refuses to do certain actions. Therefore i am giving the viewty 3 stars, i hope this has helped someone, please note this is my opinion, yours may be different, but definately look into it before buying. Rating: Reviewed by Stefiana on 23/07/2009 I know why people are writing bad reviews, they're just writing it because they really don't know how to even use it. This phone isn't for SOME people. I'm not exactly a pc whizz but for me this phone is outstanding. It's really easy to use the touch screen works...etc. I have had this phone for a month now and nothings gone wrong at all. The only thing i have to criticise is the price. But hey ho it's 1000% worth it...! Rating: Reviewed by kayleigh on 23/07/2009 this phone is excellent it has features that evertone would want.A fantastic camera and much more all at a reasonable price. I have had no problem with this phone since buying it in 08.The camera is perfect and i use it for all special occasions it just like a camera in fact with 5.1mp you cant really go wrong.The LG Viewty is one of LGs best his phone to anybody. Rating: Reviewed by passer-by on 22/07/2009 the mp3 player sucks Rating: Reviewed by Hannah on 21/07/2009 This phone is like... AMAZING!!! It is my first touch screen phone, and I want to keep it FOREVER! I LOVE IT!!! The camera is fantastic, I can just take a picture so easily now, oh whatever, just go out and BUY IT!!! thanx 4 all your brill reviews, it helped me buy my perfect phone! Rating: Reviewed by Jenni on 21/07/2009 I'm so fussy with phones but I love this one. Good enough camera to blow up the picture to a 15" laptop screen (if picture taken in day light) Texting with the touch screen keypad took me a long time to get used but once you're used to it's fine - although I can't text without looking anymore! Having such a large screen makes it more vulnerable to breakages & scratches but if you look after it this wont be a problem. Rating: Reviewed by anonymous on 19/07/2009 Overall, I would comment the LG Viewty KU990 is a excellent mobile phone, very near outstanding. PROS: The 5MP camera is very good, feels like a proper camera only slimmer and easier to use. Many options and functions, flash, easy zooming with the rotating lense outercircle. Lock option to prevent misclicking whilst in your pocket for example. Clear and pleasing to the eye layout, easy text-messaging, good phonecall signal, nice to have options for calendars and/or clocks on the screen's "main page", good internet connection/layout, excellent sound for MP3 Player, camera facing towards you for easy profile pictures/videocalls, flight mode so that you can use phone whilst on an aeroplane, good bluetooth, menu saving - a bit like tabs on the internet so you can do more than one thing simultaneously (E.g. listen to music whilst sending a text). CONS: Only one socket for charger/headphones, slightly "bulky" compared to other mobiles I've had, limit of themes (only 3), the touch screen sometimes makes you do wrong functions (on the internet, I accidently bought a song which I didn't want to!), sometimes I felt the battery life was short, slightly sensetive as my screen cracked inside and I didn't know why (and I had to stop using it) Overall, I'd say get the phone! I'm considering buying a Tocco, but lots of reviews say it is bad, so maybe I should opt for another Viewty! Rating: Reviewed by stewart on 18/07/2009 DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!!!! the battery life is a joke!!!! dropping a bar of battery for a picture is takin the mickey... also this issue isnt mentoined much but the slider switch for the camera is very flimsy and breaks easily....i have broken two now on two viewtys and managed to get my money back...phew!!! so avoid any lg phones in my opinion.... Rating: Reviewed by Yoooo' on 17/07/2009 Fantastic Rating: Reviewed by A Miss Smith on 17/07/2009 I got this phone as a present and i didn't actually want it i wanted the cookie but now i have changed my mind.I have the KU990i which is upgraded and its fantastic!! I really love the touchscreen (i have always wanted a touchscreen phone) the camera is amazing and so is all the apps with it another thing is the memory it has loads! I have had no troubles with the battery life i think it is good it normally lasts me a good three days. It was from tesco and im on O2 and the signal is always great. A few minor problems are you don't get headphones or a usb cable but hey its only another couple of pounds. I would reccommend this phone to anyone its the easiest phone to use and i love the scroller on the camera its really good! So five stars well done LG!!!! Rating: Reviewed by kayleigh on 17/07/2009 i hate this phone, ive had it since october and already the back has completley broken off. the camera zzom no longer works. there are white dots under the screen that makes it hard to see whats on the screen. the battery life is awful. i have to charge it everyday. the lg pc suite it comes with dosnt work with my windows vista. would recommend you do not buy this phone Rating: Reviewed by Elaine on 15/07/2009 Brilliant phone if you need a good camera, and the touch screen is good if a little tempramental. The Viewty is rubbish if you need a good organiser! I chose this phone on the recommendation of the calender and organiser features, what they omitted to mention was that you are restricted in memory for the organiser and you cannot extend it. Even if you buy a memory card you can load loads of music (also a tricky job) and photo's, but once you have entered 100 items into the organiser- it's full! Can choose between a normal pone key oard and a QWERTY key board, but it changes itself back to the phone keyboard on t's own. Touch screen a bitt fiddly if you have no nails! Rating: Reviewed by rusafa on 15/07/2009 its an "ok" phone overall.5 MP camera isn't that satisfactory.the picture colors are really very dull.video quality is quite good.i am actually facing 2 major problems and i seek your help: 1)when i start playing the games,after say 2 minutes the screen goes dead or something and the phone restarts itself (horrible) 2) nowadays when i click on "my images/sounds/videos etc" located in "my stuff"....it says "NO ITEMS".then i switch off the phone and turn it on again.hen the pictures again appear.after 5 minutes the problem again comes up!!!!!! it has been only a week i am using the phone. i am really disappointed and please tel me ho to fix it Rating: Reviewed by Frank on 15/07/2009 Scroll is terrible, It opens app when trying to scroll, no lens cover, no usb cable or headphones in box from 3, so no radio and pc sync will not work unless you spent more money. Screen froze on the first day. On booklet it doesnt mention what should be in the box, had lots of running around trying to get the parts for it to function properly, stick to making cameras, nokia and ericssons are real phone companies. Rating: Reviewed by Lee on 14/07/2009 I've used this phone for over a year and still like it a lot. Slim and slick. Only problem is that the screen (and therefore the keyboard) is difficult to read in bright sunlight. Will probably upgrade to an Android phone soon, such as the HTC Hero. Rating: Reviewed by Dean on 14/07/2009 i got this phone about a year ago and i didn't think it was that good but then i got the sony ericsson c902 and wish i had back the viewty, the camera is ok the only 2 things that i dont like about this phone is the touch screen and there are hardly any game when i got the phone Rating: Reviewed by tigerzhai on 13/07/2009 i bought a LG Viewty few weeks ago and nightmare began. the phonebook design is the worst i ever see. the phone to pc connection software are not working properly. I advice everybody think it carefully before buy LG mobile Rating: Reviewed by connor on 13/07/2009 all i can say about it is it's a dream phone.i think it's better than the iphone by far. Rating: Reviewed by Adiil on 07/07/2009 THIS phone is CLASSS!!!!!!!!!! Had it for 4 months now got it on orange from carphone warehouse for around £100 this is well worth the money the battery life is ok for me as i charge it every night .. loving the camera , its AWEESOME. I was going to choose the LG SEcret , Nokia 5800 or this and i it all payed off. 5 stars!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Sarah on 06/07/2009 I absolutly love this phone, but the only gripe i do have is the charger!! It doesnt seem to say in properly and they keep breaking!! Rating: Reviewed by Steve on 03/07/2009 I have the LG KU990 and I have to vent my frustration at having to unlock during the call when replying to "press 1 for more options" etc eg. when picking up messages, getting through to a call centre etc both of which I do often. And not just having to do this once during the call but having to do it every time I want to key a number because it locks itself again! I hear people saying but what about accidentally pressing a key during a call - well it's very rare I don't use hands free these days. Just having the option to switch it off would be nice!!! Rating: Reviewed by RICH on 02/07/2009 Got a new viewty this week and had to take it back because the battery only lasted 12 hours.they exchanged it with another viewty but the battery life is exactly the same.i love this phone but dont think i can live with its poor battery life Rating: Reviewed by ryan on 01/07/2009 im dissapointed with the ku990i, its complicated for no reason, i figured it out but it was annoying at first. camera is great except for recording and playing back videos, quite often it wil stop recording sound part way through i have more than 1gb free and i dont have it set on a high resolution. it wont set some full length mp3s as ringtones. the internet works when it wants to, sometimes its fast other times slow an loses connection very easily. also i didnt get any accesories which was unusual, just the charger no handsfree or software or data cable Rating: Reviewed by mohammed is in ur garden on 30/06/2009 onee of the reasons this phone may break is if you play around with it wen ur uploading stuff Rating: Reviewed by S Webb on 29/06/2009 Who knew that choosing a new mobile could be so difficult! After much deliberation I finally settled on the Viewty and I have to say after 2 weeks with it I am very glad I did. I like the styling of it (very important if you're me!), it feels good in the hand and doesn't weigh my pocket down when I'm at work. The touch screen is responsive and easy to cope with. Texting has been no problem and I can text almost as fast just using my finger on the touch screen as I could on my old Nokia using the keypad. The camera is top notch and the video camera also. I haven't used these extensively but have taken a few really nice pics that easily rival my brand new Fuji camera so what more could you ask for? Call quality has been crystal clear with no signal worries (I'm on Virgin) and bluetooth has had no issues either. I decided to give it 4 stars due to the battery life and the software that came with the phone. I don't class myself as a heavy user, just a few texts in the day and the odd call and so far, I'm charging the phone after a day and a half. This could be due to the 'newness' of the battery and may sort itself out over time but so far it hasn't been great. The software disc that LG supply is atrocious and simply does not work. I have been on several internet techy forums and they all say the same thing-buy a memory card and use it as a mass storage device. It's the only way it will allow you to put content on your phone. Things like that annoy me because it is sloppy and shows a lack of care from the manufacturer. Shouldn't happen in this day and age really. But, having said that, they are only minor gripes. The Viewty is a great package overall and I am more than happy with it. If you buy one, I'm sure you'll be happy too. Rating: Reviewed by Alyx on 28/06/2009 Phenomenal. A brilliant system, its lighter than the, iphone, and all comes in a sexy, sleek phone case. If you ever are stuck in a decision between the Viewty or the cookie, get the Viewty. The cookie may be thinner, but it has so little apps, only runs on 2G networks and has a terrible camera. I got this when my Blackberry storm broke, and I belive that this phone is incredible compared to it's main rivals, the cookie, storm and the Iphone. The camera is brilliant, slo-mo is jokes, and the touch-screen is amazing. If your looking for a really fast phone which is reliable, easy-to-use, with a great camera, plus a touch-screen, and most importantly, a whole lot of fun, then this is the phone for you. Rating: Reviewed by Helen on 28/06/2009 omg best phone in the world easy to use Rating: Reviewed by Andy C on 28/06/2009 How can a 5mp ccd coupled with a name lens take such crappy photos? As for candids forget it! takes ages to boot up. I still gave 4 stars because as a phone and medis player it is very good. LG make a phone without the camera stuff (not even vga) and put all the work into the interface and screen. I would bite your hand off! Rating: Reviewed by lklaa on 27/06/2009 this phone is amazing! Its so easy to use, and if you get fustrated by not being able to scroll up and down with ur finger, then you can always use the button on the back to scroll. Picture quality is good, and its very hard to find a 5 mega pixel camera nowadays for around 100 pounds. its easy to view your photos in like a photo library. this phone makes ur pics look brill! the only thing is, the battery life isnt too long, but its probably because ive been on it so much as its such a great phone! Rating: Reviewed by Rhianne on 26/06/2009 For the people that say that "there is no button to delete text while writing an sms" - there is. It is the cancel (C) button which is situated between the red (hangup) and green (call) button. No highlighting needed. The thing that really annoys me about this phone is when my mailbox is full. I often receive a text from someone which makes my mailbox full while I am in the middle of writing a text to someone else. There is then no option to create space in order to successfully send (or save) the text that I have just written. The only option available to me is to delete what I have written, then delete some in my inbox, then re-write what I wanted to write. On occasion this has happened to me repeatedly which proves to be so tedious and extremely frustrating. Rating: Reviewed by Dennis on 26/06/2009 I have just purchased Viewty Lite from o2 on 'pay and go' for £127.22 I like the phone and the camera seems briliant but I am very suprised to find out that for this money the usb cable to connect to a PC and Ear piece which doubles as an antenna for the radio are listed as purchasable extras. I found this out by ringing both o2 and LG because I thought they were missing from my box!! Additionally as they are extras, needed to operate the phones features, it would have been helpful if this information had been include in the box. Plus cost and where to buy. Rating: Reviewed by Andy Murphy on 25/06/2009 Hate it. The one star is for the look of it. I've used it for a week and it is going back purely due to the fact that it does not feel finished and appears to have gone out the door without any usability trials. My own personal gripes: * Scroll on the touch screen sometimes works, sometimes selects an item. To be sure you have to navigate using the job control that's round the camera lens. * Text message navigation (when creating a text) is awful (scrolling through a text/deleting characters are not obvious, you'll require the manual to figure out how). * If you copy your contacts from your sim onto your phone or vice-versa (to keep them in sync), you end up with two different contacts and both are displayed in your contacts list! If you do it again, you'll end up with duplicate entries on the phone or sim. * Same with the groups, although I've not found out how to delete a group once it is there. * The same contact has different functionality on the sim as it does on the phone. Phone contacts allow the allocation of specific ring tones etc, whereas sim contacts do not. * It is a nightmare to try to move a file from one location on your phone/sim to another (the full range of locations available appear to be filtered so you cannot select them). * Have I mentioned the duplicated contacts? * Bluetooth. No option to allow a paired device to connect automatically next time. * Bluetooth. Generally appears (to me) to be hit and miss. Might be my fault. * Ring tone volume can be altered whilst the phone is ringing but this will not be remembered next time the phone rings (what's the point?). If the above is not important to you then the phone is light and good looking, from my point of view though I hate the phone and am sending it back. At least I tried. Rating: Reviewed by james on 23/06/2009 i loovvvve this phone!!!!!i hear they are 100 pounds but i think its worth it!!i have this phone tho i found it so i didnt have to spend money on it!! i feel sorry fo the person who lost it !! Rating: Reviewed by ema on 23/06/2009 lg viewty was so good it lst so good ecpesiallt the camera Rating: Reviewed by jason on 23/06/2009 THE LG VIEWTY . I've had it for a couple of days now got it on the 19.6.2009. Did not realise how long it had been out. I got it for £100 from vodafone. For what it can do and being a touchscreen. It's well worth it. Especially if you can't afford a more expensive one. Rating: Reviewed by Chris Smith on 23/06/2009 The LG Viewty is absolute rubbish if you buy it on pay and go. it is built cheaply and the battery often fails. after around six months you will find that it starts to slow down so much that it takes ages to do what you want. i know that this is not just my particular phone doing it as i have three friends with the same phone that has had the same problem LGs are rubbish and personally after what i have heard from other people and through personal experience, i definatly would not get another one. stick with nokia or sony ericsson. Rating: Reviewed by dan m on 23/06/2009 Im finding the phone ok but its the texting that is really annoying there is no button for the deleting so you have to high light the word then type it out again or is there another way if so could somebody tell me please this would be great help thanks. Rating: Reviewed by Catherine on 22/06/2009 I LOVE THIS PHONE ITS ONE OF THE BEST EVER MADE!!!!! I've had mine for about 3 weeks and I've had no problems at all I could not fault it. The Camera's great! The touch screens great I think this is so much better than any phone I've ever come across! I would definatley reccommend this phone to anyone and everyone! Rating: Reviewed by London on 22/06/2009 it is amazing phone i wish i still had mine (i lost it :( ) in the 6months i had it was amazingg but the battery life is very poor espcially if you levave bluetooth on and/or text a lot in one day. other than that brilliant. if you have the choice get it! Rating: Reviewed by alex on 22/06/2009 fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Mary on 22/06/2009 I've had the Viewty for 18 months now. I was looking forward to a touch phone as I use a touchscreen pda extensively. my contract is over and I can't get rid of it fast enough. texting is a nightmare, I couldn't find a delete or backspace button resorting to highlighting and pressing space, very awkward - if miss-judged by the slightest amount it pulls up an attachments screen, the script writing is completely unusable, the predictive text wasn't very predictive and often comes up with the weirdest suggestions for words. The scroll button on the camera lens is far too fiddly to use even as a focussing tool it would have been much more user friendly to have had the button on the side of the phone. The dangly stylus thing kept coming apart and finally broke after 3 months. There's no option to extend the number of rings before it goes to voicemail. It goes into autolock far too readily, bizzarely when autolock is turned off. The software for uploading photos wa s a bust I can only upload photos if I send them to the SD card and set the phone as a mass storage device. The headphones jack adapter would have been a great idea if only the adapter didn't drop out of the adapter socket at the slightest brush or movement. In my opinion LG have tried to cram too many potentially great features into a phone that would have been much better if they had devoted their energies into perfecting the touchscreen facilities. Rating: Reviewed by beckyy on 21/06/2009 amaaazing! :) Rating: Reviewed by annabel on 21/06/2009 absolutly rubbish! ive had this phone for a year and ive had to have 3 replacements because it keeps breaking, battery really rubbish and the side locking button always breaks. do not waste your money on this mobile Rating: Reviewed by jimmy on 19/06/2009 i loveee this phone!! it is the best!!! people say lgs fones arent any gud. but this is my second and i have NO complaints!but i just want to say to lou that ur battery probably loses battery because you leave your bluetooth left on!!!thats a problem Rating: Reviewed by Lou on 17/06/2009 This is an excellent phone. It was my first touch screen phone, music sounds brilliant, photos are impressive. I used many of its features. Only thing that really throws it back is the battery. I now only use the phone for texting, rarely calls and little else to make the battery last. I turn it on only when at work (5 hours a day) and although the battery only lost one bar after a week - I turned it off last night with 3 bars left - this morning it wouldnt turn on. So this isnt a problem with power draining features. Rating: Reviewed by Lou on 17/06/2009 Maybe I got a dud. After poor batter life (I only texted, few calls and bluetooth/music up to 30 mins a weekday had the phone turned on during the day but off at night) I powersave, only text mostly, few calls, dont have 3G, dont multimedia or internet or bluetooth and only turned it on when I needed the phone (5 hours a day). First battery bar disappeared after 8 days - great. The phones is amazing dont get me wrong, but my battery seems to lapse into comas. I turned it off last night with only 1 bar missing and it would not turn on this morning unless I charge it first. Great phone - naff battery. Rating: Reviewed by David on 16/06/2009 This trully is the best phone i have ever had, and i don't usually like touch screens, it's much better than the iphone. I recomend that you buy this phone, really, it's great. Rating: Reviewed by daz10_uk on 15/06/2009 Excellent phone but on Orange pay as you go you dont get cables to download music from your computer and also you dont get headphones for listening to the FM radio and making handsfree calls. Think about this before buying the phone Rating: Reviewed by Banksy on 15/06/2009 I have had this phone for 2 years now, and it has broken. The battery has shorted out and the touch screen has fizzled. Tried contacting LG but not good at all, very un helpfull. Would recomment the phone at first but not now, rubbish. Go for the new smart model coming out this year, should have sorted out the simple to fix problems. If you are thinking about this phone then go for the Samsung Tocco, much better phone, still with the 5mp camera and intergrated voice recognition (IVR). Rating: Reviewed by Eviopia on 15/06/2009 It is a brilliant phone though if your an adult it will probably take a long time to get uses to as it is fiddely but it is an exelent phone to have an well worth the money. Rating: Reviewed by wazza on 13/06/2009 no offence jhodgski but if you want good music then buy A ipod coz phones are 4 calling and textin and music's just for your ringtone. btw i think this phone's amaizing. the only bad thing is that my flash went dodgyy :/ Rating: Reviewed by emma on 13/06/2009 this phone is terrible had it for a month then the wires came loose and wouldnt charge it was not caused by me they said it was unficable and refused to replace it !DO NOT BYE THIS PHONE IF YOU WANT TO BE LEFT PHONELESS !!! looks good works bad =[ Rating: Reviewed by belly on 12/06/2009 the phone is really good great camera - slightly slow though nice touch screen great music player good quality colour screen nice looking only problem - short battery life other than that a great buy Rating: Reviewed by Carl Wainwright on 12/06/2009 This is a shocking phone I've had it three months and wish i hadn't bought it The Sound Cuts out on video regularly either from the start or half way through,the camera generally blurs photos, theres no ringtone settings,the battery life is rediculously bad,the memory card slot is hidden underneath the battery. the only good point is the 640x480 widescreen video capture mode,FM Radio,MP3 music and ringtone Option and Touchscreen element My advise is save your money as you'll be hugely disappointed. Rating: Reviewed by Mark on 11/06/2009 Very good phone, but does'nt come with a stylus and a memory card. Rating: Reviewed by Lena on 11/06/2009 Have had this phone for the last 16ish months and on the whole it's been really good. The camera is very high quality and takes very clear images, the touchscreen is very responsive, allowing you to type text messages at lightening speed, internet is fast and the large screen makes all the difference. However, the phone itself is clunky and poorly designed, from the back it looks like a camera and not a phone. Also the battery isn't brilliant unless you only use the phone only lightly. The menus are intuitive and easy to use but aren't customizable. Even though this is a good phone, I got bored of it very quickly and can't wait to upgrade to G1 or HTC Magic! Rating: Reviewed by lauren on 08/06/2009 i think it phone is rubbish, it broke after a week when my mate had it !!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Emily on 07/06/2009 Ive Had my phone for months now and it really is a good phone. It's been chucked about and abused yet there are hardly any marks on it and still works well. The only fault I have with the phone is how slow it is to view pictures, but then again I have 700 odd pictures stored. The videocamera is better than the actualy camera aswell Rating: Reviewed by ashleigh on 06/06/2009 i think this phone has been my best. its great i love everythinn about it. its outstanding! i would say everyone should atlease try this phone out Rating: Reviewed by rahel on 06/06/2009 firstly i would just like to say before buying this phone i read nearlly all of these comments but i would have to say nearlly half of them are worng. they say scrolling down, texting, and touch screen has problems. but its all nonsens because this is one of the best phones and its so great looking. its touch screen its beautifull and much better then the prada and to scroll down might be abit hard to do if your new to touch screen phones, but you will get used to it after 2 or 3 days so its no problem and texting....how could people even talk about this, this phone has handwriting reconisation so if you cant type write like you would write a letter! if you are thinking of buying this phone do because you wont be disapointed Rating: Reviewed by Lizzie on 04/06/2009 Ive had this phone about a year and I am my 2nd handset because the camera suddenly stopped working one day and T-mobile sent me a new handset. Good phone all round. No games which is a downside as they are quite exspensive to buy from the phone. I have tetris which I brought for £4.00 although it is the real EA games version and the phone is good to play that sort of game. Sometimes the touch doesnt work and it takes ages to write a text when that happens although it doesnt happen very often. The battery isnt the best, I have to charge it everyday which I dont mind as I have it on charge at night but it runs out well before. The layout is good, FM radio, good music player. Memory card slot which I have a 2gb memory card in. Sometimes phone wipes memory card and i lose everything but I just have to turn the phone off and back on and it all comes back. The cam is excellent! Ive had some lovley pictures from it. It is a very bulky phone and not as slim as some of the newer touchscreen models. I would recommend the phone to someone who is not careless as dropping it could damage it extremley bad but also it is not a good phone for someone who depends on their mobile alot as alot of time I am away from home when battery goes then im stuck. All round good phone but I having a crack at a nokia tomorrow. Ready for a change. Rating: Reviewed by J Read on 02/06/2009 Nice phone but, a toy really and only fit for a handbag / man bag.Its to big for pockets, too easy to scratch the screen and worse of all you cannot see the screen in sunlight. I find its complex to use with too many menus to scoll through. Great if you love gadgets. Avoid if you want a phone ! Rating: Reviewed by jo on 31/05/2009 great phone, bit heavy, hard to text at first but u get used to it. I think im gunna get the new one when its out on a tarriff other than orange :P x Rating: Reviewed by Alyssa on 31/05/2009 The LG viewty has a brilliant camera, the touch screen is responsive and great to use. You don't even need the stylus! Browsing the web is simple and fast. Despite many reviews on various website, I find the battery life to be incredible for the technology of the phone. The quality of the photos is very high, and you can do many things to edit them to your needs. The only down side for me has nothing to do with the phone itself, its the fact that the box only comes with a charger and a manual. Basically, the best phone I've ever had! Rating: Reviewed by Annonymous on 30/05/2009 I have only had The LG viewty for two days, but already I have fallen in love with it. Some say that the battery life isn't any good, but mine is great! Although I charge my phone up every night, It hasnt lost battery since I have bought it (two days a go.(I did not charge my phone up over night for this one time, as I heard about the battery.) ) Although this fantastic phone does not have many games, who buys a phone for games anyway? You can choose between a varitey of 'Demos' Which are a 3 or less minute taster of that game. That is ok for me! The LG Viewty is a phone which is easy to use, stylish, and has everything a phone should have. For me it is the perfect phone! Rating: Reviewed by Kirstie on 29/05/2009 The LG Viewty is a great phone but does have done things that could be improved. This LG phone only holds up to a 2gb Memory card which isn't much at all! Also the menu doesn't have a lot to choose from. This phone doesn't come with any games or application. When I got this phone on contract from Carphone Warehouse, I didn't recieve any accessories such as: A Stylus Earphones USB Cable etc. All I got was the charger and the phone. Overall this is an OK phone to buy. Rating: Reviewed by ARRAN on 28/05/2009 So slow to text Rating: Reviewed by Reveiwer on 28/05/2009 Worst phone ever! Would not recommend it to anyone, its rubbihsh! Rating: Reviewed by P on 28-05-2009 It is ok. The camera is actually reli gd but the video is rubbish. and the USB conection doesnt seem to work. It looks gd as a phone and the touch screen is fine, doesnt annoy me . Rating: Reviewed by Kaaty on 24/05/2009 umm ;; well my friend has this phone ;; the camera looks amazing ;; but its like a brick ;; ive heard it breaks after 5 mins & the texting is really hard ;; stick with the lg cookie :] Rating: Reviewed by Ellie on 21/05/2009 The LG Viewty is a great phone but after a while you get sick of it but its a very good phone especially with o2 Rating: Reviewed by j on 20/05/2009 I think this is a brilliant phone it looks cool and performs good Rating: Reviewed by pauline gibson on 20/05/2009 my husband russ brought my viewty for my 50 birthday its the best phone/camera i have ever had ! i love it xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rating: Reviewed by pegasus on 20/05/2009 Have had my beloved purple viewty for about a yr and love it. I have just ordered an upgrade and have opted for the samsung M8800. I had to search long and hard to decide which phone to choose and still think i might end up giving the other half the new one. The viewty is brilliant, I have had no problems. Once I got used to all the features it is simple to use. I have an 8gb memory card in it and over 300 songs on it. The playback quality through headphones is excellant. I use it as a camera and have had no problems. I have printed pictures off of it and again the quality is fine. ~My digital camera is better but the viewty is a phone first and foremost!I use the internet through my viewty and it is no where near as fast as the computer but no surprise there really! All in all the best phone I have ever had and i am not sure i will be parting with it....but my new one is pink! Rating: Reviewed by Glen Morangy on 19/05/2009 Absolutely delighted! Rating: Reviewed by Rick on 19/05/2009 I have the lg viewty. And to be honest its not as good as i thought it was going to be! I prefer my old p series sony ericssons. P800,900,910 etc... I personaly think the touchscreens were better but i guess its all about what you get used to. Plus i liked all the things they did that everyone elses did not do. They made me feel like my phone came from the future! And i dont think im ever going to get that feeling again from a different manifacturer. But in all fairness to it, the camera is brilliant. Rating: Reviewed by victoria on 19/05/2009 pleaseeee do NOT buy this phone. i have had mine 9 months. it has been back for repair 3 times. it comes back and within a week there is something else wrong with it as well as all the previous faults. i dont always get text messages, the quality of the phone line isnt very good. turning on the camera can sometimes freeze the whole phone. i was playing music the other night & when it tried to stop it the music continued playing even when the phone was turned off!! it would allow me to play games which i had paid for from time to time. there just isnt anything remotely good about the phone. the touch screen takes ages to work & there is an obvious amount of time between pressing a button & getting the response from the phone. i would not reccommend it at all. Rating: Reviewed by bob marllley on 18/05/2009 dis fone is da shizzle bizzle mannn its da bees nees blud its outrageous luvin it Rating: Reviewed by mon on 17/05/2009 i have had this phone for about a week and its brillint better than the iphone i took mine back. Rating: Reviewed by Barka on 17/05/2009 This phone is shockingly bad! The touch screen is rubbish, there are a lot of bugs which will never be fixed. The operation of the phone is slow and frustrating. I have recently broken the screen while texting, I got so annoyed with the thing I through it at my desk.... the desk won! lol. DONT GET THIS PHONE! Rating: Reviewed by Derek McKenzie on 15/05/2009 Have had mine for several months, loved the phone which was purchased from Carphone warehouse. However god forbid that you ever have a problem with it. Mine would not switch on and was returned under warranty which they refused to honor due to, they say, the level of moisture damage to my mobile. I have never exposed the phone to anything that could be remotely described as a damp atmosphere and have only ever kept it in a safe environment ie my pocket or breifcase. It is interesting to note that they have a standard letter/disclaimer that is per-printed with only the customer details missing to give to customers who complain. Surely it is not unreasonable to expect a phone to be capable of operating under normal everyday conditions without breaking down with moisture damage! They seem to be of the belief that taking the phone from a cold to hot environment where moisture can form is a unacceptable thing to do ie going indoors on a cold winters day. Needless to say they will not be getting any more of my money and I will pursue it through legal channels. Rating: Reviewed by rob on 14/05/2009 THIS PHONE IS RUBBISH DO NOT GET ITS THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEESE PHONES REVEIW IT SOON AS I BAUGHT MY PHONE IT WAS GOOD AT FIRST AND THEN I CLICKED ON THE SCREEN AND I COULDNT GET TO USE THE TOUCH SCREEN ITS ALL A CONN!!! DONT BUY IT!!!! OR YOU WILL GET CONNED THE 3G INTERNET IS RUBISH Rating: Reviewed by Bethany on 14/05/2009 Ive Just Got My lg viewty and i love it takes getting used too but its good bit hard txting but illl get used to it i would defo recamend this to friends its really good camera takes gd pics of me n mates its the best phone ive ever had thumbs up Rating: Reviewed by Rowan on 14/05/2009 i only just got this fone and it is simply fantastic, it is everything i wanted. But there is one let down and im wondering if anyone can help me out? occasionly it suddenly resets all of the settings that i have personalised like the home screen, ringtones and even says that i have no files i.e sounds, videos and pictures. any advice would be wonderful thank you... Rating: Reviewed by David on 14/05/2009 I bought this phone 6 months ago and it's been back twice. once at 6 weeks due to the flash failing and the second time due to the touch screen not working. I went for this phone due to it's touch screen facility and the larger keyboard font (i dont always have my glasses on!). It should be a fantastic phone but in reality it's not. The built quality is poor and it lacks the finesse of the i-phone and build quality of the nokia range. It really is a poor phone which is a shame as the concept is good. Would i buy this phone again? Never! Rating: Reviewed by Crispin on 13/05/2009 I love my viewty i use phones for internet access i live on a caravan site with poor reception but still get 3G couldnt ask for more out of this device more than just a phone pity about tmobiles customer service.excellent for nomads cheers lg! Rating: Reviewed by sally on 12/05/2009 just brought the lg viewty, nice looking phone , easy to use. But with no cd driver u r stuck can not sync phone to pc. no sync no music or games. i am regreting buying this phone. Rating: Reviewed by mica on 11/05/2009 my usb connection on my phone doesnt seem to work, i purchased a new battery and it was great and then it started to not charge even when i plugged it in, Rating: Reviewed by Jane on 11/05/2009 I would advice anyone not to buy this phone!!.. Im just being honest. My phone keeps switching off every 5 minutes.. i usually charge it all night and the battery still died after 10 minutes!!.. Just one word of an adivice.. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONEE..you cant even listen to some music or talk on the phone! Worst phone ever that has been created!!.. How can i get another battery that is better? Rating: Reviewed by chloe on 11/05/2009 i love these phones butthe only problem is the battery only lasts a day and has to be charged every nite Rating: Reviewed by ciaran on 10/05/2009 i've given this fone a low rating because firstly the camera is not good, secondly is hard 2 txt and make calls, thirdly is heavy and to big and it keeps on freezing and crashing down on me. I chose this fone based on the good reviews its had. I paid £140 for this junk in januray at the orange shop in nottingham. all i can say is what a mess! I'm curently selling this junk on amazon atm, I tried 2 get a refund after before 10 days of having this fone but orange refused 2 do it. I would avoid having a lg fone because they are hard 2 use. I would reconmend having a blackberry, samsung or a sony ericsson because they are easy 2 use. Rating: Reviewed by James on 10/05/2009 i love this fone great value at only £100 at the carphone warehouse! pros: brilliant camera best quality fotos, internet browser is as good if not better than the iphone! music player and media player are good as well! not so good: no accessory are spared ~ all you get in the box is the fone and the manual. the usabily is poor scrolling menus can be difficult. the verdict excellant features but only for the technically advanced Rating: Reviewed by XxKatiexx on 09/05/2009 I have the lg Viewty and it's a great phone, the only problem is i dont no how to download my photos onto my laptop. For the price i payed for this phone i should be able to. The camera is great and it's cool how you can switch from the two cameras (one at the back of the phone and the small not so good one at the front) Rating: Reviewed by Tom92 on 08/05/2009 i borrowed this phone off my dad, i though it was totally rubbish. dont like it in the slightest and wouldnt recomend it to anybody. Rating: Reviewed by Holli on 07/05/2009 This phone is good, i would award 3 stars as some of the feautures are not as could as some, the texting is not good and connecting to your computer is very slow and painful. The camera is good, bluetooth is good, video is good too, the screen is bright and overall i think it is quite good. some people who are massive texters wouldnt like though im afraid. Rating: Reviewed by Joel M on 07/05/2009 In my experience so far I have had a nice experience but there is something that trips it uo when i bought it the first time sometimes when i took a picture it would turn itself off and sometimes my music would disappear so i returned it and got a new one which i am happy with so far apart from the music is already disappearing after 3 hours of having it :-@ Rating: Reviewed by Ryan on 07/05/2009 This phone is pretty good. Good camera, loud and clear music, sensitive touchscreen. Mine hasn't had anything wrong with it yet. Rating: Reviewed by Katy on 06/05/2009 I've had this phone for 5 months now and at first really loved it. The battery life was brilliant and the 5mp camera worked really well, this was my main reason for buying as I use the camera very often...however after a few weeks the camera became faulty and the flash either does not go off or it goes off after the shutter which leaves you with a completely black photo :( The battery life also started to fail on me and now it says it has a 3 bars and ten minutes later the battery is empty to the point that it takes 10 minutes with the charger in before you can even turn it on! Such a shame as I love the browsing of this phone but now I'm going to have to replace it with a cheaper phone which has less features as I'm still paying for the first one :( 5 months does not really stand the test of time ans would have liked a bit more for my money... don't believe the hype, I have 2 friends whose Viewtys did exactly the same after a few weeks and have both replaced theirs with different models! Rating: Reviewed by David Owen on 06/05/2009 Phone developed fault on usb port after 5 months. LG instructed me to send it to CRC Nottingham for repair. They claimed the repair was not covered under warranty as it was deemed "accidental damage" and wanted £48 to repair the phone or £11.50 to return it unrepaired!Have been advised by trading standards to have the phone returned for independent inspection. LG customer service lamentably poor wish I had followed the advice of the vendors Prepaymania and taken it to Carphone Warehouse for repair. Rating: Reviewed by Denham Steynor on 06/05/2009 I switched to the Viewty from a Sony Ericsson K850i after it stopped working. I was attracted by flashy looks, the large screen, the camera and the good reviews. However after using it for a couple of weeks I am rather disappointed. Compared to the Sony Ericsson is behaves and feels like it came out of a Christmas Cracker (maybe a bit harsh but you get the point?). Navigation - takes too many clicks to get to feature - e.g. 5 clicks to add a task Slow response to button clicks Radio reception poor Earpiece buzzes at higher volumes Lack of timer and stopwatch Only supports mp3 audio No light (torch) Cannot get to tasks easily Cannot set alarm for task Headphone's low quality + low volume No games supplied Cannot view .txt files PC Software very primitive - some has a date of 2003 Cannot view or send SMS messages Cannot manage calendar, tasks etc directly. Can only sync with PIM Rating: Reviewed by ds on 06/05/2009 Very Bad. Shameless Rating: Reviewed by Abi on 06/05/2009 I got this phone for Christmas and i loved it! i have had no troubles with it, up until now. The touch screen has decided to freeze on me, it has been like this for a week or so now. I dont know what to do with it. Is anyone having the same problems? if so, how have you dealt with it? Rating: Reviewed by Xisco on 05/05/2009 I bought one when I came to nufc and there good Rating: Reviewed by Robert on 03/05/2009 I cannot say anything good about the U990. I hate it passionately, for the following 3 reasons: 1. Battery Life: Even if I don't use the phone at all (other than leaving it on standby), the battery life is no more than 13 hours. I thought I must have had an expiring battery, so I bought a new one. It has exactly the same life.Where on earth does anyone get the advertised life of 430-450 hours standby? 2. Screen visibility: The screen has good visibility indoors. However, nothing can be seen in daylight out-of-doors. For me, this is useless. 3. Finicky touch controls: certain operations (particularly upward and downward scrolling of sidebars) is almost impossible without using the supplied stylus pen. I am so disappointed as I had been told good things at the mobile phone shop. Now I wish I had never gone near this phone. Rating: Reviewed by Paige on 03-05-2009 At first I loved the LG Viewty, I found it easy to use but after a month the screen started to go funny, for example if I clicked on messages it would go to the next app like my contacts, making texting difficult as well as other things. Rating: Reviewed by Barry on 03/05/2009 I have had this phone for 3 weeks. It is a very impressive phone. I am impressed with the quality of the camera and it has a long battery life. The only minor point about this phone which i didn't like was it took me ages to get used to. But overall i am very pleased i got this phone. Rating: Reviewed by SARAH on 03/05/2009 THIS PHONE IS THE BEST I MEAN PEOPLE THAT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS PHONE THEY HAVE ISSUUSE Rating: Reviewed by Fran :) on 02/05/2009 this is the best phone that i have ever brought ! The camra is very impressive, and the pictures that are taken are of a high standard ! the only thing what i can say bad about it is that not every baod =y has this phone :) it was great Rating: Reviewed by Gemma on 02/05/2009 its great. it does everything you want and its perfect pirce. greattt value Rating: Reviewed by matthew add me on 02/05/2009 i bought this phone today and it keeps turning off the battery is full but it jus randomly turns off Rating: Reviewed by jack on 02/05/2009 well to start off its a really great phone,too bad the touchscreen got scratched and sand got into into mine and i couldnt put on the back cover after that so i replaced it with the nokia 2630 which i love,the overall phone is sleek nice has great features and touchscreen is good,sometimes doesnt respond,but overall good,i would recommend =P Rating: Reviewed by sammy (: on 30/04/2009 ABSOLUTLY AMAZING, people that think that this phone is not a good deal or simply have egnored it, think again! i have worked with computers for 21 years andd this phone is the bets affordable phone i have came accross yett!, alll thee best features. Rating: Reviewed by Clare on 29/04/2009 I have had my viewty for about 2 months. In the first month, I was in love with it. Now, not so much. Not all features work well, like the connection to computer DOES NOT WORK. It wont register anymore. Aswell, my memory card slot does not work. This phone also scratches easily. Though i do LOVE the camera, its so good. email me if you ahve the same problems - x-claree@hotmail.com Rating: Reviewed by alfie on 29/04/2009 this an amazing phone, the only thing i dislike is the lack of WiFi unfortunately my screen broke on the inside and no longer works well worth buying, but get a solid case if you do Rating: Reviewed by Hugh Manning on 27/04/2009 Having used mobile phones since the days of the vodabrick,I was talked into upgrading to an LG Viewty by a sweet talking sales person. I have used it for several months now and it is the worst phone I have ever used. Sure it has great features, camera etc. but purely from a practical standpoint I find it infuriating. Touch screen technology stinks in my opinion. Just simply trying to scroll the screen to find a missed call or contact becomes a battle between the phone and me. The last straw was the phone switching off and refusing to reboot without removing and replacing the battery, usually when I am in the middle of a conversation with a customer. I have been told that this is an unknown fault and the handset should go back to LG for repair. Frankly I can't be bothered, I have swapped back to my previous phone and I shall wait a few more months to get a proper phone on contract renewal. Rating: Reviewed by ron on 26/04/2009 great phone the problem i have with it is that the o2 active icon stays on the home screen so if you have a pic there this icon sticks out like a sore thumb, i dont find the battery life to bad all depends how much i use the phone Rating: Reviewed by Evan Jones on 26/04/2009 The LG Viewty KU990 is an extremely good phone, I found the touch screen was FAR mroe receptive and sensitive then any other LG phones I have come across. A Must Have Phone ! Rating: Reviewed by Spencer on 26/04/2009 First impressions made me think why I had wasted so much time on any other brand of mobile. I had been using a Nokia N73 which I thought was great before it died irreparably after 2 months. The LG was sold to me on the promise that it was so much more. In fact it's utter rubbish. The touch screen doesn't work around the edges of the screen. The battery meter gives no real indication of when it's about to die so expect to be taken by surprise all the time. You will have to consider keeping it on charge all the time. The charging connector is also rubbish and feels very fragile. Surfing the web is hopeless, slow, frustrating and pointless. I have always used the alarm function on mobiles as a gently wake up in the morning. None of the alarm tones on this phone are any good and they don't have a incremental volume increase. Bad news if you are worried about an early morning heart attack. It may have a 5 megapixel camera but the lens isn't anything to write home about and the whole photography experience is very poor. The flash rarely works which is poor bearing in mind most photographs we take are in doors. The FM radio is so poor I'd rather have AM and the headphone set is the most appalling contraption ever. Rating: Reviewed by ROWEN!! on 26/04/2009 THIS FONE IS WIKED!!, NOTHING WRONG AT ALL, DONT KNOW WHY ALL THE BAD REVIEWS!! ITS A LUSH LOOKING PHONE AND IT WORKS FAB! Rating: Reviewed by Warren Morris on 26/04/2009 Had the Veiwty for just over a year without any problems. its just got it all and the touch screen was perfect defo the best phone of 2007/08 was sad to part with it but soon got over it with the arrival of my samsung tocco ultra. RIP LG VEIWTY. Rating: Reviewed by Dan Bevan on 26/04/2009 Right after reading the reviews from this site, i was a bit weary about getting this phone, however went ahead and did so anyway. BEST DECISION OF MY LIFE. Other than not going into that place where they'll castrate you if they catch you. But anyhow, i'm going to sort out some mishaps about the phone. 1. Everyone who says the camera is terrible is an abpsoulte insult to society, camera is amazing, you just need to change the settings for the picture quality and type that suits you. 2. i can't even understand how people say its difficult to scroll! my dad has an iphone and there is no difference between the scrolling! 3. No freezes or complications st all. 4. Great sound quality 5.Texting is easy, and the hand-writing feature is a work of art. Don't listen to the control freaks who have no iea what they're going on about, this phone is a star. Rating: Reviewed by azaaz adam on 25/04/2009 beautiful fone 1 of the best strongly recommended better then the iphone for sure Rating: Reviewed by becky chetwynd on 24/04/2009 i have had this phone on vodafone since november and can say that the phone is great but the battery life is pants , i dont have any of those fancy applications on and just use the phone and msg waith the occasional use of the camera , the battery runs down from a full charge with no use of the phone in under two days with a signal strength of 3 bars serioulsy lets the phone down ... Rating: Reviewed by CHRIS on 24/04/2009 IVE HAD THIS PHONE FOR 5 MONTHS NOW AND IVE HAD NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT ITS FIRST CLASS. Rating: Reviewed by Chris Smith on 21/04/2009 It is a really good phone, i have never had a better phone than the LG viewty. That was until the trips to the repair shop. I found that after a while i found that the phone wasn't holding power, even after it was fully charged. I bought it a new battery but it didn't solve the proble. I'm now waiting for it back from the repair shop for the second time!!! I really don't think that LG are exactly that good at making mobile phones... Rating: Reviewed by Hayley on 20/04/2009 I got out a contract in seotember and got the lg viewty purple when i took it out. Since than i have had nothing but trouble with it, the phone itself is brilliant but every so often it would re boot and go back to the start up screen like when you turn the phone on. This happened mainly when i was loading up a picture or a message, luckily i rang up orange and i recieved a new phone but i lost alot of valuable pictures from doing master resets. Now i have a new one its working fine so I will just have to see how it goes. Rating: Reviewed by jigz on 20-04-2009 love it!!! best phone i have ever had. the best think about it is the Features of the phone. best ones are Google Package, Internet, Messaging, Size, Connectivity, 5 megapixel camera and more. IF YOU HAVE IT ENJOY IT, IF YOU NOT HAVE IT GO RUN AND BUY IT. THANK U LG Rating: Reviewed by Tom on 19/04/2009 Its a great phone, had mine since xmas and nothing has ever gone wrong with it. touch screen is easy to use and doesnt mess up like some, the camera is perfect and the music player is good, very loud and clear. Rating: Reviewed by Sunny on 17/04/2009 My friend has this phone, and I've had a little play around with it... - It looks great, unfortunaltey can scratch (not scratch resistant). The only bad point would be the size, as it's pretty thick, but luckily not thick enough that you can't keep it in your pocket. - Features worked brilliantly, camera was very impressive. The only thing I would wonder is the fact that there's no lens cover for the camera, do any users have problems with the lens because its unprotected? - I live in the countryside, and reception was good for us, so no problem there. As far as I can see, a great phone to have, Im even thinking about getting it myself. My only query would be the lens lasting without a cover - could anyone give me an idea on how much its affected? Otherwise a great phone with great style. Well done LG. Rating: Reviewed by ottilie on 16/04/2009 the battery is rubbish, your shake it and it literally breaks. but other than that its AITEEE Rating: Reviewed by jojo on 16/04/2009 good its gr8 u shud get it. u cant live wivout it Rating: Reviewed by Emily W on 15/04/2009 Got this phone for christams and already i want a new, when i first got this phone i cudn't wait to start using it. But a month or so down the line i hate this phone and my birthday is in a couple of weeks and i am getting a new one. The touch screen is almost impossible to use after owning samsung omnia and after reading reviews fainally thought i had to have but it is the worst phone i have ever owned. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PHONE TO ANYONE!! Rating: Reviewed by laura young on 15/04/2009 this spectacular mobile phone suits me and should suite everyone,i ould rate this phone s an 11/10 verry good and a high stand xx Rating: Reviewed by k4r1 on 15/04/2009 kicks the iphones ass Rating: Reviewed by Katie, Durham UK on 15/04/2009 rubbish!? i dont want to here such things. this phone is a revolution in the phone industry! camera is fabbb! touch screen is amazing, battery power is AMAZING and the amount of memory is the BESTTTT. i realy dont know how anyone can call it rubbish, this truely isnt right. buy this phone, its AWESOME (: (: (: =D Rating: Reviewed by ambtax1 on 14/04/2009 Definitely a handy phone. Stable. I have had this phone for about a year. The only times it has locked up is when I have installed dodgy third party apps. Call quality is ok but not amazing. Texting can take some getting used to but easy if you persevere. The stylus is a pull out type thing. Which now no longer stays out and is slightly useless. The touch screen is not very sensitive and mine has many marks on it now. It is still fine though. Despite being dropped many times! The browser is adequate but doesn't compare to newer ones. MP3 player is ok and usable. Camera - the reason I bought the phone. This is unfortunately not very good. The pictures can be quite noisy and indoor pics are especially bad. The flash tends to produce over exposed pics. Lens easily scratched. Macro is ok. Ok pics on a sunny day. 120 fps - slightly useless gimmick. Video recording quality is fine. VGA recording seems to stutter occasionaly. The divx player seems very 'fussy' and will onl y play very specific formats of video. Of which I am still unsure. 3gp is fine. Battery life - this can be bad. If your using the phone a lot you will be lucky to get a day out of it. A couple of days if you simply don't use it at all. Would I recommend? Yes. It is a very relaible phone. Especially at the current price. Rating: Reviewed by lala on 13/04/2009 it is the best ever phone in the world i really recomend it. it is simple and easy to us. Rating: Reviewed by Andy from London on 12/04/2009 Bought this 4 days ago as an update to a reliable Motorola Razr3. I have made just 3 calls lasting barely 8 minutes in total and the phone has otherwise been on standby. The battery is now totally dead! I have seen several reviews of older LG phones and most if not all report battery problems, but they were supposedly resolved on the Viewty. Obviously not so! I have also suffered connection problems. Two of the calls I made (all 3 to the same person in one location) were patchy at best, losing either my voice or the other person's several times during the call. It also needed two or more attempts to connect incoming calls. The system software requires a lot of time to understand and some of it is almost incomprehensible (I am a semi-retired IT manager and consultant). I will be returning the unit, probably for a Nokia 5800, after the holiday weekend but no more LG's for me. Rating: Reviewed by Adam on 12/04/2009 really good phone, great camera, cool gadgety features, great for internet, full of apps and capabilities. The OS or user interface is fantastic, really easy to use and you dont need a stylus, you can easiliy use your finger. It has a god video capture, and the music player is fantastic. The touchscreen is very good, easy and simpleto use, with no over complicated hard to use srolley features. the texting keypad is extremely good, and the dialing buttons are very large and easy to use. This will always be agreat phone, however it si getting old, and the only bad featurs, is he lack of wifi and the thickness. if you want a great phone with cool hi tech features get this, however the tocco is exactly the same, however just looks better on the outside, and the widgets are a good feature, however the os and software design of the tocco, not to mention the touchscreen is poor.so if you would like a good phoen with ltos of features the viewty is much better than the tocco Rating: Reviewed by Jackson Gaudie on 12/04/2009 Great Phonee.. You want a reliable Phone u have got one with the Viewty everything about it is special Rating: Reviewed by Cheryl on 10/04/2009 Bought the phone last wk, loved it then took it out of my bag the day after I bought it & it had a massive scratch down the centre, Carphone Warehouse said they wouldn't help me even though I have insurance on it that I took out on the day I bought it. Also the camera isn't that good, it take ok photos but when I enlarge them for a wallpaper & screensaver (of my kids) they're not very good, not as clear as my Nokia Xpress music camera phone. Totally gutted with the phone & with Carphone warehouse. Rating: Reviewed by natalia! on 09/04/2009 i have had this phone a year and half and i think it is great . i have msn n all kinds of games on here although i have no films on here as i do not know how to although i am wonering one thing does anyone know how to change the voicmail message that people here when you miss a call because i have found that i do not like mine any more as i changed it when i first got my phone and i have searched every where to try and find someway of changing it :S please if anyone has any help or advice please contact me nataliesarahlouise@hotmail.co.uk much appreciated xx Rating: Reviewed by daniel on 07/04/2009 well i really love my fone think its brilliant. but there are a few things, like wen my 3G is on i cant make a fonecall unless its a video call,and it doesnt allow me to send a text either so my 3G has to be switched off all of the time. but other than that its mint, it has everything i need in a fone, luv it, but if you want that super fast internet then this isnt the fone for you as it just doesnt work lol Rating: Reviewed by RBRB on 07/04/2009 I've had this phone for 6 months. There are quite a number of people using this phone and a majority of them have found something wrong with it within the first 2 months. Whether it be a camera fault or the flash light not turning on. Don't get me wrong, the phone is revolutionary and features are all good. Once you get on a touch phone, you can NEVER go back to plain old buttons! However, the touch on this phone is not as responsive as the Apple iPhone. It requires a bit more push. Also if you store too much photos or have too much in your memory card, the photo album becomes very, very laggy. One good thing of this phone I've enjoyed is the Paranorma feature of the camera, it's takes gorgeous photos but at a lower resolution. But don't expect great things from 5MP! The camera tends to be very fuzzy, sometimes even worse than my Sony Ericsson 2MP camera phone. But unlike the iPhone, it has a flash... which is does not work that great, but sometimes handy. I was disappointed it didn't have Wireless, nor a GPS, but it does have Google Maps, and that is very handy when you have internet connection with your phone plan. I especially like the smaller second camera used for video-calls. You can use it to take 1MP photos or check out if you have anything stuck to your teeth. Overall, I'd say this phone is an average touch phone, with a few handy features. It's good, but not the best. If I had to re-purchase, I would probably look into a Samsung or iPhone, because it looks nicer and the touch screen isn't as annoying as the LG. Rating: Reviewed by Cheryl on 07/04/2009 Bought the phone today & so far am loving it, got it for £100 on o2 from Carphone warehouse in the 50% off. Don't understand why people chuck it after only 1 day.....you need to give it longer than that to see if you can get used to it or you could just not be using it right. So far I give it a 5star rating......hopefully will still be doing that in 6mths or longer!! Rating: Reviewed by Lisa on 07/04/2009 AMAZING PHONE <3 Rating: Reviewed by john on 06/04/2009 the beast mobile iv ever had Rating: Reviewed by mark ricketts on 05/04/2009 the best phone that i ever owend i would not sell or swop it for any thing 100 out of 100 Rating: Reviewed by HOLLY on 05/04/2009 GREAT MANUFACTORS AND GOOD PHONE Rating: Reviewed by Terriiii on 04/04/2009 It's ok. Not the best phone. You get bored when you use it after a while. Rating: Reviewed by del on 04/04/2009 iphone killer for just £100 on pay & Go.Hard to scroll. Rating: Reviewed by Ken on 03/04/2009 I have had this phone six months and would not recommend this phone. Battery life is poor and has short warning of low condition before killing itself. Touch screen initially seemed like a good idea but trust me buttons are king, far too fiddly to do anything complex. LG support is non exisitant and the software is basic to say the least. Stick to the main three companies. This is more a camera first then phone so if you want good images this does the job. The 5m pics are good quality. But beware as a phone it doesn't do the job. Rating: Reviewed by Robert on 02/04/2009 The build quality is certaily inferior when compared to similar mobiles made by nokia, apple etc. Software works but needs further capacity to edit and personalise. Other problems include the lack of a fullproof locking mechanism, ridiculous stylus attachment, and forgettable messaging system. Rating: Reviewed by sarah on 31/03/2009 this phone is rubbish the vibration is bad i can never feel it going off, does anyone know if there is any way to improve the vibration Rating: Reviewed by stacey on 30/03/2009 Ive just brought this phone is brilliant.. so easy to use and looks great on now quite cheap. BEST FONE IVE EVER HAD Rating: Reviewed by crApple fan'boi' alert on 30/03/2009 Take no notice of ben's review below his precious religion's crApple iPhone sales R going down the tubes (like crApples profits R dying along with jobs :D ) as people see how outdated and naff iPhone is so hes gettin so desperate + scared he slags of superior competition the VIEWTY - superior iPhone trouncin NON - criminally priced mobile :) Rating: Reviewed by ben on 29/03/2009 whatever you do do not buy this phone i chucked mine after a day Rating: Reviewed by les on 29/03/2009 bit bulky. not that easy to work out how to operate. Rating: Reviewed by Steve on 28/03/2009 Still effortlessly shows up the now well outdated iPhone (with its Phone that doesn't even work for Gods sake and the rest of the functions go funny after a month or so !) for the emperors new clothes piece of junk it is AND at a fraction of the price so U don't have to remorgage your house with all the craftilly hidden costs that balloon with the iPhone's use :D. Battery life for the the Viewty unsurprisingly is average but thats easily DOUBLED by getting a spare battery UNLIKE the horrendous ripp off fixed Battery of iPhone/apple products (costs £££££ to send it to apple for a new one/battery pack).aarrrgh! Rating: Reviewed by Tface on 28/03/2009 Get this phone! Seriously, best decision I ever made! But yeah, the battery life is a little low. Rating: Reviewed by Malcolm on 27/03/2009 I got this phone yestrerday. Today I sent it back! It will not sync with Microsoft Outlook on either my XP or VISTA PCs. I called LG who say that none of their phones sync on Vista-based PCs - except for the Renoir. They sync should work on an XP-based machine but when I try to do this it opens 33 windows simultaneously - which I cannot even close!!! When such a basic function does not work, I have to rate the phone as 1 star, otherwise it would have been 4 or 5 stars. Rating: Reviewed by cyber shot on 27/03/2009 this phone is well gd iv had it 4 ABOUT A YEAR NOW THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT THE BATTERY GOES ABIT DODGY APART FROM THAT ITS AWESOME Rating: Reviewed by Holly on 27/03/2009 Had this phone for 3 months and its a load of rubbish for me, im a big texter and this is so slow i keep wanting to throw it across the room, i couldnt get on the internet, the music aand stuff wouldnt go onto my computer and the battery is rubbish. i have now gone back to my iphone and it is so much better! Dont buy this if u love texting, its rubbish! the only good thing i think is the call buttons :) Rating: Reviewed by Claire on 27/03/2009 Sorry to disappoint everyone but this phone is rubbish!! i've had it for 4 months now but it is just rubbish, so rubbish infact i am in the process of buying the samsung g600! the texting on it is complicated and you have to really push the screen to get it working. it just stops working all of a sudden and it takes ages for it to start working again. taking pictures on it is really annoyingly bad. i know 4 people who have had this phone .. it is soo awful! The internet is sooo soo hard to work. i just can not work it at all. amongst the best phones ever made :-| somehow i dont think so!!! if you are a teenager and you want a young stylish phone then this phone is soo not for you!! also if your looking for a replacement to the iphone then keep searching cos you havent found it here! the picture editing isnt good and complicated to work. Also the music is very quiet and i trying to minimize it iss soo frustratingg! DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!! Rating: Reviewed by Hazel on 26/03/2009 I have had this phone for three months and at first, I was really impressed, but now I'm actually bored of using it and texting is a chore! Also, I have found that the camera is not what I thought it would be. I thought I wouldn't need a digital camera as well as a phone when I bought the viewty but as soon as you zoom when taking a picture the quality is rubbish. It's a nice looking phone, but quite bulky. I thought it was fantastic when it first came onto the market but now it has been overtaken by several other better quality phones that are selling for nearly the same price now. I also cannot stand how slow the phone is, and am not impressed with LG as the viewty is the first phone I have ever purchased from them. Rating: Reviewed by Emily on 25/03/2009 Had Mine For A Day And It Keeps Turningg Its Self On And Of It Realy Doing My Head In At The Minute, I Have Read Most Off These Reviews Most People Say They Are Good But A Dont No Because I Have Had Mine For A Day Well Half And It Doing Me Head Rating: Reviewed by Sophie on 24/03/2009 This phone was fine for the first few months, I really liked it, but the touch screen fails epically. If anyone is thinking of buying this phone - Don't. I've been needing to buy a new one for ages, sometimes I can't use it for an entire day as the screen won't work; it's so messed up I can't even re-calibrate it. It's frustrating as hell. I've had it a year now. Can't wait to get rid of the damn thing. Rating: Reviewed by bob the builder on 23/03/2009 THIS IS THE BEST PHONE EVER. I COMPLETELY BEATS THE IPHONE AND PRADA. THE BATTERY LIFE IS POOR, BUT THE HUGE 3X3 INCH TOUCHSCREEN PAD IS WORTH IT. THE CAMERA IS WICKED. I WISH THE STYLUS COULD BE KEPT IN THE SHELL OF THE PHONE AND A CASE SHOULD COME WITH THE BOX TO STOP FINGERPRINTS (ETC) FROM BLOCKING THE 100% BACKLIGHT. THE LOUDEST MUSIC SETTING IS NOT ENOUGH BUT ITS STILL GOOD. BOB THE BUILDER Rating: Reviewed by Laura on 23/03/2009 I looked at this phone in the magazines and thought it would be like the others [made out to be really good but is rubish]. But quite recently i viisted my cousin and she has this phone, she has had it for 3 months now. I asked her if she liked it and she said yes. I thought it would be quite hard to use, but it's actually easy! After playing with it for a few hours i found that i liked it and it is quite good. My cousin is getting rid of it and i am getting it soon so yes i suggest you buy this! :] Rating: Reviewed by lesley on 23/03/2009 nice pictures on a big screen that you can magnify. but i found it too difficult and annoying to use it. it is also bulky. Rating: Reviewed by bob on 23/03/2009 Cracking fone, luv it Rating: Reviewed by Phil on 22/03/2009 I think the LG viewty is a great phone and there is probably only one problem and that is battery life. It lasts quite long however and is a great value for money Rating: Reviewed by CHAROTTE on 21/03/2009 I LOVE THIS PHONE ITS REALLY NICE AND ITS OUTSTANDING =) Rating: Reviewed by Jonboy on 21/03/2009 Just got this phone from second hand shop as lost my samsung soul and needed phone that was good and most importantly cheap only£100 so well chuffed. 1st impresion good takes bit of time getting used to texting and that but thats all i think its equal to my samsung u900 and i loved that phone anyway id give it 9/10 Rating: Reviewed by Anne on 20/03/2009 I have had the viewty for about 7 months - and I hate it!!! The battery dies after half a day, the internet keeps switching itself on and the screen keeps freezing. I do like some of the features, it's easy to text when you get used to it and quite easy to find your way around the menu and options but the cons far outweigh the pros in my opinion - I definately would not have another of these phones. Rating: Reviewed by anon on 19/03/2009 I was Not sure about the LG Brand, so i Gave the LG Viewty a try, First my first Impressions were good, I Likes the Touch screen & the way it vibrates as you touch the Menu which is Quiet Easy to use, Camera & Video Recording is Good, but only in Bright Lighting Conditions, Sound is Average & A bit Tinny, Its Feels a Bit Fragile so a would'nt want to drop it, But As a Whole it is A Nice Touch Screen Phone Far Less Costly Than the iphone. Rating: Reviewed by Teeny Tot on 17/03/2009 The Phone Was Amazing At First The Camera Was Good And Also The Memory But After About 8 Months It Went Funny It Wouldnt Charge And It Switched Of By Itslef So I Took It Back To The Orange Shop 2 Reapir It And They Told Me They Couldnt Beaucse It Had Bin Wter Damaged This Couldnt Be Possible Because I Hadnt Dropped It Into Water So I Had 2 Buy A New Fone As My Contract Didnt End Until The Folowing Year. DONT BUY THIS PHON3 YOU WILL B3 DISSOPOINT3D Rating: Reviewed by Dan on 17/03/2009 I got this phone as an upgrade from my K800i, and pretty much think it to be an all-round phone. I have not had many problems with it, but the phone has taught me to do ym research more...ESPECIALLY when concerning battery life. I bought the phone because I wanted an iPhone but the contracts were ridiculous and this was the next best thing...and until the recent Nokia I still think this to be true. The web is average speed andworkes well with facebook and Ebay, 2 main sites for me. Texting is good on the phone, the only problem is that if you go over so many characters it converts to an MMS which are unreadable on older phones, and if you delete the characters it doesnt revert back to SMS. The only other problem is that I can't seem to connect the phone to transfer photos..music fine, but not pictures..so i am still using my k800i for that. I have encountered the same problem with touch screen twice, which was that is completely froze. After removing the battery and switching the phone back on, the problem left. My only real problem is the battery life. I have read some people say its rubbish, some say its great..well mine is both! Some days I tale my phone of charge at 6am and by 2pm its dead without having made a single phone call. Other times I can call for a few hours and it doesnt effect the battery, the best result being where the battery stayed at full bar for an entire weekend without being charged. I bought a second battery for the phone, but this didn't help. If it was constantly good, or bad, it would be better than not knowing. Does this problem, my only main problem, deserve to have the rating dropped from 5* to 3? Well, yes. At the end of the day the entire point of a mobile phone is just THAT: it should be a mobile phone. if it cuts out throughout the day it doesn't matter how many tricks it can do, because you are unable to use them. If LG sort out this problem I would definately rate it with the high flyers..and if you have regular access to a charger then this phone would be great for you. Rating: Reviewed by Brent Davidson on 16/03/2009 Yes love the LG Viewty. The video is very good, and also the camera is as well. The radio could be better, but all in all, very good. Rating: Reviewed by Emma Elliot on 16/03/2009 Im 15, so my phone is very important to me. I got the Viewty in November and im still happy with it. The only thing that bothers me is when you go to view your pictures by using the clicker on the side of the phone, it takes a while to load. Very frustrateing. However i do have over 600 pics. Also takes a minute or so to get into music if you have a lot like me. Not perfect, but not many phones are. Im happy with camera qyality as my last phone was under 3 megepixels i think. Is a bit pants it only came with one game - and even that was a demo. Only allowed to play it once. When in a rush to text or sending a lenghty text is annoying. But i think this phone is worth it. Looks stunning in black. Its a nice thing to be seen with also, people make a lot of fuss over it wich is good. Can edit pictured + make slideshowws etc, has DivX so can put films on. Fantastic phone. Rating: Reviewed by abidal on 15/03/2009 i love my phone i got it about a month ago and well its stuck with me before i used to leave my phone at home but the viewty has stuck with me ever since i got it.i know that the sceen can be a bit insensitive but i love it. Rating: Reviewed by princess on 14/03/2009 great phone and it is fun too lots of stuff mp3 and radio etc but i feel my back is loose but that could get fixed Rating: Reviewed by Aaron on 14/03/2009 The camera and video quality is good, the phone looks very sleek and is quiet tough and sturdy. Except the interface is quiet boring, and the games included with the O2 version is disappointing- One shooting game, in which it hardly works. Scrolling acts like a mission to do. And the themes arn't exactly cheerfull, texting even with the 'keyboard' isn't really helpfull, constantly pressing the wrong key. To finish on a high note, the only good thing for the £95 price is the Camera and vidio recording and playback. Rating: Reviewed by uknown on 12/03/2009 absolute rubbish Rating: Reviewed by Mike on 12/03/2009 It's certainly not a 5 star phone but then neither is the iphone. For those guys talking about the camera being poor... if you want a proper camera buy an SLR you complete gibbons. As far as camera phones go the camera on the viewty is very high quality. Anyway ive had the phone 16 months. Cons: Start a text message decide you dont want to finish it press the red cancel button - saved to drafts... pointless and annoying. Onto the single most annoying attribute this phone has. The vibration / noise on the touch screen. It goes off as if you have press the screen and you havent. You press space and it vibrates makes a noise and you get no space so you end up typing gibberish like the yanks in the centerfolds! its -re you clowns. The interface is not as responsive as the iphone and it does slow down the more text msg you have in your inbox. But then t-mobile heaps the rubbish onto your phone so you could flash their settings out and see an instant improvement (i know i did). Pros: It's actually not a bad phone. Rating: Reviewed by Greg on 11/03/2009 when i got this phone i expected it to be quite good after reading several nice reviews on it. Unfortunately it is not as satisfactory in real life. I have had my viewty for about 12 months now, and i can can possibly say it has been one of the worst phones i've owned. heres why: Awful reception. all my phones have worked perfectly in my house apart from this one. I have to lean out of my window to talk to people or they can't hear me. (on orange btw, same network that i have always used) Dodgy text messaging service. I either get my texts late by on average 2 hours, or not at all. i've noticed that if i don't get them its because they are more than one txt page. so yes, you got it, my phone can't receive texts larger than one page. touchscreen is annoying. its inaccurate and laggy. (even after calibration) I've tried getting all of these problems solved either by LG or Orange, but with no success. I've also found 2 friends since with all the exact same problems as what i get, and interestingly on different networks. I have been told that its the software and that i need to update it, but there is no way to update it yourself and the shop i bought it from say that they can't find a way. on the other hand, its a pretty good camera for a mobile phone. and the texting keyboard screen makes things a bit faster (when the touchscreen isn't being stupid). but thats all. Can't wait until my contract ends in 6 months time. Rating: Reviewed by nicolas on 08/03/2009 this phone is amazing & the camera has many wonderful features. buy this phone. it has everything that you need in a phone, it stands out from others and can even have a iphone theme ! BUY IT AT CARPHONE WAREHOUSE OR PHONES4U. it has been discontinued in the o2 store but its still available on o2 in the carphone warehouse and phones4u. ignore bad reviews . Rating: Reviewed by Daniel on 07/03/2009 To be honest i think that this phone is absolute rubbish!!! the batary teks less than a day to run flat... if your thinking about buyin this phone then dont bother ul regret it. the nokia 32,10 was a better phone than this!!! Rating: Reviewed by Bob on 04/03/2009 Do not buy this phone!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by shaXL from southampton on 03/03/2009 loads of fault but will keep on writing reviews. - camera is rubbish and hard to control - you cant send mp3s through your computer easily...and up till now, i still cant figure that area out - send a picture to the phone and most times, it says.....file size too big and you cannot use the picture for anything or edit it - scrolling is bad dont get me wrong , the phone is pretty good but has some basic faults. Rating: Reviewed by danielle on 03/03/2009 ive had this phone since last july and i still find it amazing now! i did struggle to text at first but when you have had it as long as me you get used to it very quickly! my contract is due for renewal this july and i know i will struggle to find a phone as good and reliable as my viewty! Rating: Reviewed by lee on 02/03/2009 i love this phone the only thing that annoys me about it, and rest assured it is annoying whilst using it is the fact that there is no delete button on the texting facility this should be looked at for the next model. otherwise this phone is outstanding in its field! Rating: Reviewed by Drunkgerbils on 01/03/2009 This is funny - some of the reviews read "there's no delete all messages option", "there's no camera zoom" - there are of course. In fact, it makes you wonder whether people actually know which phone they've got...... Mine's great, arrived two months ago, been in constant use ever since. I'm not a huge technophile, but my thoughts are that its huge fun, the touch screen is great. Mine's proved 100% reliable, which is more than my N95 has. The camera is great, but although I am delighted in total, others have brought up some valid points. I can't work out how to stop the camera returning to default mode when exited - it is possible, cos I've done it by accident, but just not on purpose. The manual doesn't seem to give the security default, so although it does have privacy, I haven't been able to test this yet. Texting is definately not quite so easy as a normal keypad. I am much slower than normal. If you use the stylus, however, things start to make much more sense, and if you're accurate, you can be lightning fast. But just not with fingers, and i'm traditionally a left, one handed texter. And unlike my N95, I can't use macdonalds wifi! But that could just be me. Otherwise, I'm most impressed. Love it. Rating: Reviewed by Amandeep on 28/02/2009 I totally agree with Kev's review below. So critics should definetely agree with Kev too. I can see where he's coming from. No phone out there is perfect, people. This is by far much better than many top range phones. I had mine for 13 months, and works as perfectly from the day i bought it. Don't get dis-heartened with it. The Viewty is also better than the LG Prada or the recent LG cookie from my experience. I've used both of them, n they're really not as reliable as the viewty is. Trust me people. I know a lot about many phones. We all know no phone out there is perfect, but the Viewty is definitely the nearest phone to perfection. Rating: Reviewed by Lauren on 27/02/2009 Overall the Viewty is a great phone. I have had it for 2 months now and like it. The only problems are it is a bit slow for textingand freezes up a little ut other than that great phone- especially the camera. Rating: Reviewed by steven greenwood on 26/02/2009 i have the viewty and having fat fingers lol it is a doddle to use wasn't keen on a touch screen at first but having used it for a couple of hours it was as if i'd had it years i would and have recommended this phone to friends who agreed with me after using it the camera/video are superb and the morphing edit feature for still shots is fun. touch screen is the future grab a viewty before they all go have heard they are stopping making them due to trading standards moaning they are too cheap for the things it can do. regards Steven Rating: Reviewed by Kelly on 26/02/2009 I have had this phone since Christmas, and have had no problems so far. One down side is the battery life, usely i have to charge mine up every 1 to 2 days. Though i must admit i do spend alot of my time listening to music on it. My last phone was a sony ericcson, and even though it was a good phone, i think i would definately get a LG again. The camera is great, another down side though is that it doesn't have a very big memory so i would recommend getting a memory card for it. The touch screen is brilliant, and i would definately get another touch screen. Texting was easier than i thought it would be, but the handwriting feature does take quite alot of time so i usely stick to either the keyboard or keypad. I love this phone and would definately recommand it to anyone who is thinking about getting it! Rating: Reviewed by Charla on 23/02/2009 its a pretty good phone, better than the iphone! the only 1 BAD THING i have discovered, is the themes are unchangable, you have the set ones, end of! oh welll,, s'all gooood :D xx Rating: Reviewed by caz on 21/02/2009 Got my phone for xmas,so had it about two months. I must say I am really pleased with it. I do think teenagers (I have two) might find it a bit slow for texting, but I havent found it a problem. The only thing i had trouble with was downloading the softwear onto my pc so as to download music etc, just couldnt get it to work, even my 16yr old, who,s normaly quite good with that sort of thing couldnt get it to work. In the end i bought a sd card from e-bay, that worked fine. so yes if you like the look of it, go get one, its a good phone Rating: Reviewed by Lawrence on 20/02/2009 Well I've had mine for over a year now and, although it has some niggles (no lens cover, limited customisation with themes) I am having a really hard time trying to find a yearly upgrade which beats it! The camera is good with a powerful flash and pretty fast autofocus. MP3 playback is quiet unless you apply the 'hack' which is described all over the internet. DivX playback is good considering the screen size - you wont want to replace your TV with this but I have watched the odd movie while on a long train journey and it feels like a lifesaver then! The touchscreen technology has its limitations but overall, and with a bit of practice, it becomes second nature and I would find it very hard to go back to a 'regular' handset. Overall - I think I'll just get a new Viewty and keep my old one as a spare. Rating: Reviewed by Nell on 20/02/2009 There is a reason that vodaphone has stopped selling this phone. It has poor signal and is slow and unresponsive to touch. Rating: Reviewed by jack on 20/02/2009 i got this fone and my friend got aswell , its was nice and cool but it been freezes alots and bluetooth is crap and its not very working so i better keep away from dat FONE. its wastes yr money but nokias are better Rating: Reviewed by SpongeBob on 19/02/2009 this phones immense, i've had it for a week now and it's so much better than the previous sony erricson i had. Oh yeah I love this phones camera to :D i got alot of pictures onto bebo, myspace and facebook with it! :D xx Rating: Reviewed by Adam.s on 19/02/2009 This phone is by far the best phone i have ever had,packed full of features like the amazing 5mp camera and 120 fps video recording.It has a fantastic 3 inch QVGA display with excellent viewing quality(Perfect for watching films and viewing your pictures).Mp3 players in phones are normally grainy and very low quality but the LG viewty has to have the best music quality i have ever heard from a portable music player, you can clearly notice the seperation in the track and the sound is very crisp, you also get a very easy to use volume control on your headset so there is no messing around taking your viewty out of your pocket.You also get a free fully touch controlled 3D game pre-installed called space commando which is one of the best phone games i have ever played.Some of these reviews state that texting takes forever but actually it is very quick and easy to use, for people who normall text alot it has the original texing format that most phones have but also gives you the option of using a full qwerty keyboard on the touch screen for even quicker texting. This phone offers far more in extras and specs than the iphone does and doesn't carry its hefty price tag. I would recommend this phone to anyone!! Rating: Reviewed by R. Waldron on 18/02/2009 VIEWTY = excellent phone - apart from the battery............to the person who says we must be on it overtime for the battery to last about a day - HEY............if I have a day to spend just sat playing with my mobile how do i pay for my house, car, holidays food, etc etc etc - so WRONG!!! in the product info i cannot find the recommended initial battery charge and orange cant seem to tell me anything about the phone or themselves. I was told to initially charge for 16 hours and then re-told to charge for 8!! so i plumbed for 12 and the battery is complete rubbish - even with buletooth OFF - which a hi-tech fone should have capability of running these features as they have power save and stand-by. PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM ORANGE THEY ARE CONPLETELY UN-HELPFUL AND UN-INTERESTED. When ringing orange about the battery they said go to the shop - went to the shop - "that is not orange policy ring orange" - went home rang orange, told them, they said with receipt go to the shop, they will give you new battery - went to the shop (again) with receipt -, and guess??????..........no we cant do that - "that is not orange policy you will have to ring orange" even though the phone was only 16 days old at the time!!! Have got a darn new one from LG!!! - STAY AWAY FROM ORANGE VIEWTY ****** ORANGE (SHOULD CEASE TO TRADE AS THEY DONT KNOW THEIR POLICY - IS THAT LEGAL???) Rating: Reviewed by valhalla on 18/02/2009 on the surface this should be the phone to end all phones but there are problems. I got mine to replace my K800 and I agree with Debbie that it does not produce images on a par with the sony. 5 megapixels and a schnieder lens should make the standalone compact camera redundant but sadly the images I get from the K800 are inferior to my Nikon 2mp beast and the lens and the pixel count of the LG offer up poor pics with no chance of candids as it takes ages to get going. Bad stuff out of the way I find the viewty a joy to work, the screen is gorgeous and my battery life is currently 3-4 days. Please LG do not waste money on the megapixel race and instead get the software fixes you need to do your kit justice. Rating: Reviewed by Louis on 18/02/2009 No No No! It was such a terrible phone! The camera is slow, and th touchscreen is rubbish, people, 5 out of 5? really? Rating: Reviewed by Adam on 17/02/2009 Well ive had this phone since christmas nd its wicked brilliant camera brilliant video nd the 120 fps is wicked hv alot of fun wiv tht also it can take abit of a beating if ya drop it nd most lg phone cant they tend to break realy easy i think the only bad thing about it is that u can get on the internet for free, well i cant if u can and u no how to help me get on it for free add me on msn adamwilson12@msn.com nd tell me how :):) other than the internet it is a wicked phone (Y) TOP DOG Rating: Reviewed by Becky from Wolverhampton on 17/02/2009 I've had this phone for nearly a year now and so far it's been brilliant, never had any problems with it! I will say though that touch screen can be a little tempremental but thats only when textin without using the pen provided, and if you are going to text without the pen it's alot easier if u have slightly long nails. Everything else that the phone has to offer though is spot on!! So please don't listen to the other reviews that say it's 'rubbish' because it really isn't! I'd say for an LG phone it's a defo must have!! Rating: Reviewed by tom davis on 16/02/2009 i have just bought........ great phone Rating: Reviewed by Madzzzz on 15/02/2009 Worst phone I've ever had, excluding the Motorola razor. Admittedly the camera can be good sometimes, but the next day it can be completely fuzzy ?? The touch screen is nothing compared to the iphone, probably because it is a different type, with more of a pressure touch rather than just a light tap. This being said, texting will take you forever! After 1 week of using it i switched back to my old sony ericcson. Now time for an upgrade and because of this completely boring and unresponsive phone, I am now therefore reluctant to buying another touchscreen phone. Especially from LG. In my opinion, sony ericsson, are by far one of the best phone manufacturers, as well as Nokia. However Nokias are just a bit too plain for my liking. Samsung are okay too, however reading reviews for some of their latest phones out, doesn't quite tell me the same thing! So anyway back to the viewty, if you are someone who can spend maybe a whole 15mins sending a text, or you don't want a phone to explore, eg games, and apps which don't require you connecting to the internet, and therefore wasting alot of money, then the viewty is the phone for you. However if you are someone like me who needs a phone that is not just face value, and you need to explore it, than I'd say the viewty is not for you! x Rating: Reviewed by jessica on 15/02/2009 i hav had the Lg Viewty for about a 2 months now, my speakers have popped and my battery isnt lasting as long. x Rating: Reviewed by Cliodhna on 15/02/2009 The LG Phone Sounds Great My Big Aunt Has It And It Hasent Broke Yet I Have A Sony Ericsson Phone And I Hate It Its The Walk Man And Its Shit If It Falls Thats It Broke The Keybord On It Breaks Very Fast Its Not Worth The Money Than This One Is I Relly Liken It Im Getting This Phone To Morrow So I Promise You That I Will Leave Another Comment To Tell You How The Phone Is Keeping Ok So Hope Yous All Enjoy The Phone If You Have It Ok Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Rating: Reviewed by James on 14/02/2009 Superb phone and surprisingly cheap, At first it was difficult to scroll and text, but after a few hours it becomes simple and second nature. I previously had the Sony Ericson K800i which was a great camera and but the Viewty’s 5mp is even better, the only criticism I have with this phone is the sound quality, it is not as loud as my K800i. But overall the phone looks great has a great camera, has a great quality screen which makes watching videos very crisp and clear. Rating: Reviewed by Philipio on 14/02/2009 Horrible phone, screen sticks, battery falls out and it cannot hold a charge for more than a couple of hours... this all after 3 months and LG tell that thereis nothing wrong with the phone... so bad that i couldn't give it away Rating: Reviewed by Steve on 11/02/2009 Love the LG Viewty but it has one problem, it seems to dial numbers all alone even with the key pad locked! Everything else is perfect and easy to use, you just have to beware of the one issue or you will end up paying a big bill. Rating: Reviewed by nathan on 09/02/2009 Great looking phone but mine lasted about 3 months and the touchscreen just packed up and the music player is quite poor would expect more from this phone, Rating: Reviewed by Rod on 09/02/2009 I have had this phone for 17 months now, and it has been the WORST phone I have ever owned. I tried taking it back within the 14 days but phones4u was claiming that vodafone had to take it back and vodafone was saying phones4u had to take it back etc etc. in the end i kept it. it has the worst camera i have ever seen. image stablization which LG boast about hardly works. within the first month it had dust under the screen, this should'nt happen after a month of general use. after two months of normal use the screen started peeling off and I was told i would have to pay around £100 to get it fixed. e-mail is rubbish, and if you are on vodafone it says you have an e-mail and you go to it and you can't delete it and its there again when u start the phone up. it crashes about twice a month. the themes they give u are extremly boring, black, white, or fish? phone stracted extremly easily aswell. the only positive i have on this phone is that the video quailty is excellant like DVD which is quite suprising considering the camera is awful! Also the touch screen is the worst one available nothing like the iphone or tocco, takes a very long time to get uses too! overall looks great, excellant video camera, but the rest let it down. Has put me off LG products all together! Rating: Reviewed by Gillian on 08/02/2009 I have not been very impressed with the viewty! The scrolling is impossible, one minute you are going very slowly through your messages and the next you are at the bottom. I have found that many times, i end up phoning people in my pocket, or go on the net in my pocket! the touch screen is very slow to do anything. on the up side, i have the full series 8 of friends on it and it is great to watch this! it really depends what you are looking for, it is a novetly item, not very user friendly. i would have liked to have been able to personalise it which you cannot do. Rating: Reviewed by sophie on 08/02/2009 well i love the touch LG Becuase this girl hs it and i spend loads of time with it and i want it coz you can text for free and stay on the phone for like hours and you get a free memory card , im not sure which one it is because there is one with a big camera and there is a smll one , i love the music on my phone so i might download them all on the other phone i might be getting. Ive had my old one for a year now and i need a new one and coz mine is cracked . because on my samsung pink i dont have enough memory to take pictures and take videos and to get more music but i still like it. ive been cheacking all the websites to see what one i liked but then fially i found this one this phone is awsome!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Kal on 05/02/2009 i received this fone with my free contract, and i love iy, had a k800i before, and this phone is brilliant, phone was fauly though as it kept switching off and also stopped coming on but got that sorted by 3 and now thefone is up and running! Rating: Reviewed by Eoin on 04/02/2009 I've had this phone for a week, and so far I'm pleased enough with it. It looks great and is pretty light. If you are used to the touchscreen of the iPod Touch or the iPhone, you will be disappointed - it's just not as usable or sensitive. Scrolling can be a little awkward at times, but if you find it too hard, you can just use the jog wheel on the back instead. The stylus is handy, but I think would be much more useful if it was integrated into the phone. Voice quality is fine, and the camera quality isn't bad either, though does require some tweaking. I don't use it for MP3s though, so won't comment either way on that. If you are getting this phone on contract, you may find some demo games that only allow a small amount of playtime. I have yet to figure out how to remove these - it must depend on the firmware version you are on. Battery life isn't great - 1 to 2 days with little usage is what I am getting at the moment. However, as it also charges from the USB cable, you get a charger for home and the office out of the box, so less chance of getting caught. I am still getting used to the texting - the predictive text is pretty much the same as most phones, but it does take longer to compose a message. I changed from a Nokia N95 - which I thought was the most overrated phone ever (camera aside) - and so far, I am very happy. As has been said, it does take getting used to but it's worth it. Rating: Reviewed by ? on 03/02/2009 the viewty is graet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by jordan on 02/02/2009 got this phone, went on internet and installed loads of games, never dissapoints. i admit, mp3 could be better, but get a decent pair of earphones and your on your way, camera is perfect, can hold 4gb memory card, there are some flash apps out there. it isn't complicated, and at first you may feel that the touch screen isn't great, but that is because of the screen protector, but putting the screen protector oon properly will improve sensitivity, highly recommend, you'll find lots to do on your phone on the internet 5 stars all the way Rating: Reviewed by A. S. on 01/02/2009 An good phone, but one that feels like a missed opportunity. The build quality ensures it doesn't look or feel cheap, and the camera quality is excellent. However, scrolling on the touch screen is unresponsive - you will be using the jog wheel to navigate your inbox and contacts, which can be a pain. The SMS text recognition is almost unuseable. The error-rate is unacceptably high, and makes message writing slower, especially since the backspace button is an infuriating real key, set below the screen. Why bother, when the keypad is much quicker, and the digits are large enough that even fat fingers should have few problems. Connectivity is not a problem, although data transfer can be slow when accessing the SD card, which is also limited to a capacity of 2GB. The camera is great and well featured, but could do with some kind of cover since it feels a little delicate. The stylus is useful, but cries out to be incorporated into the phone like the Cookie. The cap is pretty tight, but this allows it to pull the stylus out to full length quickly. My brother owns a Cookie, which i've discovered is a much better-featured phone in all respects, apart from the camera. But then, that is the main selling point of the Viewty I suppose. Rating: Reviewed by hammond on 01/02/2009 awful phone! well its not that bad! i just got the new sony ericsson c902 upgrade...thank god for that! im a huge texter so that is what puts me off this phone(i had it for 6 months) it takes so long to write a text and i have quite big fingers and so many times i press the wrong 'button' for texting :| which really annoyed me! but dont get me wrong, the main feature on this phone is the camera which is outstanding, far better than my new one! (same M.P) But these huge files (pics) take years to load in the gallery to view them which is a pain (but i did have a lot of files but this shouldnt be a problem for todays technology!) if youre going to be using it to play music then dont! unless you want your battery to last 2 hours! as the touch screen gulps the battery like water, the music player is just as bad....so get an ipod or carry two batteries! But overall a good looking phone, love the touch screen apart from when i text, great camera but takes 3 years to load its media Rating: Reviewed by rinka on 31/01/2009 ive had the viewty for just under two weeks, and im very pleased with what its offered so far. the camera is excellent with an anti-shake function that i use all the time, and there are alot of settings that you can personalise, with some fun frames or color changes. its slightly annoying that the only way you can zoom is using the jog wheel at the back, but its not too much of a hassle. i use my phone mainly for text messaging, and itll take a while to get used to texting on the viewty. out of four text formats you can choose, ive found the keyboard (which is in qwerty format and requires you to turn the phone sideways) to be the easiest and fastest, plus it looks very impressive and high tech. one downside to texting on the viewty is that its impossible to text while moving. if im in a rush, or even just walking normally, it usually takes me a while to send a simple message, and even then theres a few odd letters mixed up in every word. ive found no use for the stylus that comes with the phone. i dont know if this applies to all stylus', but the one i have is very hard to pull apart from its lid and whenever i take the lid off, it takes a remarkable amount of effort and i feel like im going to break it. plus i dont want to look like a businessman organising a meeting when in fact im chatting to a girlfriend about gossip girl, so i dont use the stylus at all. the touchscreen is definitely the most exciting feature of the viewty. the screen will vibrate slightly every time you text a letter or choose an option, and this lets you know that the phone has recognised what youve chosen which is quite nice. it takes a while to get used to scrolling up and down with your finger since you scroll the opposite way of where you want the options to go, but youll get used to it after a while. when the phone is turned on its side, it looks exactly like a digital camera. even the back of the camera with the screen and buttons looks like a very modern minimalistic digital camera. this has gotten me out of many sticky situations, because at my college we arent supposed to use cellphones so passing it off as a digital camera has helped me out of trouble alot. dont know if thatll be much use to anyone else though. i definitely had to keep the manual by my side for the first few days of having the phone, but it is pretty user-friendly and once you figure out where everything is, its very easy to use. id definitely recommend it, its the phone for everyone and anyone. Rating: Reviewed by Happy User :) on 31/01/2009 I bet all you's giving the phone a bad reveiw dont even own one ( or ever have ) the battery life could last a bit longer yes. But that's why they give you a charger, its not ment to last forever you know.I personally think my phones great, can do what ever i want with it. Im really fussy with phones but im reccomending this one to all my friends and family. And back on to the subject of battery, YOU CAN BUY ONE THAT LASTS LONGER ( if you really want to moan about it ) .. Long story short. THIS PHONE IS AMAZING :) ! Rating: Reviewed by Spid Erman on 30/01/2009 this is a slcik phone which has some great features. the camera quality is also fantastic with its life like imagery. the quality of the phone is great and i think this is one of the best phones in the market currently and will be for a very long time. LG best model yet no doubt! Rating: Reviewed by Halo on 30/01/2009 it is absoloutely fantastic. camera excellent design excellent mp3 exellent features excellent overall EXCELLENT Rating: Reviewed by Badaman on 30/01/2009 I lurrrrvvvvv it..my old phone was a w800i and my new viewty is 200 tyms better than it. i didnt even have to use the manual to get to know this phone. it is a slick phone and very simple to use. the camera quality is very life like compared to the w800i and also the ringtones are very loud :) Rating: Reviewed by Jess on 30/01/2009 Rubbish, the touch screen is rubbish, so EVERYTHING is uber hard to do. I hate it. The only good thing is the camera. Rating: Reviewed by Lindsey Horner on 29/01/2009 I have had this phone for a year without a replacement which is excellent for me as I usually break them/wear them out straight away. The phone is easily the best phone I have ever had. I found nokias boring although I haven't had one for a few year, Motorola dated and basic, Samsung try to be that advanced that every new "modern" handset I have had has had a daft technical fault u600 (rubbish)!!! The viewty is fantastic all around although battery life isn't the best, but that may be due to my usage. Its a really sturdy interesting phone. I have found that all LG phones have fantastic reviews so I'll be sticking with LG, would love the renoir now. And I was dubious about a touch screen but it's never faulted me, Love It! Rating: Reviewed by Danny on 27/01/2009 This is a nice phone and looks amazing. it has a very nice design. I absoluutely love the amazing 5MP camera and video calling. Some more good features also but the bad out weigh the good. However i have had this phone for a few weeks now and i am now going to take it back for a few reasons. I have found that the screen tends to scratch very easily (despite a screen cover, no drops and a sylicone cover). I also found, when trying to open music files the phone goes very slow as in could take about 5 seconds to open a music playlist because of the big memory space. I also found that when i create a customised profile so that i can set the ringtone and text tone i want. However when i recieve a text it doesn't ever ring, but vibrates intermittingly. It also stops playing half way through a song despite the song progressing, the sound will just cut out. I hope this helps you make up your mind. Rating: Reviewed by Kevin Turner on 27/01/2009 I loathe this phone. It's absolutely horrible; everything from the stupid prodder thing that hangs annoyingly from the phone to the dreadful screen response. It's undoubtedly the worst phone I've ever had; I'm going back to Sony Erricson as soon as my contract allows! The camera's quite good, I'll give it that. Rating: Reviewed by Craig on 27/01/2009 The most irritating phone i've ever had!! The touch screen is slow, i've had mine replaced twice because cancel/delete button for texting broke. The only good thing going for this phone is the 5 megapixel camera. But I would recommend buying a camera & going for a completely different phone. Rating: Reviewed by freakster on 25/01/2009 lg viewty is a very good phone and very cheap. had it for now a year and there are no problems with it. the touch screen is very responsive and overall a very good buy Rating: Reviewed by Beckie on 24/01/2009 The LG KU990 Viewty is not very good dont get it,its a wast of money Rating: Reviewed by Olivia Mclaughlin on 24/01/2009 Best Phone Ever Rating: Reviewed by Abdul on 23/01/2009 After Selling My Nokia (rubbish) N95, i went out & bought the LG Viewty, & it was the Right Move, Lot Better than N95, Camera is Great with Xenon Flash, Easy to Use & Runs Fast without Crashing, Battery is Good Considering the Large Screen & Power Draining Camera Flash, Only Drawback is Speaker is Little Low, But Overall Great Phone. Buy It You Wont Regret It. Rating: Reviewed by Oratilwe south africa on 22/01/2009 My ku990 viewty is a great phone but it breaks my heart to say that in two months it began to have problems charging and connecting to my pc via usb i spend hundreds of rands trying to fix it and now i have given up hope. I will never ever buy an lg mobile phone until something is done about the this problem Rating: Reviewed by paulius on 22/01/2009 i just got the phone i had 15 phones lg cookie iphone and lots more but my favorite is the lg viewty it is very easy to use. theres onely one thing that is bad about it and it is that its fantastic. i thought that im too young for it im onely 12 but im not stupid. just get this phone. Rating: Reviewed by jasmin on 22/01/2009 i couldnt go any were with out it i love it. best pgone iv had for years Rating: Reviewed by Alex on 21/01/2009 i bought the viewty and I have to admit it is a great phone but i think that the Nokia 6220 classic is better because it has a 5mp camera, 8gb maximum memory card, better sound quality the only downfall is that it isnt a touchscreen! Rating: Reviewed by vee on 21/01/2009 This phone is Superb, Everything Works A treat, Touch Wood, very easy to use, This Phone is not Absulute Rubbish as commented few comments Down, Absulute Brilliant, Better Camera Facility than Iphone & Less than Half Price of Iphone Too. Rating: Reviewed by kimberley on 21/01/2009 i love the lg viewty and got it for such a bargin. the only problem with it is that it loses charge to much because all you wana do is play on it Rating: Reviewed by Jadee. on 21/01/2009 Ive had this fone for almost a year now and i absolutly love it! Battery lasts about three days without charge, camera is great, memory is great, the phone looks so stylish, the touchscreen works perfectly. DEFINATLEY THE BEST PHONE IVE HAD YET! I have just bought and upgrade Samsung F700 and i am going to miss my old one alot! Buy it! Rating: Reviewed by scott on 20/01/2009 hi i have LGku990 viewty and having problems with finding satnav details i think its a great phone but feel let down .scott from york any help would be great Rating: Reviewed by B Hall on 20/01/2009 Have just heard from LG Customer Services Re; the fact the phone doesn't sync with a computer the PC Suite programme supplied doesn't work on either Vista or XP. I e-mailed LG on the 10th Jan 2009 and got a reply on the 20th Jan 2009 telling me to return the unit back to retailer. Carphone warehouse will not refund or replace so I am stuck with an expensive piece of crap that will not up or down load from a PC so whats on the phone stays on the phone. Carphonewarehouse staff told me to take out the Micro SD card when I want to put things onto the PC. This involves taking the back of the phone off then taking the battery out then the SD card, I have to purchase an Micro SD card adaptor so that it will fit a card reader which I have to purchase. But I still cannot download anything for the organiser or any other data like contacts etc, just ludicrous. This is just junk being sold by young Arfur Daly's. LG Life is Good maybe for LG but not for the customer, and LG's Cu stomer Care/Service is appalling. Never ever will I purchase an LG item again! Rating: Reviewed by Sarah, newcastle on 19/01/2009 After being used to using a Sony Ericsson for quite a long time, I wasn;t too sure about the transition to using a touch screen LG! but i absolutely love it!! .. Most amazing phone i have had. The camera is amazing, the touch screen was a little hard to get used to at first, but now its like 2nd nature to me after only 3 days of owning it! so if you get this phone, do percivere if your not used to a touch screen! :-) thats all for now! xx Rating: Reviewed by Unknown on 19/01/2009 i had the lg viewty for two weeks a little bit of pressure from my earphones and the ink burst on it . i loved the phone but now because i ordered it online the shop will not do anything about it . Can someone tell me what rights i have? Rating: Reviewed by MO on 17/01/2009 Got one of these b 4 crimbo. So far ok, but not as good as my old Nokia n70 for watching films. The touch screen texting keys are very good for those who have trouble with fat thumbs and poor eyesight. Only one game and some rather fancy ringtones. Camera takes ages to capture picture so subject has moved out of sight b 4 shutter goes off. Rating: Reviewed by Emm -&- Liv x on 17/01/2009 XxThis phone is AWSOMM!! i would fully recomend u 2 buy this phone. The camra OMG were can i start is is a realy good pic xx Rating: Reviewed by Alex on 17/01/2009 Ignore all the bad reviews on this site! This phone is great and the battery lasts about 2-3 days with normal use. The camera is really great and been able to edit and draw on photos is a banter :D Overall i would recommend this phone over the samsung tocco, as the viewty is a lot better at doing its job, being a phone, not an over-complicated piece of ..... Plus u can get the viewty in a lot of different colours to appeal to everyone. Personally, Hot red is the best colour, exclusive to vodafone, but thats no problem for me .. :) 5* Rating: Reviewed by LAUREN. on 17/01/2009 LG Viewty - Oh my god! what a phone! Got this phone for Christmas in silver, at first, the phone would not turn on when i had charged it. So we took it back to the shop and got a replacement - i had a dud phone. easily done! Since i got the phone up and working it has been brilliant! It is one of the best phones i have ever had. I am really impressed. I bought it from o2 and got £20 off for handing in an old phone, and £40 credit afterwards. Ended up playing £107 for it. But its worth every penny as it is a brilliant phone for its price. The camera is brilliant. Very easy to use, and got use to it very quick. Had a nokia before (the pink swively one) and that was brilliant too. Really impressed with the LG. I recommend this to everyone! Rating: Reviewed by chrissie on 17/01/2009 i love this phone and i really want it but its sold out of most the shops. Rating: Reviewed by Jamie =) on 16/01/2009 I have the phone . And i think its a uniqe phone =) but it does have its downs like i find it Esier to use a pen and it has no were to put the pen But i would still give it a 9 1/2 out of 10 :D Rating: Reviewed by Gman, on 16/01/2009 I've had this phone on T-Mobile repaired 4 times now which is very annoying but it was finally replaced. The touch scren interface works very well. Good voice quality, znd screen size. I like the fact you can open multiple appl even whilst your browsing the net(which can be a bit slow sometines esp with HSPDA). The downsides are that u can't send more than a 2-page sms before it switches to mms (very annoying). Writing txt messages isn't bad unless you get the end of the 3rd line and you can't help but pressing the insert button :-@. You can save multiple numbers under one name but it only recognises 2 max when receiving or making a call. I can save any music file on the phone and listen to them but can only select certian mp3's as ringing tone (wma files can't be used - why?). The battery life is appalling but as these new phones are multimedia devices you can't expect a long battery life anymore.Hopefully LG fixed these issues with the new Renoir. Camera and video is good apart from night shots. Nokia & Ericsson's have better camers though. The final point: why does the call log not have one name with multiple entries detailing wether it's mobile/office/home etc rather than having the mobile pic against numerous entries for the mussed/dialled/rxd number. Prob now is I've got this phone til mid August :-( Rating: Reviewed by Vee on 16/01/2009 Great Phone, Camera is Brill, Also Video Recording is Good, Easy to use Touch Screen, Far Better that Apple Iphone, Iphone only Has 2 mega Pixel Camera with No Flash, Plus LG Viewt is a Third of the Price. I know my Choice is Best. Rating: Reviewed by Ron on 16/01/2009 I got one of these about a Week ago, I had my Doubt about Touch Screen Mobile, but After using it for a few days, i really liked using this phone, even though i'am not used to Touch Phones, it Really easy to use after afew hours of Playing around, The Camera is Great, Looks More like a Digital Camera & As good as One too, A Mobile Phone & Good Quality Digital Camera all in One, Great. Rating: Reviewed by m3anmachin3 on 16/01/2009 I have had the viewty for over a month now and I have to admit it is a SUPERB phone. I havn't had any major problems with the phone apart from the fact that it freezed maybe once in the month of ownership. I strongly suggest You buy this phone if you are looking for a fashionable yet fantastic gadget! Outstanding, well done LG (Life really is good) :) Rating: Reviewed by emma on 15/01/2009 I have no complaints about this phone apart from the battery life. I charged my phone through the night last night and today i have recieved 3 texts and sent 2, and it has just died (3.45pm) But otherwise its pretty good! Rating: Reviewed by xsachax on 15/01/2009 ok dont get me wrong but i hate this phone, it copys my song so i have one song repeated 50 times on my phone, and it akso takes just over a minute for it to load my media album which is annoying. but dont get me wrong this phone is amazing, i dropped it down the toilett and it actually works after touch screen in all!!! take care x Rating: Reviewed by Charl on 15/01/2009 I have had this phone for about a month now and i love it. Its definately the best phone i've had. (: Rating: Reviewed by Liz Valette on 15/01/2009 I bought the phone second hand and I cannot get it to 'talk' to my PC, even in mass storage mode. I really need to get hold of the PC Suite. LG's UK website support does not cater for mobile phone users. Apart from that I like it. Rating: Reviewed by Don't Even Bother on 15/01/2009 A truly TERRIBLE phone, my 3rd unit has failed again and I am giving up and getting something else. 1 star is 1 too many in my opinion - STEER CLEAR!! Rating: Reviewed by Paul Shaw on 15/01/2009 I have had the viewty now for just over a week and I now wish I had avoided it like the plague. It says that you can get 430-450 hours standby and 3.8-5.9 hours talktime, but this is absolutely rubbish. I have to charge my battery every 36 hours and I am a low user. This aside, the phone is good for the camera and the touch screen works. Rating: Reviewed by james on 13/01/2009 i just got the lg viewty for xmas.so far im very impressed by it,nothing annoying like most phones,one of my best features is probably the 5mp camera and the slow motion,being 14 i have great fun with that.Another thing ive noticed is the amount of memory,ive put a memory card in but havent had 2 use it yet,my inbox is 168 texts,six vids about one minute long or longer,125 pics and 22 songs about 3 to 4 mns long.so yes i think this phone is a must buy. Rating: Reviewed by Michael on 13/01/2009 I love this phone but. i have had this phone for three months and i have had it repaired 3 times, the problem i have had is where you recharge and dater transfer on the phone goes wrong. like i say great phone but this problem is annoying. Rating: Reviewed by Amy on 12/01/2009 I Love it! wish it had come with games. £5 a hit from orange to download them is unfair! phone is awesome. Battery needs charging every night. But very impressed Rating: Reviewed by Laura on 12/01/2009 i luv the Lg viewty i think its the best phone ever and it has got loads off fun stuff on it! i have it in red and its very smart looking. The best phone ever made! Rating: Reviewed by judy on 12/01/2009 this is an fabulous phone. its perfect. 5 stars well done Rating: Reviewed by Polly on 12/01/2009 Very pleased considering i was hoping for the samsung tocco, but yes brilliant phone. Rating: Reviewed by Jack on 11/01/2009 This is seriously an honest review. I cant remember when this phone was released some time last year? But i knew my update was soon so i started looking for phones. I finally got it on a £45 contract and loved it! It was amazing! (this was November last year) However, i had always wanted an iPhone except i was on Vodafone and it was just too much hastle to get one. The viewty was great for the first 5 months. Then like with any other phone it gets boring. It broke after about 6 months, and Vodafone wouldnt repair it so i just ended up using an old phone for the rest of my contract. After a few months (this November) My mum's contract was due an update (she's on o2) And i somehow convinced her to swap contracts with me. So i went into the shop and i knew straight awawy the iPhone 3G was the phone for me! It was brilliant, so that's the phone i got on £35 a month. I have no problem with the iPhone and now i can really see how much better it was than the viewty i had and was all so chuft with! The screen is sooo much better it's not that plasicy rubbish like the Viewty was and pelled off my screen! And the cameras, iPhone would win easily if it was in light conditions. If your choice is iPhone or Viewty iPHONE!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by MOJO x on 11/01/2009 I CANNOT BELIEVE PEOPLE ARE PUTTING ONE STAR ON THIS PHONE IT SOO DESERVES FIVEE!! I WISH MORE I HAVE HAD THIS PHONE FOR A MONTH AND I STILL LOVE IT AND IM NOT BORED OF IT YET:) THE CAMERA IS AMAZING THE TOUCHSCREEN IS AMAZING AND YOU CAN EDIT PICTURES AND WITH THE TOUCHSCREEN STYLUS YOU CAN ACTUALLY DRAW ON THEM!! i love the viewtyy:) amazinngggg job lg:) Rating: Reviewed by B Hall on 10/01/2009 I used to have a PDA and a small one hand use mobile, I have recently had a Viewty KU990 bought for me and just find it absolutley rubbish. Using the collar around the Unprotected camera lense is awkward, the stylus being strapped to the phone gets in the way and the PC suite programme just doesn't work either with Vista or XP so anything you have on the phone stays on the phone. The touchscreen is just awful you get things coming up as you may have pressed just a bit too hard and as for scrolling it's use the collar around the lense or spend a while trying to scroll on the screen for the particular menu etc you want. As for the memo/Organiser and contacts.....no good. The contacts addresses are put into Korean order i.e. Post Code as the second line of an address, it's just awful! I've had the phone a month and have reverted back to my old Samsung. If you want a good camera go and buy a camera, leave this junk alone. Rating: Reviewed by cameron on 10/01/2009 just bought thge viewty i dint want to change from sony ericsson but this fone puts any sony ericcson to shame im afraid Rating: Reviewed by Mark Honiton on 10/01/2009 The TV out cable is available on ebay for £10. Official LG product and works a treat, but will only show the high end video recordings. Product code is UTC-100. Loads of apps available for all J2 phones on getjar.com For the Viewty you only need to dowload the .jar file. Put KU990 into the left hand menu and watch it go! The main camera has a nasty habit of reverting to 1mp res if the front view cam is selected. The headset supplied does hands free for the car but the quality is only good. You can get a 3.5mm adaptor of the net for about £2 to allow you to use yor best headphones. A cover should have been suppied.. its a nice phone and you don't want it up against lose change in your pocket or bag. Again easy to get on the net for a few pounds but should have been in the box. Camera: If you dont read the book its not too good. If you do, it's one of the better cameras out there. In bright light its best to select manual ISO of 200 and let the camera do the rest, the auto ISO seems to over expose, but its great in doors. The auto focus is great, but allow it to act. If you have auto flash,auto exposure, auto focus, and various other options selected it may take a few seconds to work out what needs to be done. Once the frame turns green and you push the shutter, you will get a great picture. There is some snow effect at ISO 800 but you can photograph a black cat down a coal mine without flash. The web broser has to be one of the best out there. Its by Google..enough said. The LG software supplied has had many bad reviews, but I fail to see why. It does everything the Nokia software does, it seems more stable, and I have had no problems with USB or Bluetooh. (IVT Software recomended for bluetooth initial connection) The default is LG client based but it is easy to select data storage. Sync to MS Outlook is easy. No phone is perfect, and with the march of technology no phone ever will be, but for the money, this has to be one of the better ones out there. Rating: Reviewed by Brodie <3 on 10/01/2009 omg it is the best phone i have ever had and that i will ever have !! everyone who says its crap is seriously on something or got a faulty one becuase i would prefer this over the Iphone and any other phone! its awesome and i recommend it to you! i have one, my sister has one and now my mum also has one! so get one if your looking for a good phone :) love it! x Rating: Reviewed by Lee on 09/01/2009 i bought the phone yesterday amd although i am very satisfied with it each time i try to open my music files it crashes and resets.....ive tried taking out the memory card and resseting it but it stays the same...looks like its back to the dealers to get a new one, but they are amazing! Rating: Reviewed by Francisco on 09/01/2009 I don't think it's that bad, I've had it for a while and I do like it, but don't think of it as the eighth wonder... The phone has actually freezed lots of times, and whenever I send a SMS if there's no space for it to be registered, you can send it without saving it... but the SMS is not sent... That's happened to me lots of times... Whenever I go for file exploration (photos, video, etc) it takes a lot of time to open the gallery, so I don't agree with most of you because of my personal experience with it... Rating: Reviewed by Stuart on 08/01/2009 I have to say this phone is outstanding,I bought this phone recently and was anxious about doing so but i went for it.The phone has so many features and the Camera on it is also very good,the Viewty is the first touchscreen phone i have had.It is very easy to text as it has a variety of diffrent way's to text which is nice. Overall the Viewty is well worth the money and i think it is one of the best phone's to date even though it's been out for some time! Rating: Reviewed by Karen on 08/01/2009 My friend has got the viewity which inspired me to get. I would never get a touchscreen before but when I used it to text as a tryout I found there was no problem and there is 3 ways of typing I used 2 both very easy. Taking pictures is fun its like a real camera but its lighter silmer and is a touchscreen. FUN! With my phone now samsung U600 which is a gtood phone but my battery dies easily but the viewity is meant to stay for around 4-5days. If you are thinking of getting a LGCookie I would not advise you to as the camera is bad and it meant to break easily! With my phone I always miss calls because I cant hear it but in viewity you can put outdoor on it and you can hear it like a mile away. I love this phone and I am getting it for my birthday soon. Rating: Reviewed by Emma Morris on 07/01/2009 Very disappointed...although most people who have reviewed seem to think its ok. Maybe i just had bad luck?? On the first day I used the phone the screen froze. This has since happened a number of times and is extremely annoying as i have to turn phone off to get going again. Battery life is very poor compared to my old Sony Ericcson. There seems to be very little warning that the battery is about to die - seems to go from 2 bars to nothing (no red bar). I was in the car and received a call. Couldnt answer as driving. At this point had 2 bars. 5 mins later got home and went to call back, but phone had switched off and battery flat but only fully charged the day before. Texts are a bit awkward too. I notice that someone else picked upon the problem i am having - once you enter a recipient, there seems to be no option to edit or delete the recipeint if you have entered the wrong one. Instead you have to delete your message and start again! Very annoying! Also texts seem to take ages to write because if you want to use two characters on the same number (ie 'm' followed by 'o') then you have to wait what seems like a very long time before you can move onto the next character. Seems to take much longer than previous phones, and subseqently i am going to fast when texting without concentrating (as i used to do) and then have to go back and change half of the text because the cursor hasn't moved to the next space and so i end up with a '6' rather than 'mo' for example. (hope you are following!) Had a bizarre problem with sim card. Had only had my phone for a day or so...not used it much. Just a couple of texts. Not even been out of the house. I turned the phone on after it had been on charge and it said unregistered sim. I was unable to make any calls or send any texts so it was pretty useless. Went to take sim out and put back into old trusty sony ericsson as i was already annoyed about previous 'freezing' problems. When i did this i noticed that the problem was that the sim had moved out of its 'holder' and as soon as i put it back in it was fine. This seemed odd as i don't know how this could of happened as the phone hadn't been dropped or anything, just sat on charge! I hope it doesn't happen again. I have got to send this phone back and get a new one now which is a bit of a pain. lets hope the new one works. I was so excited to get the phone but after a day wiched i hadn't. My old sony ericsson never had a single problem in two years. Rating: Reviewed by alex crowther on 07/01/2009 its like trying to get your granny to text ..... hard word i droped it once and it broke so had to get it fixed good other than the texting and quete. if you are 16 to 24 dont get it but iff you are 40 and up go 4 it Rating: Reviewed by PATI on 07/01/2009 HAD THE PHONE FOR FOUR MONTHS AND I WILL HAVE MY BATTERY EXCHANGED FOR 2ND TIME! ABSOLUTE RUBBISH AND DIES AFTER 12 HRS WITHOUT MAKING A SINGLE PHONE CALL. CAMERA IS HORRID AND TAKES AWFUL PICS. DO NOT GET THAT PHONE. IT IS USELESS PIECE OF JUNK!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Melissa on 07/01/2009 I've had this for 11 months now, all I can say it's amazing. It does everything you want, the camera is really good.The internet is reasonably fast. Touch screen responsive, but it's easy to break. Battery lasts a long time. I think this is a great phone. I would like a new phone but can't find a better one.The only thing I have trouble with is the texting. I think this might only be me, but I find it the keyboard very annoying. But, I must say an amazing phone :). Rating: Reviewed by Holli x on 07/01/2009 I LOVE THIS PHONE ITS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!! YES SOMETHINGS ARE NOT AS GOOD AS THEY COULD BE, BUT U WILL NEVER FIND A PERFECT PHONE!!! FIRSTLY EVRYONE SAYS DONT GET THAT GET AN IPHONE, BUT PERSONALLY I MUCH PREFER THIS AS IT IS 100% MORE RELIABLE THAN THE IPHONE AND THE BATTERY LASTS ALOT LONGER ON THIS IF U CHANGE TO SAVE POWER. THE CAMERA IS BETTER ON THIS TEXT VIDEO BLUETOOTH STYLE DESIGN CALLING AND LOADS ARE BETTER THAN THE IPHONE SO IF UCANT CHOOSE GO FOR THIS!! i have the iphone too and all i keep thinking when im out (cos ppl always stare at u) is that someone is gonna steal it, if anything, this is more safe to be around!! the only thing is iphone is great for internet aqnd email which is all i use it for x OVERALL THOUGH I ABSOLUTLY THINK THIS IS BETTER AND THE BEST PHONE U COULD GET RIGHT NOW!!! P.S this is MY personal opinion, wether YOU like it or not depends on wat u wont in a phone x Rating: Reviewed by Gina on 06/01/2009 I have had the Viewty for just under two weeks and I must say I am very satisfied with it. I do agree with Kev's comment regarding reading through the manual and exploring your options as this makes it a whole lot easier to actually understand the functions. I have also been able to download plenty of good games such as Medal of Honor Airborne, Call of Duty, Monopoly, Sudoku, and a whole lot more, some of the LG website and others from random sites without any problems whatsover. Using the scroll on the screen does take getting used to, but it will become second nature. For those considering getting this phone, I would suggest that you seriously consider what fits in with your lifestyle. I am happy with the camera and video recorder, as I am not obsessed by recording such media, however, I do have to agree with other reviewers in that the quality is very good. I am not bothered by the fact that it has no voice dialling as I never used this feature anyway with any of my previous phones. The same can be said for Wi-Fi access - I do not have a pressing need to use this. The sound quality through the speakers is not that great, so I would suggest using the headphones. If you are one of those people that like listening to their music through the phone speakers, then you will be disappointed. Otherwise I have taken advantage of some great features as I am a PAYG customer I can now block all nuisance calls, as there is a setting to block unregistered numbers.I am a big fan of their keyboard for texting and they do provide a number of options in this area. All I can say is that, for those with the negative comments is that this phone is not for you, and it has nothing to do with its design. Every single model has instances of crashes and not working, that is nothing new - get over it. There are plenty of other phones available in the market, but for me and what I want my phone to do, I am very happy............even with the stylus Rating: Reviewed by brownie252 on 06/01/2009 i love my mobile, i had a samsung u600 as it was my upgrade but it is rubbish and kept freezing so they gave me a samsung g600 which also started to freeze after a month so took it back to shop decided to go for something new. I choose a lg viewty ku990 never had a lg before and it was touch screen which was exciting for me. I now had this phone for 3 months and still love it. I have had no problems with it, its easy to use and every time i use it i feel like i just got it out the box i get excited to use it. i would say brilliant phone and will be keeping for a long time :) Rating: Reviewed by UnderDog Reviews - Chris Kinsman on 05/01/2009 -- LG u990 -- I received my LG from Three in April 2008. I was quite pleased overall with appearance of the handset. Fairly ergonomic buttons Black casing, touch screen Smooth design... Overall pretty good. For the first couple of months, it attracted a lot of attention for its seemingly futuristic appearance and function. Three's initial customer service was pretty good too. When I applied an internet add-on that didn't process correctly, they refunded what I had spent and activated the add-on for free, so all good there. However, the first problems were with Three. Their website states that 98% of the UK is covered by their signal, and I can only get signal in one half of my house. Does the other 2% conveniently sit over half my house? Don't think so. Plus, the phone requires 3G to use ANY online service at all - meaning the only places you can use them, are towns and cities. And the receiver isn't top notch anyway. After 6 months, the phone showed no signal in places I've had no problems before, and this i Rating: Reviewed by Sophie on 05/01/2009 Amazin phone absaloutly love it Great camera love the touch screen and the fact of only havin 3 buttons! Rating: Reviewed by Unavalible on 04/01/2009 This Phone Is Excellent So Far. All The Rubbish Reviews I Dont Agree With, Mr Benge You Are Completely Wrong About This Phone! Kev I Agree , Everything You have Said Is Right. It Did Also Take me Time To Get Use To This Phone But Im A Natural Now, I Use The Side Keyboard. This Phone IS Better Than The iPhone No Doubt About It. Never Freezes , Good Reliability And I Think The Battery Only Lasts One Day for Some People Because They Are Constently On the Internet Because I Found This Happend To me When I Kept using Facebook For 3 Days Straight Bt Still the battery Lasted 2 3 days Without Needing Charge. But If You Do Not Use The Internet The Phone Charge Could last Up To A Week Depending On How much You use It , E.g Text , Play Music And Basicly Just Fiddling With It As You Do When Its New. Rating: Reviewed by Lord Draper on 04/01/2009 This phone is absolute junk. The battery only lasts a day without using it. The camera is so slow and the pictures are rubbish. The whole phone is very very poor in every aspect too numerous to mention. T mobile blame the phone for poor signal and LG blame T Mobile. Either way it is unusuable because every time you dial a number you don't get connected, every time someone calls you you get cut off half way through the call and worst of all if you miss a call they don't give you any audible warning at all. You don't find you have missed any calls even though there could be 50 or more. It just merely tells you when you go to missed call that you have missed loads. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES UNLESS YOU HAVE PROOF OF INSANITY FROM A PRIVATE DOCTOR.TO OWN ONE OF THESE YOU WILL SERIOUSLY NEED TO BE REGISTERED INSANE OR BE WAITING FOR CONFIRMATION OF YOUR THERAPY SCHEDULE. What a shame they don't have the facility to give minus stars for this rubbish. If they did I wold rate it minus 1 million. Rating: Reviewed by craig on 03/01/2009 Great phone,easy to use,every thing about it is cool but the camera is rubbish,I keep myphones till they fall apart and my SE.k750i's 2 megapixel camera was far superior,clearer,easier to use(point and shoot)and took far better pictures. Rating: Reviewed by Matt on 03/01/2009 Hello do all fellow peeps, Just got this little beauty on Orange today and so far it seems incredible, easy to use and to get to grips with. the texting is far better than i'd imagined, okay there maybe a few ickle faults but hey hasn't everythng! Rating: Reviewed by Fluffmeister on 03/01/2009 I loved my LG Viewty, great camera etc etc etc...however, it now decides to show "Emergency Calls Only" (Only had it 2 months) now I found out that this is quite a standard problem..now I have to try and get a replacement from Phones 4U. Gutted, probably wont get my money back, wish I never bought the thing. Spend that bit extra and get an Iphone. Rating: Reviewed by Christine Bannister on 02/01/2009 This phone is terrible I have had it 2 days and the screen has frozen on me so cant use it oh what a good idea Rating: Reviewed by ern on 01/01/2009 ive had my viewty for just over 100 days and ever since ive had the phone it hasn't worked. 1st - when the battery goes dead it resets time and date. 2nd - if u take the battery out for a second it resets itself. 3rd - when receiving a message u cant hear it and also when it rings... and now after i got that fixed i cant even turn on the phone. ive charged for 24 hours and it wont turn on and if it does it lasts 10 mins tops and dies again.. Rating: Reviewed by Jimmy-Bob-Jo-Fred on 01/01/2009 I love this phone it is the best fone ever it is excelanta!! You sud bye it four yuorself or four a gift four your freind. It is very gud. Mye one is black. I like to draw on peoples faces on the phone using the stick! Overal it is an fab fone!! Rating: Reviewed by Holly - not impressed on 01/01/2009 Firstly, I LOVE the phone, im Not impresssed with all the people who come here and talk complete rubbish ( no memory expandable, what world do u live in??!) try reading instructions or something about the phone before buying MR Sony =/ good phone! Rating: Reviewed by VIEWTY LOVER on 01/01/2009 I JUST GOT THE VIEWTY FOR X-MAS THIS YEAR AND IT ROCKZ I DONT NO WHY PPL DISS IT SO BAD. I LOVE THE WAY U CAN MUCK ABOUT WITH PICTURES AND DECIDE HOW U WANNA MAKE A TXT BUT THERE IS 1 THING I HATE ABOUT IT. WHEN I WANNA SEND A TXT AND USE THE HANDWRITTING BOX EVERY TIME I DRAW A F IT COMES UP AS A R/L AND WHEN I PUT IN A R IT COMES UP WITH A T BUT OH WELL I LOVE THE PHONE ITS WORTH EVERY PENNY!!!!! TY FOR READING Rating: Reviewed by Lord Draper on 31/12/2008 This phone is a bunch of over rated rubbish. The battery won't last more than 24 hours, and that is without making a single call. the key pad is dreadful unless you have women's fingers. The camera does not take pictures in the dark even with the flash.In day light the camera takes so long to actually work that you either think the battery is flat or you have allready taken a picture when you haven't. Over rated over priced out dated rubbish. This phone has got so many faults it is definately one of the worst phones ever made. Rating: Reviewed by Jay on 31/12/2008 Overall a very gd phone, camera= good, internet= decent, touch screen responce= good, battery life= very short, texting= good, 5 star, buy this phone! Rating: Reviewed by Corinne on 30/12/2008 I haqve just got this phone for christmas and i already am completely in love with it! Amazing camera amazing touch screen amazing designs amazing EVERYTHING GO OUT AND GET IT NOW DO NOT GET THE SONY ERICSSON W91OI!!! it is absolute ****!! Rating: Reviewed by Maddy on 30/12/2008 i got this for my birthday which was back in may and to be honest i havent really taken very good care of it, im very clumsy and ive dropped it soooo many i times yet its still in one piece. no scratches or anything, im starting to believe that this phone is in fact indistructable (sorry dunno if i spelt that right) but anyway its a great phone but not sure if i'd buy it now cuz theres quite a few phones out there that are better now but i love it and the camera is great Rating: Reviewed by Bob Alexander on 30/12/2008 Just love it! Take no notice of the poor reviews-on this site there are 56 five-star ratings and 20 four-star. Only 11 people have rated it 1, and as someone else observed, the poor ratings are mainly by people who are bordering on illiterate. Ok the scroll wheel round the lens is not a good idea, but everything else works just fine. I place a lot of importance on mp3 playing, and it works fine through my Samsung bluetooth stereo headphones-fantastic sound quality. How can someone rubbish a phone for sound quality through its speakers! And there is no restriction on the number of playlists you can have, and you can name them too. One of my old phones limited you to four playlists of 30 songs each, and of the 400-odd tracks on my micro-sd card, it could only see about half of them. So my advice is-ignore the morons and go with the flow-56 five star ratings can't be wrong! Rating: Reviewed by Alfie on 29/12/2008 The phone has excellent features, a high quality camera and a 5 megapixel camera...What more could you ask for? Rating: Reviewed by Corinne on 29/12/2008 I have just got this phone for christmas but it is absolutely OUTSTANDINGLY THE best phone i have ever had (And i have had a lot of phones!) The only annoying thing is that you can't have different themes without hacking. Rating: Reviewed by matt smith. on 29/12/2008 I bought this phone last month and I can assure you that it is utter rubbish,the 5 megapixel camera acts like 2 megapixel and the touch screen broke after 2 weeks.As a 19 year old student I need a good,reliable phone and the LG viewty does not provide that,its a big disappoint so dont waste your money.Not worth more than £40 in my opinion,and the opinions of many of my friends. Rating: Reviewed by John on 29/12/2008 My God. Some people are just unbelievable. This phone is by far the best phone i have had. Sure, it may take time to get use to the touchscreen texting. But look at all the great features on this phone- 5MP cam,120fps video,DIVX PLAYER tell me does many other phones have such high technology as the viewty? The only reason I put this review on a 4 star in because I wish it could hold more then 2gb external memory to put in movies. Other than that, I say this phone has taken my heart :) Rating: Reviewed by Dmitry on 29/12/2008 I was using it from 15/06/2008. Phone can store 300 sms total. You can not save or extract them to pc. some people i call saying that my voice disappear. like you sp..k (letters missing ea). Using external memory and using some types of files on SD card, makes phone to shutdown when people are calling me. But now i understand it and love it. Rating: Reviewed by James on 29/12/2008 Luvley fone the 5megapixel camera is great also the video But the sound quality culd of been a bit better but an improvement of sound from the lg shine I love everything about this phone and hopefully if is in stoke in february ill get it 4 ma son's brthday So don't hesitate buy buy buy Rating: Reviewed by jake on 29/12/2008 well.. i liked the phone very much, i wasnt going to go for it after a few shop owners told me they stopped selling the phone because of so many returns, they just delisted the product. but then a few more store owners said that it was a good buy, if you like the touchphone capabilities that is. 9 days later i was flicking through photos and it just broke. stopped. software screwup. i internet searched this and found that it was a frequent problem... taking the phone back and hope to find a better one. hope i helped some people, you need luck though. Rating: Reviewed by mr sony on 28/12/2008 no memory expandable and stylus stopped after 1 minute. dont buy. Rating: Reviewed by Chole on 28/12/2008 LG Viewty, i've had it a day and its an amazing phone. Few minor disadvantages about it for example, when taking a picture you have to have a shutter sound, no volume control when you're on the phone to someone, well if there is a way of solving those, I haven't found it. The menu is a pretty basic but snazzy along with it. When scrolling down, it takes a few hours to get use to the touch and scroll, but once you've worked it out its fine. I still keep my old sony ericsson with me as i adored my w850i, but i think on a overall opinion LG have sent out a cracking phone but improvements could have been made to make it a little better, but well done LG. Rating: Reviewed by Hollyy :) on 27/12/2008 I absolutely love this phone :) I got it for christmas and I have been playing around with it non-stop since then so I know quite a lot about it! Firstly, design is great, I got it in purple and I have to say it MUST be the worlds most beautiful phone!! I think most girls would like it, I certainly do! :) Camera is not the best WHEN you are taking it, but when you look back they are quite good. Video is brilliant, I love the function where you can take a photo/video using the front camera, basically like a mirror!! (girls will like!!) I can't work out the 120fps thing but thats because I never read instructions...EVER...I will have to ask myy dad to sort it out. Bluetooth = great Messaging = Absolutely AWESOME Calling = great Video = Absolutely AWESOME Camera = great Internet = Havent tried it yet :P Design = Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Music = Fab sound! Overall = 5 stars! Luv it! I was a bit worried about the fact that hardly anyone can put their pictures on the computer, but I can so no problem there, you have to view them then drag them into the folder you want them in = simple! :) overall Im reaally glad I got this one! Rating: Reviewed by on 27/12/2008 THIS FONE IS GREAT!!! I REALLY LIK TH FACT THT TH VIDEO CAMERA CAN DO SLOW MOTION FILMING! SCREEN VERY RESPONSIVE ND I REALLY LIK HOW U CAN TEXT IN SO MANY WAYS. I WOULD REALLY RECOMMEND THIS FONE!!! Rating: Reviewed by Gemma on 27/12/2008 Well i got this phone and I charged it up for longer than overnight and the battery had worn down within about 2 days and I wasn't using it that much. Apart from that this phone is excellent I love it, the camera is superb and the features are brilliant. Overall i would recomment it!! :-) Rating: Reviewed by David on 27/12/2008 I bought this phone 2 days ago and i have to say its a very decent phone. i would definatly say its up there with the big names such as the iphone and the samsung tocco. I think that the screen could be a bit more responsive, but overall it hasnt done anything funny, like people in other reviews have said. i really like how the video camera can film in slow motion, and the picture quality is very good. if you are planning on buying this phone then make sure you read the manual before hand, it really does help you understand the phone. HIGHLY RECOMMEND this phone!!! Rating: Reviewed by Stuart on 26/12/2008 This Phone is Simply Amazing! Rating: Reviewed by Stuart on 24/12/2008 This is without doubt the worst phone i have had the misfortune to buy. As said before, using the touchscreen to scroll trough texts or your phone book is nigh on impossible, the screen has broken twice and i don't mean it smashed, i mean it just stopped working. Using your phone when you see nothing but a blank screen is tough! They told me it was internet ready, but there seems to be issues with every site i have tried to visit. Youtube? Forget it! Facebook? Forget it! MSN Messenger? Forget it! Hotmail? Forget it! - you get the picture. And not only do they not work properly, but no one who works in O2 has yet been able to show me what i'm doing wrong. The review above mentions something about a "smart light" to help take pictures in the dark. Yeah good luck with THAT. It has to be the worst "5 megapixel" (don't make me laugh) camera i have ever used. So I've given up even trying with this piece of junk anymore - i'm back to using my beat up old Nokia. Shame i'm on an 18 month contract, oh well - only another 12 months to go for my upgrade. My brother ordered the LG Viewty and had it sent back within days. Seriously - avoid this excuse for a phone like the plague. You have been warned! Rating: Reviewed by Andy, Shropshire UK on 24/12/2008 After lots of reading up on reviews and websites, I took the plunge today and bought the Viewty. I have been experimenting different things all day with it and I must say, its extremely customisable. There are a few really good LG forums out there that really know their stuff. I am really pleased with it so far. I bought a Samsung G600 on Sunday (2 days ago) from the O2 shop, and after a day it turned itself off 3 times, and also the screen kept going bright, then dull all the time. When I took it back I had the option of choosing something else, the Viewty was the choice for me for the same price as the G600. Reading some of the reviews on here, I don't think the phone has been given a fair chance. The camera for instance, I haven't played around with it much but it was at least as good, if not better than the G600, I didn't buy it for the camera anyway, I have my Canon SX10si for that, but the video on this phone is much superior to any phone I have tried before, its awesome. I will play around with the Viewty some more and see how it performs, but my impression so far is excellent! Rating: Reviewed by Jess on 23/12/2008 I am not even joking the worst phone i have EVER had i hate it so much!!! i have decided (after struggling with this for a month) to go back to my old samsung, (which might i add, has no camera bluetooth and cost about £30 2 years ago). I HATE THIS PHONE AND WARN YOU NOW, DO NOT BUY IT!!! Rating: Reviewed by robert on 23/12/2008 hi i think the lg viewty is a briliant phone my only word of advise is dont get it on orange because they brand it so much they change the music player to orange music and put links to orange website every where Rating: Reviewed by Jeffrey on 23/12/2008 I have gotten the Viewty mobile phone in Jan-2008. I still think you have designed a cool mobile phone and I was very satisfied with it.. at first. I have lost important phone data and contacts. Also, Viewty has reliability issue, for example the camera was faulty for 2 times within 4 months. Therefore my phone is broken and cannot be used due to your unreliable quality. To resolve the problem I visited the LG Mobile Service Outlet at VivoCity 2 times. Today, I spent 4 hours calling the Concept Shop Helpline which no one answer. Good product, but lousy quality and service, equals to a lot of frustration! Rating: Reviewed by steph on 22/12/2008 i dont know what the people who are saying this phone is rubbish are talking about. its one of the best phones ive ever had, its smart and easy to use when you get used to it. Rating: Reviewed by philip on 22/12/2008 im thinking of getting this phone because at the moment you can pick one up for 150 quid so is a bargain compared to the lg renoir and samsung tocco both costing 200-300 quid Rating: Reviewed by Ali on 21/12/2008 This phone is MINT. Propper belter of a phone. The camera is boss and i like how you can draw onto the photos thats class. I rekon everyone should buy them cause its a belterrrr!!! Rating: Reviewed by Andrew on 21/12/2008 Loved this phone for about 6 months, then the battery started playing up. Current standby time is about three hours, and I've only had it for twelve months! There are a few user glitches, such as how easy it is to exit the messaging screen half way through writing a message because of the way they've placed the buttons, and yes, the screen is a bit plasticy. A good little phone overall though, but I'm still moving to the New I-phone or HTC Touch this month! Rating: Reviewed by kelly on 20/12/2008 I have this phone It is AMAZING! I mean, hard trying to use the touchscreen, but it does get easier; I must say. I give this phone 10 out of 10 WOOO!! lol xo Rating: Reviewed by Adam on 20/12/2008 I find this phone poor Rating: Reviewed by Amy on 19/12/2008 Viewty by LG has been the best LG yet. i bought one about a month ago. The Phone was a not a complete let down, although it comes with a few faults, as every other phone does. I have read quite a few of the other comments and agree with some that the battery life is not great but it lasts up to 48-72 hours, as most other phones i must state. The phone is really eye cathing and quite big in the hand. It comes with 3 themes on O2 but there are websites on the internet which allow you to download other themes for this phone. Who actually needs more than 3 themes when you can change your wallpaper? this does not bother me in the sligtest. Ive read about some of the menus being unresposive and i think this is probley due either to a fault within the phone ( as every other phones have faults too they are making it sound like it is just this one) or the phone has been dropped a few hundred time and should be sent away for repair. The camrea is so much better than the iphon e as my friend has it and lets me use her, i really noticed the diffrence, also it offers more settings for your photos and videos. the touch screen is very good but if you are in a job or in school which you are not allowed to text in, i would advise you to think twice about buying this phone as it is almost impossible to text without looking at the screen. My view on the Viety is that it really is a great phone for its price, and quite easy to get used to even if youve never used a touchscreen,LG or Mobile phone before. Rating: Reviewed by Henry Oxenford on 19/12/2008 I think this phone is a lot better than its competitor, the i-phone 3G as its standard of quality is unbelievable and so much better on all levels Rating: Reviewed by chad on 19/12/2008 great phone. after reading half of the reviews i didnt expect it to be as good as it is ;-P Rating: Reviewed by alucard69biz on 19/12/2008 just great ...verry execellent... Rating: Reviewed by Chump on 19/12/2008 This phone is one of the best on sale at the moment Rating: Reviewed by Jessica on 18/12/2008 I really liked this phone, but i have had it less that 2months and the screen has gone black with a green line down it, but you can still do things on the phone but you cant see. & i havent dropped it or anything, it was fine till then, pretty mad to be honest. Rating: Reviewed by DannyPaterson on 18/12/2008 This phone is the best phone i've ever had Rating: Reviewed by Vicki on 17/12/2008 Ive had this phone for just under 9 months now. I loved it to begin with. But Ive never been one to hold on to a phone for very long. I love a new phone. But about 2 months ago it started playing up. The screen plays up, its lost its calibration. I touch one part of the screen and it hits another. very annoying when youre trying to text and the letters are completely different from what you want. Also it has a habit of turning off and not turning back on unless you take the back off and remove the battery and re-insert it. I would never go for a touch screen phone again. Its also very chunky. BUt the camera is excellent. Nothing to fault there, and the music plays perfectly. Rating: Reviewed by maria on 16/12/2008 Had my phone for a few days now and am really pleased with it. The touch screen takes a bit of getting used to first of all but now seem quite straight forward. The sound quality is good if a little low, and i like being able to allocate my own radio station sequence. For any one looking for a leather case, I brought one from ebay for less than a fiver. Loving this phone at the moment Rating: Reviewed by AMeliaaa on 16/12/2008 This phone has a really good memory and so far I've bot had a LG despite going thorrugh about 20 phones.The camera is the best gpoing.You dont need to carrya camera round with you beacuse this camera phone is probabl better than a an ordinary camera.Its really fun when you first get mit.xx Rating: Reviewed by will on 16/12/2008 i love my phone Rating: Reviewed by linda on 15/12/2008 the fone is good and better everythin the only problem is where 2 find the memory card folder Rating: Reviewed by Elise on 15/12/2008 Sure, it looks impressive, but is difficult to use and is really quite basic. It seems like it says "BUY MEEEE i'm 100% touchscreen and fantastically up to date" when really, the menu graphics are dreadfully dated and sending a text can suddenly become the most difficult thing to do. I'm definately changing to a phone with buttons! Rating: Reviewed by Harry on 15/12/2008 If you are considering a iphone or an lg viewty then the get the viewty it is a iphone killer with its 5 megapixel camera opposed 2 the 2 megapixel camera on the iphone Rating: Reviewed by jatt on 14/12/2008 wiked fne luv it gna keep it now ur turn buy it go on SUCH A GD FNE COMPLETELY LUV DA THING Rating: Reviewed by Ben, Newcastle on 14/12/2008 Ive got this phone and honestly it is the best phone ive ever had the touch screen is excellent and the camera awsome, people say that the battery life is rubbish when in fact if you go onto Main Menu > Phone Settings > Power Save turn the power save on and thats all you need to do to keep you battery i use my phone all day everyday and i love it much better than my recent one Samsung J700 I highly recommend this phone to all you buyers Rating: Reviewed by saud on 13/12/2008 excellent Rating: Reviewed by frank on 13/12/2008 i love this fone!!!!!!!!!!!!my friend has 1 and it is so amazing i am asking fthe oir it for christmas!!! the touchscreen is what i am really looking forward to and the camera is a brill 5 mp. also it has internet browsing really well and has motion sensor games!!!!! also it has FREE YOUTUBE ACCSESS.so if a r a youtube fan i would reccomend this fone!!!!also there is hjandrting recognition.3g is in it so fast downloads and blutooth as well.the only thing that let me down is the battery life altough this is not a problem for meas i would happily charge it every nite. i would reccomend this fone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by James on 11/12/2008 Ive had the Viewty for over a year now, and its now my favorite phone. i bought this mainly because on paper this has better stats than the (original) iPhone. can do everything i would expect from a 3g phone. its really flexible compared to other phones, you have 3 different methods of writing a text!(keypad/keyboard/handwriting recognition) its fairly tall and wide, but the thinness makes it slide easily into my pocket. battery is good for a phone with such a large screen. camera is good for a phone, 5mpx gives a nice pic.. the iso800 (120fps) is a cool gimick feature i actually use a fair bit! I dont use a screen protector or anything and over a year of constant use has left the phone looking a bit battered(like all phones) but the screen is still relatively scratch free. Gripes: the sound quality/reception on calls is bad, if i wasnt in an area with excellent coverage i would struggle to hear people. the jog wheel thing is in a silly place, i never use it except to zoom the camera. (fingerprints on the lens is annoying). the one place this phone really falls down is the usability, although i have 2+ routes through the menus for finding every feature on the phone, none are that intuitive. the animations for screen changes regularly judder(no damage to functionality just look/feel) (anyone who has trouble deleting texts, or scrolling needs to read the manual before they give a bad review for their illiteracy [scrolling isnt standard pc/mac. So people cant do it immediately, get frustraited and cry 1 star!]) This phone isnt exactly the same as all other phones! and will take a bit of time to get used to the menu/scroll and other bits, but once you do it will really come together! Rating: Reviewed by Dan on 11/12/2008 I've had this phone for about 4 months now and it is a great all round phone. A few niggles that may only be specific to my phone - 1) Camera is really difficult to take clear photos. Perhaps I have a dodgy phone, the resolution seems very bad and the photos always come out shakey. Even with the stabiliser on. I alwys seem to have to reconfigure the camera every so often, as if it loses it settings somehow. Even at full 5mp - its photos are a little dissappointing. 2) The screen is absolutely excellent, responsive and not at all irritating. Apart from the odd mistake while texting - I've found it so easy to switch to a touchscreen phone. 3) The loudspeaker is a little tinny and quiet when listening to music. 4) Unfortunately my Viewty has developed the flu haha it seems it earpiece is completely broken - i have to make phonecalls by switching loudspeaker on first. overall - a really enjoyable phone to use and own, and if it's your first shot of a touchscreen - this will fit the bill perfectly! Rating: Reviewed by Henry Roberts on 09/12/2008 I bought this phone when it first came out, and yes i do agree at first I thought it was amazing! But then it hit about a month and a half, and the touch screen broke! I can hardly see the screen from all the scrathes that it has got, and before you say it I did have a full cover (including screen) but when you take the cover down and start using it it just scratches! Also the blue tooth is terrible, I was at a party with about 50 people and nearly all of them had bluetooh on, guess what, the phone only picked up 3 of them, and with my luck the one I wanted wasn't on there! So anyone who has their heart set on this phone, my advice is DONT GET IT! You may think it's amazing at first but it actually isn't take it from me! There are loads of wicked phone's out there at the moment - this just isn't one! Happy shopping! Henry Roberts *. Rating: Reviewed by jam on 08/12/2008 This is a good phone. Battery life is perfectly fine. I was a bit worried about the size of the phone but its turned out to be totally fine and feels very light. I find the qwerty keypad option great for txt's. The only thing that i haven't been too impressed with is the camera. It is capable of taking great pictures but it takes some messing about with sometimes and i was hoping to take better pictures at night. But the flash isn't much use as with most phones. Overall though I'd say for the price it is the best phone you can buy. Meanwhile I am going to be getting the Nokia n82 as it has the best camera of any phone i have come accross. Rating: Reviewed by chris on 08/12/2008 brilliant phone, better than the i-phone 100% the battery life is not a problem for me i can happily charge it every night. i still get the best out of this brilliant phone. Rating: Reviewed by Amanda-rose on 07/12/2008 This is the single best phone I've had ever. It's easy to use and it's gorgeous, I'm glad I bought it, would never look back. It's like the GHD of the phone industry :) Rating: Reviewed by Jess on 07/12/2008 I hate this phone, the touch screen is rubbish so makes EVERYTHING difficult to do. It is just rubbish in general. DO NOT BUY IT!! Rating: Reviewed by Charli on 07/12/2008 This phone is amazing! Its really easy to use, the camera is good... everything is good basically! I would defo reccomend this phone =) Rating: Reviewed by Karl on 06/12/2008 Had the phone for a week and battery started to go. Bought a new one and it turned out to be the phone. Sent it off for repairs and got it back with 15 mins battery. Rest of phone is alright but nothing special, the OS is rubbish and texting is slow. Rating: Reviewed by Karl on 06/12/2008 Had the phone for a week and battery started to go, bought a new one and it turned out to be the phone. Sent it off for repairs and got it back with 15 mins battery life so it became USELESS. Rest of phone is boring and nothing special, the OS is rubbish and texting is slow so went back to an old Nokia. Rating: Reviewed by Shane on 06/12/2008 Having had the phone for about 3 months now I can inform it is a very good mobile. Although now that I know the phone pretty well and played around with it several times my opinion now is perhaps a bit tarnished as you'll figure further down but it's still a good phone. If this is the first touch screen mobile you've had you might find it a little daunting at first (I did for some reason and quickly snapped out of it). To cut a long story short its good points are many - (despite several other having criticised..) you can text pretty fast on it, it makes you look fancy and important, considering I've dropped it once or twice on hard surfaces the phone seems pretty well built, it takes much better photos than my previous Samsung D900i and Nokia 7250i! And its intuitive to use and excluding its exterior its very adaptable to your tastes ie ringtone, wallpaper, etc Criticisms albeit most not huge ones are: the volume when listening through headphones doesn't go loud enough, unlike my aforementioned D900i there is no flashlight function (I miss this a lot), the text memory is limited to 300, you can't upload text messages on to the PC, the PC interface isn't as good and intuitive as my previous Samsung, battery life is indeed mediocre, there is no stopwatch (believe it or not I needed it a few times - for benchmarking purposes) and finally there are no free games! Hence, on balance I rate this phone a generous 4 out of 5. Rating: Reviewed by Chris on 05/12/2008 This phone is good but i find texting hard. Some people dont. Tin other problem is how do i install themes? Rating: Reviewed by michelle on 05/12/2008 I LOVE THIS FONE!! ITS SO STYLISH!! BEST PHONE TO CHOOSE! DONT MISS IT! Rating: Reviewed by Nick Templar on 04/12/2008 I have been asked to sell a KU990 on eBay and the seller has asked me to move the photo's onto a CD. Ok I think I am pretty computer savvy and contrary to normal, I have sat down and thoroughly read the instruction manual for this 'phone. As far as I can see, unless you have a micro SD card handy (I don't) it's NOT possible to move the photos directly onto a PC. The user interface isn't helpful and I'm at a complete loss what to do next. This phone looks nice and may take nice photos but in my view, someone hasn't though the process through to the end and the instructions are no help. Rating: Reviewed by AndrewP on 04/12/2008 Got one of these phones as an "upgrade" after having a couple of Sonys. First impressions were good. Looks great and full touch screen was a novelty to me. Took it away on holiday in France where I began to suspect it was not all it was cracked up to be. Struggled to keep a signal where other phones were fine. Battery life was shocking, sometimes going flat in a matter of an hour( waking me up to tell me it was going flat an hour after taking it off charge). Sending texts drained battery excessively. Sending a photo message or using the internet(v. slow)=flat battery. Taking photos was a bit of a joke, couldn't see the screen at all in most outdoor conditions so put the brightness up= flat battery. Kept resetting to basic settings. Came back and returned it for repair. All seemed well until the charge in the battery went then back to the same. Then the camera wouldn't focus then the flash failed and the menus were slow to respond. I have now rejected the phone and will reject my supplier if they send the same back. Those of you who like yours, I'm glad, but mine was very unreliable. Wouldn't want another. All Show and no Go Rating: Reviewed by shell on 03/12/2008 i love my phone but i cannot get my pictures onto laptop because i have windows vista. Has anyone experienced the same problem. Rating: Reviewed by martyn horton on 03/12/2008 my viewty is the best phone ive had. nice size,good functions,easy to operate even without the manual. i like the fm radio that seems to have very good signal,not going fuzzy when you move about. battery life is good and my one was secound hand. music player easily as good as a walkman. camera good but could do with a lens cover to keep grime off. at first i thought the phone may be a bit sensative to damage but this has not turned out to be. Rating: Reviewed by Rhiannon Jones on 03/12/2008 Just got the Viewty today - was originally going to get the Samsung Omnia or Tocco, but was persuaded to try the Viewty instead. Its a lovely looking phone - althought i keep trying to slide it open lol After playing around a little with the menu;s and getting used to the way the screen works it does seem like an nice phone. Comes with lots of accessories - the pc connectivity is excellent, texting isn't as hard as others have mentioned here, just takes a bit of getting used to as with any new phone - the only gripe I have is with the memory and i am having a problem using a MicroSD Card - cards aren't registering on the handset - now this could be a problem with the card or the phone - have ordered a brand new sd card so hopefully this will rectify the problem. On first inspection i wasn't sure this phone was going to suit me, but having spent some time playing around and reading the manual i think i will learn to love the phone - its certainly better than my frien ds Iphone. Over all good all round phone, takes some getting used to but once you've got the touch screen sorted is a very comfortable and gadgety little phone!! Good work LG Rating: Reviewed by gavin on 03/12/2008 iv just got this phone and its absolutly awsome it doesnt compare to the i-phone deffinatly recommend Rating: Reviewed by rachel on 03/12/2008 pls avoid this phone at all costs Rating: Reviewed by jessica on 03/12/2008 i think its awsomeee Rating: Reviewed by Pete on 03/12/2008 I just got this phone yesterday. Haven't had a problem with it yet. I read this page before buying. People have complained of a few things, one being the scrolling wheel. I never even use it anyway! lol. It is very easy to get used to scrolling just with the touchscreen and very cool. The large screen is just wat i need for playing videos or browsing the net. Definitely a phone for internet users, the large screen and scrolling technique provides a great browsing experience. The slo-mo video recording is lots of fun. There are 4 different writing input methods!! Normal keypad on screen, a handwriting page, a handwriting box for writing one letter at a time (very easy and quick, more so than it sounds), and a full screen keyboard which is excellent (it looks like it might be difficult to type on since the letters seem pretty close together but that's not the case, it's remarkably accurate and fast). I've had quite a few phones, this is my 4th phone this year (2 stolen and 1 broken :( ), and it's definitely the best. To be honest though the only gripe I have is that the sound quality for playing music leaves a bit to be desired. I haven't tried with earphones yet and I will, I'm sure that will be fine, but for playing music on the speaker, it ain't great. That is my only complaint with this phone, everything else about it is awesome! Not to mention it looks extremely cool. Love my new phone :o) Rating: Reviewed by ... on 02/12/2008 Hi This Fone Is Good But To Sensitive I Think Any Its Te Old Version Of Cookie Right Rating: Reviewed by Lou on 01/12/2008 I really wanted this phone but when I got it I was very disappointed. The camera, although 5 mega pixels is poor. The colours in the photo's aren't vibrant and it's difficult to get a cristal clear pic (which I could get on the 3.2 mega pixel sony erricson)and I've played around with all the settings. Also, connecting it to your computer to do anything takes ages and is a really long process, not user friendly. Texting is ok, but not great. No timer, has to be on normal or "customised profile" in order to get the alarm to actually sound (if you leave it on vibrate or silent, you won't hear your alarm) Overall, I can't wait to get rid of it! Rating: Reviewed by U.R Mum on 01/12/2008 u shud buy this phone its good Rating: Reviewed by A Salford on 30/11/2008 This phone is truely awful, and I can only assume that favourable reviews came from LG employees or people who have not actually used the phone much. The phone has been locked in so many ways that you the consumer cannot customise it much. For example the most annoying camera and video sounds cannot be switched off. The screen icons(which love to connect to the internet by themselves) cannot be customised. The screen lock cannot be customised, meaning frustration when you are asked to press for...... Predictive text is an absolute nightmare (has a mind of its own), and if you are on the three network, then do'nt even bother calling either three or LG when things go wrong; LG seems to have disowned the phone and three have'nt got a clue. Save your money and sanity and get somthing else. Rating: Reviewed by T.K. on 30/11/2008 love thee fne had it for 3wks nw!!! its da bomb the ui is awsum i love sending texts with the full screen qwerty keyboard and internet browzing is awsum!!!! Rating: Reviewed by ANDREW on 30/11/2008 OH ITS AMAZING Rating: Reviewed by Amay Patil on 30/11/2008 very nice Phone ***** Rating: Reviewed by james on 30/11/2008 bought this phone about 4 months ago and i am delighted with it. a smooth interface, and a graet camera are the highlights, and the 3g comes in handy. it doesnt have a lens cover though. and is therea difference between this and the ku990r? Rating: Reviewed by Babe X on 29/11/2008 Had the hone for about 3 months now (: It is thee best phone in the world. I have been through that many phones..you wouldnt belive! This has had some serious batterings fair play! Its been in 2 puddles and had been fropped from a car window whilst the car was moving!! Its all scratched and dented..but i still love it to death! Can fiddle with it all day..just sprot about on it. The pen is ace.. (: Its a charm alright! Battery can go for about 2 days with me..but i am on it allllll the time so would expliain why i charge it so much. Cameraa is ace :D Quick and easy to use with hundreds of different settings so great for wanna be photographers :P Edititng is cool too :D I could go on forever..but its all goinng to be good stuff cause my phone is theeeee best phone in the world..way better than the iPhone and tocco cause ive had both of them and this one is way better :D Hope i help a bit X Rating: Reviewed by Joanna on 29/11/2008 I love my LG Viewty, the best phone i have ever had! The camera is a slight let down but i dont use it too much, it doesnt really bother me! The video on it is really good quality and you can record for ages! The touch screen is definatly the best feature, i love, i find it fun to use my phone now! Lots of people say it is hard to text, and yes it is at the beginning but once you have got the hang of it its really easy! I hear lots of people saying that when you are on the phone it echos what you are saying, and yes that sometimes happens to me but its only when i have bad signal, it happens with all phones! I think that this phone is just brilliant and if you are thinking of buying this then do, i am sure you will love it as much as i do! x Rating: Reviewed by olivia on 28/11/2008 very good mobile i live evrything about it !!! Rating: Reviewed by Kirsty Allison on 28/11/2008 Im in love with my viewty best phone i had ever. Rating: Reviewed by Dan Buck on 28/11/2008 Ive had plenty of phones over the years now and upgrade every year. This is by far the worst phone I have ever had. Main reason is the signal quality is so bad. I have 2 phone, this one and a £10 sagem my411v which i use for work. Im an electrician so the phones are with me in my pocket. everyone has to call me on the sagem as I get a good signal and can hear them clearly. waste of time having the LG. when i finally get to make a call I can hear the person I've called but they cant hear me. 99% of the time I try calling someone and I'm listening and listening and the phone does nothing. when I take the phone away from my ear and have a look at it, its gone back to the wallpaper. The speaker volume is controlled by the camera zoom so you find yourself touching the zoom during calls and the persons voice just fades away. Touch screen is mainly ok but is a little un responsive on occasions. the screen also scratches easy. Ive just bought a blackberry pearl 8100 on ebay for £50 to replace this LG until I can get a new phone in March but after reading the reviews I wish I hadn't. I'll try it for a couple of months though until I upgrade to a better balckberry. Rating: Reviewed by Carole on 28/11/2008 I love the style and functions of the Viewty, but the battery life is rubbish - i hardly use it during the day and i have all my power save settings to the lowest and i STILL have to charge it up every day. Sometimes it switches itself off when battery still has life in it and it wont switch back on until i put the charger in. Also (and this is a BIG gripe) I keep getting "emergency calls only" on the screen and i can go days without being able to call out or recieve calls. So I have gone back to my old Nokia N73. Rating: Reviewed by Mark Edwards on 27/11/2008 the camera is amazing,the features are extremely the kooland the style is off the chain hype. Rating: Reviewed by unsure on 26/11/2008 i got the viewty a couple of weeks ago, and at first i nearly died with happiness!! but after a couple of days, i found some faults: the touch screen is sometimes sticky or laggy when u scroll, the camera is poor in bad light, no wi-fi and the games that u download onto the phone are all rubbish, using an improvised keypad on the phone instead of actually doing anything with the touch funtion. overall, the phone is still ausome but i wouldnt recommend it to anyone who likes playing a lot of games on their phone or wants to be able to access the internet without signing up 2 one of those overpriced internet packs!!! but apart from that, its a great phone Rating: Reviewed by Suze on 26/11/2008 I'm quite dissapointed, I mainly want a phone, a) to do its job, phone and text people and b) so i can take photos, to save me from taking a camera AND a phone when i go out.. For option a, the phone is fine, but as far as option b is concerned i am extremely dissapointed with the picture quality of the camera. For a 5MP camera, the picture quality is shocking. My previous phone is a 2MP and the picture quality far excedes the quality of the Viewty. So in my opinion if you want a snazzy phone, this is fine but if you want a phone that saves space and takes good photos, then don't choose this one! There are far better cheaper options for a good picture. Rating: Reviewed by hard lad on 25/11/2008 its sick Rating: Reviewed by Thomas on 25/11/2008 Simply the worst phone I could have chosen! Once i got used to the touch screen got on with it reasonably well, the pen not being integrated is a stupid oversight! After several weeks of heavy, but careful use the zoom adjuster on the camera fell off, meaning both the zoom and call volume are now fixed. Few more weeks on, parts of the touch screen go dead and are not atall receptive to touch, i complained to Orange however my company hadnt opted for insurance! A few more weeks on, and with a fixed zoom i took a few pics, handset memory full! Purchased a card and worked fine! Now 5 months after ive had the phone the cancel button has not decided not to work! After a long conversation with Orange then are now changing the phone...RESULT i thought, however the Viewty had one more suprise up its sleeve! After saving all contacts and pics onto the external card and removing it i deleted everything from the phone memory! As i nee the phone for the two days until collectio n I put the card in and expected it to work as normal, then remove the card and insert into new phone! Sounds simple, however the phone autodeleted all images and contacts that I had deleted from the phone memory! Whilst I accept i should have backed up and that phones are having more and more time saving features on them, auto delete is not something I would rely on! Luckily contacts are backed up on my work system, however 200 pics of my wife, children, friends and holiday are now gone! Quite frankly Im irrated that Orange are collecting the phone, as there are a number of things I would rather do to it! IF YOU VALUE YOUR PATIENCE DONOT BUY THIS PHONE, YOU SPEND TWO WEEKS LEARNING HOW TO USE IT THEN WATCH AS IT SLOWLY DIES BEFORE YOU!!! Personally I will now never purchase anything from LG, they should clearly stick to hoovers! Just for the record, one star is the lowest you can give, frankly my experience deserves less than that (also blamed on Orange, however if the phon e worked in the first place!) I will point out some positives of the phone: If you enjoy charging your phone everyother night you will love it! Seriously though, the camera is very good quality for a phone (if it doesnt delete the pics) and the music and dvd player on it is very good and fairly simple to use once ur used to it! The software they provide is very limiting and not great, but if you are competent on a computer you can upload most things without having to use it!....Recapping, DONT BUY UNLESS YOU ENJOY SLOW PAINFULL AND IRRITATING DEATHS Rating: Reviewed by April on 25/11/2008 I had this phone but I lost it, I was gutted! It's a great phone and some of the comments aren't fair! It takes a while to turn on, but dont all LG phones? The camera prefers different lighting, but again don't all camera phones? The touchscreen is easy to use, but some people find it easy and some people find it hard. I think this phone is great and yu should buy it! Rating: Reviewed by Tahir k on 24/11/2008 got my viewty two wks ago its awsum the ui is great a bit har to use the touch screen controls though nd my viewty swithced off a couple of time but other than that its a hot phne!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by casey on 24/11/2008 i have never been more dissapointed with a phone. when i first bought it i thought it was great but that battery life totally sucks and when i bought a battery replacement it just stopped working completely. waste of money! Rating: Reviewed by Thanh Nguyen on 23/11/2008 All good but not as user friendly as a motorolla. Lack of support for customised/short cut keys therefore usually takes a few touches to get to the desired function. Battery life is not the best either. Went flat within the day the first time I used it. This might have been because it was because of the touch screen technology which may not agree with the rather strong magnet on my old motorolla pouch'c cover lid??? The battery would otherwise last for about a week, with miminal use and also turned off at night. This is no where close to what I had expected from one that was specified by the manufacturer as having life of 450hours on standby (2 full weeks 24/24). Rating: Reviewed by nicola on 23/11/2008 i have had the LG Viewty since 25.12.07 and just lately i have had trouble with it but i never really found the memory to be anough for me i only had 16 songs and 125 pictures and i couldnt fit anything else on my phone but because i am only 12 years old i need a lot of space on my phone i wanted to have something like 125 songs and plenty of pictures but thtat was inpossible i am not saying the Viewty isnt A good phone but if you are looking for memory this is not the phone for you !!! the camera is good but it takes a while to take a picture ! the touchscreen is good after 3 mounths you need to press harder and right this very moment my phone is broke i toke it to the repair shop becz the screen wouldnt work anymore and they said it was due to water damage which is IMPOSSIBLE they said "it might be the heat off your hands or maybe mist (THE WEATHER) " i think personaly that is rubbish! but if you are looking for a flashy phone then this is the phone for you but if you are looking for a long term phone you should leave it in the box Rating: Reviewed by Jonxy on 22/11/2008 Overall this phone is amazing but there is one downside. The battery life. If you are lucky it will last about two days. On the other hand the apps make up for it all Rating: Reviewed by Maisy on 22/11/2008 I do not have the phone, but my friend let me use hers and I am now asking for one for Christmas! My favourite part of the phone is definately writing a message, as you hold the phone side-ways and a keyboard comes up on the screen and you simply touch the buttons! I haven't explored the phone enough to make a complete judgement, but from what I have seen, and just read in these comments, I would really recomend the LG Viewty as a top buy. It is sleek and stylish and from the back you can mistake it for a real digital camera! 5 stars, definately! ;) Rating: Reviewed by Alon Eliashar on 21/11/2008 baught it today, 100% happy! Phones are turning into mini mad machines! Rating: Reviewed by Tom on 21/11/2008 Amazing phone. Great camera, easy to press touch screen, no tapping 3 or 4 times, 1st time usually. Looks good also, one of the best phones availble right now in my opinion!! =D Rating: Reviewed by greg on 21/11/2008 Annoying phone in some ways. The hardware is pretty good but it's let down by the software. OK they all have bugs to start with but most manufacturers manage to release firmware updates - not LG. Which is a shame because some of the bugs are really annoying. One bug puts the phone in a state where it drains the battery in a couple of hours. This can be triggered by something as innocuous as charging via USB. And talking of charging if you charge it up and leave it plugged in its starts to run down again - no trickle charging to keep it topped up. This bug can usually be avoided once you understand it but there are other limitations as well. Limitations include: only five memos allowed (why?); can view pdf documents but not plain text files; only allows up to 2GB of card space (tho' you can use bigger cards as long as they never have more than 2GB free); you can't create your own shortcuts to favourite functions; can't assign an mp3 as alarm tone; can't set the length of the SMS alert - and you can't even cancel it by viewing the SMS, it will still play 6 seconds; will play DivX movies but won't play XviD unless you use an app to change the header to DivX (why?). And it does all of this just a little too slowly for comfort. All-in-all it adds up to a bit of frustration that it could so easily be so much more fun to use, if only LG would support it. There is a lot of talk about the camera being disappointing. It will take good pictures with a bit of care and decent light, but like most phone cameras it's not good at low light shooting. And unfortunately it's all a bit slow so you probably miss the shot you wanted anyway. The video shooting is particularly good for a phone but again: why can you only edit videos at some resolutions and not all? I wanted a phone which would do enough that I could carry just a phone and leave my PDA and camera at home. The Viewty sort of does that but does it annoyingly enough to make me wish I had enough pockets for a PDA and a camera too. In the end LG's unwillingness to support what could still be a good phone means it's very unlikely I'll buy anything LG-branded until I hear they've changed tactics. Rating: Reviewed by Emma on 21/11/2008 I LOVEE THISS PHONEE :D Rating: Reviewed by Ameer on 19/11/2008 Great phone ive had this for about a year now i would get it if i was u. Its great.It would be a good xmas present. The features are great, dont think theres any bad things about it Rating: Reviewed by sharon on 19/11/2008 cool Rating: Reviewed by Ameer N Hussain on 19/11/2008 in 2 words all i can say is its good you should defnitley buy it 1 of the best phones ever Rating: Reviewed by Jaymz on 19/11/2008 This phone is the best phone i have EVER used. I've had it for a long time now actually and even though it can crash a fair bit it always pulls through and i really do love it. People are complaining about the scroll wheel? Mine was smooth, the display was amazing, the camera blew me away and i always get quality photos. The sound quality is also pretty impressive. I have also sat on this phone and dropped it A LOT, its actually indestructable. I'm so happy with my Viewty, i really am. I recommend it, very much. Rating: Reviewed by sasha on 18/11/2008 i is well cool Rating: Reviewed by claire on 18/11/2008 Ive had this phone for about two months now and i love it!! I got a good deal on it from tesco and i got it unlocked for about 50 pounds! The touch screen takes a while to get used to but the camera is amazing! memory isnt that much without the memory card, and texting gives lots of options to do it with, whether its to hand write it or simply use the keypad. The battery lasts a long time and getting music and uploading pictures is simple. Only thing i could say if the camera needs a lens cover. Oh another thing is, there isnt just one camera, THERES TWO!! one of the screen so you can take pictures and see how you look, being a girl i love it! I havent got the internet working yet, i dont know what to do about that one but i love this phone!! You can edit pictures and put writing on it and its great! you can also make slideshows! I also really like the fact, you can listen to music and text at the same time. You can do lots of multitasking on it, either by listening to the radio and looking at pics! anything! The phonebook is also divided and organised into the letters in the alphabet. To get the most out of your camera set it to your own preferences. I only have two problems at the minute and one of them is my fault. The stylus pen broke and ive got to blame LG for that because this happened by me just pulling it in and out. The camera has broke but thats because i dropped the phone and i should get that sorted out soon. Other than that GO BUY THAT PHONE! you'll love it! Rating: Reviewed by Gary from Liverpool. on 18/11/2008 Ad my Viewty a few days now & just love ive ad Sonys 4 the last few years & this makes a nice change. Only proplem has bin txtin but sure i'll work it out. Rating: Reviewed by MaryAnn on 18/11/2008 I've only had for a week. I love the look and touch screen. My problems with it is me, cause I'm not that familiar with the new tech. I inadvertingly blocked my calendar and couldn't access until I cleared the memory. I haven't been able to figure out how to download music from PC to ph yet, but that will come in time. I don't think the manual is an easy guide for those technically challenged. I love it though cause it has a nice big screen which I can read and view my photos without my glasses. I'm still getting use to it at this point. Texting messages isn't easier at this time cause I haven't found a fwd/bck key and so in the pre-dictive texting can't shortcut it using fwd key to create words not in the dictionary. Battery life is good for my useage, I don't talk on it for long periods. It was recommended to me by dealer to switch off nightly to let the phone reset or something! so i do this. The camera is good, but I don't rely on this feature as my memory keepsake, and I'm am still getting acquainted with it. The game on it I can actually work. Anyway to date I really like this phone. Rating: Reviewed by lg addict on 18/11/2008 i love this fone it dah best its stunnin! i want it soow bad! xx Rating: Reviewed by Danny on 18/11/2008 Makes me laugh, all the bad reviews are from muppets who either A. Dont know how to use it or B. Have no patience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read the instructions and play around with it for at least a few days instead of opening the box, turning it on and crying because you are technologicaly inept!!! It's a great phone once you get to grips with it but just like my missus it can be a pain sometimes but it serves its purpose and does it well :-) Rating: Reviewed by verney farnhill on 17/11/2008 good phone i love but has setbacks- easy to scratch- biggest setback- software not compatable with Vista Rating: Reviewed by miles on 16/11/2008 yeah great phone, awesome camera so many features, easily iphone x10.couple of adjustments id make : add wifi and when you take a picture it very slightley blurs after autofocusing. on the whole kick assss phone Rating: Reviewed by Ely on 16/11/2008 I have had this phone for about a week and absouloutly love it. Im 14, and always change my phones, but i dont think ill change this for a while, had the Iphone before this one, and thought it was awful. Hard to use, and the manual was awful. I then changed to this phone, and it is so easy to use, and the camera, memory and everything on it is amazing! The MP3 sound is excellent, and have yet to find something i dont like about this phone. I would recommend it to anyone, as it is so easy to use, and has everything i or most people would need on it including great memory for about 50 songs so far on it! Rating: Reviewed by tom on 15/11/2008 yh got it earlier, this phone is miles better than the iphone which i got 6 months ago, i had to return it because it was to hard to navigate... but the viewty WOW its amazing and it works better than any other touch screen phone i have ever had, the LG kp 500 cookie was also a very good phone but i prefer this....10/10 Rating: Reviewed by Liam Murty on 14/11/2008 Top Class Phone, Got It On Release Day, Have Loved It, Runs Bit Slow If You Use Over 4GB MicroSD Takes A Day Or So To Get Used To Rating: Reviewed by Scott on 14/11/2008 hey....just swapped this phone....get very borin and i aint a fan of the touch screen generation...... other than the camera it doesnt have much goin for it....not the most stylish phone out there... or the most action pack....so do as i did and get rid! Rating: Reviewed by Alex on 14/11/2008 This phone is shockingly bad. It has all the good gadgetty things going for it, good camera, touch screen all that lot, but when it comes to baterry life it is just useless. I can charge it up over night, the following day I can make a 5 minute call if i'm lucky before it turns off. This may be a fault with the phone anyway, but nevertheless it shouldnt be happening after around 8 months of having the phone. I have already sent it away once before now because the 'c' button stopped functioning, the touch screen was almost completely useless in that you couldnt navigate or text at all without messing up and it taking forever to get back to where you want to be. Overall this phone is a nice looking easy to use phone up until its first fault, and then after that it just carries on getting more different ones meaning sending it back time and timea again. I'd probably aviod it, and the majority of the LG range (Last phone LG Chocolate...also aweful and bad battery etc) Rating: Reviewed by pir arshad on 14/11/2008 this is a complete 3g phone with outstanding quality of picture, sound and beauty. Rating: Reviewed by Dimi on 13/11/2008 BEST FONE EVER 10/10 Rating: Reviewed by Joe on 13/11/2008 The Viewty is a pretty phone but it's not worth 4/5 stars, more like 2-3/5. The camera is not very good for a 5MP model and the speaker is so quiet that unless you are using the phone in solitary confinement, you won't be able to hear the other person speak! I have to put it on loudspeaker for normal conversations, which is rubbish. Touch screen is very good though Rating: Reviewed by carole on 12/11/2008 before i bought this phone i read all the reviews about it some bad some great in the end i decided to go for it and i love this phone it depends on the individual and what you want from a phone. i have had it now for a couple of months and its the best phone i have had up to now. its so easy to use and the touch screen is great . i like the fact that when you want to write a message you can change the screen to be a keyboard which is like a computer console instead of the normal keypad and using the stylus pen it is so much quicker to type in the message you want to send. the 5mp camera is great and very clear and easy to use even my 31/2 year old grandaughter can work this phone to take pictures thats how easy it is ,the camera has so many different functions and features read the manual to get full benifit of them. there were complaints about the sound being low but ive not found that to be true its louder that my last phone which was a samsung w880i. the viewty itself has so many features and if you take the time to read the manual you can get full use of them. i find the large screen great and much better when using the internet than the smaller phones.scrolling is easy i use the stylus a lot because i find it so much easier and accurate . battery life is great not as bad as some people made it out to be depends what feature you have been using it does drain slightly quicker on some i usually charge my phone every 3 days overall its not that bad at all. it comes with a lense cover which is great for protecting the screen and replacements are easy to buy as are protective phone covers for the whole phone. if you are thinking of getting this phone you will not be dissapointed its a great phone i spent ages messing about with it when i got it and checking out the features its amazing what you learn by doing that. the viewty is an amazing phone and very easy to use and like the person below says if anyone tell you different ignore th em i did and am glad i did because i cant say enough good this about this phone. i fully recommend it. Rating: Reviewed by Ben on 11/11/2008 THIS PHONE IS APPALLING!!! DO NOT BUY IT! First the good stuff though. Yes, it has a decent camera (but most phones do now). It plays music (again, many other phones do). The touch screen is pretty cool, and it has a decent user interface, so if there was a zero star rating, I'd still give it one star. It's more like a computer than a phone in appearance, but as an actual prcatical phone that you intend to use as a communication device, it's abysmal. The battery lasts no time at all. Mid morning, you could have 3 bars of battery left, then by the evening it will have completely drained, so you have a very short warning time too. The delete button on mine stopped working within 5 months, so trying to correct mistakes in text messages etc is a nightmare. My friend has the same phone, and his 'hang-up' button has stopped working! He also has a strange line going accross the screen (within the pixels, it's not a crack from dropping it) which completely obscures his view . Basically, this phone was a nice idea, but in practice it's been made to a shoddy standard, and the lack of battery life will leave you very, very frustrated. Avoid! Rating: Reviewed by josh barry on 10/11/2008 its a beast Rating: Reviewed by lacie on 09/11/2008 i only got this phone a few days ago but i am in love with it. the touch screen didn't take long to get used to, the music player has amazing sound and amazing quality sound, the video is also e |
