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| LG VX8700 Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: LG
Category: Wireless
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 5603
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: XV6800
UPC: 652810813303
ASIN: B000PDKVZG
Release Date: April 30, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best Phone I've had November 29, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This thing is just solid. Looks solid, feels solid. Of all the Verizon phones, this is clearly one of the top three choices. It's extremely thin, has good battery life, a 2MP camera with lots more settings than my Vx8300.
I really liked that phone and wasn't sure if this would feel like an upgrade or a disappointment. Definitely an upgrade. Larger screen with better resolution, music player accepts both mp3's and wma's (so did the Vx8300, but you couldn't mix them) - it was one or the other with a separate menu for the mp3's w/o the library interface (it did have a decent equalizer though that I wish they could have included here)- for a phone, it's a pretty good music player - won't replace your Zen or ipod - but OK.
There have been a lot of reviews that mention the inconvenient placement of the microSD card (behind the battery) - but this is really irrelevant since once you install it you never have to touch it again.
That's because for this phone LG finally had the sense make the card visible on the PC like a flash drive - which eliminates the need for a separate driver. Once you install the card a new menu options shows up in tools for USB mass storage. It then shows up as a drive on your system and you can copy pictures, video, music - or even use it as a flash drive and keep other stuff on it.
You can get a USB cable for 1-2 dollars on Amazon and a 2GB card for under $25.
You can also transfer music using Windows Media Player or Verizon Music manager w/o having to install a driver. They both recognize it as a music device to sync with.
Hard to beat this phone. If you have Verizon and have an upgrade coming, you can get it for $79 if you have the primary line on your account.
 The Bad Trumps the Good November 24, 2007
11 out of 17 found this review helpful
A potentially great phone with some major flaws.
Pros
--Great looking--best wireless phone I've seen on that count.
--Very nice menus and interface
--Best call sound quality of any wireless phone I've used
--Better reception than the Razr it replaced
--It "speaks" the number of an incoming call or message just before it starts ringing. That's useful. And cool!
Cons
--You have to be in the middle of a call before you can turn on the speaker phone. This is so blatantly stupid I cannot believe the designers were allowed to do it. I like to leave my phone in speaker mode is a cradle on my car dashboard. This design flaw means I have to put it up to my ear (which is illegal in many places), dial an outbound call, then turn on the speaker phone, and put it back on the dashboard. This alone caused me to dock it three blocks.
--I cannot train the voice command feature. I've tried at least half a dozen times and it failed every time.
--Does not work with Remoba's Idatebook which my previous Verizon phone (a Razr) did. I may take it back for this reason alone
--Voice commands do not function at all with the two Motorola bluetooth headsets I have. Works better with a Jabra.
--The case gets a bit hot during a call
An Entertainment Phone November 21, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have had this phone since August and it is a super phone and give it my highest recommendation. With the shiny exterior, large beautiful screens and an animated menu system, especially created for this phone which is easy to use and very entertaining as well, this is a great buy!
The phone supports 2gb of external memory and shows 44 mb of internal memory which is plenty for most all application uses. The Bluetooth menu is very educational and I was able to pair this easily with a Plantronics Voyager 510 headset which supported voice commands that the phone has with the Voice Recognition System(more than voice dialing). The VRS even has a setting that annouces the caller before the phone rings for people that cant see the ID screen. Being a 3G/digital phone , my experience is clear sound and transmissions plus the one button speakerphone works better than some wired versions Ive heard and comes in handy listening to voicemails.
The 2.0 mega-pixel camera has many options and also takes great videos even off a tv or computer screen. The preloads include wallpapers(great) , animations(metallic in design) and the alert sounds were excellent ( door bell is a great alert). I didnt like the included ringtones but found what I wanted exactly (artist and tv themes) with a verizon ring tone program (get the country crickets ringtone and you will fool people). Ring tones play very loud.
The display screens are the best. The 65k color external display can be customized to show a full color analog clock--along with menu colors when activated ( blue and yellow on MP3s, orange on bluetooth, green for an alarm, etc). The best feature is the internal 2.2" 262,000 color internal display which some have called "the plasma tv of cellphones" and easily lanscapes the picture with one button. You can also overlay an analog clock there over wallpaper or animations. Retro TV clips and cartoons look dvd quality almost and I do recommend getting VCAST video with this phone.
All in all, an excellent clamshell design choice. Easily fits in your pocket,sturdy (I dropped it on concrete and didnt break it ) and makes other plastic phones look like toys. So many features for a low price and a unique metal phone exclusive to verizon. Im putting it thru the paces , watching over 500 video clips a month, playing music loud, lots of minutes on calls and believe me--this phone can take it!
A Kid's Review??? November 2, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
to: A Kid's Review
if you do not actually own the phone, or haven't even been to verizon to check the phone out at length, then why do you post a review? and what's worse, you give it 1 star out of five, and yet you list NOTHING as to why you're driving down the overall average rating of this phone? whatever. you're a kid, right? if you don't own it, or atleast haven't "test drove" it, then don't rate it. if you HAVE to rate it, do some homework and give it an average 3 or 4. that drives me nuts.
i have "test driven" this phone and compared to the crap verizon offers, it's pretty freakin nice. a porsche or bimmer in the car lot among the camry and accord models. hey, it has a fresh ui versus boredom usa in the regular ole' verizon red blah blah blah someone blow my brains out interface ON EVERY OTHER VERIZON MODEL. it's a razr killer and it does its job (and holds up well against the razr2 might i add). great camera. nice interface. gorgeous phone. solid feel. WONDERFUL lcd, but those extra pixels cost you some degree of battery life might i add. the keypad is average. the only cosmetic thing i don't like it the unusual hinge that makes the upper lcd actually "sit" kinda behind the keypad part. i like the razr line's solution better.
none-the-less, minus poor battery life (ebay a 2nd battery...10-15 bucks in case this one runs dead and you're stranded) or simply plug it up each night as you go to bed. no big deal. seems like a minor problem compared to how good this phone is. btw, if you don't use the bluetooth, turn it off (might require some research) and if you're not in an edvo area all the time, turn that off as well (it can be done, again...google it). both of those steps will add battery life from what i've read all over the internet.
320x240 video resolution for a cell phone is pretty good. you can't expect camcorder quality, but hey, it's good enough for youtube. beats the crap outta 176x144! this is a nice phone. every phone has its flaws, as does this one. but for me, and considering what you can get it for on amazon (9 bucks after rebate with a 2-year contract), can't beat it. i'm picking it over the krzr! it's not perfect, but a solid 4/5 in my book. and that metal finish...sexy :D.
Great appearance, mediocre functionality. October 25, 2007
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
As a longtime user of the LG VX8000, I was looking forward to this phone and ordered it the day it came out. Finally I could get rid of that brick I was carrying around and get something that looked much cooler. When it arrived, I noticed how smooth the brushed metal was and how slim it is. 6 months later, I still think the phone looks great, but it has several design flaws that prevent it from being a truly great phone.
PROS:
Appearance - The phone is very slim and stylish. I think it looks much better than the razor. The buttons are mostly recessed so they don't protrude from the phone. The brushed metal looks great, and I really like the keypad. I thought the keypad would be difficult and awkward to use at first, but I've had no problems with it (and my fingers are probably larger than average). When this phone is in my pocket I don't even feel it, and you can't tell it's there. My previous phone bulged out of my pockets. I have had no real problems with fingerprints and I never really notice them. The ones that do get on there wipe right off.
Sound quality - I've never had a dropped call or had any problems with the sound. I live in a medium-sized town, and I very rarely have anything less than full signal. Reception is very good.
User interface - Fortunately, Verizon doesn't force you to use their UI like you've had to with previous models. In addition to their UI, there is another UI you can choose from, which is nice to have some more options. One day, after leaving my phone in the car in 100+ degree heat, I came back and noticed it had shut off, but there was some crazy message about a "heat sensor warning" on the outside display and it displayed the outside temperature (109). I have no idea what this was and have never seen it again, but it was pretty cool and it looks like it is designed to shut off in excessive heat so it doesn't damage the phone.
Camera - The 2.0 Megapixel camera is one of the highest resolution cameras available at this time and it is great. There is NO FLASH on the camera however, so forget about taking pictures in low-light conditions. This isn't a problem for me though since none of LG's flashes have ever worked very well anyway. Cell phone flashes have to develop better technology before they become anything more than just a novelty. The camera includes some filters, such as black and white, sepia, aqua, and negative that will allow you to take pictures with different colors. Pretty pointless but kind of fun. It also includes some ridiculous voice files to use when taking pictures, such as a bunch of kids saying "say cheese!" right before you take the picture. You probably have to hear it to understand how creepy it is. Fortunately you can turn them all off.
Battery length - Not too bad. I can go maybe 4 days without having to charge it, although I only use the phone about 10 minutes a day. The included charger takes forever to full charge the phone though. Maybe as long as 45 minutes or an hour.
CONS:
Appearance/Design - The brushed metal will scratch. I keep this phone in a separate pocket from my keys or anything else. I like to think I take care of it fairly well, however it does have dozens of very tiny scratches all over the back of it. These scratches are very small and I don't really notice them at a distance, but if you look for them, they are numerous and I could never sell the phone as "new" condition. This phone WILL scratch. If you are hard on your phones it will probably scratch more than normal ones. As I said though, mine is 6 months old, and the scratching isn't enough to bother me since you have to be close to see them. I wouldn't advise anyone not to buy this phone because of it, just to be more cautious of it. What LG Should do is sell replacement covers to simply replace the back with. As others have said, the memory card is underneath the battery, meaning you have to remove the battery and power off the phone to take it out. This doesn't bother me at all since I never take the card out, but if you remove it a lot it could be a hassle. However, I would rather have them place the memory card here, where it is out of sight, than on the side of the phone where I have another slot to detract from the smoothness of the phone.
Alarm Clock - This is something that LG should fix with a firmware update. The alarm clock on this phone absolutely sucks. It has three customizable alarms. You can set an alarm to go off every weekday at a certain time or only on the weekends. It would be nice if I could customize each individual day, but I'm okay with not being able to do that. What I'm not okay with is the lack of a "quick alarm." Previous LG models had a quick alarm, where you could set a short alarm for 30 minutes, an hour, etc. You could program it very fast and I found it especially convenient. It's not on this model though, which makes no sense because they didn't add anything, they just removed it.
Speaker Phone - This also sucks. There is a dedicated button on the phone for activating the speaker phone. Only problem is, you can only activate the speaker phone while you're in a call. Who decided this was a good idea? You have to call someone, wait for the phone to start ringing, then you can press the speaker phone button. Once activated, it will stay on until you turn it off, meaning you don't have to activate it for every call. However, if you want to turn it off, you have to make another call, since you can't turn it off if you're not in a call either. This is the stupidest thing I've seen designed on a cell phone. I never use the speaker phone anyway because the quality is not very good at all. I have to have the phone at least within a foot of my face for anyone to hear me using the speaker phone.
Camera - The only problem I have with the camera is that there is a delay between hitting the camera button and taking the picture, as much as 1.5 seconds. This is fairly unacceptable to me in a camera that is great otherwise. If you're trying to catch something that isn't stationary, you have to factor in this delay and hold the camera still an extra 2 seconds after you take the picture. Everyone hates digital cameras that do this so why make a cell phone camera with the same problem? It is fairly frustrating.
UPDATE 11/29/07 - I am changing my rating from 4 to 2 stars. I took out the battery to replace the SD card, and when I put the battery back in, I was greeted with a message saying "use authentic battery," implying that I am not using an LG battery. My phone battery now lasts about 4 hours in standby, and replacing it does not good because apparently this is a problem with the battery contacts on the phone itself. Verizon will not recognize this issue under my warranty, despite other people having the same problem on the Internet. So now I am left with a $300 phone that is very difficult to use since I have to jiggle the battery all the time to get it to work.
UPDATE 12/29/07 - Took the phone to Verizon and it was a problem with the contacts on the phone not meeting the battery. They replaced the entire phone and it works great again, although I have heard from others who have had this problem. I would definitely recommend some type of screen cover for it.
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