EddiePCS
06-02-2005, 12:57 PM
I've owned my PM325 since January. I loved the concept and the advertised features. Loved being a keyword here...
:bang: LG PM325
So here's my hatred-driven review...
The LG PM325 caught my attention since the hype begun many months prior to its official arrival. Because my 8100's 18 months wasn't until mid January, I could not get it when it very first came out. I did not even care to "test drive" it at the store... I just literally switched over to it, and let go of my 8100 cold turkey.
I wanted a fairly small phone with a decent sized screen. This provided both by incorporating a slider design. I wanted bluetooth. I wanted decent battery life. Cool looks. Decent ringtone playback.
This phone offers all of the above, in the most annoyingly unreliable and painful ways. The phone is small, unfortunately so are the keys. The slider makes it nearly impossible to type text messages with 1 hand because of how small the "holding area" is under the keys when the slider is in the open position. It doesn't "lock" so it can easily close enough to also close the application in the process.
The screen... Oh the screen. Too deep. Dirties fast. Hard to keep clean. Hard to clean.
Bluetooth... What a joke. The phone couldn't hold a DUN connection if it was a bald eagle and its species' existance depended on it. It will hang at times locking up the BT services on the computer (2 different laptops and 1 desktop experienced the same problem with different BT drivers and devices). This happened with PM325 v16, 17, and 18... Its performance is extremely poor and, while on my 8100 and my 2nd phone (8200, fiancee uses) I can download in excess of 135 KBytes/s, I can't ever get anything beyond 23 on this thing. Not to mention, it will at times decide to stop transferring data from an active download for a minute or two, sometimes it will simply timeout.
Hardware/software... My TI 99/4A computer when I was 3 years old was faster than this piece of junk. This has got to be among the slowest phones available in the market today. The processor and software sluggishness contributes to its VERY POOR BT performance.
Bugs... So many of them, but here's the most annoying one that was incorporated in V18... The damn speaker will mute itself (not the mic...the earpiece!) when receiving calls... I have to quickly turn Monitor On then back Off and it starts working... Most of the people I know already know the phone does that so they'll give me like 5 seconds before they start talking.
As an extension to the list of bugs... Don't you just love it when the phone decides to not want to turn on or off (I really mean it won't do either).... How is this possible, you may ask... Well, it stays in a loop between that white Sprint screen and that stupid swimming seal... And if you try and turn it off to power cycle it, the darn thing will just loop back through both screens, never comes completely on, or off... Removing battery is the only venue.
Out of all the above, the saddest part is the BT performance. I bought the phone specifically to use it as a connectivity device for my laptop/PDAs. It is totally useless for it.
What's worse? I never got my $150 rebate check and when I checked the status is said it was invalid... So I called them and they admitted to making a mistake and said they'd send me the check now... It's been almost 2 months since that phone call (and 4 months since I mailed the rebate form out), and still no check!!!!! So I basically paid full price for this piece of junk phone.
Okay, I'm done... :irked:
:bang: LG PM325
So here's my hatred-driven review...
The LG PM325 caught my attention since the hype begun many months prior to its official arrival. Because my 8100's 18 months wasn't until mid January, I could not get it when it very first came out. I did not even care to "test drive" it at the store... I just literally switched over to it, and let go of my 8100 cold turkey.
I wanted a fairly small phone with a decent sized screen. This provided both by incorporating a slider design. I wanted bluetooth. I wanted decent battery life. Cool looks. Decent ringtone playback.
This phone offers all of the above, in the most annoyingly unreliable and painful ways. The phone is small, unfortunately so are the keys. The slider makes it nearly impossible to type text messages with 1 hand because of how small the "holding area" is under the keys when the slider is in the open position. It doesn't "lock" so it can easily close enough to also close the application in the process.
The screen... Oh the screen. Too deep. Dirties fast. Hard to keep clean. Hard to clean.
Bluetooth... What a joke. The phone couldn't hold a DUN connection if it was a bald eagle and its species' existance depended on it. It will hang at times locking up the BT services on the computer (2 different laptops and 1 desktop experienced the same problem with different BT drivers and devices). This happened with PM325 v16, 17, and 18... Its performance is extremely poor and, while on my 8100 and my 2nd phone (8200, fiancee uses) I can download in excess of 135 KBytes/s, I can't ever get anything beyond 23 on this thing. Not to mention, it will at times decide to stop transferring data from an active download for a minute or two, sometimes it will simply timeout.
Hardware/software... My TI 99/4A computer when I was 3 years old was faster than this piece of junk. This has got to be among the slowest phones available in the market today. The processor and software sluggishness contributes to its VERY POOR BT performance.
Bugs... So many of them, but here's the most annoying one that was incorporated in V18... The damn speaker will mute itself (not the mic...the earpiece!) when receiving calls... I have to quickly turn Monitor On then back Off and it starts working... Most of the people I know already know the phone does that so they'll give me like 5 seconds before they start talking.
As an extension to the list of bugs... Don't you just love it when the phone decides to not want to turn on or off (I really mean it won't do either).... How is this possible, you may ask... Well, it stays in a loop between that white Sprint screen and that stupid swimming seal... And if you try and turn it off to power cycle it, the darn thing will just loop back through both screens, never comes completely on, or off... Removing battery is the only venue.
Out of all the above, the saddest part is the BT performance. I bought the phone specifically to use it as a connectivity device for my laptop/PDAs. It is totally useless for it.
What's worse? I never got my $150 rebate check and when I checked the status is said it was invalid... So I called them and they admitted to making a mistake and said they'd send me the check now... It's been almost 2 months since that phone call (and 4 months since I mailed the rebate form out), and still no check!!!!! So I basically paid full price for this piece of junk phone.
Okay, I'm done... :irked: