LG VX-4500
Average Ratings
drops calls too often
this phone has many of useful features, however, it has a lot of trouble holding on to calls in weak service areas. so much trouble that i had to trade it for a different phone.
4500: Good Step Up
This phone has the most complete package of any phone that I've owned. I came from the LG 4400 before and this was a nice step up.
Pros:
Speaker phone
Voice Functions
Cons:
No Analog
Can't use speaker when shut
Voice recognition comedy of errors
I picked up the 4500 last night after researching for several weeks because I've been looking for a Samsung-style phone with unlimited voice recognition. Didn't want a camera phone, and was up for NE2.
Loved the phone size, style, and screen. Nice selection of ringers. Front cover is susceptible to smearing and scratches. Great reception and clarity (Seattle area). However, when I started to use the voice recognition, it was laughable!
Maybe it's just my phone book--not many hard consonants in my contacts--but it was right only about 3% of the time even after going through the voice training. I also didn't like having to put the phone in manner mode to silence the voice command prompts coming through the speaker (very loud "Please say a command") so they would come through the ear piece, or having to go through four steps to voice dial (press button, say "contacts," say the name, and then say yes or no--mostly, as I said above, saying no), where most phones respond to a single button press.
Traded the phone in this morning for the VX 4400B--with 30 voice dialing tags and a slightly more intuitive interface, I can live with it, even though it's bulkier and what's with the two-tone case? Perfect voice recognition, so I'm happier now.
Didn't work well for me
I bought this phone because of the speakerphone, driving mode and good reviews I read.
I live near downtown Chicago, but have always had bad cell reception inside my house. I changed from Cingular to Verizon in the hope of getting better reception at home. This phone didn't work. In a low signal situation it would just give up. If I was on a call, it could drop in the middle of a conversation. Since I sell real estate, people call me on my cell phone, even when I'm home. I needed better reception. I changed this phone for a VX4400 because it is tri-mode, which tech support recommended. The 4400 works much better. It sometimes indicates analog signal inside my house, so I assume it is picking whichever is stronger.
Pros: Voice Dial and Speakerphone
Cons: Dropped calls and kind of a weird shape (minor consideration).
Few features that prevents it from being a really good phone
Good effort from LG to create a true VOICE BASED PHONE, a real necessity for everyday life. It suffers from serious problem which brings down the usability of a voice based phone drastically.
Voice based features are great :
-Voice based digit dialing and voice mail dialing
-Voice based dialing from "CONTACTS" without the need for voice tag.
-voice scheduler
-Voice based redial, time announcement, memo.
Here are the problems:
-Cannot terminate call using voice command or by using a key without requiring to flip open the phone. [Helps significantly especially when driving.]
-Could not find any info about "Driving Mode" in the manual except how to switch to that mode.
-For each NAME in the CONTACTS there can be multiple numbers listed {e.g office, home, cell}. Voice dialing contacts will work only for the first phone entry, when LG could have easily incorporated the dialing of subcategories of phone number for a name using voice command.
-Cannot browse or listen to the latest call {missed call, dialled call, incoming call} phone numbers using voice command.
Without these added features it gets very difficult to utilize the max potential of a VOICE BASED PHONE. So you will end up flip open the phone even during driving for any call. As a result this phone falls short of being a voice based phone, which seemed to be the intention of LG. Definitely Its a Good effort from LG.
The LG VX 4500 is a awesome phone
This phone is a real bargain. The phone has a real good speaker phone and the reception is outstanding. Driving mode is also Awesome. Tried many phones but give me the LG phones any time they are Great.
Good phone except for the defective Speaker
This is a pretty cool phone- however don't use the speakerphone because they blow out- I just returned my 4th, yes you read correctly my 4TH phone because the speaker keeps blowing out. The guy at the store said they are coming back like crazy because of this issue. Once again Verizon provides the best cell service with the cheapest phones. I really cant take these cell companies and I want to start a movement so get regulated by the government- they either provide great phones like Nextel and Sprint with bad service or good service and crappy phones like verizon. You cannot win
AWEFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pros:
speaker phone
driving mode
cons:
screen goes blank
lost calls
slow hangups
battery life
hard to see screen
on my 2nd from verizon, 3 people i know have the same problems
LG VX 4500 Falls Short
I bought my first LG VX 4500 for my wife. After 2 weeks of using this phone the outside display screen quit working. So we went back to Verizon and had the phone replaced. Four months later I had an accident and broke my VX 4400 (which worked great). The insurance company sent me a new VX 4500 to within 48hrs of filing my claim. Great!! Not so fast. 3 weeks later the main LCD and outside display on my phone quit working. If this hadn't happened on my wife's phone I would have thought this was a fluke, but to me this is clearly a case of poor quality control or a bad design by LG. I had two Samsung phones before this which worked great and my third is on the way. I'm not impressed by LG at all.
Pros: small, light weight design.
Cons: LCD is awful and may quit working for no reason.
First and last time I purchase an LG Phone
The LG vx4500 is the worst phone I have ever purchased. My previously owned phones were the Nokia 5165, 3395, 8260, 3560, 6800, Sony Ericsson T68i, Motorola V60g, V60I, T720 is a Great Phone. After doing an extent amount of research on this phone I thought it would have been a really nice investment and I figured I give LG a try But you never know what your getting into until you experience it first hand. First of all simple features that you would expect in a cell phone werenât included in this phone. Such as 3 way calling the only way you can enjoy this features is that you have to call both parties. You can not get a call from one person and then another person and then connect it. For call waiting it doesnât even tell you whoâs waiting on the other line. Basically when in a call it doesnât give you options to work with that other phones usually do like personal call conferencing, redirect to mailbox, or transfer to another phone number. This was one of the main reasons that really made me hate this phone. Another annoying feature on this phone was when adjusting the volume while in a call you have to click âokâ every time you adjust it if not 5 sec later it goes back to it original setting. One of the main reasons I got this phone was for the speakerphone but when turned up to its loudest the sound quality is very poor. I can go on an on. but am just going to list the pros and cons. But this is the last time I purchase a LG Phone.
Pros: Voice Command Feature
Cons: Calling Features, Main LCD Screen is horrible, Side volume buttons when pressed accidentally while receiving a call makes your call forwarded to your mail box, keypad lights when looked at a certain angles can make your vision blurry, Canât manually adjust the time, phone heats up very quickly, getting it to ring and vibrate at the same times is tricky, Battery life is awful, Calendar is located somewhere you never would think about.
