Customer Reviews

LG VX6100 Phone (Verizon Wireless)

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4 star:		(18)
3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(18)

 

 

Of the 6 different phones I have owned over the last 6 years, I must say that this phone is my favorite. The performance, styling and features are all excellent. If you're like me, you want to know what is WRONG with this phone, and here are my top five grievances:
1. The plastic cover on the external LCD screen broke two days in. I don't know how it happened, I must have hit something while it was on my belt (I sealed the cover with clear packing tape and the phone (and LCD screen) still work fine).
2. I don't like the side buttons. They are exposed and easily pressed accidentally.
3. The voice recognition feature for dialing works amazingly well...most of the time. However, there are some contacts in my list that are never recognized correctly (which leads to #4...)
4. My previous phone had a one-touch voice recognition feature - press and talk and then it would dial the number. On the 6100 you have to activate the command feature, then activate the Contacts feature, then say the name, then confirm that the software chose the correct contact - in most cases it would be faster to just input the number using the keypad.
5. The USB cable that is sold separately can be used to dial an ISP number for internet access, and it works great. However, unlike my previous phone, you CANNOT sync or backup your contact/calendar data with your computer. Ugh!!! I'm guessing there is (or will be) some third party software that is/will be available to do this - but this feature (backing up at least) should be standard. I'm so tired of typing in my contacts everytime I switch phones!
OK, that's the ugly, now here's the good...
1. I love the speakerphone function - hands free operation while in the car is supreme.
2. The belt clip really works (a first for me). The phone is extremely lightweight and it has yet to pop off the holder.
3. Battery life is the best of any phone I've had. The phone can go for 7 days of average use inbetween charges. Charging is also quick (a few hours).
4. Reception (analog & digital) has been very good (even with 1 bar of service in the mountains). I haven't had any dropped calls over the last 3 months.
5. I like the auto-open/ auto-delete feature for text messages. When you receive a text message, opening the phone displays the message - when you close the phone, the message is deleted (you can override this). This keeps my Inbox tidy.

I would recommend this phone. It's solid basic performance and some very nice features outweigh the negative aspects. Bottom line..the phone performs better on it's primary function then any other phone I've owned...to communicate wirelessly with great reliability. Now if I could only back up my contact list....

I had this phone for a week and I think it's a great camera phone. I researched A LOT to find a phone that I really like and I ended up having the LG VX6100 without any regrets. I was stuck between the LG VX6100 & Samsung A670 and I am glad that I chose this phone because the A670 bites. I could say this because my sister got the A670. Okay, so here are the things I was able to discover with this phone...

*Pros*
-41 ring tones baby!! (You can set your recorded voice memos as your own personalized ring tones!! Very Cool. If set on driving-mode the ring says "Phone call from blahblahblah")
-Camera quality is one of the BEST I've ever seen ( has 4 different color modes, can set the white quality that can create a really nice color looking pic without having it to be too green or too yellow, flash is bright, can turn off awful shutter sound, can take the pic with phone closed because the front monochrome LCD actually shows the pic you're about to take, 60 pics max, loads quickly, 4x zoom, brightness control and 2 shot multishot)
-Inner LCD (has over 200,000 colors and it shows. Seriously. Makes the camera pic look better, the battery icon and antenna icon on top doesn't cut off the wallpaper)
-Front LCD (has caller ID info, time & date, battery, signal strength and lights up a white color)
-Speakerphone (awesome because it sounds clear and possible to adjust the volume. No need for ear bud earphone)
-Reception is GREAT and has ANALOG and DIGITAL ( I've always wanted a phone with great reception because Cingular/AT&T had horrible reception. I couldn't make phone calls from my own house without being cut off all the time and I live in the metro area, 30 min distance away from NYC. The LG phone finally allows me to have phone calls in my house with strong reception without being cut off not even once.)
-Blue light buttons are bright and pretty
-Voice Command is very accurate and it surprised me.
-People worry that the side buttons will cause unnecessary actions to phone when mistakenly pressed in the pocket but its not true. When closed, if it were to tap the button on the side, the front LCD would light up for 6 sec and you have to press down long in order to do something like camera while phone is closed.
-Easy to use and easy to learn.

*Cons* (Very miniscule compared to the great features this phone has)
-no games installed but can be ordered
-front LCD isn't color but still is clear and great
-doesn't come with ear phone but speakerphone is sufficient enough
-uses only a charger where you plug in the phone (Not the desktop chargers where you just set it like a cordless phone)
-The front LED light only has colors of green, red, and orange-ish color
-Doesn't have SIM card because it's CDMA (Took me a while to figure out that verizon doesn't use SIM cards)

This is a great phone and I highly recommend it!!!

Well it had been over two years so it was finally time to trade in my old Motorola phone for a new one since Verizon gave me a $100 allowance towards a new phone. I knew I didn't want to go much over my allowance to pay out of pocket so i went with this LG VX6100 which ended up costing me just $20. It's been 3 weeks and I'm very happy with it so far.

I get a much better signal with this one than with my old Motorola. I no longer have to go outside certain stores to make a call because the signal was so weak. It comes with a lot of features that my old phone didn't have such as an alarm, scheduler, calculator but the features are not overwhelming by any means. The color on the screen is very nice and vibrant and the pictures off the camera phone are fairly good with a 640 x 480 resolution. The camera feature allows you to control zoom and brightness and even has a self timer which is kind of neat. The menus are easily navigated by the central controls.

The phone comes with internet accessability as well as Verizon's Get it Now service where you can download various applications to get ringtones, voice tones, games, wallpaper, and more. Very cool but beware that none of it is free and it can add up quickly. The internet feature allows you to subscribe to various online content such as sports, news, entertainment etc...

Thankfully the antenna is one that is non-retractable as I broke the one on my old phone several times. I'd recommend getting a case for the phone so as not to scratch it. The side buttons can be a bit annoying when you hit them by accident by I really haven't ran into that problem very much.

All in all I am very satisfied with this phone and would recommend it to others.

I recently purchased two of these phones, one for myself and the other for my girlfriend. On the whole, I've been quite satisfied, though there are a few quirks and annoyances that you should be aware of. I'll try to break this down in a somewhat organized way:

Reception: Generally good but not as good as my old phone (Qualcomm QCP 3035 on Sprint). It's hard to know if this is the phone or the Verizon network, but occasionally bits of the conversation drop out (I'm in the S.F. Bay area). This occurs sporadically, but when it happens, these intermittent drops occur over the course of several minutes. Like most modern phones (and unlike my previous phone) the antenna does not extend and this appears to limit the reception.

Related to this is a well-known bug with this phone where the first second or two of calls have reduced volume. This sounds worse than it actually is, since not much transpires in the first couple seconds of a typical phone call and the volume is not so low as to be inaudible, but it is mildly annoying. Rumor is that this will be fixed in a future software update, but I know nothing official as of now.

Battery life: Good enough for me. Basically consistent with the published specs and usually lasts me a couple days of moderate usage.

Construction: Quite good. The phone is fairly small when folded but a little too thick for me to want to keep it in my front pocket. I have it on the included belt clip and that suits me. It appears quite sturdy and the hinge on the flip looks strong enough to withstand a lot of use. A nice touch is the sliding lens cap for the camera though I find it occasionally slides open without my noticing. Be advised that there are several external buttons on the side which control the camera, volume, and hands-free operation. If you keep your phone in a crowded purse these may be accidentally pressed. The buttons inside the phone are nice but a little too flat which makes it somewhat difficult to accurately press buttons by feel alone (if you're driving, for example).

Hands free operation: The phone has a loud speaker phone and also has a quite nice voice recognition system. You can, for example, say the name of a contact and the phone, after prompting you to make sure it understood, will dial that name. So far I've had no problems with the system recognizing any of my voice commands after going through the short voice training. It also has optional auto-answer and voice-prompted answer. What I don't like about the hands free setup is that there's seemingly no way to hang up without opening the phone and pressing the END button. Not very practical when driving and they really should have included an external button to do this.

Other details: The phone has lots of handy extras, too numerous to mention, but described in some of the specs. In brief, the camera is nice and the flash is OK for close range. There are no games included on the phone so you'll have to download these if you want them (which is not free as far as I know). The built-in ringers are all MIDI not MP3, though I'm told you can download MP3 ringers if you have a cable to connect to your PC.

One personal pet peeve of mine concerns the documentation which is not very helpful in some respects. It itemizes every single feature of the phone but doesn't necessarily explain what the features do. For example, it says that a certain button activates "driving mode" but offers no insight into what "driving mode" actually is (it turns out that this initiates a voice-activated prompt whenever the phone is opened).

Despite my focus on the negatives, for the price this is a very high quality and well-performing phone. I'm satisfied with mine and recommend it without reservation.

I bought the Samsung A670 and used it for a week before trading it for the LG VX6100. The only thing that I liked about the Samsung was that it was smaller and sleeker. That wasn't enough for me to keep the phone. I also had the Audiovox CDM-9900 which I used for a year, but it was too bulky and it didn't have a Ring + Vibrate at the same time option.

What I liked about the LG VX6100:
- LOUD default ringers
- Strong Vibrate
- Ring + Vibrate at the same time
- Speakerphone
- Caller ID Ringtones
- Good size, fairly compact
- EZ Tip Calculator
- Outside LCD Screen very clear and monochrome (I don't need colors on external LCD, I only need to see the caller ID and check the time)
- Solid feel

What could be improved:
- Battery Life (I recharge every 2 to 3 days with light use), but the battery is better than the 9900.
- Quick Timer Alarm (can only set it for 10min, 30min, 1hr, or 3hr but it does have 3 Alarms that you can set for certain times on certain days of the week)
- Ringers are quiet when the phone is flipped open, so when I have it in my car I have to make sure it flipped closed so I can hear it ring.
- Stub antenna - I prefer the retractable one like on the 9900 or A670
- Downloaded polyphonic ringtones aren't as loud as the first few default ringtones

Overall I really like this phone would recommended it. Out of the phones that Verizon carries right now, it suited me the best.

VX8100 - Loud ringers and strong vibrate but too big and bulky.
CDM 8490 - Good compact size, extremely weak ring volume.
A670 - Sleek and small, weak ring volume and weak vibrate.

This is a very popular phone. I ordered it and then Amazon raised the price $50. I know a few people who have the same phone. I would keep it and recommend it. I wanted a phone with speakerphone and vibrate, and is very small. I like the speakerphone because I can hear calls in a club or bar, and the vibrate lets me know it is ringing. The design and ergonomics feel like quality manufacturing. The side buttons should be harder to press, because I often hit them when holding the phone with gloves. Also, my phone took 20 pictures of black while in my purse, and it took me 5 minutes to delete them one by one. The software is easy to use, but simplistic and it should be a little quicker and easier to do some things. It takes quite a few button presses to do anything. For example, you can't enter your own delay before the backlite screen turns off, or key lights shut off. You must select from a pre-defined list. You can't enter a custom amount of time before a scheduled appointment will remind you. The voice commands are nice, but the voice recognition is not very good. I had an older LG phone my company let me borrow and it allowed you to record the name of the contact. When one dialed by voice, it matched and dialed completely accurately in one step. The VX6100 takes several steps, and must confirm your voice before it dials. It is nice that you can dial anyone in your contact list without programming their name - because the phone goes by the spelling - but it would be nicer if you could add a voice tag to people you voice dial most often or have non-English names so things would go quicker. I bought a smaller, feather light Seimens CF62T from Tmobile, but I could not get a signal in my apartment so I had to return it. I miss the smaller size and weight, but this phone is OK. The VX6100 has a design flaw in that the antennae is not flush with the back, so the phone does not lay flat on a table when using the speaker phone. I may be the only one, but this bothers me, especially when trying to press the buttons and have the phone rock back and forth. For those who complain about dropped calls and signal strength, one must remember that the call may be dropped by the person you are calling, especially if they are on a cell phone too. Even land lines drop calls. To precisely measure a phone's capacity to hold a signal would require specialized equipment and measurements - and even then it is an average. I do know I am able to make calls from the subway station with Verizon however.

The LG VX6100 contains some nice features, plus great possibilities for the phone hack adventurer. Those who complained about the side buttons are right, in my opinion-- they're irritating-- but a minor irritation, and not the only phone I've seen with this design flaw. There's tons on the positive side: decent phone camera, loud speaker, and good voice recognition. For the phone hacks, you can get a seperately sold USB data cable mentioned in other reviews and use the free third-party program BitPim to download pictures, upload mp3 ringtones (keep them to a few seconds each), upload wallpaper, and your Contacts from Outlook and other programs. The BitPim folks are still working on importing Outlook Calendar (someday...). Verizon also sells a mobile office kit that can turn your phone into a wireless modem for your laptop through their 3G CDMA network. Of what I understand regarding the mysteries of CDMA, TDMA, GSM, etc. CDMA is the best option, especially for fast data speeds.

This is the best value among Verizon Wireless' current offerings that:
- is a tri-mode phone,
- and that has an external LCD screen.

One reason this phone is a better choice than some of its competitors is BitPim. Knowledgeable users may purchase an USB data cable and use the freeware program BitPim (http://bitpim.sourceforge.net) to transfer contact information, pictures, wallpaper and ringtones (both MIDI and MP3) between the VX6100 and one's personal computer, without the need to purchase or subscribe to various Verizon Wireless services. Of course, one should have the expertise and tools to shrink both images and music files before attempting to use BitPim.

Ive only had this phone a few days but I know what I like and I did alot of research before buying it. Ok my major gripe is I dont like that you dont have a cradle to charge this in and the place you plug it in at in the bottom of the phone you have to remove a rubber piece to plug it in. Also the flash is ok but not to great but hey its so small cant expect much. I like the drving mode but if you have a older noisy car then makes harder to know the voise of who your talking to but it works good if not alot of outside noise. Now on to the good stuff and one is the cool seethrough belt clip it comes with although I dont use it but its nice and I also thank it takes good pictures. Now when you get it you might see the 1x in the display instead of D for digital well thats ok because Ive did some searching and that means your getting the best connection wich means you can use all services of the phone being pix mess, instant mess and so on and the browser works better so 1x is what you want to see although Verizon is putting it out city by city. Before this I had a LG VX10 wich Ive dropped about 8 times and still worked after two years of use and battery was awsome but sofar I havent had any problems and the voice recognition has been perfect. I get great reception also. The ring tomes arent the best sellection but I use regular phone ring anyway and you get some pretty cool wallpaper also. It has tip calculator and world time wich you can add times and cities to. One of the big likes is Tri-mode and if youve ever been some where with one bar and its on analog you will be happy to see that one bar if your broke down. Some people knock analog but hey if you can get it then that increases your chances of reception. Sorry this is long but I want to do my best to help you make a decision. If youve had a LG phone before this will be simple since they all use somewhat the same buttons its just that easy to learn and the color at night, man its awsome. Call clarity has been great also. Now something I always do once a month on Verizon is *228 since this is how you update your roaming to make sure the phone is uptodate and you always select option 2 then then once its done press end and the phone will turn off and back on again. I really thank you will like this although I know the LG VX-7000 looks cool but trust me Tri-Mode might just keep you from being miles from the nearest phone, saved my but once.
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Switched from Nokia (ATT); thought it would be hard to beat Nokia's ease of use; but this phone fits the bill. Great features, ease of use, everything...especially speaker phone which lg vx7000 does not have. Only minor downside; alarm works only if phone on; our Nokia phones always worked with them off. Also, battery life seems short, but expected with all the features. Bought 4 for the family with the great promotions from Verizon and we're all very happy...was very worried after having Nokia for over 15 years!
You won't regret it; get it now w/all the great deals; the new 8000 model not coming out till Jan. and while it has speaker phone and video; the price and probably size will be much more heftier.