LG VX8350 Phone (Verizon Wireless)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.7 x 2 x 0.9 inches ; 3.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B000W51KY8
• Item model number: LG-VX8350
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,911 in Cell Phones & Service (See Bestsellers in Cell Phones & Service)

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Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
An upgrade to the popular VX8300, the LG VX8350 slims down the clamshell design by doing away with the external antenna, but it keeps the external LCD and music playback control buttons. And you'll need those because this phone is compatible with Verizon's V Cast Music Service, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via Verizon's fast EV-DO data network. Other features include integrated dual speakers, Bluetooth connectivity for stereo music streaming, 1.3-megapixel camera with video capabilities, voice dialing, and MicroSD memory card expansion.

Download your new favorite tunes right to your phone via Verizon's V Cast Music store.

Verizon Service Options
With support for the EV-DO high-speed data standard, you'll enjoy fast access to the Internet and Verizon's multimedia services (additional charges applicable), with average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps and peak rates up to 2 Mbps. (Learn more about where EV-DO coverage is offered.) The V Cast Music service enables you to download songs instantly to your phone, or purchase music through your PC and transfer the files to your phone. If purchased from your phone, you'll receive two copies of the song: a Windows Media Audio Pro Plus format at 64Kbps stereo is sent to your phone, and a Windows Media Audio 9 format at 160Kbps stereo is sent to your account in the V CAST Music online store for downloading to your PC. V Cast Music offers nearly 2 million songs, with more being added all the time.

With the V Cast Video service, you can stream or download video clips to your phone from a variety of news, entertainment, sports, and weather channels, including CNN, ABC News, E!, CBS Sports, The Weather Channel, and VH1.

Getting on the Internet is easy using Verizon's Mobile Web 2.0 package, which allows you to read and send e-mails, exchange instant messages and view your favorite web content on your phone. Verizon's Get It Now wireless download service is also fully compatible with this phone. This pay-per-download service features application downloads, games and productivity tools. You can also personalize your handset with ringtone downloads using the Get It Now service.

With this GPS-enabled phone, you'll be able to access Verizon's VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps. And Verizon's Chaperone service lets you easily locate your loved ones from your Verizon Wireless phone or PC in real time. After defining a zone, such as an area designating a school or summer camp, you'll be sent an alert via text message when the Chaperone handset enters or leaves the zone.

Phone Features

The slim clamshell VX8350 features a 1.3-megapixel camera (with video recording) and Bluetooth stereo music streaming capability.

The VX8350 features a traditional clamshell design with a large 176 x 220-pixel internal color display with support for 256K, as well as an external TFT LCD with a 96 x 96-pixel resolution (for displaying incoming call information, battery life, signal strength, graphics, photos and more). Music playback control keys are also located on the front cover. Most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button on the handset's backlit control pad.

The VX8350's built-in address book can store up to 500 contacts for quick and easy management of phone numbers and email addresses. Meanwhile, a speed dialing feature allows you to dial up to 99 numbers virtually instantaneously. The phone comes with built-in polyphonic ringtones plus a vibrating alert. More ringtones can be downloaded via Verizon's Get It Now service. Ringtones can be assigned to specific callers so you don't have to look at the phone to know who's calling, or you can match pictures with callers to identify them.

This phone provides Bluetooth version 1.1 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server. This phone also provides USB mass storage capabilities for saving and transferring your most important files from PC to PC.

The 1.3-megapixel camera offers three resolution modes (1280 x 960, 640 x 480, 320 x 240) and includes a self-timer, night mode, and brightness/white balance controls. It also records video clips (176 x 144 pixels) from 30 seconds (for sending via MMS) or up to 1 hour (for saving to memory card). You can also set videos under 5 MB in size as your screen's wallpaper.

The phone also sports an airplane mode feature, which allows the user to safely use the non-wireless functions of a phone (such as music, games, or organizer functions) on an airplane during flight. Other features include:

• Up to 1000 contact entries with up to five numbers and picture ID for each entry
• MP3 and WMA music file compatibility; synchronize music from PC to phone
• Voice memo recording up to 1 hour; record phone calls up to 5 minutes in length
• 2.5mm headphone jack
• One-touch speakerphone
• Voice Clarity--auto adjust voice based on surrounding noise level
• Hearing Aid Compatibility: M4/T4
• Calendar, alarm clock, calculator
• Java-based games
• 72-chord polyphonic ringtones
• WAP web browser

Vital Statistics
The LG VX8350 weighs 3.3 ounces and measures 3.73 x 1.97 x 0.87 inches. Its 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.5 hours of talk time, and up to 210 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 850/1900 frequencies and Verizon's EV-DO data network.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For a phone, it is great!, October 27, 2007

By	Dennis Bosman "bozhed" (Napa, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have owned quite a few phones over the course of the last few years (to my wifes chagrin), the RAZR, Chocolate, KRZK, enV, VX9400, Blackberry 8830 and various other Samsungs, LGs and Motorolas. For this round, I was looking for a middle of the road phone (considering I have to pay full price due to my contract not being up) that had great reception and call quality. A camera was also required but not a high megapixel one. I did a lot of research via the internet and looked specifically at consumer reviews (the company reviews tend to rate things too high or seem to be somewhat biased). At the end of my 3 week search I decided to go with the 8350.

I have now had it for a day and I must say I am impressed. It is exactly what I was looking for. Here are my observations so far:

- Excellent reception, probably the best I have experienced in a cell.
- Great call quality.
- Ability to read text message on cover screen is really nice (FYI - volume keys are used to scroll up and down)
- Pics are great from a quality standpoint.
- Voice dialing is very good. My blackberry occasionally would not recognize the name but this 8350 does a really good job. I have it paired with a Jawbone bluetooth headset. See my review on the Jawbone.
- Screen resolutions is just ok, little on the low side.
- Opening the phone one handed is a little bit of a challenge but get used to it.
- I do agree with the other review, that the font on the dialing is HUGE, but I am ok with that.

Overall I am happy with my purchase. Updates to follow as I have more experience with it. Stay tuned!!

Update: 11/1/07
Still happy with my purchase. Voice clarify on both ends is excellent and the volume is more than adequate. Battery life is good but I have ordered the extended battery. Couple minor annoyances that I have noticed:

- Screen resolution is a little fuzzy. Not very crisp compared to other, higher end phones.
- Taking pictures is not always "what you see is what you get". What I mean by this is that I took a photo in landscape orientation and while when the pic was taken it filled the screen, when it was saved it was quite different. The pic was about 1/2 size.

Update 12/17/07
- Here is another minor item that I have noted with this phone and maybe it is just mine....normally phones give you a little bit of feedback in the ear piece (if you know what I mean). This one's feedback goes in an out. Sometimes it has the feedback and at other times it goes completely silent. It is a distracting when this happens but nothing serious.

39 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fairly Solid Phone, October 10, 2007

By	Brian J. Jolley (Salt Lake City, Utah) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The LG VX8350 is a pretty decent cell phone. I don't need it as an mp3 player, and I don't need it as a camera (often), so I have little to say about those features.

Pros:
It's built solidly and the hinge is nice and tight. The sound quality is an improvement over my Samsung u540 on both ends of a call, and according to one person I called, it "sounds like a land line." The screen is bright, with high contrast making text easy to read. The buttons are big enough, and have a good tactile feel to them. You can also reassign some buttons, which by default start up pay services but can instead be changed to start up a calculator, for example. There is also a microSD card slot on the side for adding music and video, but the card is sold separately.

It's not flashy or all that sexy. You'll have to decide if that's a pro or a con.

Cons:
The interface is Verizon's very own version and is not great. They limit what can be customized, and not surprisingly, ingrained lots of ways to charge you for services they offer. If you don't like the default ringtones, be prepared to pay up.

The camera feature is a decent 1.3 megapixel, but the shutter lag is absurd. If you want a picture of a moving car, you better push the button a full 2 seconds before you want the shot. You want a shot of your kid? You'd better hope he's asleep. Good news is you can email a photo (taken with an 'actual' camera) of your kid to your phone and get it that way.

The phone seems a little thick, but it's less than 7/8ths of an inch, which isn't bad. Since there's no external antenna I keep it in my pocket, but there isn't a lock button*, which causes two problems. 1) Any time a button is inadvertently pressed the external screen lights up, which needlessly uses the battery up, and 2) you can accidentally turn on the camera and take photos of the inside of your pocket. Not a big deal to erase them later, but you can wind up with dozens of photos of nothing. Just a nuisance.

*Okay, there is a lock feature buried in the menus, but it takes up to 12 key strokes to lock it. But there is no lock BUTTON.

Summary:
All in all, I like it. It's solid, the battery life is adequate, the call quality is good and it's small enough to keep in my pocket. It does a good job of just being a phone.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a phone, it does phone things, December 14, 2007

By	Mos Fet (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews

PROS:

- It doesn't have a touch screen, ultraslim profile, QWERTY keyboard, or any of the other gimmicks common on phones these days.

- Speaker is nice and loud. I have minor hearing problems and this is the first phone I've owned that I didn't have to plug my other ear to hear clearly in a medium-loud environment. The voice-clarity option (it increases volume if there's loud ambient noise) is also really nice. Switching to the 8350 from a first-gen Razr V3 was a revelation in this regard.

- Internal antenna is the best I've seen. I get good reception in places in my office that are notorious cell phone dead zones.

- The external display is great and the ability to display text messages on it is particularly nice.

- Phone seems to be durable and has survived a few drops already with no issues.

CONS:

- Verizon's crappy interface. Most of the menu options lead to screens where they try to sell you ringtones, backgrounds, music, etc. Annoying but bearable with some customizing of the main screen.

- Keypad could be laid out better, I find myself accidentally hitting the "clear" button while trying to push the down key every once in awhile. The numeric keypad is also a little tricky if you've got bigger hands.

- Phone is really really light, like half the weight of my old razr. Might be a good thing for some people, but combined with the ergonomic design it just seems to lead to me dropping the phone a lot. One-handed text messaging takes some practice.

- It's a bit bulky in the pocket if you're used to a razr-type phone.

OVERALL:

Can't comment on the bluetooth, music playback, or multimedia functions because I haven't used them yet, but the 8350 does all the basic things a cell phone is supposed to do (calls, text messaging) extremely well. There are much flashier phones out there and the keypad design could be better, but if you're looking for a cell phone (as opposed to a multimedia center that can make calls) you can't go wrong with this guy.