Tracfone LG LG800G with Double Minutes for Life!!

by LG

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B004ZL9JFC
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (95 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,822 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)
  • #53 in Cell Phones & Accessories > Prepaid Phones

Product Description

Service Provider: TracFone Phone Type: Bar Phone Calling Features: Phonebook, Call Forwarding, Call Waiting Telecommunication Features: Caller ID, Voice Mail, External Caller ID Screen

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238 of 240 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TracFone LG 800G Touch Screen Cell Phone, June 18, 2011

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Simon R. Mouer "Professor" (Austin TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tracfone LG LG800G with Double Minutes for Life!! (Wireless Phone Accessory)

The LG 800G cell phone is the first touch screen offered by TracFone, and in my opinion, the best TracFone yet offered. But don't look for it on LG's website - you won't find it. It is a special prepaid model for TracFone/Net10 only. I don't even find it listed overseas.

I have had mine for about four weeks. It is not a full smart phone, more like half-smart, when compared to something like the iPhone. It doesn't have accelerometers, it doesn't have WiFi, and you only have limited capability to change orientation of the screen.

But at only $50 or less, it is a very good value for the features it does have - a very good cell phone -- with a music player, HD camera (stills and video), external memory (optional), data cable (optional), a qwerty keyboard app, texting, and included apps for games, alarm clock, stop watch,voice recorder, calendar, memo pad, tasks list, scientific calculator, and World clock. And, you can add hundreds of your own apps, provided they are java apps.

You can surf the internet and access your email and text message - all costing you minutes. I personally don't have anything important enough to pay for cell phone internet connect time and downloads. But if you do, you can do it with the LG 800G.

While the external memory (microSDHC card), and USB data cable, are not included, you should consider them essential and buy them. The reason is that it is much cheaper to download apps to your computer and transfer it to the LG 800G by data cable. The data cable must be a USB-typA to a micrUSB-typeB. The data cable can only access the microSD card (external memory) and not the internal memory.

You can also use Bluetooth to connect to a Bluetooth headset, or to transfer files to/from a computer (if it the computer also has bluetooth.) You can set file transfer to be either to internal memory or to external memory.

The LG 800G comes with double-minutes-for-life, and if you catch Home Shopping Network just at the right time, they occasionally have triple-minutes for life. The cost per minute is around ten cents, and even less.

The LG 800G has just too many features to discuss here. You will find the TracFone User guide that comes with the LG 800G to be pretty basic -- mostly devoted to activating the phone. You will want to access the TracFone LG 800G on-line Tutorial. There is no link on the TracFone website to the tutorial but you can find it, and the best user forum/blog, by Googling "TracFone LG 800G Tutorial." The top three or four hits should take you to the tutorial and to the Turk Forum LG 800G discussion.

All in all, I very much like the LG 800G, and would recommend it to a friend. My favorite app is the music player, which also has an equalizer and Bass Boost. With a good stereo headset, especially one that also receives calls, it is as good as it gets.

53 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE this phone!!, June 26, 2011

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LMC "Peachychick" (Kentucky) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tracfone LG LG800G with Double Minutes for Life!! (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I decided to get a Trackfone because I just can't justify nearly $100 per month from AT&T when a Tracfone would only cost me about $100 per YEAR. This phone does everything and more for me especially since I only use my phone to talk and text message, occassionally check facebook or e-mail online with it, but that's about it. It's the perfect phone, so lightweight, easy to use, easy to see for someone with low vision like me which is perfect, and just neat with the touchscreen capability. Definitely get a cover for it though because without it it is EXTREMELY slippery and easy to drop. Love everything about it otherwise though.

UPDATE: July 14, 2011

After leaving my glowing review a few days later I also began having the texting problem most people seem to have. I was receiving the same message over and over and OVER again and couldn't get any new ones either. I called costumer service and spoke with a very friendly, very helpful woman who reset my text message service and within a couple hours it was up and running again and has been great ever since. I adore this phone and wouldn't want any other as of now. So rest assured that if you do get this phone and IF it did develop the texting problem then it can be easily fixed. I still give it five stars!!!!

67 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Like it, with some caveats, July 6, 2011

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Audio Guy in NC - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tracfone LG LG800G with Double Minutes for Life!! (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I got this phone for $40.00 and put a 60 day NET10 card on it to try it out. So far, here are my observations based on how I use the phone. (I don't do texting)

1. Lightweight and size are fine. Phone fits easily into the hand.

2. The 'touch' screen sensitivity is chosen obviously to filter out accidental 'presses' to icons on the screen, but---it filters a little too strongly for my taste and I wish this was adjustable.

3. The camera is said to be a 2mp design, but it does not seem as good as the camera in the LG 900G, which is also a 2mp camera.

4. The camera 'take a shot' button is virtual, not a real button, and I find that this causes some shots to blur, since in trying to 'push' that virtual button, the camera can easily move and you get a blurred shot as a result.

5. There is major shutter lag, so that the pic you see and want to capture might not be what you get, aka, with animals and kids or any kind of action.

6. The phone seems plenty signal sensitive, based on my use of other phones.

7. Battery life is ok, not amazing.

8. From what I got in an email from NET10, the phone needs an external memory card in order for the USB data transfer to work. I decided to use Bluetooth
to avoid putting a memory card into the phone (you hve to remove the back of the phone and take out the battery to see the memory slot)

9. Since I don't do texting I cannot offer an opinion. I have read on other sites that this phone has texting problems and that NET10 is going to fix that problem with an update.

10. Overall, I like the phone, but wish the camera was as good as the one in the LG 900G which I found to be truly excellent. The 900G also has a real shutter button and less lag and images come out less blurred.

It's not a smart phone but for the price and NET10's service plans, it's an excellent value in my view.