>> Duncan: Hey guys, what is up?
It's Duncan, and today I'm here with my very first phone review,
of the LG VX5500, for Verizon Wireless.
I've used this phone for about, two weeks or so.
Tested the calls, the camera, and all kinds of different stuff about it.
So I'll give you guys a full review, tell you what I think about it.
Anyway, let's get this one started.
>> Duncan: Okay, so, first thing I've gotta mention is the size.
This is obviously a flip phone, and as you can see here it's pretty small.
But, I want to show you guys how small it is.
Here is my iPod touch, and you can see I mean it is, I mean tiny.
It's a little bit thicker but,
what really got me was it's about the size of an iPod nano.
I mean if you look, I mean it's very small,
and as such it's great for sliding in your pocket and everything.
It does not really weigh anything, I mean really, it's really solid,
so that's the first thing I really like about this phone,
I mean the fact that you can just toss it in your pocket and really forget about it.
But, there's also a lot of other cool things.
So the first thing obviously you'll notice, is that,
well if the camera can focus, [laughter]
is that we have two screens.
You have a screen, primary screen right there, so obviously you know as normal.
But you also have a one inch screen right here.
So it'll tell you incoming calls, all kinds of stuff like that.
And when you have it open it will tell you the time.
And it's definitely a nice little touch especially for something that's this thin.
So let me run you guys through all what's on it.
Obviously we have the one inch screen,
right here is where the, speakerphone is,
and the speakerphone does sound pretty decent with this phone.
Right here you have a tiny little 0.3 megapixel camera
it only does shoot, stills, it does not shoot video
and they're not that great, the pictures, but it's just something kind of nice to have
I guess.
Looking on the right side, it's totally free and clear except a dedicated camera button.
So if we open it up,
hit the button right here,
and now as you can see we have the camera,
so let's go ahead and take a picture of this.
And then there we go, and then you have choices to save, send or erase, so let's go ahead
and erase that.
And then you can go in here, in My Pictures, let me show you guys a demo real quick.
It does not take good pictures, I mean, they're pretty small and they're kind of junk but,
you know, it's better than nothing.
On the front you will see nothing, it's just, smooth.
On this side you will see there's a few things.
Here's something to hook up like a headset or something.
Now you can't hook up a, normal microphone,
I mean you DO hook up a normal microphone,
this will not fit a normal thing such as like your headphones or anything like that.
So you have to have the special kind for that.
And the flaps are not that great, but.
You have volume up and down, so
obviously just call volume, if we go ahead and turn it up, or turn it down,
you know, pretty standard stuff.
Right here we have voice commands,
voice commands are actually pretty cool, so let's go ahead and show you guys.
>> Phone: Please say a command.
>> Duncan: So with this you can say all kinds of different commands, you can say,
message to, go to, check item, you see all kinds of different stuff.
>> Phone: Command not recognized, please try again.
>> Duncan: [laughter] Shut up.
And lastly on this side, underneath this flap,
which, I hate this flap, I got to admit.
It's not, it's kind of hard because you have to pick it up, there we go.
But you will see we have, Micro USB,
and this is used for both charging, using the charger that comes with it.
And also you can do limited syncing, with your computer.
But I will note it's only got like, 44 megabytes of storage
and you can't expand it, so you're probably not really going to need that.
But it's not a big deal.
On the back, it's nothing
actually, if you guys can see, it's got a different plate like that.
It's all plastic, but it's pretty solid.
And underneath this actually it's a 1000 miliamp hour battery
and I got to say, battery life,
the two main things I like about this is battery life, and I like the size.
Battery life on this, they rate it to be fourteen hour,
I mean fourteen days of standby time and I can absolutely see that.
In the time I've used this I spent a week without charging this,
keeping it on almost all of the time and making some, light to moderate call useage
and the battery has only got down to about, half.
So I got to say, the battery life is just excellent,
you know you can be doing all kinds of stuff and it really doesn't matter.
So those two are major things, and if you're not looking for a big smartphone
that's definitely a really good way to go.
>> Duncan: Okay, so now let's take a look at the inside of the phone.
Now, as you see here you have the screen.
And it is very, very fingerprint, you can see there fingerprints are all over the place.
You have the speaker,
and when you come down here you have a pretty standard for just a normal phone,
you have your buttons, you have a D-pad,
not a D-pad, but I forgot what it's called [laughter]
four buttons, navigation buttons, there we go.
You have your speakerphone turn on and off,
your clear, which also doubles as a back button.
The send and end, which obviously end doubles as a power key.
And then you just have your standard buttons.
Everything does light up, and I've got to say the feel of it,
I don't know if you can see right there,
the feel of it is very nice, it really feels like an expensive phone.
You know, it's obviously, you don't have any kind of keyboard on it,
so you're not going to be doing a lot of texting on it
but I've messed around on it some and it really feels good,
so it's really solid.
And that goes for the whole phone, the build quality is really solid.
If I take it like this, you guys might be able to see,
you can kind of twist it a little bit
and right there it can kind of do it.
But honestly, I wouldn't worry about it. It's solid.
I mean, as long as you're not really trying that hard, I wouldn't worry about it.
And of course, I've dropped the phone, you know. [laughter]
I've dropped the phone a few times and it's been just fine.
So, there's a few different features. There's web browsing.
You can do web browsing, it's a feature phone, I mean you guys saw how small the screen is
it's not great and I wouldn't really recommend using this,
maybe as an emergency, but then you've got to get data plans and all kinds of stuff like
that,
really, I would steer clear of the web browser.
It also does have assisted GPS.
And it also can get it with the Verizon Navigator service.
I have not tried this so I really can't say anything about it other than the phone does
have it.
So, to sum up, I like the phone a lot.
You know a lot of people on Verizon,
for example you have some really good competition like the Droid,
also the Nexus One will be coming here soon.
But this is not going to be a smartphone, this is just a standard,
boring in the best sense of the word phone.
I mean, it's not exciting,
there's nothing that you'll show you're friends and they'll go wow!
But guess what, it's a solid phone.
It's built well, great battery life,
it's pretty decent, you have your cameraphone, and all kinds of good stuff like that.
If you're interested in buying this phone it will run you
free, or a penny they say but basically free
if you get it from Verizon Wireless on a contract.
You can also get this prepaid so if you don't like to deal with contracts or whatever
you can pick this up prepaid and do the minutes like that.
Generally it's $50, I did see at the time of this
that a few places had it for cheaper than that so
if you're interested in that you might want to look around before you pay the $50.
But in any case, if you're looking for just a standard feature phone
it's hard to go wrong with this,
Verizon Wireless coverage, I really like that,
I've just recently taken a trip and had great coverage the whole way
and I really like Verizon, so all in all, pretty solid phone.
No real downsides to it other than it's not a smartphone,
and not everybody needs a smartphone so,
anyway guys, definitely recommend it if you're interested in something like this.
Anyway, thanks for watching.