PRADA phone by LG
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5 Reviews for PRADA phone by LG
Vastly Overpriced - 25 Dec 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful.
The LG Prada phone had been recommended as a best buy by Which? magazine. With a score of 66%; the highest score being 69% I thought i had made a sound investment. Even at the RRP of over £300 I though that was vastly overpriced, so opted to purchase a new handset via Ebay for a little ovr £120....upon using the phone for several months now, I am of the opinnion that even that price is vastly over inflated.
Pros are that it looks nice and sexy, and is incredibly light...so light in fact, that I even forgot I'd left it in my pocket and not realising it was there, mistakenly washed it...I can confirm that it failed the biggest durability test of all...having said that, I don't believe weight is always a pro...the texting functionality is also easy to use, apart from the occasions where the varying buttons forget that they are more than one letter, and decide to stick at the first option....also, the MP3 player is pretty good, fantastic had you wanted an IPOD. Calling is relatively easy, as you'd expect from a phone and the external buttons are pretty self explanatory.
Now, following the Pros; if you can call them pros, on to the cons...well, Which? gave the Prada phone 4 out of 5 stars for durability, Why and How? After a month, the Prada signature strip faded and all the nice sexy silver lining rubbed off to reveal a sleak black inner core, which then scratched as easy as running a knife through butter...just like the rest of the phone really....I found the Prada easily scratches and the front screen suffers from wear and tear far too easily. The 2mp camera is shockingly bad, so bad it fails to take any clear photos, even in daylight. I also don't like the fact that the headphones provided are USB only...interesting choice and I can see why they went for that option...the USB port obviously doubles up with it also used to link to the PC, but that means the headphones are not to be used in any other device.
To sum up, you could easily spend £30 on a phone that would quite satisfactorly carry out the same functions and not look like a piece of garbage after one months use.
LG Prada Mobile - 22 Aug 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful.
Hi,i've had my Prada mobile for just under a week and I can honestly say it's the best mobile i've ever had! I am no gadget expert but this is so easy to use and has all of the things you normally get from a mobile. The touch screen is great, the camera is excellent! All in all this mobile is superb and above all it looks sooooo gorgeous too!!!
Money : Quality Ratio is WAY too High - 20 Aug 2007
6 out of 10 found this review helpful.
For starters, I have to get this out there: the start up sound on that is one of the scariest, sharpest and piercing sounds I have heard in my entire life. It sounds like someone amplified the sound of someone removing a rusty sword from its scabbard, times 1000. As soon as you turn a phone on and you hear a noise like that, you know something's been seriously overlooked, or at least created in a hurry.
Does anyone else think it's a little funny that Prada and LG announced a mobile phone with a touch screen interface at exactly the same time that Apple announced the iPhone, a device that looks remarkable similar and also with a touch screen? To me, the LG Prada phone is just another hurried clone of the iPhone, except with a Prada logo cheaply printed on the front. Why should we pay a premium for a logo that's probably going to get scratched off in our pockets?
Why do I say hurried? Well, there are just so many things that they could have improved, mostly in the touch screen. Sometimes it takes three or four tries to get the screen to respond, and if the screen is locked, you have to migrate to one of the smart keys on the side of the phone that isn't even in plain view to unlock the screen. Then, of course, there are those little alerts that come up to tell you that your message has been sent. The alerts in themselves are quite welcome but it's the little animations that appear on them that get me, like the little check to tell you a task has been completed. It seems to be the same old check that's been appearing on LG phones for years. Couldn't they have improved the animation and maybe added a more stylish touch? I though I was buying a device that Prada had a hand in making! So what's up with all these little touches that seem so ordinary and cheap? After all, I though I was buying a luxury device! Well, you weren't. You were simply buying a device that broke your bank for no good reason. And come on, it was so hurried that they couldn't come up with a better name than "Prada Phone by LG." Really creative.
You know what's funny? In the United States, these LG Prada phones retail for $800. The iPhone, a significantly smarter, more stylish, more useful, and altogether more streamlined (and with much more internal storage capacity) retails there at $499 for the 4GB model and $599 for the 8GB model. This has to be one of the few and far between areas that Americans are being smart. They choose to buy the more stylish, more functional, and altogether amazing iPhone, instead of another old LG device, but with a Prada logo tacked on it. So I'd say wait for the iPhone to arrive in England.
Do not buy this phone!!!!!!! - 12 Aug 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful.
I wanted a contract phone so i got the Prada phone from the orange shop, the first thing that annoyed me was that orange will not insure this phone for some unknown reason. the second was that when texting it gets stuck on the W and wont stop typing it even when you press other letters! You have to turn the phone off and start all over again! So i called orange and they replaced the phone. my new phone came the day after and it does exactly the same thing except this one won't let me store anything in the phone. I now have 6 pics and 2 songs and it says it is full even though i bougfht a 2gb memory card for the phone from the orange shop! I am really disapointed with it and am calling orangwe tomorrow to get a different phone! I had the first phone for 3 days and just got the new one this morning. Overall i am entirely disappointed with the quality of the phone and would not recomend buying the phone as it is a complete waste of time! For such a pretty phone it doesnt perform well at all and i will definatly be going back to getting a sony ericsson tomorrow!!!!
NB this phone is locked to ORANGE - 13 Jul 2007
2 out of 10 found this review helpful.
Just realised this is an Orange pay as you go so cant be used with other networks.