SAVE $250.00 - LG Lotus LX600 Phone, Black (Sprint) $49.99

My Lotus killed over after only 4 months Never dropped it, kept a protective rubber cover on it & only used it for calls & texting(by the way, there is a delay in texting which is frustrating.) Stored a few pics but never used pic. mail. After only 4 months, it failed to start up this morning. Took it for diagnostic test & was told I need a new phone but they didn't tell me what caused it to kill over. My replacement phone should arrive in 3-4 days but I hope that it is not a lemon as well. The guy @ Sprint told me they get alot of Lotus phones in for repairs.(not good) Rating: 3 (frances, 2010-01-13) Product reviewed: LG Lotus LX600 Phone, Black (Sprint)

LG LOTUS: Things they don't tell you Ok, I fell in love with this phone when I first saw it. Reviews were good...etc. After having it for almost a month, today I'm exchanging it for a blackberry. Theres just little things about it that irks me. -The volume is not loud enough for me at all -Theres a delay on the keypad or whatever. It takes too long for me to exit apps like facebook. -The shortcut youtube icon does not work right so I go to youtube on opera mini -Most of the time I can't watch long youtube vids and sometime the phone just shuts down while I'm tryin to watch a vid. -Sometimes the phone just shuts down period -My picture mail comes in all funny and you CAN'T get moving pictures aka gifs. So animations will come in like stills.You won't get the joke. lol -For some reason I can't download songs from my mac itunes but maybe I just don't know what I'm doing. -Theres a delay when texting. If you a pro texter like me, you WILL be annoyed!! -Texts come out like a thread for each contact(this maybe a pro for you but its a con for me) -I've had more calls drop on this phone than I ever had on any phone -Receiver volume way too low for me. Bad ears maybe? lol -The phone is a lil too slim for me but I like bulky phones. -The phone flashes for nothing. The music buttons just flash while phone is closed and it doesn't mean you got a message -Have not been able to use it as a modem on my mac. Not sure if its even mac friendly -Battery life is VERY short. I have to charge it at least twice a day and I don't even use the internet on it that much at all. Here are the PROS -Awesome camera/camcorder. Its very CLEAR. -querty keyboard is nice. I can type fast on it. Its fat finger friendly. -Screen is a nice size also -Its a flip phone(main reason why I got it) -If you get this DEFINITELY download opera mini (its awesome) -It is easy to access your email -Internet speed isn't that bad -It has a nice notepad app -The carousel comes in handy sometimes I use to have a sanyo 7500 and that phone was PERFECT. If the cons I listed don't bother you AND you really want this phone, get the phone. BUT if you are looking for an entertainment purpose phone get the IPHONE. Biggest mistake I made was renewing with my current service and not getting the phone I really wanted. I'm a youtube junkie so it would only make since to get the iphone. The lotus is NOT the IPHONE. I thought it would be a mixture between the blackberry and the IPHONE. NOT!! These are real issues. My real opinion. If you get this phone, believe me you'll have these issues too. Rating: 3 (TJ, 2009-11-06) Product reviewed: LG Lotus LX600 Phone, Black (Sprint)

Not the best phone I've ever had I originally bought the LG Lotus in March. That phone would never allow updates, and unlike all the other cell phones I've had since buying my house, this phone only rang half of the time. I brought it in to find out what was wrong, and the Sprint store said it was faulty. They ordered me a replacement, which I found out upon arrival was a refurb, which I immediately could tell did not work. The earpiece had some plastic part stuck and I could barely hear callers, as well as the keyboard's "p" not working. They ordered me another one, which was brand new, and it works ok, but not as well as it should. I still miss half the calls placed to this phone (I only know this because of the number of voicemails I get without the phone ever ringing.) I'm very frustrated with it for missed calls. Other than that, it's really great for texting. The internet is alright. I will not get another, and I will get a new phone as soon as my plan allows. I do not recommend this phone. Rating: 3 (M. Acton, 2009-10-12) Product reviewed: LG Lotus LX600 Phone, Black (Sprint)

nice, small keyboard phone This thing has a great keyboard. Buttons are slightly raised for nice tactile feedback. Easier to use than you'd think, even with the strange shape. It's short, but wide, which is perfect. Actually ditched my last phone because I love this one so much. If you are looking to simplify your life, this is a good phone. If you are somebody who uses some features rarely, like Web, email, or GPS, there is no need to carry around a big smartphone. This has those features and they work great. Wouldn't want to use them on here all the time, but for somebody like me who just uses it to phone and text, it works great. Camera is also nice. Much better than other phones I have used. Up there with my Nikon and Fuji digital cameras. This phone is not for everybody. It's takes a bit getting used to when you hold it, since it is so wide. If you can get around that though, It think you'll like it. I know I did. Rating: 5 (Tony Renner, 2009-08-30) Product reviewed: LG Lotus LX600 Phone, Black (Sprint)

Cool phone but correctable shortcomings make it a tough sell. I have been using this phone for several weeks now. I will refrain from repeating much of what others say and focus instead on a few more obscure but very important issues I have noticed. If you rely heavily on any of the features mentioned below, you might want to consider these points... 1. Audio quality: This phone's audio is not as good as the last few phones I've owned (Rumor, Razr, others). Callers sound muddled, and if you're talking to someone who is mumbly at all, or is not talking directly into their mouthpiece, it is difficult to understand their words. On the plus side, this phone has an earpiece that is very easy to position properly over your ear, and you can feel it when it's not positioned right. With the Rumor I was constantly moving it around trying to mate the speaker with my ear. Speakerphone on this phone is a significant improvement over the Rumor which sounded distorted at any volume loud or soft. One other auditory note... there doesn't seem to be a way to turn off the power-up and power-down songs it plays (ostensibly to congratulate itself for taking a long time to follow your instructions). This is extremely annoying in situations when you remember to turn off the phone after the class or meeting starts... there's no way to turn it off silently (even if you turn the volume all they way to silent, it still plays a song). I've never had a phone before that didn't let you silence those permanently. 2. User Interface: It is frustrating for several reasons, mostly it's lack of customizability. The carousel system might please you if you like icon menus, but I prefer text-style menus and that's not an option on this phone. They say you can add custom items to the carousel, but that's sort of a misnomer. You can add a limited selection of 'features' to the carousel--mostly data-gathering web features like weather reports and stock tickers--it's a very limited list of pre-chosen items, you can't make up your own, and you can't add menu items. If you want quick access to a menu item (such as the calculator, note pad, or alarm clock) you can add it to the 'shortcuts' carousel item which puts it in sort of a quick-menu, but and it's limited to five items. Older LG phones allowed you to program one-touch buttons (usualy the 4-way arrow keys) but this phone has no one-touch buttons you can customize. Everything's done through the carousel which isn't any easier than finding stuff in menus so I'm not sure what the point is. And its very confusing to figure out how to customize it. It's not intuitive at all. By the way, this carousel menu system is Sprint's proprietary user interface which they have forced all their non-smart phones to use, regardless of manufacturer. It's their attempt to brand all the phones with universal Sprint interface. So it appears that the old days of variety are over. It used to be that the different manufacturers did their software differently so if you didn't like one brand's interface, another brand might work better for you. Now they all have the same interface so you're stuck with it unless you want to switch carriers. There is a way around this if you're comfortable doing a little hacking. A program called "CDMA" can help you revert back to the phone's native user interface (very similar to what it comes with only the carousel one-click system will be gone). Browse the sprint user forums for more info, I did it and I like it much better without the carousel. 3. Charger/USB interface: As unforgivable as this has always been, this phone uses YET ANOTHER new kind of charger/usb connector, so you have to go out and buy new chargers AGAIN. The B Micro-usb connector is gaining popularity though, so perhaps it will be somewhat standardized, but I'm not hopeful. I think there's just too much money to be made on needlessly (and wastefully) replacing all those components with every new phone--especially at $35 each in the Sprint store. Be sure you buy those items ANYWHERE else for at least 75% savings. On the plus side, the charger that comes with this phone is simply a usb cord with a power supply that has a usb connector on it. So you can disconnect the cord from the charger and connect it to a computer for charging. I love this. I bought an 18" usb cord so I can use this charger on the kitchen counter without an annoying coil of wire to contend with. 4. Keyboard & Buttons: The keyboard on this phone is great. Nice sized buttons and they're nicely rounded such that it's very easy to type on. I can type one-handed quite easily on this phone which was nearly possible on the Rumor. I still wish it had dedicated number buttons but apparently that's too much to ask. The dedicated 'text' button is a nice feature, it brings you right to the 'send a text message' screen. It's pretty much the only one-touch feature button on the phone aside from the camera button which seems to always get pressed by accident. I am not a fan of putting buttons on the sides of the phone where you're supposed to be holding on to it. 5. Screens/Backgrounds/Pictures. Screen visibility in most features is very poor outdoors. Aside from the text message screen and note pad (which are black-on-white) nearly every screen is white(or another color)-on-black making it very hard to see in sunlight. There is no option to have a blank background on the phone's screen. You're forced to use an image, and the pre-installed pics are crap. It's quite comical actually, the background pictures for the external screen are all so detailed that they obscure the clock from being readable. I ended up using the built-in camera to take a picture of a blank surface and I use that as the background picture. Another oddity... similar to the Rumor, if you assign a picture to a phone number so it can show you a picture of who is calling, it overlays a text box on top of the picture so you can't see it anyway except for what's visible around the edge. (WTF, does anybody at the factory actually USE these things before they send them out to market?) 6. Alarm Clock: While a standard feature on most phones nowadays, this one is quite crippled. The completely unforgivable oversight (which was also a problem on the Rumor) is that if you miss an alarm it does not show up on the missed alerts list. This is especially bad for me because I use it as a medication reminder, and if I leave the phone in the other room and I don't hear it ringing before it turns off on its own after a few minutes, I have no idea that i've missed it. Also, if you press snooze to silence it temporarily, there is absolutely no way to deactivate it until it rings again (aside from going to the alarm clock menu and deleting the alarm). A nice touch would be to have the default time for the alarm be the last time used, but instead it always defaults to 9:30 am. Extra hassle. 7. Text Messaging: Here's a really nice feature of this phone (really the sprint interface, one of the few benefits)... text messages are organized into threads by recipient/sender, so if you're having a conversation with someone, it shows all the messages (both sent and received) in a single list in chronological order. So you can see the full conversation without having to switch between the inbox and sent folders. Great improvement. It takes some getting used to, but I like it. 8. Speed-dial/Contacts list: Nobody does this better, but it's worth mentioning... why limit the one-touch press-and-hold speed dial buttons to just the number keys? With all those letter buttons, it seems you ought to be able to assign a speed dial number to any of them. I would love to program 'mom' to the M button for example, but you can't on this user interface. I suspect this is just a paradigm shift that phone makers haven't caught up to yet. They're still thinking as though there are only 12 buttons on the phone. Another speed dial issue with this sprint interface (although my old Rumor had the same shortcoming)... when you press the speed dial button the only option is to call the default number for that person. My sanyo and samsung phones in the past have allowed you to press the button briefly to bring up the person's contacts entry, then use the L/R arrow buttons to scroll through that persons various numbers to choose the one you want to call. That feature is missing on this phone so if I want quick access to my wife's cell number and work number, I have to assign each to its own speed dial number (further reinforcing the need to allow speed dial programming of the letter keys). 9. Phone body: Sadly this phone has fallen prey to our modern addiction to rubberized grippy surfaces. The exterior surface is coated with sticky junk so it clings to your pocket and does not slide in or out easily. Luckily it's only mildly grippy so it's not as bad as some other phones, but I find this stuff completely unnecessary and it actually makes the phone harder to use. Ugh. 10. Web browser: Now this is the killer issue that truly ruins this phone. The browser offers absolutely no capability to scroll sideways or zoom out, which makes it completely useless. When looking at a web page that isn't specifically designed for use on mobile phones (so pretty much everything except facebook), you can only see a small strip of the left side of the page... everything to the right just disappears off the screen and there's no way to go look at it. The up/down arrow buttons scroll the screen vertically, so you would think the left/right arrow buttons would allow you to scroll horizontally, but no. Seriously? Who in their right mind thought that was an acceptable design? If not for this serious problem, I might be happy enough with this phone to keep it. But having just subscribed to web features I am seriously tempted to return it for a smart phone, which has WAY more features than I need, but what good is a so-called web-capable phone that only lets you see the left hand 200 pixels of the page? Somebody should get fired for that one. UPDATE: Based on the suggestion from another reviewer, I installed OperaMini on this phone and it's a far superior browser which allows you to scroll horizontally and automatically reformats web pages so they're visible on the small screen. This has saved the phone from the trash can for me! Now if I could just assign the opera application to a carousel tile then I'd truly be impressed. 11. GPS: This feature offers both driging directions and map navigation where it places your phone on a map of the area. It also lets you search for nearby businesses by name or category. It will give you a lame estimate of your current street address, but annoyingly, this phone will not provide you with your current GPS coordinates or allow you to mark waypoints. That sorta defeats the purpose of a built in GPS IMO. So that's my summary of the issues I find exceptional or troublesome with this phone. In short, it has a lot of interesting features, but it's definitely the least customizable phone I've had in years--which is surprising since technological advances usually expand customization options. It's a pretty subjective issue, picking a phone, but I wanted to share my joys and frustrations in case they help you understand it better. Good luck. SIX-MONTH UPDATE: Now that I've been using this phone for six months, I must say that it's quite adequate in most aspects, except for the sound quality. I am so frustrated with how muddled the caller sounds that I am starting to look for other options. I am constantly asking people to repeat themselves. It is extremely hard to hear clearly and it's crippling my ability to do business on the phone. This is unacceptable because, after all, it's a PHONE, so at least that part should work well. Unfortunately they're putting so much effort into making these things everything from a computer to video camera to game console that they're neglecting the basic function it's supposed to perform. PHONE CALLS! Ugh. Rating: 3 (A. Tubesing, 2009-05-18) Product reviewed: LG Lotus LX600 Phone, Black (Sprint)