LG - VX-8300 Cell Phone Reviews

This is a great little phone and is a surprising improvement over the model that it replaced! My not quite 2 year old LG phone "died" 2 months before I was due to replace it so I headed for the Verizon store for help. They very kindly let me upgrade at the time (after examining my deceased phone to check for "user error"!) and I headed right over to the flashy new, copper-colored KRAZR that I had been coveting. Yes, I admit it, I am somewhat like a raven when it comes to cell phones- I'm drawn to the bright colors as if by some internal pull! Many phones were "on sale" and I spent about an hour...

I had an LG VX4500 and I LOVED that phone!  So, when it came time to upgrade LG was the way to go - or so I thought.  First I looked at the Chocolate - the new version is GREAT, but it wasn't out yet - the old version not so much - too hard to navigate, and my niece had one and had problems with it.  So I looked at the others available.  I am a Verizon Wireless customer and the salesperson said the VX8300 was the way to go (more about the sales people later).  It looked a lot like the 4500 so I went for it.  I should mention that my 4500 fell down an elevator shat - 4 stories! - a few scratches...

My husband and I purchased our cell phones through our local Verizon store.  The sales clerk was very helpful when we were deciding which phones to pick out.  I work in an office so durability was not a big deal.  But I have dropped my phone several times and it still continues to work as well as the day I bought it.  Now my husband is a laborer and we have had problems with his.  It seems the microphone becomes detached or something but Verizon was able to give us a different phone after a year without any hassle.  Now again he is very very hard on his phones so he maybe this phone wasn't...

I have been fairly happy with this phone. The only drawbacks are: 1-I cannot save my contacts to the memory card I purchased for the phone, which was one of the reasons for getting it, and 2- for some reason it seems to shut itself off at times for no apparent reason. I am actually happy I got it when I did because I recommended it to my sister who was looking for a new phone and I got one of the last ones before they went to the new version which she had to get and I don't like hers as much as mine. Hers has an internal antennae which could be helpful to the durability of the phone but it didn't...