More Phone Updates
With the Monday holiday I’ve had some time to play with the new phone (LG VX6000) a bit more and have some new opinions on it.
First off, as of this afternoon my phone number still hadn’t transferred. I called Verizon Wireless customer support, who were terribly helpful and quick to respond. The tech I got tried a couple of things to no avail and then called a higher-up tech guy. The hold time was over five minutes at that point, so he asked if he could call me back so I didn’t have to wait. No problem. Five minutes later I received a text message on my phone saying it had been activated and moments after that a tech called me to confirm that all was working right. I informed him it was and asked if he’d tell me what the problem was, because according to Verizon it should have taken less than 24 hours. He admitted it was a Verizon mistake, not AT&T or anything else. When the scheduled time came for someone to make the change, it wasn’t done until a couple of hours after and then it was done wrong. Oh well. He very easily could have lied and blamed it on someone or something else, but he fessed up. I appreciate that.
It seems a high capacity battery is a must for this phone. If you use the camera at all it eats up battery life a bunch. It’s not impossible to deal with, but a second battery with more capacity is a good idea. It means a heavier and slightly bigger phone when used, but that doesn’t bother me too much. If it’s a day when I know I’ll be using the camera a lot, I’ll simply use the high capacity battery.
A data cable is a must. I need to do a bit of research on which one to buy, if there’s actually a difference in them. If you want to do custom ring tones or want to retrieve graphics off your phone without sending them to yourself via e-mail, thus using up your monthly allowance of picture transmissions, you need a data cable. And it’s not an entirely easy thing to do, from what I’ve been reading. First you need to get the cable and the proper drivers for the cable. Once hooked up to your phone, you have to run a program on your PC that isn’t exactly officially sanctioned by Verizon from what I understand. Then, even using the program, you have to jump through a few hoops to make things happen. Now, I haven’t done this yet, but when I do I’ll report on how easy or difficult it is. Clearly, Verizon would prefer you pay for their content available through the “Get It Now” feature in the phone. I’m sorry, paying $1.99 for ringtones doesn’t intrigue me.
In activating my phone today I discovered the various diagnostic options available to me. There’s a few interesting bits in there, but nothing terribly useful for my needs.
Overall I’m still very pleased with this phone. The only drawback has to be battery life, but that can be rectified.
