The LG cookie- one of those attractive looking phones, that you can only imagine the amount of things it could do. Where this phone may be an attractive little number, its features are rather poor.
First Thoughts
The phone arrived, and boy, was I excited?! I carefully removed the phone from its packaging, and got it all set up. So far so good...! However, as the night went on, I slowly began to realise that the phone I'd first considered to be a good choice, slowly began to fade away - I realised, I had made a terrible terrible mistake!
What made me think this?
The thought of having a qwerty keyboard in the phone for me, was fantastic! What would make this much much more fantastic, would be if the feature actually worked efficiently. As the phone meant I had a new number, I decided that I'd text my friends my new number. To access the keyboard feature, in theory, it is as easy as flipping the phone horizontal. Most of the time, the phone does not respond to this, and you have to access a menu by hitting an icon which would now be at the bottom left of the screen. Now, the problem lies when you go to hit that button, for the screen to suddenly change into the keyboard mode, meaning, rather than hitting the options button, you end up hitting send button - with the possibility of sending a blank text - which I have done NUMEROUS times. This can be, rather frustrating. Another frustrating feature of the phone is the scroll function. This is mostly seen in your contacts and messaging. At times, the phone does not respond to your wants, and rather than scrolling down, it can, infact randomly open up a message, or a contact. This again adds to the frustration, as you find you carry out the same tasks several times, just to get the results that you want!
Features
The features this phone has, is in my opinion, pretty poor. In terms of games, you are presented with 2 motion sensivite games, which seem pointless, and have no purpose. An example of this is the Flying dices game. You simply throw dices onto a table, to which that process keeps repeating. There is no instructions, and no score logged, so it tends to defeat the purpose of it being a 'game' ( using the term loosely! ) Other features in which this phone has, is ;
Alarm Clock Music Player Camera/Video Voice Recorder Drawing Panel Organisor Calculator/Converter/Stopwatch
What is a little disappointing, is that this phone does not support the addition of applications, which is a great shame!
Battery Life
The battery life of this phone is poor to say the least. In my opinion, the phone lasts around an hour - 1hr 30 mins, before it requires a charge. The funny thing is, in about 20 minutes later, the phone seems to be fully charged? With this in mind, i'd say it is pretty poor!
Recommended?
In one word - No In a longer sense - I would not recommend this phone at all! The phone does have the potential to be a lot better than it actually is, but the features, and way in which it acts at times, just gives the feel that the concept and design of this phone was rushed. The keyboard is very compact, meaning if you choose not to use the stylus , you'd have difficulty making sure you actually hit the correct buttons. Furthermore, the time it takes for the phone to react to your commands, ie, horizontally for keyboard in texing, is disgraceful at times, as it does not react atall. For the price of this phone, I'd say there is definately much more phones out there, that would perform to a better degree than the LG Cookie
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Advantages: touchscreen, nice design, small and light, great battery life Disadvantages: touchscreen, need to be a ninja spider to text on the move, mundane features.
Kai_M 26.06.2009 (26.06.2009)
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