PCS Phone LG PM-325 (Sprint)

Rating:
Summary: Small but mighty!
Review: Bought this phone for Bluetooth to connect to the HandsFree Link in my car (Note: Be sure to use a car charger as Bluetooth eats the power). All-in-all the phone works great! Getting 4-5 signal bars as compared to my wife's Samsung VI660, which gets 1-2 in the boondocks of Indiana.

Only drawbacks with the phone are that the case is indeed slippery as previously reported, and no case is yet available from LG, or the aftermarket, unless you want to go with a generic case. Most Sprint PCS stores do not have this phone yet. So, if you want it, buy it from Amazon.com.

Rating:
Summary: Great little phone, but expect too much from Bluetooth
Review: Had this phone for a few weeks now. I think it is the best LG phone for Sprint so far. It get better good reception than my previous phones (LG 5250, LG 5350, Samsung A400). I am getting reception in areas that I never had a signal before, which is surprising considering the antenna is internal. Phone had trouble switchin cell towers when I was cruising at 75mph on highway. In the middle of a call, signal would fade, drop, and hop to 5 bars. Hope they fix that with an update, none of my phones did that before.

Got the this phone primarily cuz everyone and their mothers have a flip(clamshell) phone so got this to be different.

Bluetooth on the phone is a crippled and only good for headset. Can't sync the phone with any other bluetooth device. I hear Verizon(lawsuit filed against them in CA for it) does same thing. Too bad cuz bluetooth sounded kinda cool. They do it so it forces users to use their extra services and so people can't share 3g services with other devices. Boooooooooo.

I am not sure why phone doesn't have flash for the camera. There seems to be a spot right next to the lens where they could put one. Instead there is a shiny silvery plastic thing. I have no clue why its there. Probably going to giving themselves room to add a flash for the next version of this phone. Boooooooooo.

That monitor feature is a strange feature. it is not that much louder than the normal earpiece on high setting. Seems almost pointless.

It is a great phone. LGs have a pretty easy to navgiate interface. voice dialing is better than most cell phones. Lots of builtin features such as a great alarm clock. Can program 4 alarms into it. 3 minute of voice memo. A Calculator that isn't hard to use. nice tip calculator.

I would have give then phone five stars if it wasn't for the crippled bluetooth and lack of flash. Another crappy thing that i did not factor into review is that u have to sign a 2 year contract to get this and any Sprint phone at a low price. if it wasn't for this phone I wouldn't have made the commitment.

Rating:
Summary: Love this phone!
Review: I have had this phone for a little over a week. I love it's compact size, which fits easily into your pocket. Also with the interior antenae, no snags! Another great feature is that the keyguard automatically comes on when the slider is closed and
the phone is inactive for about 8 seconds. To unlock you simply hit 2 keys or slide the phone open. You may also dial when the phone is in the closed slider position, although you will not be able to access menu features. Whether the slider is open or closed, the person you are calling will have no problem hearing you. The two drawbacks to this phone are that there is no speakerphone, which is an option I personally love. It does have a "monitor on" option which sort of acts like an amplifier of the call, but not really loud enough to be considered a speakerphone. The second drawback is there is nowhere to attach a wrist strap. But if you get the wireless Bluetooth headset, I guess it wouldn't matter much. It has a great feature called the tip calculator, which allows you to put in the total of your check and figure out the tip, but also gives you the option of splitting the bill with the desired number of people. No more arguments on who pays what! I thought the phone was black, but it is actually a very dark blue. The camera phone picture quality is great and you have options to lighten, darken and magnify pictures as well as change the color tone. It also has a self timer, so you can join in on the pics you are taking.
All in all I am very pleased with this phone, but good luck finding one. Maybe after christmas they will be more readily available. Hope this helps.

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Summary: Bluetooth Does do Dial-Up
Review: Previous reviewer is incorrect. The PM-325 will do DUN (Dial-Up Networking). You just have to have Bluetooth software (like Widcom) on your computer that can discover the services of the phone. I've only had the phone for a day, so I don't have a complete review, but wanted to correct the misperception.

Rating:
Summary: Waste of blue tooth
Review: The receiptionon this phone is great. Unfortunately I bought this phone strictly for blue tooth capabilities i expected it to have. Apparenlty the only thing Sprint thinks blue tooth is good for is a wireless headset & dail up networking.
Buy this phone only if you have lots of free time on your hands to re-enter your contacts & calendar. As for me. . . . . I'll be visiting sprint for a return.

Rating:
Summary: nice look, cool feautures
Review: This is a pretty good cell phone and the slide feauture is definately an eye catcher.
Pros:
-camera is pretty good, 8x zoom, 680x480 resolution
-camrera has many options to make your picture come out better
-the sliding feature is pretty solid so far.
-bluetoth enabled
-65k color screen (way better than my nokia 6225)
-area code match
-battery is pretty reliable
-with the voice memo you can record anything you want as a ringtone.
-my aim actually works on this phone
-you can make and recieve calls without sliding the phone at all

Cons:
-reception isnt as good as i thought it would be (but i just received an over the air update and it is doing much beter)
-no flash on the camera
-not many accesories for the phone (yet)
-no actual speakerphone

All in all this is a great phone. if it had a flash on the camera i would give it five stars. Once again the sliding feature gets you many oohs and ahhhs.