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LG Shine Review Part 2: Cracks In The Mirror
( You can read part 1 of the LG Shine Review here. )
I am first and foremost a business user and that’s the approach I am going to use to review this mobile phone. So here is some background on my needs. I travel extensively, so the phone has to survive being tossed around in my coats, trousers and laptop case. When I switch networks to crossover into another country, this has to happen without any impact or delay to my signal strength.
I also use my phone extensively for up to 4 hours a day (max 5 hours). This translates into a long battery life for talktime and standby. And then there is the conference calls – I need the phone to make sure everybody can hear me clearly and vice-versa.
In short, I am the user from hell.
Let’s face it. The LG Shine really looks good. The mirror like sheen of the screen is enough to make anybody look CEO’ish.
To top it off, the LG Shine is freaking slim. It’s so slim that it will fit snugly into a man’s dress shirt pocket without any difficulty to complement his Mont Blanc pen.
The phone comes with a really sweet pair of earphones and remote control – big mistake. If this phone is CEO’ish, then it should have came with bluetooth handsfree set! No bleeding business user is going to possibly run to catch his flight without a bluetooth set lodged into one ear!
Another error was to have the headset connect to the LG Shine via the side of the phone(?) which is very akward. Whilst connected, the phone will no longer fit into your shirt pocket unless you’re a size XXXXL.
A protection film is bundled in to protect the back and the front of the phone. My film got pasted really nicely without any airbubbles. But because the film is weirdly designed to have a flap loose (probably to remove the film later), after about 2 hours of slipping the phone in and out of my trousers, the film came loose and fell off. So sticking this film on to protect the surface of the LG Shine was an effort in futility.
There are several software programs that ship standard with the LG Shine. I have several complaints.
LG Desktop
This program is supposed to allow you to import your contacts into the phone, synch your calendar, tasks etc. On my first attempt to import my outlook contacts into the LG Shine, the LG Desktop on managed to import everybody’s name WITHOUT any phone numbers!
On my second attempt, I spent 2 hours importing everything from Outlook into a CSV file – which the LG Desktop program simply ignored and refused to process.
The result is that my LG Shine still has no phone numbers because it simply refuses to synchronize with Outlook.
LG Internet Kit
This program is supposed to allow you to use your LG Mobile as a modem so you can connect it to your laptop and surf the internet. Unfortunately, since it has settings for Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa but not Singapore – it’s absolutely worthless.
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Please read also:
LG Shine Review Part 1: First Impressions
LG Shine Review: Part 2: Cracks In The Mirror
LG Shine Review Part 3: Moving To Second Base Now
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