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LG Neon GT365 Phone, Gray/Blue (AT&T)

LG Neon GT365 Phone, Gray/Blue (AT&T)

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Brand: LG
Category: Wireless


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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 21638

Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0

Model: GT365
UPC: 652810711661
ASIN: B002JVXDH0

Release Date: May 4, 2008
Features:
  • Affordable smartphone in blue/gray with 2.4-inch touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard; customizable and intuitive user interface
  • Compatible with AT&T's EDGE data network; access to mobile email, text/picture messaging and instant messaging
  • 2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; MicroSD expansion to 4 GB; digital audio player
  • Up to 3 hours of talk time, up to 244 hours (10+ days) of standby time
  • What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, quick reference guide, user guide
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Amazon.com Product Description
A quick messaging phone boasting a full keyboard for text messaging beneath its vibrant colors, the stylish blue-and-gray LG Neon helps you stay connected whenever and wherever you roam with its bright touchscreen-enabled LCD screen (for dialing only) and slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. You'll be able to keep up with friends and family while on the go using text messaging, mobile email, and instant messaging via popular services including AOL, Yahoo! and Windows Live (messaging charges apply). Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, microSD memory expansion to 4 GB, digital audio player and support for AT&T Mobile Music service, EDGE cellular data connectivity, organizer tools, and up to 3 hours of talk time.



The LG Neon in blue and gray with a 2.4-inch touchscreen with vibrating feedback...


...and a smooth, slide-out full QWERTY keyboard for easy text messaging and writing longer emails.
AT&T Service
This phone provides tri-band GSM coverage (850/1800/1900 MHz) for voice as well as GPRS/EDGE connectivity for receiving data. AT&T's EDGE network offers availability in more than 13,000 US cities and along some 40,000 miles of major highways. Providing average data speeds between 75-135Kbps, it's fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services, including full picture messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go.

The phone has a built-in web browser for MEdia Net downloads and mobile web browsing. AT&T's MEdia Net service enables you to receive and send emails, read news headlines, get weather updates, download games and ringtones, and more.

You'll be able to access the AT&T Mobile Music services, which enables you to access the Napster and eMusic subscription music services, stream music video, discover what's playing with Music ID song-recognition software, and find out what's hot with The Buzz music news portal.

Phone Features
The LG Neon has a 2.4-inch LCD with a 240 x 400-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors, and it also has an accelerometer for auto-rotation of the screen when you turn it from portrait to landscape view. Below the screen you'll find a colorfully organized four-button navigator that's complemented by send/end keys and two soft navigation keys. When you press the dialer button at the bottom left corner of the phone's navigation area, you'll be able to quickly dial numbers using the touchscreen dialer. All other functions are accessed via the physical navigation keys.

The Home screen menu from LG's Flash user interface (UI) provides quick access to your calendar, alarm clock and digital audio player, and it provides an intuitive tab-based layout for accessing phone, multimedia and other tools. The phone also offers a three-row full QWERTY keyboard that smoothly slides out from the left side of the phone (when viewed in tall portrait mode).

The phone comes with a small 14 MB internal memory, which is expandable via optional microSD memory cards (up to 4 GB in size). The internal phonebook can store up to 1000 contacts, with each entry providing space for up to four phone numbers, one email address, and a picture ID. The phone also includes nine speed dial options (eight entries plus one voicemail) and support for caller groups as well as designating a specific ringtone to a contact.



Keep the music playing by storing your tunes on optional microSD memory cards (up to 4 GB in size).


Capture photos and videos on the go with the 2-megapixel camera/camcorder.
Hands-free communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version 2.0), and includes profiles for communication headset, hands-free car kits, and file transfer. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can also wirelessly send contacts, calendar events, notes and pictures. This phone can save up to 20 Bluetooth pairings.

The digital audio player is compatible with MP3, AAC/AAC+, and WMA files, and it allows you to create and manage playlists directly on the phone. Other features include a customizable equalizer and visualization, the ability to multitask in other phone applications while still playing music, and easy transfer of files from your PC via USB (optional cable available separately). The phone also includes a flight mode, which allows you to continue playing music while turning off the cellular radio.

The 2-megapixel camera offers four resolution modes (1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240 pixels) and it has up to a 4x digital zoom (depending on resolution selection). It also features white balance and brightness controls, multishot capabilities, night mode for enhanced imagery in low-light conditions, multiple quality options, and your choice of shutter tones (including silent). Additionally, this phone can capture video clips with audio in either 320 x 240 or 176 x 144-pixel resolutions with up to a 2x digital zoom. You can record clips up to 32 seconds for sending via MMS messaging or up to 60 minutes for saving to your PC.

Other features include:

  • SMS text and MMS picture/video messaging
  • Threaded messaging displays messages in time-order from a contact
  • Mobile Email--Yahoo!, AOL, AIM, Windows Live, AT&T Yahoo!, & BellSouth Accounts
  • Instant Messaging--AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo! Messenger
  • Organizer tools: alarm clock, calendar, notepad, calculator, tip calculator, world clock, tasks, stopwatch, unit converter
  • USB mass storage capabilities and charging via computer (cable sold separately)
  • 8 unique ringtones, plus vibrate and silent modes
  • Speed dial (8 entries plus 1 voicemail default)
  • Support for real-music ringtones
  • Voice memo recording for both reminders and sending via MMS
  • Java 2.0 support for application and game downloads
  • 8 unique ringtones with vibrate and silent modes; compatible with MP3 real-music ringtones
  • Voice memo recording (MMS and general modes)
  • Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures)

Vital Statistics
The LG Neon weighs 3.81 ounces and measures 4 x 2 x 0.66 inches. Its 800 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3 hours of talk time, and up to 244 hours (10+ days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.

Customer Reviews:
1 out of 5 stars Worst phone ever   June 27, 2010
john b (Concord, NC)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I might get a little carried away with how much I insult this phone, so bear with me. I assure you I have a factual basis for everything that I say...I'm just a bit frustrated with it. For example, I would like to state at the outset that I can honestly say this is the worst phone that I have ever owned in my entire life (I have owned cell phones all the way back into the early 90s, so this is saying something). This phone might make me go back to carrying change around in my pocket to call people with. This phone might make me ask other people to borrow their phone. This phone has actually made me despair of humanity because I can't believe someone would design such an inept piece of technology to sell to others...Well, okay, that is a little extreme, but you get the idea...

Let me give you some examples. In another review I saw that the reviewer said that the speaker is 'crystal clear' or something to that effect. I strongly, strongly disagree with that statement. First, when I speak to someone on the phone I must hold the phone directly in front of my face to speak to them. This takes the speaker away from my ear so that I cannot hear what they are saying to me...thus leading to a comical situation in which I am forced to move the phone back and forth between my face and my ear (and no, this is NOT a Nextel-like phone where it gives the little beep and is supposed to do this - this phone is designed to be a conventional cell phone, it just doesn't operate like one). Second, when I put it on speaker phone I get the same thing: Either I hold the phone in front of my face to speak to the person (who I can now hear) or else they cannot hear me. Now I ask - why is this? Isn't the point of speaker phone so that you can put the cell phone on your lap and talk? Third, the phone constantly drops calls...though this has nothing to do with service, as I always have bars afterwards (I look - trust me). As such, the only thing I can chalk it up to is that the phone's speaker/audio is giving out at some point in the conversation. Needless to say this has led to a deteriorating relationship between my wife and I - she doesn't hear something I say or I don't hear something she says, and then a fight ensues until we realize, yes, yet again the phone has done this to us...

Is this example not enough? Okay, I have plenty more!

Let me tell you about the camera on it, for instance. If you'll look back up at the picture, you'll see the buttons that have direction arrows around them. Above them is the LG logo, then above that is the AT&T logo. These are oriented towards the viewer, right? When you take a picture with the camera, you assume that you would orient to the words, yes? Wrong. The geniuses that put this camera together decided that when you take a picture using the phone and then attempt to put that picture on as the background that the image should be rotated 90º. This means that if you take a portrait of your kids for the background, the image will now be oriented sideways in the menu background. Additionally, if you want to landscape a photo, you must hold the entire phone upside down to get the picture to turn the right way on the phone.

Now is this really so bad, you ask? Well of course it is! When you go to assign images to the contacts, good luck figuring out how to hold the camera to make the image come out right. I've taken several pictures with the camera to apply to the text/chat feature, and most of them have come out wrong somehow or the other (even knowing how the orientation works!!!). Thus, when I call my mother, her image next to her name is sideways in the phone. Thus it looks like this in my phonebook:

{: Mom

And the buttons are bad too. The reason is this: the menus work so slowly that you push the `read new text' button...And nothing seems to happen. So you push it again. And then suddenly you have sent a blank text to the person whose text you haven't even yet read because the phone updated the screen so very, very slowly. It's not just the text buttons either. I constantly try to anticipate this happening and press a button to go into a menu. Instead of that happening, the phone reads it elsewise and launches an internet browser. Or, worse, it does read it as me trying to navigate a menu, but then the whole phone launches a browser anyways, thereby forcing me to close the menu, cease what I'm doing, and then wait the 20-30 seconds the phone takes to close the internet browser.

So, there you have it: several very good reasons to not ever buy this phone. I hate this phone. I passionately hate this phone, and I want to make sure that someone else doesn't make the mistake of buying it too.



4 out of 5 stars LG Phone   June 15, 2010
J. Devries
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Very light weight, kind of plasticy, battery seems to last a while before needing to be recharged.


5 out of 5 stars Pretty sweet phone for a GREAT price   March 4, 2010
South La. boy (south Louisiana)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

UPDATE: I've had this phone for three months now and I still find it to be a fantastic deal! NO PROBLEMS!!! Original review: I'm a long-time AT&T customer whose old phone went bad. Instead of going to the ATT/ripoff artists, I bought this LG Neon GT365 GoPhone. I swapped my old phone's sim card into this GoPhone, turned it on and WOW!!! It instantly hooked up with the ATT network and worked perfectly from the beginning. I received an automated text from ATT that informed me of my existing account being credited with the $50 airtime credit!!! When I went to my account at att, I found that my device had been updated to this phone and a note was on my account explaining the new credit that had been added to my account.

As for the phone itself: The camera works perfectly; the cell's audio is perfect; the bluetooth works perfectly; the slide-out QWERTY keyboard works really well, even with my big, stubby fingers; the phone and its capabilities are very easy to figure out and use - very intuitive; the battery life is exceptionally good - 3 days between charges; the screen is touch with vibration feedback WHEN YOU DIAL and works really well. To top it all off, I put in a 2GB microSD card and now can store a gazillion pics and tunes.

The thing I can't figure out is the criticism of the battery life that I've read in reviews elsewhere. I text with my kids and wife constantly, usually with a picture going or coming; I bluetooth constantly; I make loads of calls a day to/from my customers yet I am only charging this phone every three days or so?!?!? HAH!!! And when this battery starts going bad, I'll go to the net and pick up a new one for next to nothing - what's so hard about that?

My only knock would be the unbelievably cheesy battery/back cover. It is a really flimsy, cheap, thin piece of molded plastic that took several careful attempts to snap it in place. That being said, I've had no problems with it since. Go figure...

Lastly - I HIGHLY recommend this LG Neon GT365 GoPhone to anybody and everybody! And, FYI, Amazon has the lowest price anywhere! Period! As to the problems someone else reviewing this product had, I have NEVER had a single problem with ANY product that I bought on Amazon that wasn't quickly and fairly resolved by Amazon or the vendors that sell through them.

I highly recommend the phone AND Amazon.com.


1 out of 5 stars pretty phone ugly and bad system   December 9, 2009
C. GARCIA
4 out of 19 found this review helpful

bad phone , turn off by itself , close the screen and freeze, everything after two days dont work

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