I’m looking at the Sky Vega Racer No. 6 right now. Definitely needing to upgrade. Messed around with my friend’s while I was in Korea, feels nice.
If I don’t get that, I may gasp jump to an iPhone.
This LG Optimus 3D is pissing me off something fierce. I know, it’s legacy, but it’s making normal tasks that are built into the phone, not updateable or installed by apps, look like something impossible to do.
So far:
-Turning on my phone works 2/3 of the time. I sometimes have to pull my battery because the phone hangs 5 minutes on the boot splash.
-Making phone calls (You know, a basic function of a phone), only works half the time. When it doesn’t work, I have to press the call button 50,000,423 times, curse at it, threaten to replace it with a feature phone, reboot it, pull its battery when it hangs at the boot splash, turn it on again, then press the call button 20 more times before it will make a call.
-Typing only works 40% of the time. Then inexplicably, sometimes even mid-message, the keyboard will stop sending inputs. There is no rhyme or reason to when it does it. Sometimes, even the fix of killing the app it does it in, then turning off the screen and turning it back on doesn’t fix it. I’ve also tried the standard LG keyboard, the Google IMEs, and SwiftKey with the same results. There is just something in the firmware that randomly blocks me from sending out input when I type.
-20% of the time, media scans do not complete. That renders some of the functionality on my phone useless because I will just get messages saying “You must wait until media scan is complete.”
Yeah, so this phone… I almost wanted a G2, but am wary that if any of these issues exist on that phone, I would kick myself for buying LG again.
The quality phones that Sky is putting out seem good. But if there’s too much instability, I should just as well hit up iPhone where things will just work without a whole lot of frustration.