Pros and Cons on the LG 8300

Does any on have and Pros or Cons on the LG 8300? I am planning on getting
2 new phone on Tuesday with the Every 2, Thinking about adding the Mobile
web for the internet and the Bluetooth H500 headset. Any comments will
help my decision if I decide to get this phone. Thanks Joel

Joel, Patty. Seth and Nicholas Bickhart {Road Runner} <bickhart@woh.rr.com> wrote:
> Does any on have and Pros or Cons on the LG 8300? I am planning on getting
> 2 new phone on Tuesday with the Every 2, Thinking about adding the Mobile
> web for the internet and the Bluetooth H500 headset. Any comments will
> help my decision if I decide to get this phone. Thanks Joel
>

I just picked up this very combination on Saturday. I really have no Cons to
mention with the LG8300 other than the lack of AMPS coverage, but I don't
anticipate needing it much. The H500 is a buggy piece that I am likely to
return. I use it to make a call and it asks who, I tell it and it goes
silent. I push the button on the side and suddenly it repeats the name back
and dials. After I hang up with that person ... it redials them again. That
doesn't make much sense, now does it. I hear the H700 is a better bluetooth
bud, so I might consider that in place of this one.

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Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> I just picked up this very combination on Saturday. I really have no Cons to
> mention with the LG8300 other than the lack of AMPS coverage, but I don't
> anticipate needing it much. The H500 is a buggy piece that I am likely to
> return. I use it to make a call and it asks who, I tell it and it goes
> silent. I push the button on the side and suddenly it repeats the name back
> and dials. After I hang up with that person ... it redials them again. That
> doesn't make much sense, now does it. I hear the H700 is a better bluetooth
> bud, so I might consider that in place of this one.

Do you really believe that it's the headset that handles the voice recognition?

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Joel, Patty. Seth and Nicholas Bickhart {Road Runner} <bickhart@woh.rr.com>
spewed:
> Does any on have and Pros or Cons on the LG 8300? I am planning on
> getting 2 new phone on Tuesday with the Every 2, Thinking about
> adding the Mobile web for the internet and the Bluetooth H500
> headset. Any comments will help my decision if I decide to get
> this phone. Thanks Joel

I don't know about the headset, but I'm thrilled with the phone. Nice
picture quality, good sound during the calls, nice volume for the ringers...
the video is even a little larger than you'd get from most typical video
phones. I made a post or two about it in my blog... it's either on the
first or second page, just follow the link below. (It has sample pics,
vids, etc.) Battery life seems a little short to me, but I've been using a
6100 with extended life battery for the last year. :-)

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clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>> I just picked up this very combination on Saturday. I really have no Cons to
>> mention with the LG8300 other than the lack of AMPS coverage, but I don't
>> anticipate needing it much. The H500 is a buggy piece that I am likely to
>> return. I use it to make a call and it asks who, I tell it and it goes
>> silent. I push the button on the side and suddenly it repeats the name back
>> and dials. After I hang up with that person ... it redials them again. That
>> doesn't make much sense, now does it. I hear the H700 is a better bluetooth
>> bud, so I might consider that in place of this one.
>
> Do you really believe that it's the headset that handles the voice recognition?
>

No, of course not. The issue is the communication with the handset. I put my
buddies H700 on and it worked just fine.

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In article <xjHBg.60509$Pa1.43409@fe66.usenetserver.com>, on Mon, 07 Aug
2006 13:34:21 GMT, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> Joel, Patty. Seth and Nicholas Bickhart {Road Runner} <bickhart@woh.rr.com> wrote:
> > Does any on have and Pros or Cons on the LG 8300? I am planning on getting
> > 2 new phone on Tuesday with the Every 2, Thinking about adding the Mobile
> > web for the internet and the Bluetooth H500 headset. Any comments will
> > help my decision if I decide to get this phone. Thanks Joel
> >
>
> I just picked up this very combination on Saturday. I really have no Cons to
> mention with the LG8300 other than the lack of AMPS coverage, but I don't
> anticipate needing it much. The H500 is a buggy piece that I am likely to
> return. I use it to make a call and it asks who, I tell it and it goes
> silent. I push the button on the side and suddenly it repeats the name back
> and dials. After I hang up with that person ... it redials them again. That
> doesn't make much sense, now does it. I hear the H700 is a better bluetooth
> bud, so I might consider that in place of this one.


This past Saturday, my wife and I got home, and there was a very odd
message on our answering machine. It was a rambling message, about three
minutes in length. The people sounded as if they were talking in a
foreign language, inside a tunnel.

Checking Caller Id, it turned out the call was from my wife's cell
phone. Her H500 had banged around in her purse in just the right way to
both turn it on (she claims it was off), and do "last number redial".
Those foreigners talking in a tunnel were the two of us, talking in the
car, as heard through my wife's closed purse!

The moral of the story:

The H700, unlike the H500, has a folding boom microphone to shut it off
positively!

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Seth Goodman

Seth Goodman <seth_news@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:MPG.1f42d532a53789e3989b4a@newsgroups.comcast .net:

> In article <xjHBg.60509$Pa1.43409@fe66.usenetserver.com>, on Mon, 07
> Aug 2006 13:34:21 GMT, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>
>> Joel, Patty. Seth and Nicholas Bickhart {Road Runner}
>> <bickhart@woh.rr.com> wrote:
>> > Does any on have and Pros or Cons on the LG 8300? I am planning on
>> > getting 2 new phone on Tuesday with the Every 2, Thinking about
>> > adding the Mobile web for the internet and the Bluetooth H500
>> > headset. Any comments will help my decision if I decide to get
>> > this phone. Thanks Joel
>> >
>>
>> I just picked up this very combination on Saturday. I really have no
>> Cons to mention with the LG8300 other than the lack of AMPS coverage,
>> but I don't anticipate needing it much. The H500 is a buggy piece
>> that I am likely to return. I use it to make a call and it asks who,
>> I tell it and it goes silent. I push the button on the side and
>> suddenly it repeats the name back and dials. After I hang up with
>> that person ... it redials them again. That doesn't make much sense,
>> now does it. I hear the H700 is a better bluetooth bud, so I might
>> consider that in place of this one.
>
>
> This past Saturday, my wife and I got home, and there was a very odd
> message on our answering machine. It was a rambling message, about
> three minutes in length. The people sounded as if they were talking in
> a foreign language, inside a tunnel.
>
> Checking Caller Id, it turned out the call was from my wife's cell
> phone. Her H500 had banged around in her purse in just the right way
> to both turn it on (she claims it was off), and do "last number
> redial". Those foreigners talking in a tunnel were the two of us,
> talking in the car, as heard through my wife's closed purse!
>
> The moral of the story:
>
> The H700, unlike the H500, has a folding boom microphone to shut it
> off positively!
>

So you are saying what...the H700 will take more banging around,in just the
right way,before it turns on?

I can appreciate your position.But maybe,just maybe,your wife did not turn
her H500 off.

At any rate it's a neat story.Never can be to carefull.

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In article <Xns9819C833B82D0123colds@216.196.97.136>, on Tue, 08 Aug
2006 18:40:50 -0500, al wrote:

> > The H700, unlike the H500, has a folding boom microphone to shut it
> > off positively!
> >
>
> So you are saying what...the H700 will take more banging around,in just the
> right way,before it turns on?

Exactly. The H500 just has a momentary switch for on/off. With the
H700, you have to unfold the boom mic approximately 180 degrees away
from the earpiece to turn it on. Much less likely to happen by accident.

--
Seth Goodman

Seth Goodman <seth_news@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In article <Xns9819C833B82D0123colds@216.196.97.136>, on Tue, 08 Aug
> 2006 18:40:50 -0500, al wrote:
>
>> > The H700, unlike the H500, has a folding boom microphone to shut it
>> > off positively!
>> >
>>
>> So you are saying what...the H700 will take more banging around,in just the
>> right way,before it turns on?
>
> Exactly. The H500 just has a momentary switch for on/off. With the
> H700, you have to unfold the boom mic approximately 180 degrees away
> from the earpiece to turn it on. Much less likely to happen by accident.
>

I had the H500 in my pocket and it accidently was turned on. My Wife called
and I was unable to answer the handset ... until I realized what happened.

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Thomas T. Veldhouse
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