LG Musiq review

Nice phone. I’ve had it a few weeks since my Treo 600 gave up the ghost. There’s no way in hell I was going to spring for the derivative rip-off that is the IPhone (more on that), and another Treo would just be overkill for me.

So this $99, feature-packed number caught my eye.

The highlights:
  • FM transmitter,
  • MicroSD, up to 4GB according to the docs,
  • Plays WMA, mp3 and a couple other formats,
  • Includes a stereo headphone adapter,
  • Built-in camera / camcorder,
  • Java,
  • GPS,
  • External ipod-like controls,
  • Speakerphone

And a slew of other crap that you can find out about at the end of a google search.

The good

  • The FM transmitter is quite nice,
  • Music sounds great. I’ve got a bunch of MP3/ogg players and this sounds as good as any of them on quality headphones,
  • The phone feels solid and looks great,
  • The external controls are quite handy,
  • The included mini-stereo headphone adapters are a nice touch,
  • Flexibility for transferring music and photos – you can pop the microSD card into your computer with an adapter or use the supplied USB cable. With the cable, the phone was recognized on my Debian Etch system with a vfat filesystem and transfers worked perfectly.
  • Cheap.

The bad

  • It comes with an insultingly small 64 meg microSD card – money grubbing bastards. What is this, 1998?
  • No ogg support.

It’s probably hard to beat this phone as far as the features/value ratio and, most importantly, it’s a damn good phone.

Comments

Yeah i bought one, but I don't like the music application. The "shuffle" isn't even random. It keeps playing the songs in the same order! If you have a ton of songs like me, your songs will be hard to find. Also the FM music transmitter doesn't even produce a strong signal! So it's fuzzy occasionally whenever I'm driving, and that is ANNOYING when i'm trying to jam to some good music. I look stupid in my car waving around my phone trying to get the FM transmitter to get a good signal transfer. And yes, I did pick a free frequency. The picture application sucks too. There is no way you can fit the pictures you take from your computer into the phone display. It always distorts the picture by zooming in a lot. You can't set your computer pictures to wide screen mode to fit the entire picture, so you only get the zoomed in area like your faces of your pictures. The memory card that comes with it is only like 64MB. C'mon now. It's 2007. We need GB Sprint! At least one! Anyone who buys this phone is gonna be listening to music of course! Geez are these designers stupid? Also, the text message inbox history only carries a 100 texts and you can't control how many you can save. The T9 English is awesome, but the word creation feature sucks! Occasionally, it will save words that i type on accident WITHOUT asking me. This is VERY ANNOYING because i have to go into the system then delete the word that i never saved in the first place. Alright, enough about the negatives. Here are the positives: It performs basic phone functions very well. The speaker phone is okay/average. The phone signal was better than my last phone, a Samsung. And lastly, it looks cool. -Darren
Posted by: anonymous on Tue Dec 04 15:29:37 -0500 2007
what is "ogg"?
Posted by: anonymous on Mon Nov 05 17:00:07 -0500 2007
"Ogg vorbis" - it's an open-source media container format. In this context, it's an alternative audio codec offering better compression and quality than plain old mp3. I encode my music in Ogg Vorbis or lossless flac format so that I don't have to worry about DRM and to offer some amount of "future proofing" to ensure the ability to play my stuff in 10 years. Formats - even modern ones - die. Go ahead and try to find a way to play betamax or laser discs.
Posted by: dan@endpoint.com on Mon Nov 05 19:45:54 -0500 2007
I have the piece of junk. I have the extended battery on mine, and if you sit on it, or put it in the case and lean against something the battery cracks the lcd screen. Its becase the phone is thicker where the battery is,and the other half is thin. and it bereaks right at the center point where the battery pushes against it... Its happend twice in a week and its cost me 60.00 each time. cheap piece of $%#$%#%
Posted by: anonymous on Sun Mar 02 21:44:00 -0500 2008
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