LG Vu officially available from AT&T
By Darren Murph 
posted May 5th 2008 9:35AM
posted May 5th 2008 9:35AM
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looks sleek enough
that's what she said
...and put it back into the shiny pink-colored box under her bed and never opened it again, she is dying 86 year old former porn star named foxy.
Price looks steep enough.
And I'll keep saying that until LG learns from their little pricing"mistake".
its surprisingly light weight. The odd thing was that i was in the messaging or contacts section and trying to add info info a field and it didnt pop up with an onscreen QWERTY keyboard it was a keypad that
made me press 1 three times to get the letter C. (forgot what that typing system is called). I call it crap.
Other than that it seemed like a nice phone. Of course the display model in the ATT store didn't have the TV streaming service setup on it. What's the point of it being the display model for possible customers to look at and navigate through when you don't have the major selling feature turned on.
Nice phone, but the price should be $100 less.
If the '3G iphone $199 w/2yr' rumor is true the vu is a poor buy.
Seems kinda steep if the iPhone is going to be around that same price!
But with this you get streaming TV. Perfect if you have been completely brainwashed and are now a TV zombie.
Now I can get bombarded with crappy reality TV shows and complain that theres nothing good on TV even when I'm walking down the street.
My wife bought one on Saturday. Its getting returned today. Very disappointing. Specifically the web browsing experience. Looks like we will wait for the new iPhone instead.
Bravo!
*Bought a phone without testing it in the store.
*Returned it in 2 days.
*Make pitch for iPhone.
That's pretty much how the script works. You've got the whole thing down like a master, even the part about how you got it for your girlfriend. Nice touch.
I played with one at an ATT store this weekend.. and half of the features were disabled. WTF is up with that.
yea the price is way too steep. It may have looks but no substance. there are couple things it lacks compared to other phones in that range: gps, more powerful cpu, more mem, and intuitive os. I think they would've been much better off somehow putting in android platform then their own software.
When are the other phone makers going to realize that the only way they are going to compete with the iPhone is on price!? If I'm going to pay the same amount for the same specs, I'm just going to buy the iPhone.
Now if there was a $200 MSRP difference (no rebate BS), I'd get the Vu, but since that is not the case, I'll be waiting for the 3G iPhone before I replace my Motorokr E6.
If you really want a decent TV phone it's not going to come from LG/Samsung/Nokia/the "biggies". Look across the Pacific- Sharp has AQUOS phones, SE has Bravia, Panasonic has Viera, so on and so forth. First off- A screen that size should have at least 854x480 or some other VGA+ resolution. That should be the norm above a 2.4-inch screen. Second- include a DVR function. Third- make sure the rest of the phone is intuitive. I'd say that SE did this right (not their Euro division- especially the Euro handset designers can go get themselves canned for all I care, their Japanese group is far better) with the SO905i and upcoming SO906i.
Actually the Nokia N96 is coming with a large screen and a TV tuner, but of course the US won't be able to use that functuon, as usual. I agree that the US has nothing on what they get in Asia and by the time we catch up, it'll be a decade from now!!
I really want to like this phone. Unfortunately having an AT&T branded LG phone currently I will not be buying this phone. Especially not at this price. If it was $200 less I would be interested.
But a non-smartphone with LG firmware crippled by at&t and no real possibility of getting a hold of a generic unbranded, un-crippled firmware? I don't think so.
And what's with the Bluetooth 1.2 anyways. Hopefully the headset profile works unlike my current LG.
And no, I'm not getting the iphone instead.
It's not an iPhone. The asking price is much too high for a product that wants to be like an iPhone. Which of course it fails miserably.
Strange... Mine was $399 without renewing my contract. Maybe the salesperson screwed up!
Here's my unboxing: http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/unboxing-the-lg-cu920-vu/
you have too many awesome phones... :(
care to share? lolol
great unboxing gallery
Wow, this thing is getting quite a bad wrap, and for good reason. You might as well just wait for the 3G iPhone.
Up to 3 hours of talk time, huh? Yeah... isn't that how the phone is supposed to be like after three years of recharging. Cell phones nowadays should have at least a 5 or 6 hour talk time standard. We as consumers shouldn't buy these (at least for GSM) phones that are below the 5 hour mark. Otherwise, these companies will still shovel them out (kinda like car companies won't make more hybrids until morons stop buying large SUVs). The LG phone looks nice and has great features, though... but I'm sure that those extra features on there would cut that talk time down to an hour or less. Unacceptable. How come Sony Ericsson can do longer talk times? Do they have some sort of secret wires in their phones? Or do they suffer from weaker signals? Anyway, I'll pass on this.
I am now contradicting what I said. I actually bought this phone. One: because I got it for $79.99 (not $300) and Two: I found a way to turn off 3G so that I can get at least 5 or 6 hours of talk time. LG should've had this as an option (not a hidden hack) unless this was AT&T's decision. They seem to do that sort of stuff.
The phone's okay, but it should've come with a headset, data cable, and actual software (not just a .pdf and tutorial that I can find on the web). I have to go with a 3rd party cable and now I'm having issues with the correct driver (maybe it's just Vista). I'm also having trouble with hotmail on this thing. And I still think it should have 5 or 6 hours of talk time while using 3G. Having 3 hours isn't good, especially down the road when it will eventually go down to under one.
Overall, it's a good phone for people not wanting to spend a mandatory $30/month for the internet with the iPhone (compared to an optional $15/month for the Vu). In two years, I'll probably end up switching to an iPhone or Google phone or if Windows comes out with something amazing (yah, right).
so this is definitely a loss for US customers and for LG. Instead of simply launching the Viewty (KU990, available in Europe) which has a 5-megapixel camera (beat Apple there) and has had 3G/GPRS since it's launch, LG decided to take one for the loss. well, at least anti-apple people will be happy :)
The Vu was officially available yesterday, both online and at their retail stores. Where were you guys?
how much is the phone
Englishman: Who?
Frenchman: Vu!