How would you change LG's Ally?
By Darren Murph 
posted July 16th 2010 10:35PM
posted July 16th 2010 10:35PM
posted July 16th 2010 10:35PM
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For a start, I would switch on the light because I could barely see it in the photo :/
@commenter7
Lol.
On topic, I would flip the D-Pad to the left side so at least it could be useful for some Apps, Games and Emulators.
Illustration:
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@commenter7
According to my girl who has owned her ally for about 4 weeks, she thinks that when it's in the open position it flexes back and forth too much and might easily break.
I didn't think it was too flexy but what do I know?
@commenter7
I'd erase it from history. I hate these stupid pseudo smart phones.
Throw Froyo on it, increase the screen size and pixel density, double the CPU and RAM, and then throw it away because HTC didn't make it.
@ryan420
ha yeah throw it away and go buy an Evo
@Matistight
...what? It sounds like your trying to flame. But you aren't very good at it.
@Matistight. Your a bt behind the times they fixed the screen problem it bmno longer needs to be grounded . Good try though :-)
@Matistight ....douche
@xSFx
Please GTFO, I hope your comment gets deleted. Just stop it.
Make it as thin as the droid at least.
Good phone, works for my girlfriend not for me. Droid x ALL DAY.
other than the horrid skin on it its a pretty good starter android phone
i would buy a droid instead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
@possomcrast The droid sucks, I would buy an incredible, evo, or iPhone instead, worth 99 more,
I'd definitely move the antenna to the outer edge to make the phone thinner. If there are problems with two sides of the antenna touching, just separate them with a small, 1/8 inch gap on the lower-left part of the phone. Problem solved, right?!?
The iPhone antenna jokes are starting to get annoying, and this issue coming from a huge Android fan. At first it was funny, but now every other comment is an antenna joke.
@DgDeBx " and this issue coming from a huge Android fan"
Funny, the joke is coming from a huge iPhone fan. I already bought one (that I sold on Ebay) and now I'm getting one for me and my wife.
Playing with it for about three hours, very laggy and got WAY too hot from moderate usage. But still a nice entry device.
@themetatron Thanks for putting relevant comment haha
Well I never had one before but my good frind did and she had a very bad experience with it. She returned it after only 5 days.
The phone was very glitchy, and would freeze all the time and the screen would behave oddly. If it means anything, she loved the phone despite all of it's problems.unfortunately those problems made it unusable. LG really needs to step it up.
I am automatically turned off by a phone when the body itself is curvy and the screen is long and thin (i.e. most of the phones made by Samsung and LG). That said, I'd just make it look like a blocky HTC device. This phone's form factor just screams DUMBPHONE to me.
@Fail57 That might be the point? It seems to me kind of like Verizon's non-Droid branded Android devices are targeting a dumbphone market...
@EpsilonNot Eh, I just don't think an OS like Android belongs on something that looks as stupid and ugly as this phone
@EpsilonNot
If you wanna talk about dumbphones, someones gotta bring up the iPhone.
Today, it is me.
@ryan420 If the iPhone is a dumbphone, then things would not bode well for my poor little Centro's smartphone status...
@EpsilonNot
your palm can still do things the iphone can not
iphone is a smartphone previous iphones were not
1 GHz Processor, 5" display, Stock Android 2.2, 960x480, 5 MP Front Facing Camera, 12 MP Back Camera, Video Conferencing via Skype and compatible with PC's and Mac's
I think that would have been good
@andrewcweaver WAIT,
1.5 GHz Processor, and 2500 mAh battery.
@andrewcweaver NO.
Stock Android 3.0, 1280x720, 2 GHz DUAL-CORE Processor
Get rid of the d-pad and have domed keys.
@einhanderkiller Don't stop there I want a 3Ghz TRIPLE CORE processor, a 7-inch screen that folds, and a 4G antenna built right in so I can be a portable 4G tower. I still have more things on my list.
@NuklearPanda LOL...but why not Quad core or Hex Core..
@NuklearPanda so a tablet?
@andrewcweaver i think u forgot the microwave oven that also boosts cell signal
@NuklearPanda ...and a genie with 3 wishes.
In comes tge comments turn it in to an iPhone
Or put android on it.
I say leave it alone it's fine it has it's own customer base and will sell with those people. That's the thing about having a choice. If it doesn't fit your needs then don't buy it.
This coming from an iPhone 3GS user. I want an android phone but haven't found the right one cause I want to keep my iPhone also. I have a nokia e71x and learned that I'm very dependant on the auto correct feature on touch screen phones. The aria is nice and it's small, wanted the nexus one but wasn't ready to drop the $500+ on it.
Bigger touchscreen. Give it a little smaller than the droid, with that much bigger or a keyboard, and it's a winner.
@xSFx
I WOULD GIVE IT A FREE BUMPER and BLAME everyone else for being imperfect.
Sorry to talk about the iPhone, but if Steve wants to "BLAME" other phone companies, he shoulda tried to reproduce dropped signals on EVO 4G and DROID X.
Not a goddamn Omnia and Curve...
I would make them less ... Less ... Sucky ... I've sold around 15 and about every third one has some problem ... Home button doesn't work or no power ...
@xSFx
REPORT report RePoRt
Make it exist less.....
Get rid of the doofy LG and Verizon logos.. make it thinner.. touch pro like keyboard..and then finish her off with a nice HTC stamp right above the display. Oh and a nice campaign about "you" would be beneficial.
@nuclearopts Oh my god I am so tired of hearing about the Evo and the droid x..who the **** cares that because its android its AMAZING! and don't look at my user name and just write me off as being a stupid iphone owner...i don't even have an iphone any more..and I did the signal test with the evo at best buy and it did lose bars, also i did the test with a first gen iphone, and a samsung impression, and both of them lost bars....no phone is perfect at all!
I'd ah, get an iPhone instead.
:)
I know it is one of the most hated devices on this website, but it was the father of all the other devices everyone covets now. (EVO, Palm Pre, HD2, Droid X, etc... I mean, even Blackberry tried to do an impersonation...)
@APV Yes, and I know you know this, but obviously the blackberry came first, but the iPhone revolutionized the industry and killed bb and nokia, even though some people still use those, especially blackberry, it's only the most hated phone cause it's so good, everyones saying "why can't another company make something good" it really doesn't matter what company it's from, if it's good, the consumer wins, google is pushing apple to innovate, so consumers win
@APV
Actually Android came first. It was a startup bought up by Google in 2005 ... 2 years before any iPhone ... It is the father of only the iPods and iPads and those with screens only a motherboard could love. Sir.
@Fat Scooter
(Android compared to iPhone) I pulled this page up last night and commented this morning.
@Fat Scooter so u think apple made a phone in a year...
@nuclearopts It was a bold smart one. And he did do it on a droid...eris
@Mr iPhone Thank christ there's someone else who understands the whole "losing bars grip of death" problem.
How about we block up exhaust holes on laptops and start blaming manufacturers for them overheating, or we block up exhaust pipes on cars and blame the manufacturers for them stopping. I'm no Apple apologist, but this bullshit is flowing so freely these days that I'm getting fed up with it. If you like your phone, cool, just don't try to support your decision to like something with total BS.