nHeroGo

April 02, 2010 at 8:51am

I rate my LG touchscreen phone 342 of 1000 points, or a solid 3 on a regular scale of one to ten. Not just because the audio is crap and not just because the microphone is crap so that neither I nor the person I'm talking to can hear very well - but because of the touchscreen. The touchscreen works overtime when you don't want it to and it goes on strike when you need it.

Example #1: I am in a public restroom, I've got my hands ful, and the touchscreen decides to go off in my pocket, connecting to the Internet and try to download stuff, or starts talking about waiting for voice commands, or just starts typing iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. It is annoying. Lay off the overtime, you stupid phone! (I use different language when shouting at mu phone).

Example #2: Try calling a phone system with a menu, like a bank, and enter PINs and codes. It's nearly impossible, because as soon as the phone is dialing the number, the digital keypad goes away and the screen goes dark. Please enter your PIN. Please enter your PIN. You are searching for some menu to conjure up a numerical pad, but the screen is dark, so you are bound to first hit some button you do not want to press. Once you have entered the PIN and you hold upthe phone to your ear to listen for the next quiz in the phone system the screen is dark, so you migght enter the wrong info in the phone system. The stress is unbearable.

There are two solutions; both solutions include throw this LC touchscreen in the bin. Either buying a phone with a physical number pad. Or one of those qwerty-keyboard ones.