Cell phones: LG VX6100 Driving Mode...HELP!!!
LG VX6100 Driving Mode...HELP!!!
by jh454 - 3/11/05 9:49 AMWhat does the driving mode feature let you do? Can you answer the phone without opening it?
LG 6100
by walthouse - 3/19/05 11:50 PM In reply to: LG VX6100 Driving Mode...HELP!!! by jh454It is a software issue, take it in to a direct Verizon Wireless store and they will replace it if it is in good physical condition.
VX6100 from LG is a major step backwards
by ron67 - 4/21/05 1:01 AM In reply to: LG 6100 by walthouseI used to own a LG VX4500 that I bought three years ago and loved the phone so much that I decided to upgrade it to a VX6100. The salesman in the Verizon store told me about all the additional things the phone new phone whould do. What he didn't tell me though was that overall the phone was a major step backwards. With the 6100 I no longer had a phone that I could voice train to recognize names. It can be voice activated but it runs through perhaps 100 names that you have to say no to just to dial one call. The instruction book was written by someone that is challenged by the English language and it is illiogical. For example, it explains how to put the phone in drive mode but there is no explaination of what drive mode is or how it may help make your life a bit easier. I thought that for sure it gave one some ability to use the phone while he drove a car. That was not the case; one has to push so many small buttons that he would be dead within a mile. LG would do well to hire back their crew that designed their older phones of three or four years ago and to take phones like the 6100 off the market before they destroy their old well deserved reputaion for excellence. I have to rate this phone with a 0. For anyone that would use it and be satisfied he would have to be clueless about older LG phones or the present day competition. It would be a welcome step for LG to hire back capable design people and English speaking user quide writers.
Didja ever read the old manuals?
by Cobra - 4/24/05 10:07 AM In reply to: VX6100 from LG is a major step backwards by ron67Not sure why you think the "old phone designers" are gone. Certainly the same people are writing the manuals. I've had an LG TM510, VX4400, and now a VX6100, and the manuals are uniformly poor. My TM510 manual did not explain the answering machine or how to enable voice dialing, and there were similar gaps in the VX4400 manual. I was not surprised by the deficiencies in the 6100's manual regarding driving mode. Disappointed, yes, but not surprised.
Yes I read the old manuals!
by ron67 - 4/25/05 2:34 PM In reply to: Didja ever read the old manuals? by CobraYes I read the old manuals for the VX 4400 and 4500 and the manuals were quire poor. When I called LG directly to ask them if they might up date them to manuals written by native English speaking people they didn't do that but they did take the time to explain to be by phone how things worked.
I tried the same thing with the VX 6100 but they told me that they messed up and forgot to include in their software a section where one could voice train the phone.
I have returned the LG phone to the store now and have bought an Audiovox phone for less money that has all the features and a halfway readable manual as well.
In fact the only thing the Audivox does not have that the 4400 has is super large type but for that matter you can't get that on the LG VX6100 either. The pictures, voice quality, manual, ease of use, & battery life are all better on the Audivox. Why would anyone buy a more costly LG VX 6100 these days? If you don't want the camera or email the LG 4400 is still the best phone out there; too bad they do not make it anymore, but the VX6100 does not deserve serious consideration
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