LG 285

I am really, really hard on phones. They take a beating.

My LG-285 lasted me for FOUR years. It got dropped thousands of times and kept on going. The hinge eventually cracked and the phone wouldn't stay open, but it still worked great. I repaired the crack with some crazy-glue and kept on going. It wasn't until the other side of the hinge cracked and the phone wasn't working quite right, that I replaced it.. and I wish I'd just bought another one of these instead of the piece of crap I ended up with.

Even now, I'm missing the 'menu' button at the top right and the phone is deactivated-- but this phone still works great! My son likes to play the games that I downloaded onto it.

The battery life of this phone is astounding. I can go a week without having to charge it. I love being able to choose from a list style or an icon-driven one for the menus. It was easy to retrieve my voicemail and the sound quality is really good.

The camera is merely OK, and the pictures are of average quality. However, this isn't a big deal for me, since I want a basic phone and don't want all those gadgets and gizmos.

Having both bluetooth and voice-activated dialing capabilities is the big seller for me, and is probably the biggest reason that I plan to buy another one-- IF I can find it!

This is an amazing phone considering its low price. If you don't want anything fancy, this is a must-have phone.

I have had this phone for 3.5 years and have had ZERO issues. It has survived many falls and only has a few external scratches to show for it. I've never bothered to transfer pictures from it, so I understand how not being able to could be annoying (use a real camera instead, people!)but for texting and calling this phone has given me ZERO grief. I DEFINITELY recommend this phone. Its very basic, but it works like a charm!

I bought this phone when I was pregnant with my twins, because my husband was out of town a lot and I wanted to know that I could get a hold of him if there was an emergency. I used the phone to take "belly shots" of my pregnancy and the phone holds the ONLY photo of my belly the day before I had the twins. I never thought about the fact that it didn't come with a data cable, and I'm not spending $50. to get one. I stopped using the phone soon after the kids were born, and have no intention of reactivating it just to get these photos. (Reactivation costs the same as a data cable!) And what sucks even more is that I've also lost the charger, so I have to also find another one of those!
If I knew then what I knew now, I would never have used the phone to take photos.

In actually love this phone and recently had the battery damaged :( trying to find a replacement has been awful...and I'm on a super tight budget so getting a replacement from telus for $70 is out of the question...love this phone and miss it like crazy!!!