Suggest replacement for LG-DM110

The Motorola V325xi will be the perfect function phone. It's the V325i WITHOUT the camera. The screen is large enough to be functional (unlike most camera-less phones). It has bluetooth in case your in a state where driving on the phone is illegal. You mentioned the V540 earlier in the thread. Well the V325xi appears to be Verizon's CDMA counterpart and should be out shortly.

For anyone that thinks Bluetooth is a useless bell and whistle, consider a few things:

-Driving with a wired headset is very inconvenient, and Bluetooth makes it a lot easier

-If you live in a weak signal area, Bluetooth can prevent other costly measures or even the need to switch carriers. I know someone who lives in a near dead zone for Verizon, and yet there is one spot in their home that receives acceptable signal. They set the phone down in that spot and using Bluetooth can walk around and not lose the call. This prevented the need for a landline.
 
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while i do agree with what you are saying to a degree you must also think that there is still a large market for simple phones that just make and recieve calls. Although phone companies do address this issue with phones like the lg 3400 i do think they should still carry at least one bar phone like t mobile and att does.
 
One comment I wanted to add is this. I've helped a lot of people buy new phones and there seems to be a common perception: If the phone has too many bells and whistles it won't be as functional as a phone. This is completely erroneous in MANY cases. I knew someone who had an LG VX-4500 and said they only cared about reception, call quality, and battery life and didn't want a camera or any additional features. Well, I talked them into getting an E815, and they get better reception, better call quality, twice the battery life and they actually use Bluetooth all the time. Contrary to popular belief of people who've never had a camera phone, the extra features don't jump out at you and it takes intentional effort to use them. Another friend had a Samsung A310 and lives in a weak signal area where they had to be by the window to use their phone, then they got the E815, and now they have signal all over their house. The V325i series is comparable reception wise, and should please those who need just a phone.
 
No. Nothing really seems to cut it. I am using a Nextel ic502 issued to me from work right now. It fails on most counts as a replacement for the 110. It is big, clumsy, complicated, over-featured, gets poor reception, is hard to dial, is not great to hear, and did I mention big?
 
Get a Motorola.. any Motorola will work 10x better than an LG in the signal department. There are many places i go where an LG will not work or drop calls, but the Motorola will work fine and flawlessly.

I have the KRZR now, i have had the v3c, v3m, e815, v710, and now the k1m

the e815 and v710 were absolutely the two best phones for verizon as far as RF goes. If you can, i would get one from eBay and try it out. Those phones would still have 1-2 bars and be usable in the same places that Samsung and LG would have No Service or just enough to say "Verizon Wireless"
 
While I do agree with you in general on that, there is a scenario where you have a cheap or even midrange phone where most of the money has been spent on flashy features, awesome design/feel, nice screen, etc., and the quality of some or all of the basics suffers as a result.

I think about that every time I hear the LG VX8600 speakerphone, for example. It's not a crap speakerphone 'cuz its a thin phone (the 8700 is thin and still has a decent speakerphone), it seems to be a case of just not spending the money on said part (either that, or they spent the money and somehow selected the very worst speakerphone they could find for the money ).

But, I'd imagine said scenario is the exception, not the rule?
 
you talking out of your butt makes more sense than a lot of folks talking out of their mouth .
I think the market for the plain phone is not huge or highly profitable but it is there. Verizon seems to have found a happy medium with the generic UI but with the ability, on some phones for us Hofo users, to go beyond the generic UI
 
I agree with brad15 - get a Moto V710 or E815. Durable and the best reception out there. The V710 is the same as the E815 except it still had analog and doesn't have the high-speed EVDO data (which you don't care about). So the V710 will get reception even some places where the E815 can't. They have camera's on them, but they aren't good, but you don't care about that either. Also they are the last Moto's that weren't given the crappy Verizon user interface - so they still have the Motorola interface (this is a good thing).

You can still find them new/like new on ebay.

But if you want a new phone, and an LG, then get the env 9900. In my opinion that is the best Verizon phone out at the moment. It has the best reception (or as good as) any phone with an internal antenna (not as good as the V710/E815, but very good reception).
Sure it has all the bells and whistles that you don't want, but that's because consumers want all those bells and whistles. There isn't a big market for a bare-bones phone, so they don't put a lot of develpment into one. They focus on the "feature" phones - so the feature phones tend to be the best.
 
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I may end up getting an ic502.

Sitting in another office, with a Nextel/Sprint ic502, the ic502 is getting service (5 bars, if that means anything) versus no service from the i560. I am going to borrow this phone for maybe a day and see if it works where I work and other places where mine will typically drop out completely.

The upshot is that it is a bit out of my original quest (not simple, not "rugged", etc.) but it is smaller than the i560 and gets better reception (so far) than the i560 I have now.

We'll see.
 
I had one of those as well with Nextel. The downside to those is that if Sprint PCS has no service somewhere Nextel does, you are stuck with Walkie Talkie only and if Nextel has no service somewhere, then you only have the phone to use.

Those phones will not roam on the 800MHz band, so that basically cuts out i'd say 98% of roaming for you.
 
I don't think the original question, at least, was about the LG TM510. However, that phone was a great phone--one of the first flip phones with an external screen that had a fairly nice shape and fairly good features, for its time (also lasted pretty well, even survived a whole washing machine cycle without any real negative effects).
 
I thought the same thing because of a deadspot i had at my cabin up north of here, but then i realized how many buildings that Sprint did not reach in and Nextel did everytime it would drop the call then say WLK TLK only.
 
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