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LG Prime Prepaid GoPhone (AT&T) with $50 Airtime Credit

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Brand: LGIC
Category: Wireless

List Price: ~~$99.99~~
Buy New: $79.99
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27 reviews
Sales Rank: 33

Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0

Model: Prime
UPC: 652810115636
ASIN: B003SNJ8X6

Release Date: June 20, 2010
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Features:

•	Affordable touchscreen phone with 3-inch display--includes $50 airtime credit with AT&T's GoPhone service
•	Pay for just the minutes you use with no annual contract--easy refill via Internet or prepaid cards; compatible with AT&T Navigator GPS turn-by-turn directions
•	2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; microSD expansion to 16 GB; access to personal e-mail and instant messaging services
•	Up to 4 hours of talk time, up to 384 hours (16 days) of standby time; released in June, 2010
•	What's in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, quick start guide, user manual

Key Features

EDGE data connectivity with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps--fast enough to support a range of data services including full picture messaging, Internet access, and email on the go.
GPS navigation capabilities via AT&T Navigator service includes audible turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic updates, and re-routing options. This phone also includes a digital compass.
3-inch touchscreen display
2-megapixel camera/camcorder with up to 2x digital zoom
Multi-format digital audio player compatible with MP3, WMA, and AAC/AAC+ formats
Integrated FM radio
Bluetooth connectivity (version 2.1) includes profiles for communication headset, hands-free car kits, and the A2DP Bluetooth profile--enabling you to wirelessly stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones or speaker dock.
Memory expansion via microSD card slot with support for optional cards up to 16 GB.
Full messaging capabilities including SMS text, MMS picture and instant messaging (IM)--via popular services including AOL, Yahoo!, and Windows Live.
Access to personal email (AOL, Gmail, Yahoo!, and Windows Live)
AT&T Social Net provides easy access to all your social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace in one easy-to-use interface.
Web browser
Voice dialing and voice command capabilities
Organizer tools including calendar, alarm clock, tasks, world clock, and calculator.
Airplane mode allows you to listen to music while the cellular connectivity is turned off.
USB connectivity (cable not included)
TTY/TTD compatible
Hearing Aid (HAC) rating: M3/T3

Vital Statistics
The LG Prime weighs 3.14 ounces and measures 4.25 x 2.08 x 0.5 inches. Its 900 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to four hours of talk time, and up to 384 hours (16 days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.

What's in the Box
LG Prime handset, rechargeable battery, charger, quick start guide, user manual

Enjoy quick social networking access via AT&T Social Net.

AT&T GoPhone Service

AT&T's pay-as-you-go GoPhone plans are wireless plans made easy, simply pay in advance for what you need. No long-term contracts, credit checks, or surprise bills--just all the benefits of wireless, with no complications. In addition, AT&T's Rollover Balance feature lets you carry over your unused account balance when you purchase refill minutes before your balance expires. Other great features include no long distance or roaming fees across AT&T's national service area, the ability to track usage via text messages with an updated balance after each call, and the ability to refill your minutes 24-hours a day, 7-days a week. You can also cancel any time without penalty.

With the Pay As You Go option, you'll choose the rate plan that fits your needs and then start dialing. Your balance is lowered each time you make or receive a call, or use services such as text messaging. You can then refill the minutes in your account via the Internet, using your phone (by calling 611 from your cell), or purchasing a pre-paid card in denominations up to $100.

With the Pick Your Plan option, you'll set up automatic monthly payments with your credit/debit card or checking account. If you need to make more calls, or you use up your balance during the month, just add minutes to your account at any time--you'll pay the same per-minute rate as your plan. You can buy more minutes in increments of $15 and $25 using your credit/debit card or checking account.

AT&T has also introduced a new $3 Unlimited calling plan, which charges you $3 per day for unlimited voice calls to anyone nationwide with no per-minute charges. The $3 per day fee is only charged on days when you make or receive a voice call, and the service does not require a deposit or long-term commitment.

$50 GoPhone Airtime Credit

The $50 airtime credit is available only to GoPhone Pay As You Go customers activating or upgrading the device contained with the airtime credit package. GoPhone Pick Your Plan is not eligible for any credits. Postpaid customers using this device as an upgrade may be eligible for a credit of 150 minutes. Airtime or minutes credits are provided only in connection with this new device purchase, and will not be applied to an account using any other device. Airtime will be credited automatically after activation of the included device. Airtime credit will expire 90 days from the date it is applied to the account.

For new GoPhone customers, once the device and SIM are activated SIM cannot be used with any other device for a set period of time. Existing customers replacing their handsets must have been active customers for at least 4 months on the date of upgrade to receive the airtime or minutes credits, and are only qualified to receive one credit every six months. Existing postpaid customers must also be on a Rollover plan. Existing customers must use their existing SIM with the new phone not the new SIM. For GoPhone service details and rate plan terms and conditions, see applicable brochure and User Guide or go to terms and conditions.

AT&T Optional Services

The full-featured, premium AT&T Navigator GPS application includes audible turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic updates and re-routing options, and 3D moving maps (additional charges applicable). AT&T Navigator offers several other features to make your commute more enjoyable and reliable, including mobile access to Yellowpages.com. Additionally, AT&T Navigator is the only mobile phone-based GPS service that provides integrated speech recognition for address entry and points of interest search.

Customer Reviews:

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LG Prime, good entry level touch screen July 13, 2010
ss
64 out of 69 found this review helpful

The delivery, the free air time, and the SIM:
My LG Prime was delivered at a great price, and came a day early - thanks for another great experience from Amazon and their suppliers. Tracking worked, too. The LG Prime had a sticker on the back upon delivery telling me to boot up with my old SIM card, and that I could receive the free air time when I did this - worked great for me, but I caution that Amazon, LG, and AT&T did not know how the phone would be received, or if this was possible - so maybe it changes by area.

BEFORE I DID THIS, I backed up my contacts on my old phone to my SIM, then transferred the old SIM to the new phone. My contacts transferred perfectly, and my phone number was in tact, no problem - fired right up, WITH MY FREE AIR TIME. Worked nice.

AND I DID NOT START MY NEW PHONE WITH THE NEW SIM CARD, SINCE THAT NEW SIM CARD WOULD HAVE A NEW PHONE NUMBER - I ONLY STARTED WITH THE OLD ONE - NOT SURE IF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A PROBLEM AS FAR AS THE FREE AIR TIME - I STRONGLY SUSPECT IT COULD BE, BUT MAYBE NOT. In that event, you should be able to use the new SIM until the credit is gone, and maybe switch back and forth as needed. TALK TO AT&T FIRST if you did this by mistake, or for the best advice.

The touchscreen:
The LG Prime is a good entry level touch screen phone. Others say the touch screen is not very sensitive, but it is easy for you to get used to it. If you never had an iPhone, or a highly sensitive 'capacitive' touch screen, you likely will not notice this. In the past, I had a capacitive touch screen, and it still doesn't bother me. In the future, when I spend a lot of money for a top-of-the-line smartphone, I will insist on a capacitive touchscreen, or AMOLED - but mostly because I am paying for it.

For the price, I have seen touchscreens which are much worse than this one (usually resistive with thin, soft plastic screens), and even require a stylus - not the LG Prime - my fingers work fine, and the screen is glass (or very hard plastic which looks like glass - not 100% sure, seems like glass - I haven't scratched it yet either, but hasn't been very long either - seems like it could be pretty good surface. Screen protector might make the screen less sensitive, also.

If you really want the best touch screens, 'capacitive' and 'AMOLED' touch screens are the best - AMOLED promises to be the best by far, and takes less power because it is LED. At the time I am writing this, it seems to me that the 'capacitive' touchscreen phones start around 200 bucks, and AMOLED touchscreens 600 bucks.

The OS:
In the past I had an iPhone 3G, and loved it. LG Prime does not really compare to that very much - only in some ways. The power and speed of the phone hardware/connectivity make me feel like I will not fully use the very good Android OS which is installed - mostly just talk and text. (However, you might be in an area where you are less capable on speed anyway - see below). Android looks very good to me, but look to other reviews for full web/email functionality of this phone, also.

The connection speed:
This phone is not terribly slow, but this is not a 3G phone, is not UMTS/HSDPA, and does not have wifi. If you want high speed data transfer, (with AT&T or through a wifi), you MIGHT need to go to another phone with better network connectivity, wifi, and/or even a phone with a better processor. HOWEVER - if you live in an area where 3G, or UMTS/HSDPA, or EDGE/GPRS capabilities are not available anyway (meaning your area is 2G/GSM only), maybe this can work for you since you will likely be slow with any phone.

If you don't know about your network, check AT&T maps for your areas coverage - make sure you click 'voice, data, go phone, 3G' tabs above the map, also:
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Although I have not fully tested the web/email capability of the LG Prime, I checked the weather with the web browser once - speed was OK, not great - looked at radar maps on weather.com, (2 different maps) - costed me $2.50 to do this - took me 90 seconds or so - in what is a very good AT&T area, (best AT&T GSM color on the map linked above). OK - maybe i had my $1/day charge included in that, but I don't think so.

Either way, if your web browsing/emailing everyday, you should get a data plan. In fact, unlimited data plans might make this worth while for some people, but for me, my laptop will do this faster for now. In my opinion, if I will attempt to replace my laptop, (or even tether my laptop, which LG Prime will not do), LG Prime won't do it - not very close - whereas the iPhone3G was close - I would often pick up my iPhone3G instead of my laptop - not with the LG Prime, not in my area, not for me. This also does not speak against the Android OS, only the fact that the phone has lower technology connectivity, and therefore lower speed. (Near my signal bars, the phone always reads 'E', and this phone will never be able to say '3G' or 'EDGE' the way it is built).

If others say they are good with the web/email capability of Android OS - I would say they are right, I'm mostly saying look at this phone's capability versus a better connected/higher processing phone - if it is important to you, or even available to you.

USB Cable connectivity:
This phone is an LG Prime GS390. DO NOT BUY A USB CABLE for any other type of phone. I bought the cable:
USB Sync Charging Data Cable for LG Vu CU915 CU920, GT365 Neon, VX10000 Voyager

LG Customer service told me this cable would work on the LG Prime and it did not! My only other experience with them was OK, but not this bad - hit and miss - like most customer service these days, right? (LG says it's a new phone and they didn't have the specs at customer service yet - but they said it would work on my first contact with them. So help me, or buy/send me a cable, right? Nope, not even after I requested a new cable.) Then they updated the webite after the mistake with me (next day), to include the LG Prime, (wasn't listed before this) - so you're welcome - but still no cable. :-)

The phone/software speed:
The processor/software is very adequate for talk and text - it can slow the screen, but only rarely it seems, and never for a long time - mostly it keeps up and is highly responsive, but not instant. (I put an 8GB microSD in to store my contacts, photos, etc., also - cost me 15 bucks - probably helps the speed a little). As far as I know, only most expensive and newest smartphones will respond instantly - seems to be true in my experience and reading.

The Apps:
For now, AT&T has an app store, and so does Android - hopefully another reviewer will clear up where the best apps are for the LG on the Android platform. Hard to say for me, but I will post again if I learn more about this.

You can do a google search for the best Android Apps and learn a lot that way, also - depends what you want - I think the options are very good now.

LG also states they plan to have apps available in their app store worldwide - the USA Appstore is the last to come on line on the LG website. USA does not have a date posted for LG to start up the app sales - not that I have found. Likely, Android and AT&T have apps covered very well, and you don't need LG, but it might be interesting to see what LG puts forward for their phones.

Overall:
For the price, the good delivery, the 'seems very good so far' Android OS, the smooth SIM change, being able to transfer my free air time, keeping my contacts, and for a nice looking phone/touchscreen/display, I give 5 stars. After I shopped, I couldn't find a glass touchscreen phone with this kind of capability at a better price. And I am very pleased to not be using my entry-level Nokia go phone anymore. If the price was higher, I would remove a star for the screen locking/unlocking button, and how it functions - but I am used to it already, and who am I to complain about one semantic when the price is so very right. And if it bothers me later, I will make it better by gently filing the top of the button down so it can't be bumped anymore. So 5 stars it is.

This was a great deal by Amazon at the time I purchased it. (My local AT&T store didn't even want to try to match or beat this price, either.) With all of this, my satisfaction level is very high, but know what you are buying, also. My review is not negative on the LG Prime, but rather intends to help you understand what you are reviewing/buying.

5 out of 5 stars

pretty neat July 9, 2010
wit_11 (Alabama)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

So, I've only had this phone for one day, but so far I love it. The features are unbelievable for a "go" phone. The camera's pretty good, and it also has a video recorder. It has bluetooth and internet capabilities, and you can also download apps from AT&T. The touchscreen isn't overly sensitive.. so you have to get used to touching the screen with more pressure than what you would with an Iphone. There are also widgets you can drag onto your main screen, which is pretty cool. There's also a button to unlock the phone on the side if you don't want to have to push the unlock button on the screen. The ring can get VERY loud if you want it to. Call quality has also been fine so far. I will update if I need to, or if something goes wrong. I recommend this phone if you want a 'smart' phone, but don't want to pay $400 for one.

5 out of 5 stars

There is a reason the phone locks after receiving a call August 7, 2010
MJay
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

I don't quite understand why so many people complain about the phone locking after receiving a call. The answer is very simple. It locks so that when you put the phone to your head you don't activate commands via the touch screen. Think about it. You place the phone against your ear and the side of your face which can, and would, cause enough pressure on the screen to activate various commands. Also, there is a button conveniently placed on the side of the phone that activates and deactivates the screen lock. If I need to key in a number or get access to the touchscreen for any reason during a call just hit the button on the side, and Viola!, you can use it at will.

Overall, this is a great phone, with great features, great quality at a FANTASTIC price. Plus, there is a nice feature with AT&T's Go phones. Say you have a standard phone account with AT&T but want to upgrade your phone for cheap without having to sign a new multi-year contract. Just buy the Go phone of your choice and instead of using the SIMM that comes with the phone use the one from your old phone. I bought the LG Prime and installed the SIMM from my old phone and it operates like an unlocked phone. I have done this for my past two phone upgrades. It allows me to operate my AT&T account without having to continually lock into a contract just to get a decent phone at a decent price. Doing this, I can drop my plan anytime I chose or change it anytime I want.

5 out of 5 stars

Somewhat of a 'learning curve'........ July 17, 2010
Darthvagrant (Planet Earth)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

......for someone who has never owned a `touch screen' phone. This is a veritable bargain at $99.99 or less, and I couldn't resist getting it to initiate GSM service with AT&T. I liken going from a conventional flip phone to this touch screen to putting someone in a stick shift car that's driven an automatic for the last 40 years. The munchkin sized owner's manual is the worst I've ever had the misfortune to try to use. No meaningful index, very vague tutorial on features, pictured icons (in the manual) so small as to be illegible. Sadly, there isn't (yet?) an online manual which one may print out.
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Still....I think I'm going to really like this phone. (nawwwww....see update) FM radio with or without a wired headset, very good volume in ALL functions including speakerphone, a whole bevy of intriguing foo-foo features. Bluetooth wireless headset stereo capability on music IN the phone, FM radio wired headset only (or no headset).
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I was able to assign this phone to the standard AT&T minutes plan rather than their prepaid "GO" plan. Strangely, about half of the AT&T and independent stores said it HAD to be a "prepaid GO phone", half had no problem using it with a conventional plan and SIM card. Happy days! A conventional plan, month-to-month WITHOUT a contract. I'm thrilled.
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I'll shoulder most of the blame for the problems I'm having with the touch screen. I don't think it's the most user-friendly touch screen (particularly compared to my GPS units), but I'm learning.
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This LG Prime LGS390 phone has (at least initially) had the most favorable feedback from users of ANY cell phone. IMHO it benefits in quality from being made in Korea (LG is Korean) rather than China. Just an opinion.
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I find it interesting that LG initially stood for "Lucky Goldstar" for years. Now it's either "Lets Go" or "Life's Good". Sounds more `Western', I guess.
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A good phone. Go for it.
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ADDENDA: A few disappointing qualities have arisen since my initial report. This phone WILL NOT work with a (blue tooth) "X Link". THIS IS A BIG ISSUE FOR ME!! First phone EVER that wouldn't. X Link even has a downloadable "LG patch" to correct problems. This with the latest X Link software is of no use. In addition, the voice recognition is very poor, and takes three operations to access that function. Also, there is apparently no way of enabling any audio notification of messages received and waiting. (At least as far as I'm able to discern with the nearly worthless owner's manual) Some silliness from the owner's manual pages 98 & 99:"Hold the phone as you would any phone with the antenna pointed up and over your shoulder." ..."Do not touch the antenna unnecessarily when the phone is in use". Gee! I was shorted the aforementioned "antenna".
My wife absolutely hates this phone. All the `bling bling' features (FM Radio, etc.) don't get it with her. I am forced to get her a conventional flip phone. This is NOT a user friendly device for placing phone calls QUICKLY without an error every fourth time or so.
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ADDENDA II: 8-29-10 I had to throw in the towel on these phones. Squeeked by on the 28th day of my 30 day 'satisfaction guarantee' and sold 'em back to AT&T. It is absolutely ESSENTIAL that my Intellitouch X Link be operational. My wife was about to throw hers over the fence into the neighbor's swimming pool. I am now using two bare-bones Nokia 2720. And I REALLY mean bare bones. The bluetooth connectivity is fantastic! They're either $7.99 -referb. or $9.99 brand new from AT&T. Just like finding them! No micro-sd capabilities, very limited internal memory. These'll do while I regain my sanity and move on to something similar but a little more 'feature rich'. $9.99 for a brand new phone? Try to beat that!

5 out of 5 stars

Great Alternative July 18, 2010
Quality Is Everything (HUDSON, NEW YORK, US)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

Without typing a page long review,this phone is a better alternative to buying a smartphone with a contract or for around $400 with no commitment. All of the features work great and the phone has a good fm radio. It has a 3.5mm jack which works with the standard headphones so you wont have to buy special headphones. The only problem I have ran into is the sometimes short battery life. This phone has more to offer then some contracts. I recommend buying a micro sd card to go with it.Kingston 4 GB microSDHC Class 4 Flash Memory Card SDC4/4GB

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