LG Vu Plus Pro Reviews

From the start, I had mixed feelings about the LG Vu Plus. It has a lot of potential and comes with great features, but it doesn't perform very well. In the end, I guess it's all about performance. The camera is great and the keyboard may be to others' liking even though it wasn't to mine, but the battery underperformed, the speed of loading programs and switching through menus was a bit slow, and I wasn't impressed with the homescreen setup and options. Not to mention the price. As of the writing of this review. the Vu Plus is going for a steep $149 with a 2-year contract and rebates. Personally, I think there are better options for messaging phones on AT&T, including the Pantech Link, which is only $10 on contract, and the Samsung Flight, which is currently free. You can't beat free, right? Especially when the free phone performed better than the expensive phone.

The LG Vu Plus is more trouble than it's worth. The touchscreen caused lots of problems during my test. It was quite unfriendly to my touch. The interface does nothing to help this issue. The widgets on the homescreen were nearly useless, and the deeper menus were arranged counterintuitively. There was nothing I liked about the user experience on this phone, from the lock screen through the home screens and deeper into the menus.

By far the biggest eyesore going for the LG Vu Plus is its bloated $149.99 on-contract price which brings it into the upper echelon of the spectrum and is a bit much for a feature phone. Usually, at that level, consumers begin to check out other options that are more fitting – like smartphones. Not only that, but it doesn't innovate in a broad range of categories where a “Plus” model should. In fact, its design might be the biggest change over previous LG touchscreen phones for AT&T, but opting to stick with the same interface found on the long forgotten LG Vu is one major drawback.

The Vu Plus is a pretty cool phone for watching TV and messaging friends, but the iPhone 3GS is a better buy - and, amazingly, a less expensive one.

Despite a few design issues, the LG Vu Plus is a full-featured messaging phone with the bonus of live mobile television.