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LG Neon GT365 Prepaid GoPhone (AT&T) with $50 Airtime Credit

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Manufacturer: LGIC

Features

Affordable smartphone in black/silver with 2.4-inch touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard--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
2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; microSD expansion to 4 GB; digital audio player
Up to 3 hours of talk time, up to 244 hours (10+ days) of standby time
What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, quick reference guide

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A quick messaging phone boasting a full keyboard for text messaging beneath its vibrant colors, the stylish blue-and-gray LG Neon helps you stay connected whenever and wherever you roam with its bright touchscreen-enabled LCD screen (for dialing only) and slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. You'll be able to keep up with friends and family while on the go using text messaging, mobile e-mail, and instant messaging via popular services including AOL, Yahoo! and Windows Live (messaging charges apply).

The LG Neon with a 2.4-inch touchscreen with vibrating feedback...

With AT&T's GoPhone pay-as-you-go service, you pay for just the minutes you use without having to sign up for an annual contract--this phone even comes with $50 of airtime included (see more details below). You can easily refill your minutes via prepaid cards or the Internet, or choose to prepay each month and roll over unused minutes.

Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, microSD memory expansion to 4 GB, digital audio player and support for AT&T Mobile Music service (additional charges applicable), EDGE cellular data connectivity, organizer tools, and up to 3 hours of talk time.

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 monthly, automatic 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.

...and a smooth, slide-out full QWERTY keyboard for easy text messaging and writing longer e-mails.

$50 GoPhone Airtime Credit
The $50 airtime credit available only to GoPhone Pay As You Go customers activating or upgrading using 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 credit 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 credit and are only qualified to receive one credit every 6 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.

Phone Features
The LG Neon has a 2.4-inch LCD with a 240 x 400-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors, and it also has an accelerometer for auto-rotation of the screen when you turn it from portrait to landscape view. Below the screen you'll find a colorfully organized four-button navigator that's complemented by send/end keys and two soft navigation keys. When you press the dialer button at the bottom left corner of the phone's navigation area, you'll be able to quickly dial numbers using the touchscreen dialer. All other functions are accessed via the physical navigation keys.

The Home screen menu from LG's Flash user interface (UI) provides quick access to your calendar, alarm clock and digital audio player, and it provides an intuitive tab-based layout for accessing phone, multimedia and other tools. The phone also offers a three-row full QWERTY keyboard that smoothly slides out from the left side of the phone (when viewed in tall portrait mode).

The phone comes with a small 14 MB internal memory, which is expandable via optional microSD memory cards (up to 4 GB in size). The internal phonebook can store up to 1000 contacts, with each entry providing space for up to four phone numbers, one e-mail address, and a picture ID. The phone also includes nine speed dial options (eight entries plus one voice-mail) and support for caller groups as well as designating a specific ringtone to a contact.

Hands-free communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version 2.0), and includes profiles for communication headset, hands-free car kits, and file transfer. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can also wirelessly send contacts, calendar events, notes and pictures. This phone can save up to 20 Bluetooth pairings.

The digital audio player is compatible with MP3, AAC/AAC+, and WMA files, and it allows you to create and manage playlists directly on the phone. Other features include a customizable equalizer and visualization, the ability to multitask in other phone applications while still playing music, and easy transfer of files from your PC via USB (optional cable available separately). The phone also includes a flight mode, which allows you to continue playing music while turning off the cellular radio.

Capture photos and videos on the go with the 2-megapixel camera/camcorder.

The 2-megapixel camera offers four resolution modes (1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240 pixels) and it has up to a 4x digital zoom (depending on resolution selection). It also features white balance and brightness controls, multishot capabilities, night mode for enhanced imagery in low-light conditions, multiple quality options, and your choice of shutter tones (including silent). Additionally, this phone can capture video clips with audio in either 320 x 240 or 176 x 144-pixel resolutions with up to a 2x digital zoom. You can record clips up to 32 seconds for sending via MMS messaging or up to 60 minutes for saving to your PC.

Other features include:
- SMS text and MMS picture/video messaging
- Threaded messaging displays messages in time-order from a contact
- Mobile e-mail--Yahoo!, AOL, AIM, Windows Live, AT&T Yahoo!, & BellSouth Accounts
- Instant Messaging--AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo! Messenger
- Organizer tools: alarm clock, calendar, notepad, calculator, tip calculator, world clock, tasks, stopwatch, and unit converter
- USB mass storage capabilities and charging via computer (cable sold separately)
- 8 unique ringtones, plus vibrate and silent modes
- Speed dial (8 entries plus 1 voice-mail default)
- Support for real-music ringtones
- Voice memo recording for both reminders and sending via MMS
- Java 2.0 support for application and game downloads
- 8 unique ringtones with vibrate and silent modes; compatible with MP3 real-music ringtones
- Voice memo recording (MMS and general modes)
- Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, e-mail), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures)
Vital Statistics
The LG Neon weighs 3.81 ounces and measures 4 x 2 x 0.66 inches. Its 800 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3 hours of talk time, and up to 244 hours (10+ days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.

Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great and Cheap
Comment: this phone is really good. it's easy to access the keyboard and very functional. it comes with a $50 airtime right off the bat. so if you figure that i paid around $80 including the airtime. it's like buying the phone for about $30. pretty cool thinking right? anyways. buy it!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Prepaid Phone I've Found
Comment: I've been an AT&T pre-paid user for about ten years because my cell use is fairly low. With the LG Neon/365, I can finally join the 21st Century and access e-mail, messaging, etc. from my phone. Reception and sound are good. It has a better-than-avg camera for a phone, takes a microSD card for easy transfer of pics and files, and is compact. T he speakerphone function works well enough that its can do hands-free duty in the car. Press once to answer, press again for speakerphone. It has Bluetooth, but I see no need for it if the only need is for hands-free use while driving (caveat: my car is fairly quiet). I really like the solid feel and the slider keyboard. Screen res and quality is excellent. Battery life is adequate. Recharges fast. My only complaints: screen visibility in bright sun is poor, and the battery cover is flimsy and not very secure. I do wish that mobile electronics mfrs would standardize on mini-USB ports so I wouldn't need to carry three different chargers in my glove box.
Customer Rating:
Summary: after 2 months, it's almost unusable
Comment: I had a Samsung Propel, but lost it in December. I needed a new phone with a qwerty keypad, and the LG Neon seemed like a great bargain. You can go to your local Wal-Mart and pick this thing up for less than $100, pop in a sim card, and you're ready to go. Sounds great, right? But after a few weeks, problems began to emerge.
I bought this because I don't need many features. All I wanted was a phone with which I could make calls and send texts, and I wanted a qwerty keypad. This one has a somewhat pleasing design, with buttons spaced out nicely. It also has a touchscreen, but you can only use that to dial numbers, so it's really more of an afterthought. The Neon seemed to perform just fine for what I needed it to do, at first. Then I started noticing the problems.
It's horribly slow. For example; you get a text, you slide the phone open to view it, wait about 2 seconds before you can actually do anything, then you push the button to view the text, and wait about another 2 to 3 seconds for the message to appear on the screen. Everything you do on this phone is like this. The phone is painfully slow.
For some reason, the phone would just turn off from time to time. Not just when it was in my pocket, but often when it was just sitting on a table, with a fully charged battery. But it should also be noted that this phone is pretty bad about unlocking itself in your pocket.
The keypad is a bit frustrating. It can be really tedious typing punctuations and numbers. I don't know how to explain this properly, but it's not a problem I've ever had with other phones. I've just never gotten used to this keypad, and it's such a pain to use numbers and punctuation, that I find myself avoiding typing them whenever possible.
In the past week or so, I've been experiencing a new problem: for some reason, when I make a call, I'll dial the number, and then hear silence for about 10 seconds. Then I hear the person on the other end saying, "hello? hello?" This happens every time I make a call now. My wife said that she picked up the phone a good 5 seconds before she could hear me talking. I don't know what that's all about. I've never had this problem with any other phone, but it was this problem that has finally made me decide to get a new phone.
Go to your local at&t dealer, and play around with their display model. You'll notice that it feels cheaply made. It is, inside and out. There are much better phones for the same price. Samsung makes 2 great phones: the Magnet and the Propel, which are both great, reliable, durable, functioning phones. I got a deal on my Propel back when I renewed my contract, so I don't know its price, but I do know that you can get a Magnet for about the same price as the Neon, and I would strongly advise anyone looking at the Neon to consider the Magnet. I've just bought a Motorola Karma, which you can get for about $160 brand new if you buy it online. That's a good bit more that the Neon, but really, almost anything is better.
I would recommend reading reviews from people who have owned the Neon for a little while, as opposed to those who just bought one. My Neon seemed great at first, but quickly became the worst phone I've ever owned. I almost wrote a really positive review when I first got this thing, but I'm glad I waited, because I would have misinformed people.
Bottom line: this is a cheaply made phone, and there are others in this price range that are much better.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Phone
Comment: It took a bit to adjust to the keypad. I formerly had an LG VUE and loved the touch-screen. However, that particular phone malfunctioned multiple times and the screen became unresponsive. The Neon is a great messaging phone. The phone sends and receives pic and video messages much quicker than the VUE (which sometimes didn't send image files at all.) The camera is fine quality for a cell. The only things I am not crazy about: lack of keypad (unless you slide the phone open) when calling, and no night feature in camera mode (that I can find.) Otherwise, the phone works well, sound quality is good, etc. Good product for the price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This is a great buy & Phone!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: I love this phone i order 2 weeks ago i havent had nothing that wouldnt work miss up but it did lock it self when i was playing with the codes on it!!!!!!! dont mess with the CODES i mean really when it says PUK code u probaly would hav 2 get a new sims card!!!!!! But anything besides that i really love this fone it is so awesome!!!! @ da 50.00 artime is true it does add it 2 your account when u create and only a account! u have 2 be new 2 at&t.. u cant have a sims then transer da 50.00 on your old sims card doesnt happen like that but any other bad cons! 2 me none @ i have had this fone for 2 weeks @ hasnt frose on me! and it did shut down and started random one time but that was one time and only!! but any way what a great price 2 buy i would give a 5* 2 it!!