QUOTE(hanissyazwan @ Dec 28 2009, 01:54 PM)
do you have to use the stylus? or can you use your finger? i am thinking of purchasing this phone but i would like to make sure it is the one i really would like. any major downsides? like is it very slow? or not have much memoery.. etc.
I hope my reply is not too late
After using this phone for close to a year, here are my thoughts (the disadvantages):
-> The phone is not very slow, but it's kinda slow. For example, deleting 5 sms takes about 2 seconds. 2 seconds is not long, but i think this can be done in milliseconds. I guess part of the slowness is due to the animations. And after deleting, a confirmation dialog box pops up, which will stay there for about 1 second - you can by-pass this annoyance by tapping somewhere else on the screen though.
The only time the phone becomes very slow is when I try to configure the alarm. Due to the slowness, when I drag my finger across the screen, some other buttons gets pressed. There was once when I was configuring my daily alarm, and I accidentally unmarked the specific day I wanted to be awaken by the alarm...I found that out the next morning, and late for work.
-> It's a buggy phone. When I first bought the phone, the calculator couldn't calculate some stuff correctly and the calendar repeated 1-time reminders for a few years. Those bugs have already been solved in the latest firmware, but some still remains:
-when I sms in landscape mode, sometimes the screen gets corrupted (probably animation problem)
-when I use the radio widget, it automatically gets switched off some time after locking the phone (happens sometimes only)
-when I schedule an appointment sometime early tomorrow morning (assuming it's night time now), the alarm doesn't ring the next morning
-> The music player is not intelligent enough: Unless you manually add songs into the playlist, all your ringtones/sms tones gets mixed up in the player...haha
-> Battery contact not good after a while: After about 9 months of usage, I sometimes found my phone automatically switched off. Later on I had to improvise by adding some padding at the back of the battery so that it is nearer to the gold pin contacts.
But if you can live with such annoyances, and want a touch screen phone badly - you can give it a try. And as 12oY stated, the LG Cookie community has just recently found a way to hack the phone to install themes.