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This smartphone has a minimalist design that many people find appealing. The phone caters to the right handed users because the power button is located at the upper left hand side of the phone. The volume controls are on the left side along with the micro USB charging port. The phone features a full QWERTY slide out keyboard. There is a dedicated camera button on the right side of the phone, allowing for quick photos and videos, when it works, but I will get to that feature in a bit.
Operation:
As mentioned before, this smart phone was designed with right handed operators in mind. Besides this, the phone performs as expected for a phone that runs Android 2.3. The specific version on this phone is 2.3.4 and it is laggyyy. Never use the stock web browser, it is terrible and crashes constantly. If the phone is not full, use Mozilla Firefox for a semi enjoyable experience. This phone was designed for a time when apps did not take up multiple megabytes or even gigabytes. The phone is severely limited in daily use by its lack of internal storage and ram. The phone is rocking 200 MB (megabytes) of internal storage and 350 MB (megabytes) or ram. In practical usage, I can only run one, maybe two, apps at the same time before the phone starts to lag to a skreetching hault.
Battery Life and Camera:
The battery life of this phone is one full day...with light to slightly moderate use. The 1540 mAh battery suffers under normal load. If the Facebook app is running in the background for too long, the battery suffers significantly. While actively using Facebook, from a full charge, the battery will drop rapidly.
The 3.2 megapixel camera/video camera is not good at all. It takes bare bones photos and terrible video quality. The shutter speed of the camera is slow, so do not expect to snap lots of pictures in a short amount of time.
Overall Thoughts:
The LG L55C was designed and built for a customer years ago. I bought this unit from the local Walmart on the Straight Talk Wireless plan. I pay $45 a month for unlimited talk, text, and 2.5 GB of data. The unfortunate part of this is, the phone is locked to the Sprint towers. In Wilmington, NC Sprint is the absolute worst in signal strength, signal reliability, and 3G speed. My favorite feature of this "smartphone" is the included keyboard, and it is sad to see them fading away in the smartphones of today. The phone works and has lasted me many years, but it lacks the usability and longevity of the smartphones of today.
Score:
5/10
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