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on my last post, I said that this phone is vary accessible to blind and visually impaired people who can not read the phone's screen as far as caller ID, and knowing how many bars of signal strength they have. This phone will announce all that including the menu options you scroll through, as well as announcing if you are out of the servis area or not. Every where I go, I have 6 bars total. But even at 2-3 bars the phone picks up the signal vary vary well. But, in order to have the phone announce caller ID, and menu options out loud to you, it must be in announce mode. There are several ways to do this. go to menu, voice, sound modes, and select announce mode, and highlight on or off. Press OK. Or press the left voice command key and scroll to that option and press ok. Note. The phone will announce the command option you are scrolling to. Or say announce into the ear piece or speaker. Then you should hear the phone say, announce mode activated if you turn it on or deactivated if you turn it off. Conclusion. For thoughs of you sited people out there who have this phone, I am sorry that you guys were having so much trouble with it. This depends on a variety of things. either the phone was dropped on a hard serfis that made it degrade performance over 3 months, or it just was defected in general. But Over all, this LGVX4650 from Verizon wireless is a beautiful phone that helps out blind people like me in thoughs ways that I have said before. This is a grate beautiful phone that works well, and because you sited people had so much trouble with it, I'm vary sorry to here that. If you have not done so already, call Verizon and let them know you would like to upgrade to a better phone that will suit your needs. but wait until your new every 2-year registerd comes along.
I recently switched from qwest to verizon, because Qwest did not have phones that were accessible to blind and visually impaired people like myself. My Verizon signal works grate in my apartment in some areas where I can use the phone. It's all because of where you are as far as tower location, and not the phone. My apartment is made of vary heavy brick, metal and installaition. That is why Some times my signal drifts from 1 to 3 bars. Also thanks to *228, I am able to update to new towers that Verizon puts out in all the areas that did not have a Verizon cellsite there before. Other than that, This phone works vary grate every where else I go! Because I can not see the screen, I can just check to see how menny bars I have by the phone reading out loud to me the information weather it’s 1-2 bars or 3-6 bars.
I get no calls and cannot call out. Dead zone. it's a mini valley here and signals are very weak or non-existent. Cingular phones do a little better here.
Very poor reception in our house. Constantly dealing with dropped calls and garbled voice quality. Very frustrating. I’ve tried other phone with no improvement. Friends with Cingular that visit, have the same problems. There are times that I get 4 Bars but it doesn't last. During a call the signal strength will drop to 1 bar or none at all. I get out of the area and experience good service. I feel like I live in a Cellular Black Hole.
Very poor, sometimes almost impossible to use. I changed phones 4 times trying to find one that would work. My partner has an old ATT analog / TDMA phone and it works no better. We keep it though because it is the only one that will work in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon south of Heppner near Cutsforth Park. And now Cingular charges us a surcharge to have the TDMA service! Cell phones, what hooey! But now I', hooked.
Just moved here and had Verizon service. I had zero to one bar in my house and two within the surrounding neighborhood. We just switched to Cingular. Friends that came over with Cingular seemed to get pretty good reception. I only get 2 bars average. The signal varies from one bar to four and back to one within seconds. I still drop calls or have choppy reception. However, it is better than Verizon. We may have to get a Broadband land line to fix the problem. It seems N Portland reception sucks with most of the carriers. It seem odd since Cingular has a tower within a mile of my house. Verizon told us they had a new tower planned in the area within the next two years and we may look to switch back at the end of this contract if that occurs.
Gsm phone, terrible reception. Cannot use in house. Also many times cannot dial out even, just get a busy sound and screen says redialing. Hate to have an emergency! Planning on a new carier soon, and it won't be Cingular.
I get dropped calls on I-5 curves, especially driving from downtown Portland toward Tigard. No reception in West Hills. We travel to coast once a week or so and there are many dead spots on Hwy. 18 to Lincoln City and on Hwy. 20 from Corvallis to Newport. Voice quality is not great but is likely due to older Nokia-one of the early photo phones.
