LG Banter User Reviews

I purchased this phone in April of 2009 and have been very satisfied with it.  Up until this purchase I haven't been much on texting, but the full qwerty keyboard makes things so much easier for me.  The phone has also done very well in terms of reception, I live in a more rural area but average between three or four bars with the Banter where I had been getting maybe 2 at best with my previous phones.  I would definitely recommend the LG Banter to anyone looking for a simple phone as far as operation goes, as well as the quality of features the phone provides.

it's actually an alright phone. i mean, as long as you don't want anything suuper fancy. the lack of video sucks though. i've had mine since about september and it's april almost may now and i'm reaally hard on my cell phones. this phone has lasted longer than 2 similar phones i've had

Now when I first got this phone, I was really excited and I loved for the first few weeks. Then it started to suck. It's not a great phone, but it's not bad either. It's very durable; I mean I've dropped this thing a thousand times. So yes, it's scratched up a little on the edges, but this hasn't effected it's performance. Sliding keyboard slides ahh-lot smoother than the old LG Scoop. Both keypads are responsive. Alright pictures. No flash, but that's okay. Calls are clear. Overall, okay phone! Because it's very simple, and nothing flashy. I would recommend it. Oh, and the easily-changeable face plates are a plus!

I think this phone is amazing its great i got it a couple of days ago theres been no problems its easy to use my mom got one too and shes technoligicaly challenged, however its a great phone its good on battery life easy to send and except text messages... this phone is good im dissapointed in no video camera but the camera shoots with great quality!!!! great phone i would recomend this phone to anybody!!!! this phone also come with colour plates so you can change it from grey, blue and purple.... once again great phone!!!! worth the money!!!!

   I have had my banter for a year now, and it is terrible! It stops charging unless you have it at the right angle!  I flipped it to the keyboard, and suddenly, it goes black & white, flashing back & forth. It won't stop! It hasn't stopped in days, and unfortunately, it's Easter tomorrow. So there is no way that Verizon will be open. & even worse, they have stopped making the Banter. Its not the battery that is the problem, it is the phone. I do not recommend this phone, it's good that they stopped making it.

So far, the phone is great.  I've had it for a couple of weeks and so far no problems. I had the LG UX260 which was a piece of junk compaired to this phone. They seemed to finally have worked all the bugs out of the software. I am a little disappointed to not have a camcorder but the camera is decent.

I read all the reviews, some cons are false. This is a really nice phone. The only thing I don't like is no video, fine with me.. I love texting, it only takes about 3 texts to get use to the keyboard. I don't recommend this to a person with big fingers, the keys are the size ofprobably half a pinky nail.

Every problem I read on this review page was the persons fault. If you're careful with the phone, it is a amazing device. Everyone who posted seemed to be a irresponsible technologist or a teenage girl. Trust me, if you are careful with the phone, it will last you for years & years. Although I am sure by the time years have passed, companies will have more advanced phones. Jamming the keys on the beautifully arranged QWERTY keyboard is one main cause of this phone having problems. If you jam the keys, of course, they stop working or begin to stick. Of course, no phone is perfect. Everybody likes different things. So just be careful & enjoy this amazing device. Don't let the reviewers bring you to your choice...

The LG banter is one of the best phones you could buy .I got it for my birthday and I love it . the battery only goes down a bar if i use the phone a lot so thats great.I get signal everywhere i go and the faceplates are the best because you can chane them and they have designs . i hope they make a second banter.

This has been a wonderful phone, but some of the letters on the keyboard has gotten where they work sometimes and sometimes they do not work. so now that Verizon took over Alltel, and my phone is still in warranty. But Verizon does not offer the banter phone so im having to get the closest thing to it. Which is the LG Env3. suppose to be gettin it in the mail soon. Guess we will see if its as good as the BANTER....def a grrr8 phone, other than the keys that dont work.

Personally this phone is amazing. It works great! The batter lasts quite a long time. Texting is great and I love that I can set a different ringtone for each person! I really love the chat setting too. I have a little problem with remembering what I sent someone sometimes. It's kind of a pain to go all the way back to your sent folder just to see what you sent, but with chat is quick and easy to read your whole conversation.

before i got this phone, the people said it was "video capable". nope. they also said you could watch youtube and stream! nope... so they lied their way into a sale!  when i got it, i noticed the charger plug was a bit different than some other ones.  Sometimes the faceplate will fall off, leaving you without a faceplate...  i don't get a new phone in two years, i don't know how long i can stand it!

When I bought mine my old cell had just been found under the tires of a co-workers car if you know what i mean. so i rushed to the nearest cell store and bought something i could live with but could also aford at the time... Now I have a Banter. Works wonders when you need it to. takes alot to get used to though. Hosenstly I think that most people hate their cells no matter how well they work or what features they have. My dad hates his phone and he doesn't even know how to use it. my cousin has a blackberry and hates it cuz its to complicated. my sisters phone is flip phone and she says "I'm waiting for the day it breaks in two." My moms phone isn't "well organized." hey I'm just glad to have a phone!

I have had my phone for a month now and i like it. I dont like how it shuts off randomly and i dont like the keyboard. They placed the keys is bad places. i go to hit ok and i push an arrow key.  I think the sound quality is great and i love the faceplates you can buy.  They are all assorted colors and designs.

I have us cellular and recently got the banter. I have had nothing go wrong on mine and i generally have huge issues with phones. i love the faceplates that came with mine. the only thing i have with it is it dont want to save words in t9word. i have had it for a week now and cant believe nothing has happened to it. i have kids so my phones dont tend to not deal with things lol.

it's a decent phone. although the manual isnt great. because it doesn't tell you that if you hold down the left arrow key it takes you to MY MENU

i've only had this phone for about a week, but so far it's okay. i was really disappointed when i found out it didnt do video though. i thought it was cool that you could program a special ringtone AND a different txt tone for each contact though.

This is one of the WORST! phones ever. I was vacationing in Disney with my family and i got this wierd text from alltel and the next thing i know my phone stopped working and i didnt have a screen when i slide my phone. its been about a month for me texting on my front screen. then yesterday at my friends house i got a picture message so i turned my phone off to get it and it was a blank screen so i turned it on and off nad on again and still a blank screen,

I think my Alltel LG 265 Or Banter was a waist of my money. Everytime I try to take a picture encoding error everytime I try to text or run an application it randomly powers down, Like Power Cycling after alltel *228 Option 2 or 1 Always have to re-program my Lg Banter. Alltel Osage is More then helpful Not LOL!  Don't ever buy this phone from Alltel

i have the banter for us cellular and i havent had many problems with it. the only 2 main problems with it is that it shuts off on me 1 or 2 times a day when im in the middle of a text and the space button sometimes puts 2 spaces or no spaces when i hit it. other than that i think its a great phone. the camera is good. i dont know what you guys are talking about. ive had this phone for 6 months and ive dropped it multiple times and its never broken *knocks on wood* and it holds a charge for at least 2 days. the faceplates are cool too. i would have really liked it if it had video though :/ i skate so if i need to film something quick its always handy to have a phone with video. overall, good phone

The Banter is an okay phone. Considering it's the replacement for the Scoop, it's a great phone (compared to that useless phone). But going by other phones it's nothing. The phone powers off (just like the Scoop did) at any point in time, no matter what you're doing. I can understand a few times when you first get the phone activated. I've worked for a cellphone company and it's common to have phones restart themselves a day or two after it's been activated. The software has to update. But I refuse to believe that it's a software update 6 months after the phone has been activated even though the phone and customer service reps say there's no update available. One thing that REALLY, REALLY, irks me. the QWERTY keyboard doesn't have an apostrophe on it. You have to go into the symbol menu and go to the last page for the apostrophe. I don't know why it bothers as much as it does...it's just annoying. The phone can take pictures and it can send pictures. Just don't get your hopes up on recording, sending, or receiving video messages. It won't work. The camera wasn't wonderful at first. But within about a month, the camera just stops working. It will pull the camera up, but everytime I start to take a picture it will black out, freeze up, and won't restart until I remove the battery. The music player I'm neutral on. The headphone jack is awfully small. I have a pair of headphones that came with my LG Rhythm and they don't fit. I find that the keyboard on the Banter is a lot harder to get used to than the Scoop. The arrow buttons are in a weird place and I'm always having to delete half of my text before I realize that it's not making sense. The My Menu is a nice idea but what's the point of having to go all the way into the Tools Menu to get to it (if there's another way into the My Menu the Reps I've talked to don't know about it either). The other Tools are the basic tools you get on any phone. The phone does have the ability to be locked (and I'm not talking about the keypad lock pressing the right soft key and then the okay button). The only bad thing about the locking ability is that there's no short way to lock it. Also there's no automatic lock. You know - it's always locked unless someone enters the unlock code and changes the security settings. It's a pretty worthless phone in my opinion

I have had this phone for months & months now, and I love it.  Great for texting and talking on the phone.  Photos could be better, but I don't expect perfection out of a cell phone camera.

Drops calls all the time in the middle of the sentence. Takes Great pictures and after 3 months of use the blue colors are red, the red are blue. Slide the phone up and the screen blinks blank and is all white.

I had a motorola hint that had definite problems, shutting down in middle of texts and calls. now i have a banter which does not have a lot of the capabilities like video recorder, not able to bluetooth ringtones to it. i am not happy at all with the banter but the hint has problems to. i went through 5 hints in 5 months.

I bought the lg banter about 3 months ago and now the phone has been pulled from the shelf and disconntinued. since i bought the phone it has been nothing but trouble. turning off, poor service. but now the torture is over and they are replacing the phone with the motorola hint.