LG Venus User Reviews

Thsi phone is pretty freakin annoying sometimes. The touch screen just is an annoyance. I wouldn't reccommend it. I'm trading in for the Flipshot! I love that phone!

I first got this phone about 4 months ago and i loved it..... until..........................it started to freeze every time i texted and the ONLY way to get it to unfreeze was to take the battery out.. so i went and got it traded out for another one and they told me that all the defects in it should be fixed until jus now when it started doing it again.

I wish it was more reliable and i no longer want to waste my time on this phone.

Okay so I work at verizon and I have watched the most spoiled kids come into my store with that phone, kids who do not deserve the phone, just because they bug theyre parents because they are rich, i finally went out and got it, and love the phone!!!!!!! it is my best phone next to my blackjack2!!!



Now on that other note!!!


ALL and I mean all, except for my coworker who has seen actual defects, i have seen people come in with this phone, I have had cellphones since the end of time and if your good with your phone it will be good, but i swear the customers i get coming into my store are idiots, i see people walking in with water leaking out and they go off and blow up because we cant replace it, they think the phones a pos, but in reality its a pos because you made it a pos, out of the 100 customers i see in a day, 99.9% of them have user errors or physical damage, all the reps at the store will tell you the same, we dont have problesm with our phones, you know why because we see the what happens when you dont treat it nice, buy a case and use it properly!!! stop whining about the slow txt capability because all phones do it, its a lag, yes, but if your taking it into for that, then you have some serious problems this phone is an excellent model, jeesh...come on people, do you treat your kids like you treat your car??? Of course not, you think the carriers should just give you free phones, grow up and meet reality!!!

oh and fyi.....you people complain about refurbished phones but guess what if we stop refurbished phones OHHH guess what the phone prices go up, and i dont know about you, but ID LIKE TO NOT HAVE THAT HAPPEN BECAUSE I HAVE TO GET A PHONE TOO AND BECAUSE OF YOUR WHINING AND COMPLAINING WE WILL HAVE TO PAY MORE IF THEY STOP RECONDITIONING PHONES, HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER THOUGHT THAT??

Having getting my frutration out from some of the comments on phones on here, its worth your money!!!!!!!!

alrightt so i got this baby on christmas and it is now march and ihave gone through 5 of them! after a few weeks it will start to forget words on word and then it freezes when you try to space in a text! although i love this phone its just not worth taking in to the store every month!

Ok so i work at a premiere agent for verizonwireless. This phone is great. It has everything you could imagine. Im talkin 2.0mp camera. MicroSD slot. Mp3 player(which dont sound half bad). A descent sized screen. The list goes on. My question is... has anyone had the chance to really sit down and use this phone and its features? It is a pain in the rear. The touch navigation keys are rediculous. You have to be right on for it to actually hit the key your trying to hit. Not to mention the display feels like its going to collapse into the phone. I am a huge fan of Lg becuase i see so few of them have problems compared to the others. If you like sliders, are very gentle on phones, and can handle the picky touch screen. Then this phone is great for you.

Well, for my opinion, this is and AWESOME phone.
I only got it three days ago, and I absalutly LOVE it.
The touch screen is really easy to work, and the screen is really clear.
The slider works really good; and everything is working really well.
I love texting on this phone, and its really easy, because the buttons are quite big.
And good thing I have unlimited, or I would go over. (:
One thing that I do have problems with, however, is putting music on this phone.
My VCast isnt working, and I havent tried doing it from my computer.
My sister's friend has this phone, and for some odd reason, she hates it.
I dont know whats wrong with her!
Anyway, if you like taking advise from a thirteen year old,
I honestly think you should get this phone.
I think youll like it as much as I do! :D

So far, so good. Great, vibrant screen, adequate camera, touch sensitivity and intuitive screens work perfectly. Nicely customizable. I don't experience a "lag", the battery is 1-3 days depending on usage; perfect as a phone and music device. I got used to word for texting (coming from an enV which definitely spoiled me for texting) it's easy now; call clarity and reception are much better than the enV. This is a keeper.

The venus is a very cool phone. it freezes sometimes. like when i go to send texts. the camera is okay. uhh everyone i think you should get one. but they arent my favorite phone. but way cool. its weird with the touch screen. its way hard. i dont really like it. but the phone is cool.

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I personally like the phone alot. I think it works very well. althought it freezes up sometimes, and has now begun to shut off during a text message. i do not know what that is about, hopefully it will stop, or i will have to try to replace the battery. The phone is very easy to get used to, and the camera works better than most phone cameras.

i got the venus last week and so far am pretty impressed by it. seeing as how it is the first of its kind it dosent always do what u want. for example if i touch a button on the touch screen it gives me vibration feedback and it shows i touched it but it dosent respond. i heard if u take the vibration off it works better. so well see about that. camera is pretty good. although i wish it didnt have to rotate to take pictures. speaker isnt too loud or too quite. call quality is perfect. features are really good. and the menu is a step up! the music player is pretty good although it is a little slow when changing the song. video sucks. it just looks like blur. over all i like the venus a lot and is a really good phone. i hope they fix delays and such with the next one.

I just received the LG Venus as a gift, and I am already used to the touch screen. Also, with the speaker on the back, you really cannot tell much of a difference and you do not have to sit it down screen first. With the camera though, it has a good 2.0 mega-pixel one, but it does not have a flash, which is a tad bit odd. Other than that one thing, the phone is great for everyone.

I came from several years of flip-phone usage but adjusted quickly to the Venus' slide-out keypad, though I use it rarely as I am using voice commands and call history a lot. The voice command/recognition is really terrific thus far and doesn't require a verbal confirmation from the user as older versions of the software did. And, I've never had a miscue.

As far as the blue color on the sides: You need to be in a room with very bright and diffused light to see that it's blue. It looks black most of the time so I don't see the blue/black palette issue mentioned in the reviews. I like that I can customize my "short-cuts" icons/functions and layout. That's great.

My only complaints right now are that the lowest volume setting for the ringer is pretty darn loud and the speaker-phone distorts at higher volumes.

Also, it's annoying that the phone goes into "locked" mode so quickly, requiring a side button press to unlock. For instance, when I speed-dial my voice mail (w/auto password) with speaker-phone on it locks by the time the messages play and oddly mutes the sound in both speaker-phone and internal speaker.

The camera: nearly impossible to view images in daylight; the screen is just far too reflective. An anti-glare coating should be on these new phones: no excuse for that. Yes, the faux-leather feels cheap and I expect it to wear quickly. We'll see.

An earlier commenter mentioned an adjustment for the touch sensitivity? I don't see that in the docs or functions: only touch vibration feedback levels.

Personally, I prefer a physical keypad to the on-screen type (voyager, i-phone). With these others I really have to concentrate as there is no "feel" to the keys.

As far as the text messaging the LG's "word" is similar to moto's "itap" the main difference is that it doesn't give you the option, after it predicts the word your typing, to press up on the d. pad to auto fill the word. Think of the venus' text function as a dictionary, just type the word on the keypad the way it's spelled, and it should predict it. If its an obscure word then you first have to change the setting to ABC mode then type the word then press the space key, and the phone will remember the word for next time. Hope this helps.

I really like my Venus! I have been a Moto fan for years and years. Avoiding an LG like you would not believe. Finally tired of making mod's to my phone and tweaking the settings and wanted something, without the red bars that had UI options. Enter the Venus, it is a wonderful balance of style and function,... no more red bars!! The flash interface is really nice.

Yeah, there's the "lag" in response time that everyone chats about. But almost everything has a workaround. Sound quality and reception actually improve when the phone is slid open and not operating in the closed position. I also found that this phone operates much faster if I shut it off on a weekly basis and charge it over night. For some reason, cycling this phone seems to enhance it's responsiveness.

I've also noticed that when I filled the internal phone memory with songs, the response time and "bugginess" of the interface was more evident. Keeping all of my tunes on the 4gig microsd card free's up the internal memory and improves the phones performance.

I like the size and weight of this phone. It's perfect for sliding into your jeans pocket without fuss. The Voyager is a great phone, but just too bulky,.. you can't put it in your pocket,... really have to have a holster.

Ask for the screen protectors and body glove holster when you get it,... they are both awesome accessories to enhance the use of this phione.

Reception is really good. This is what surprised me about the phone the most. Call quality was great and it's ability to carry a signial even in fringe areas (like my own home,... grrrr) is a necessity for my phones and this one pulls through!!

I found the venus to be an excellent upgrade for a reasonable price. The touch screen features work great...The screen resolution is very good. The fit and finsih of the phone is excellent. You can tell you are using a new generation phone.

I am coming from a 2 year old razor, and have found the battery to last about 50% longer then my old phone. The speaker is puts out lots of volume..no need to have it all the way up. Great reception.

The one thing I had to get used to was the slider. Coming from a flip phone, the slider felt odd for a while. I found that I like talking on the phone with the slider extended better then closed.

Anyway, great modern phone.

Update to memory issue.

Can't see much bad about the style or features of this phone but it does have some issues which are enough for me to return it soon if some fixes don't come out. The major thing is the MicroSD card functionality. Regardless of the size card you have in it, when you connect the phone to your computer to sync your music, only half the capacity of the card is recognized. For example, I have an 8 GB card in my Venus. The "memory" function under tools and settings shows it to be an 8 GB card. If I put the card in a card reader, Windows shows it to be an 8 GB card. If I connect the phone to my computer using the supplied USB cable, it is only recognized as a 4 GB card. After many talks with Verizon customer service only to have them tell me over and over that I am the only one who has reported the problem and that I must have a bad phone or card, I finally exchanged both and the new one is the same way. In spite of Verizon's claim that I'm the only one, I have been contacted by many others who have the same problem. Two gig cards, only recognize 1 gig in sync mode...4 gig cards recognize 2 gigs...etc. Verizon still has not acknowledged a problem. I did FINALLY get this response from LG though.

"There is currently a known issue with the 8gb memory in the LG Venus, as well as the Voyager, when downloading music the phone will only recognize half of the memory card size, we are currently working hard to resolve this issue, please be patient with us. "

nice phone, hopefully i never get lost in the woods for more than a day cuz the battery sucks, and the only other thing bad is when im talkin on it i can barely hear the person unless its on speaker, other than that its not too bad

My new Venus was all the talk at Thanksgiving Dinner, with both of my sisters now wanting one. My only issues with it is the text messaging. On my old phone (motorola) I could start to type in a word and the rest would appear. When I put my Venus on 'word' mode I don't even get the letter I want (press 1 for w and I get a x). Not sure if this is a common problem or just my phone.

I am hoping to find a holster/carry that protects the font of the screen. I like the pouch it comes with, but it is a pain in the butt to grab out of my bag and pull off the pouch and answer it in time.

The touch screen is awesome! And so far the battery is lasting for me (1 week and 2 bars left). I do turn it off every night.

I wouldn't have paid $199 for it. But I got $100 off with my new every two.

The Venus, is an exceptional phone. It has everything you would want in a phone, style, fantastic face, nice large buttons, sound quality is great, neat new wallpapers, the touch screen is great and works very well. The battery seems to go down pretty quick due to the vibration feed back and sounds. Overall the phone works great and looks great. I would recommend this phone for an upgrade.

At this point, I'm not completely happy with the Venus. My complaint is with how LG/Verizon are using the memory card. Unless I'm missing something, they are formating the card so that you can only use about 3.6 GB for music storage. If you hook up the phone via the USB cable, Windows explorer only shows 3.6 GB of available space for music. After you upload that much music to the phone, you get a "device full" error. The phone "memory" function still shows 3.6 used and 4 GB available at that time. I tried using a card reader and then Windows explorer DOES show the full capacity of the card. I transfered 7 GB of music to the phone though and then put the card back into the phone only to find that it would not initialize and the phone just reboots when you try to access the music or anything else on the card.

Why they will not let you utilize the available space as you see fit is anybodies guess.

I've been pretty excited about this phone since I heard about it a month ago, but seriously debated it since I've been a Motorola fan girl for years. But with the decline in quality of Motorola's recent phones, I decided to take a risk and hope for the best. And I was not disappointed!

The LG Venus is a very sharp phone. It's not too bulky, and is actually much slimmer than its Chocolate predecessor. The slide mechanism is smooth and study, and very easy to snap open and shut. As a matter of fact there really is no reason to access the keypad on this phone.

If for some reason you are forced to manually enter a number, or if you are a texting junkie, the keypad is rock solid. The keys are large and well spaced, and you'll never have to question whether or not you've hit the right key. No looking back and forth between screen and keypad. It's just that tight.

The only real disappoint I had with this phone is that it does not utilize a full touch screen. But disappoint fades onces you start to access the phones features. The small screen has a simple yet well designed touch button layout that changes as you navigate through the OS.

When I first turned my phone on, every touch issued noise and vibration. This could appeal to some people, but I turned both the sound and vibration off. I noticed once I tuned them off the OS was more responsive, and I could navigate the menus quicker. And to the fact they only serve to drain the battery, and I see no reason why anyone would leave them on.

The camera on the phone is 2.0MP. You can access it by the camera button on the right side of the phone. It comes with a variety of options including resolution, white balance, photo effects (i.e. sepie, b&w, etc.). This is definitely not something you'd see on an average camera phone. The pictures come out clear, but there is a slight delay between when you press the button, and the picture being taken. So don't expect to use it to snap a quick pic at a party, but if you just want a pretty sunset it'll work.

It also has a video feature, but it is lacking. Everything comes out in a big blur, and it's pretty much useless.

Now to the really good stuff.

This camera boasts the ability to use a microSDHC card up to 8GB. This is where I believe the phone shines. You can choose to store your pics, video, and music on this card. And since you can access the card through a simple adapter, you no longer have to worry about dealing with Verizon's poor attempt at a download service like with past phones. I managed to put most of my mp3 collection on to my card through an adapter, popped it into my Venus, and boom. MUSIC! This feature is a breath of fresh air for Verizon's phone line up.

And speaking of our musical repertoires, the Venus delivers a crisp, clear sound. The speakers themselves aren't much to brag about (though they are loud as HELL at full volume), but a nice set of headphones do a great job. You can either go for the Bluetooth variety or plug in with a 2.5mm jack to rock out with your sock out.

And if call quality is your concern, worry not! This is probably some of the best reception I've ever received on a cell phone. I live in bumpuck nowhere, and my best friend lives in bumpuck nowhere on the other side of the country, and I received a perfectly clear signal without a single drop in the conversation for over an hour.

Overall, I'd say this is probably the best phone I've ever owned to date. So if you're teetering on the edge, I'd say give it a 30 day trial. Worse comes to worse, you can upgrade to a Voyager.

Very pleased with the overall interface. Iphone its not...but way better than chocalate and works as advertised. As a phone has great sound quality through phone and Jawbone bluetooth headset. Very pleased for the $100 bucks it cost me after new in 2 and rebate.

This is a sweet little phone that comes with a surprising amount of features. First, the design of the phone was well thought-out. As a replacement to the LG Chocolate, it keeps with the characteristic feel of the Choc., while adding some improvements to the design. The back-side of the phone has a textured rubber feel to it (not unlike the feel of a basketball) to keep it from slipping out of your hands, or from sliding easily off the surface you place it on. The weight of the phone is such that it feels like you have a well-made device in your hands. I've held and owned phones in the past that have felt like they would break if you weren't careful with them; not so with the Venus. I also like the feel of the number pad when using it; it feels slim in your hand, yet the response of the buttons is such that you are sure you depressed a button, instead of having to rely on looking at the screen to see if you actually hit one. The dual screens are very clear to look at, even with the normal oils that build up on them as a result of putting the phone to your ear, or touching the face with your fingers. Which brings up the neat little protective sleeve LG provides for the phone; it not only provides protection for your phone in your pocket/purse/bag, it acts as a cleaner for the screen. And I must say it does a great job getting rid of the smudges that develop on the screen. The signal quality is good, but not the greatest; due partly (i'm sure) to there not being an external antenna. The voice quality is also very good. I've had no trouble hearing people when it was windy, nor have they had trouble hearing me. I also really like the force-feedback on the lower touch-screen, though I think it has been draining my battery a bit quickly (probably because I've been playing with it non-stop). One gratuitous feature of the touch-screen is that you can adjust the level of force-feedback from high to off, change the type of feedback you get, and even have sounds associated with touching the screen. There are lots of other features that I apprecaite about it, but those are covered in the phone arena review of this device, so I won't repeat them. All in all, it's a great phone for the money, it looks fantastic, it's fun to use, it's fun to show off, and the features it offers work well. I'd recommend getting this phone if you are ready to upgrade.

I think the venus is a real nice. I like the feel of it and the size is just right for what it can do. The camera takes ok shots. The bluetooth stero headset sounded awsome. The touch srceen seemed to have more response than then the voyager?

If you like slider phones this is a good one for the price. I don't think the avg user would be upset after a month or two.