LG 8110 - 3 - Pay As You Go

the phone is great, I can't really knock it too much, however I do have some quarrels about it.
1. The battery life is not impressive. I had the phone for 1 week and I found my self charging it everyday. I know people might think that this is because I was playing around with it a lot, using the camera, the flash, playing back MP3's and so on. But no, even without doing all this I still found myself charging it after each and every day.
2. I found that when holding the phone to answer a phone call, or even to make one, the phone didn't exactly fall nicely into your hand. It felt difficult as your figures where constantly on the outer display, rubbing general dirt and grimme from your hands onto the screen.
3. The buttons on the side of the phone where difficult to avoid when trying to txt, or make a phone call, and I often pressed the camera button when trying to scroll through the menu
4. If your a bloke and have not shaved in a wee while, you'll probably find that the phone does this for you. For some odd reason its seems to pull on the side of your face. I know this sounds weird, but after a pleasant conversation to a friend, the last thing you want is to say bye, by having hairs pull out of your face - not very pleasant.
5. I have only had 2 phones in 5 years, a Nokia 3210 and a Panasonic GD67. When I had the LG, I found that having an Arial on the phone to be very annoying - though this is not a serious issue.
6. The signal bar strength indicator is, in a word, bollocks. You can pretty much safely ignore anything that says. I'll expand on this point in a little while.

All of the above points are relatively minor points, and on the whole the phone is great and has the best menu and navigation system I have ever come across. The concept of having a flash (or light) is fairly nice, even though its pretty much naff, meaning there's no real point in using it, unless you so happen to be sitting at home, watching tv at night and all of a sudden the power cuts out. Then you can use your phones flash, as a sort or torch to go find your way to the fuse box.

There is however 1 major issue with the phone, and has resulted in me taking it back, only after a week of owning it. You see, the phone is, unfortunately only available on the 3 network. At first I thought, what they hey, the network will be fine. When indeed its anything but fine. 3 seem to have taken the point of view "we'll supply you a great mobile phone, with a network, that kind of works". This is to say, that when I walk into the city centre of Newcastle, I am not on fully signal strength. Ohhh no, I walk into WH smiths and thats it....kaput, not hope of making a phone call there. Dixons is the same, Fenwiks, infact, even the shop I bought it from...not a sausage of a signal. Now when I took my phone back I put it to them simply and I put it to you
"what is the point in owning a mobile phone, which its main principle is to enable communication between people, when this is the very thing the network 3 do not seem to be able to provide. "

However I will say, that this, is of course appearntly a known issue with 3. Appearntly it is acceptable that half way through a conversation the network will just randomly cut you of, just so you have to phone back, only for it to cut you of again 30 seconds later.

I would only recommend this phone on another network, other than 3. Or I would recommend this phone to someone who only has a memory recollection of 30 seconds, in which you would have forgotten about all your cut offs and have re-dialled assuming everything is hunky dory.