Pros & Cons
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- Small and light.
- Excellent ergonomics and call quality.
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- Lousy camera.
- Short on memory.
LG PM-225 Specs
| 802.11x/Band(s): | No |
| Bands: | 1900 |
| Bands: | 850 |
| Bands: | Analog |
| Bluetooth: | No |
| Camera Flash: | No |
| Camera: | Yes |
| Form Factor: | Flip Phone |
| High-Speed Data: | 1xRTT |
| Megapixels: | .3 MP |
| Phone Capability / Network: | CDMA |
| Physical Keyboard: | No |
| Screen Size: | 1.7 inches |
| Service Provider: | Sprint |
The LG PM-225, an ever-so-slight upgrade to the excellent
The tiny, rounded PM-225 feels great in your hand and shares its small size, as well as very good battery life (4 hours 21 minutes of talk time), with its cheaper sibling. At 3.4 ounces, it's heavier than the 3.1-oz VI-125, but not noticeably so. Sound quality and reception are both very good, and we especially appreciate the prominently marked speakerphone button.
The camera may be one feature the PM-225 has over the VI-125, but it's not very good. This basic VGA camera has only enough built-in memory to hold a mere 20 photos before you have to send them to yourself through Sprint's network, but it's still better than nothing. In our testing, low-light shots were blown-out, blurry, and noisy, and our
Still, the camera is no worse than we expected at this very low price, and it's no worse than what we saw on camera phones a year or two ago. There's no flash, but there are brightness and white-balance settings, and you can use the external display as a viewfinder for self-portraits when the phone's flip is closed.
Otherwise, the PM-225's features are pretty basic. It can send and receive text and picture messages, surf WAP sites (rather slowly), and play games. It tries valiantly to stream video, but lacks Sprint's new satellite-radio-over-cellular service.
We're rating the PM-225 pretty low because it's at the very low end of the feature-phone market. If you're serious about taking photos with your Sprint phone, pick up a higher-end model, such as the
Benchmark Test Results
Continuous talk time: 4 hours 21 minutes
Jbenchmark 1.1.1: 394
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