LG 225 Prepaid Phone with Double Minutes for Life (Tracfone)

LG 225 Prepaid Phone with Double Minutes for Life (Tracfone) Features

Additional LG 225 Prepaid Phone with Double Minutes for Life (Tracfone) Information

Tracfone Service
Tracfone provides nationwide prepaid wireless service using the nation's leading cellular providers to create a national footprint covering 99 percent of the U.S. population. This gives you connectivity everywhere cellular service is available. You can use your Tracfone across the U.S. and if you move, you can relocate your wireless number with just a phone call.

You can buy bundles of minutes (which must be used within a set time limit of between 90 to 365 days) from the Tracfone web site on your home PC or directly from your phone's web browser. For example, if you purchase a block of 120 minutes of airtime, you'll need to use that within 90 days of your first use. When you buy additional airtime minutes, your Tracfone service is extended automatically by another 90 days. Tracfone also offers international long distance calling to over 60 international destinations (including Argentina, Brazil, China, Mexico, most European countries, and many more), which deducts the same amount of minutes from your phone as when you make calls to destinations within the U.S.

This phone ships with a number of handy Tracfone services, including free voice mail, free caller ID, and free call waiting. And perhaps most importantly, the integrated TracFone Airtime Balance Display shows you how much airtime you've used and how much is left, so you can control your costs. You must activate your cell phone before use either by calling the Tracfone toll-free number or going to the Tracfone web site.

Phone Features
Offering quad-band connectivity for global roaming, the LG 225 clamshell phone has a stubby antenna and dual LCD screens. The internal display measures 1.5 inches and has a 128 x 128-pixel resolution and support for 65K colors. The external monochrome screen has a fixed color background, and it measures 96 x 64 pixels. It displays date, time, battery life, signal strength, and caller ID phone number (though no photo ID). You can also view the last 20 dialed/received calls for easy redialing.

The internal phonebook can hold up to 255 contact entries (in addition to 250 contacts stored on your SIM card), and each contact has fields for three phone numbers and an email address. You can assign callers to groups and pair them with a picture for photo caller ID (viewed only on the internal screen). The phone features eight speed dial entries as well as a default voicemail speed dial.

The VGA camera has three resolution options (640 x 480, 320 x 240 and 160 x 120 pixels) and it offers a 4x digital zoom, multi-shot capability (allowing you to take 9 pictures in fast succession), brightness and white balance controls, and a self timer. You'll be able to store up to 75 photos on the phone's internal memory at the lowest resolution setting, or seven photos at the highest setting.

Support for basic text messaging and multimedia messaging (MMS) are built into the 225. When used in combination with the phone's built-in camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. The T9 predictive text entry technology is built into the unit, which makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

Other features include: Tracfone Airtime Balance Display shows you how much airtime you've used and how much is left Multi-lingual support (English, French, Spanish) Personal organizer (calendar with scheduler, alarm clock, notepad) Calculator, world clock, unit converter, tip calculator Preloaded games WAP 2.0 browser Full duplex speakerphone 8 unique ringtones with vibrate and silent modes

Vital Statistics
The LG 225 weighs 3.26 ounces and measures 1.89 x 3.36 x 0.9 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3 hours of talk time, and up to 8 days of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.

What Customers Say About LG 225 Prepaid Phone with Double Minutes for Life (Tracfone):

Excellent phone for a person that uses a phone for emergency purposes or doesn't spend hours talking hours about nothing. However, in all fairness it is possible to download better ringtones from the Tracfone website but, I'm too cheap to do so. The phone itself has excellent battery life, very good coverage in the area I live in, good sound quality, and the small outside screen is a nice feature. I deducted one star because the ring tones are awful in my opinion. Overall the LG225 phone and Tracfone is a great product for those people wanting an inexpensive cell phone. I have owned the phone for about 8 months.

and wait for a charger to come along that will charge the batteries OUTSIDE of the phone itself.Be Blessed. I also purchased the 'Ultimate Bundle'. Buy one. Awesome deal - except the charger.I was really SAD to see the old motorolla type of charger on it: you push a button on each side of the charging plug, insert the plug into your phone where it is connected and charges by 2 tiny metal pieces.Problem: I've had 2 other phones with this type of plug.BOTH began to malfunction and were ultimately useless because of the charger. Apparently the 'connection' would deteriorate over time, meaing you would need to 'jiggle the plug' to get it connected, until in the end the connection/charging failed to function at all.-----------------------------sigh-----------------------------I decided to keep the phone, HOPE & PRAY the charger doesn't give out on it. Give one away. :)

LG TracFone Prepaid Cell Phone - 225The LG-225 is a compact flip phone with features aplenty. I purchased this prepaid model with Tracfone's "Ultimate Bundle" - a year of service, a 400 minute airtime card and the well-designed phone unit that includes double minutes for the life of the phone, a camera, programmable ringtones and much more.A handy feature is the clock and caller id that shows through the top of the case without having to open to flip top, and visible minutes remaining on the service.A great little phone for limited or emergency use.

However, Tracfone is notorious for locking features. Anyway, I tried to transfer my number and minutes over to the new phone over the website. And real-tones are a nice touch also. The pictures are okay, and the screen could be a little bigger. Okay, first off, I'll talk about the phone.First, it's a pretty good entry level flip phone. Overall, if you can handle the CS, by all means get a Tracfone. I recently upgraded my phone to the new Motorola w376 with Bluetooth, I found out they disabled all the good features on this phone. It flat out SUCKS.

I called CS, they said the reason the number porting was taking so long was because one phone was a GSM phone while the other was CDMA. You cannot get different ringtones unless you email yourself a MIDI ringtone, or get the tones from their site. The quad-GSM does come in handy, so you can get service just about anywhere. They said it would 24-48 hours, and it's been about a week now. The web-browser will only work on their website, and it will still charge you if you try to get to another site. And the reception is great, but note it will either run on AT&T's network, or T-Mobile's network; Tracfone doesn't have a network of it's own.Now to customer service. Total BS, both phones run off of GSM; it just sounds like they don't know what they're doing. However, if that's one of the big selling points for you, stay away from Tracfone.

I can't even remember how many hours I spent on hold to India trying to work things out (note: the customer service reps did their best despite language issues, clearly they are not equipped to solve customer problems and are probably directed to just string customers along or inspire them to give up). I can't say enough bad things about Tracfone and its terrible customer service. I would have given this no stars if Amazon provided that option. After a month, I gave up, lost my old cell number, and had no phone for weeks. I purchased a Tracfone online and tried to carry over my old cell number. It was a nightmare; the phone itself was ok, but activation was impossible. I had to work hard to get a refund, they really make it impossible for you if you have any problems. Spend a few more bucks and get one of the other pay as you go plans, Tracfone is not worth the headache.