[LG V20 Questions & Answers] mametaro1:
second dark prince

I lost my post about the sorry state of the mobile phone industry. Trying again...

For design teams at LG>>>

Phone design should have ultra heavy business user in mind. A flip/slide screen to protect from breaking when closed. Ability to take photos and video while talking on speakerphone. Noise cancelling even when audio jack is plugged into a car stereo. Preference to reduce radiation exposure which is why it uses stereo speakerphone, also why audio-out jack is plugged into car stereo for extra volume. Motorola razer thin style full keyboard pad opposite the screen. Insertable/fast replaceable. Ultra fast laser focus photos with full features on the camera for night shots. Best stereo speaker phone in the business. Not having a removable battery is an absolute deal breaker. We need phones that can recover from a software crash in 20 seconds by just hard restart with a replacement to the battery. I can't wait 24 hours for a phone to discharge to zero just to get it to hard restart. We can't fiddle around holding a recharging pack and waiting 6 minutes for the battery to get enough charge to get back on the phone when it goes flat. WE need the phone to work with every LTE band in the world as far as this is possible. The phone is a business phone for making old school communication and must have great easy communications management, interoperability ie. the ability to forward messages from any software to any other software is why I love LG phones.

The fact that LG no longer provide factory root for their phones is why I hate LG.

You can't make me buy another of your phones just because you won't provide root.

When the root was cracked for the V20 I bought 3 more as backups.

Come on LG design the best phone before we go fully modular and start building phones like PC's that have an ATX form factor. Maybe we should call the v20 design a MTX (Mobile Type Cross) form factor.

To comment on the LG G5 - It was released with extremely bad timing. The LG G3 and G4 were still satisfying my needs at the time. The G4 was faster version of the G3 but had no root. The G5 failed to include laser focus for ultra fast focus photos, and I couldn't verify the speakerphone was loud enough. It certainly wasn't marketed as an ultra businessphone. This is the number one mistake of phone design - the phone has to carry out its main purpose with the best quality and should be marketed from that base as having the ultra highest quality for that and all the extras are just bonuses.

A bit of background for my usage.

I am a heavy business user of mobiles.

I make calls on up to 3 mobiles at a time and am on the phones flat out 12 hours a day and always use speaker phone to reduce the radiation to my head.

Due to radiation concerns I plug physical wire from audio-out to the car stereo and don't use bluetooth. If the phones had louder better speakerphones I would never plug them into the car at all. Ideally they would be loud and clear work in the cabin of a van or road sports car at full throttle.

I work outdoors in the field troubleshooting and the phones have to be able to be put on the ground and on the top of fences etc so I can talk to people outdoors.

Its dirty and hot outside too so I can't put stuff in my ears as I will end up with ear infections.

I need to be able to take photos while on a call and forward them by various and all message services while I am talking or waiting on hold.

I write invoices on the phone while taking and inserting photos of jobs.

Also filling in web forms for compliance paperwork on the fly.

I need the phones to take fast photos in low light. I need to be able to edit the size of the photos to reduce quality if the details are too much for what I am trying to convey.

I can't afford to have calls drop out which cost me contracts due to company CEO's being busy (they never re-answer a dropped call) and because I hate having to wait on hold more than once, so I buy the best carrier service I can get.

I need to be able to hear the speakerphone clearly in a noisy street or vehicle.

I need all the calls and messages to be in a timeline communications trace to keep track of message responses to phone calls and the time they are made and also be able to focus down onto an individual (or more than one individual ie. a group option would be even better)

I need to be able to send messages with dirty hands.

I need tough phones that can stand being moved around a lot and the occasional drop onto the tarmac as you get out of the car.

The phone needs to look high tech for meetings, a good phone has sold my business more than once. A good mobile phone is the greatest source of compliments.

You can forget about facebook, twitter etc as this has nothing to do with real business as this is for marketing types who have more time on their hands.

I am looking for better mobile phones all the time. I spend over $2000 a year every year to get the best.