Update 9/14/12: I changed my mind. I will return the LG Marquee and buy the
iPhone 5 which will be available on 9/21.
I am a woman, I’m entitled to change my mind!!!
For long months I’ve been waiting to buy the iPhone 5 to
replace my 3G. The word was that it was
going to be available in September.
About week
and a half ago while I was browsing TV channels, I stopped at HSN where they
were showing a smart phone that caught my attention. The phones were selling like hot cakes based
on the bottom screen numbers. The price
was excellent and the phone had all the latest features. The phone they were selling was the LG
Marquee. The price of the phone was $149
and included in the price was a home charger, car charger, phone ear plugs, the
case and some free Apps including GPS. A
complete package at an excellent price! If
I were to buy the iPhone 5 with all those extras, I would be talking hundreds
of dollars.
In addition,
the phone comes with:
4” high
resolution NOVA touchscreen
5MP camera
with 3x zoom and video
GPS enabled
Stereo Bluetooth
technology
Speakerphone
with voice-activated dialing
Voicemail,
Caller ID, Call Waiting & 3-way calling
But the one thing, the key thing that surprised me about
this phone was the word UNLIMITED. For
$50 a month, including all fees, you have access to unlimited phone calls and
unlimited data. You can’t really beat
that. I don’t use much my smart phone to
make phone calls, but I use the other features.
Data runs up the bill. To be able
to watch a movie, online TV, music, etc without limitations and worries, sounds like a
phone deal made in heaven.
On top of that, there is another incredible thing about this
HSN phone offer. As I understood from
the promo, after 6 months, the bill will go down and after some more months the
bill will be around $40. You can’t beat
that either. At least, I never heard of
that before and I’m no phone savvy, by the way.
So guess what? I
think you guessed it already. Impulsive
as I am, I picked up the phone and ordered the phone.
Now I'm having guilty feelings. After being an iPhone user for many years and after patiently
waiting for my new iP5 to come out in September, I feel like an iPhone traitor. Unsecured about my quick decision, I went online to research the LG Marquee.
As it usually happens with reviews, I found good and bad reviews, but
most of them were favorable. The main
complaint about the phone was that it doesn’t have a long lasting battery. That’s certainly a drawback, but I don’t use the phone much, so I guess I can live with that. Besides, as long as I have a charger at
home and one in the car, it shouldn’t matter much to me. There’s also the possibility that by now they fixed that problem.
My phone arrives today.
After much thinking and mentally debating whether I should return it and
stick to my original plan to buy the iPhone5, I concluded that I’m going to keep
it. I’ll give it a shot. I have 30 days to return it if I don’t like
it, no questions asked. But I really
hope I like my new smart phone because it’s the heck of a deal.
It’s so bad to have mixed feelings. But I am a practical person. If the LG Marquese has saved me money, will
give me unlimited access, and eventually the bill will go down to $40, then that’s
a keeper. But, we’ll see. If I’m not happy with the phone, I can always
return it or I call sell it and go back to my first choice, the iPhone5. Bad comes to worst, I have already bought the Christmas gift for one of my nephews.
Hello, hello, do you hear me now?
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