LG 840G ANDROID SMARTPHONE NO CONTRACT PREPAID PHONE WHITE TRACFONE WITH TRIPLE MINUTES

I purchased this LG840G phone as an upgrade from my current Tracfone. It is easy to navigate and the larger screen size is a plus. You can adjust the settings (color, font size, etc.) and also choose your own screen photo from one of several included or upload your own. The touchscreen is great especially when you have been accustomed to a flip phone. Calling is easy whether dialing the number or choosing from one of your saved contacts. This LG840G also shuts down when not in use so you save battery life. I only charged this phone for a short time when I received it. For those who only want a phone (and/or a camera for those moments you want to capture with family and friends), this is the one to get. You can go online or call a Tracfone representative to transfer your current Tracfone minutes & phone #. What sold me was the reviews for this phone. With the many features included--Bluetooth, email, games, camera & video, music player, etc. you get so much for the money. With a price point less than $40.00 with free S&H from a great seller on Amazon this made the choice even more attractive! Tracfone. No monthly billing, no "extras or frills" you may not want or need. A wise choice for yourself as a first time cell phone purchaser, an upgrade from a flip phone or for someone as a gift. Plus you get triple minutes for life. No matter the reason for choosing this phone, it is well worth it.

This is a good starter phone that would have any rug-rat convinced they can mimic Mom on her iPhone. There are a lot of reports about the 840's problematic Wi-Fi provision, and I am somewhat disappointed that mine also arrived with that same defect. I had more plans for this little phone that is just one step short of being an Android, and certainly the many comments and YouTube videos tell a different story of success for the many avid enthusiasts happily using this phone. But attempts to upgrade my old Tracfone began a chain of problems that finalized with a realization that its Wi-Fi would not be working for me, and ironically any further attempt to return this phone would result in a loss of remaining service time. Tracfone has more control over their phones than what they would readily reveal, but it's hardly worth the time involved in getting everything corrected when I would never consider using it in place of an Android anyway. The 840's Web browser is very basic. LG also made an attempt to provide a suitable clipboard memory in this 840, but unfortunately that fell short of expectations as well, so it's one and only success remains in its Bluetooth provision that received some improvement over its LG800G predecessor. Bluetooth remains as its one shining ability other than being a truly reliable text/voice phone that is made even less costly by allowing triple minutes. We can hope that the successor of this phone will be better provisioned and include reliable components, so if not yet decided about this phone, then I would suggest passing this one up for now in favor of the much more extensive and rewarding abilities provided in a variety of other smartphones that sell for about the same price as this mere toy. UPDATE: July 29, 2013 I made corrections above regarding this smartphone and should also state that a fair appraisal of this little phone would also include some features I neglected to cover previously. In fact it has a couple more rather welcome and significant improvements over its LG800G predecessor, the first being its ability to be connected to a PC as a mass storage device. This allows data files, videos, music, pics, etc. to be copied or moved from your PC directly to the phone's internal memory so they can be viewed, played, or sent by this phone. Secondly, it shows a superb ability to play recorded movies or video and sound podcasts and mp3 music. Videos must be converted first and conform to sizing specifications, and the directions for doing all of this can be found with a search of the Web.

Bought this for our son who isn't ready for a full fledged smart phone on our plan yet, but I wanted him to have a prepaid phone that would be a good "starter" phone and this fit the bill. We have our prepaid thru Tracfone and that way he can't accidentally go over minutes. He's able to text and talk it has and MP3 feature on it and you can even load videos on it (3gpp) but to load videos you will have to know how to convert videos to the correct format, which if you do a little internet research will not be hard to learn. You can get on the internet with this phone over wifi but it's just so cumbersome and awful I wouldn't advise trying. Other features include a calculator, alarm, notes, calendar, camera, video-camera, contacts, and games among other things. What this phone CAN'T do is download apps like a regular smart phone can. There are sort of apps I think from tracfone like maybe ringtones or some games I think, very minimal stuff that you can get... but it's so limited that it's not even really worth talking about. This would be an excellent phone for someone who is looking for just a basic phone for calling - no frills... or maybe a starter phone for a kid something that has the LOOK of a smart phone but that ISN'T a smartphone. My son's friends think he has a smart phone but he has to tell them it's really not. they think it looks like an "iphone" because it's white.

I purchased this phone as a back up phone. It's not a smart phone so don't expect it to outperform a Galaxy or iPhone, but it does everything that a smart phone does without the hassle. This phone doesn't freeze up or drop a call like some of my past android phones. The triple minutes is a great bargain and it's also great that this phone holds a charge for a much longer time than any android I've had in the past. The white is a refreshing color choice and I immediately purchased a screen protector and white silicone case to keep it looking brand new. The phone can get online with the wifi feature without burning up the minutes and takes decent photos that can easily be uploaded, texted or emailed. In my opinion, this is a choice of phone that is attractive, highly functional and reasonably priced to purchase and operate. Yes, I would highly recommend it to family and friends.

Best of the Tracfones, but I have been spoiled using Apple products. The price is right, so I will be keeping the phone, but note that the LG 840G is junk in comparison to an iPhone... * WiFi only works if you configure your router such that its SSID is always visible, which is an unacceptable security risk IMO. * I couldn't sign in to any of my email accounts, as the LG phone claimed that they were invalid. Others on the web were able to log in after changing their passwords to all lowercase, which is another unacceptable security risk. * Screen resolution is horrible, really unsuitable for any web browsing. * The plastic screen is easily scratchable. * Documentation is terrible. Not useful at all when something doesn't work. * QWERTY keypad is available only on limited screens, such as when sending IM's. A notepad is good, but who wants to hit the 9 key 3 times to get to a "y", etc. When upgrading Tracfones, note that SIM cards can't be moved between Tracfones to copy contacts. Contacts can be moved to the new phone by copying a "vcf" file onto the included 2GB micro SD card (ideally a "vcf" file containing all of your contacts, versus one contact per file), and then browsing to this file using the primitive file browser on the LG840G. When you click on the name of the "vcf" file, all of the contacts in the file will be added to the LG840G's contact list. Supposedly contacts could also be transferred using bluetooth.

I've tried to include tidbits of all kinds of useful info if you are considering buying this fun little bargain of a non-smart phone that actually has wifi AND video! Its not perfect- its got some issues, but most can be worked around. Basics: The phone arrived on time and I had absolutely no problem activating it via the tracfone website which I highly recommend using. Also be sure to google tracfone "free minutes", as there are some promos that are regularly offered by tracfone to supplement the airtime you will be buying. I bookmarked the pages with these codes because it appears they are always available. (Short background) This review is coming from someone who has owned quite a few cell phones for both business and private use and I've bought some as gifts. I needed a couple backup phones in my household and I recently picked up one of these for myself (two more as gifts) and also an LG 505c tracfone. I run my household from my no-contract Samsung Galaxy S2 from Virgin Mobile (love VM-been with them for years) and before that a Blackberry- justifying the cost by cancelling my landline. I have a great many good things to say about this phone but it could never be my one and only phone. Some reasons I've listed below. Aesthetics: It does NOT look and feel like a cheap phone. Its very solid, nice looking, slim enough and has a good combination of gloss and texture. A relative actually picked it up accidentally to leave my house then realized it wasn't hers: she owns a white i-phone. Functions: Yes, you can look at your e-mail from it - the built-in widget proved very unreliable though, repeatedly telling me it failed to send my email, even with wifi on- and it outright ignored attachments--but at the exact same time, when I logged into the same e-mail from the browser on the phone, it sent just fine and I was able to open the attachments when logging into email from the browser. What I was not able to do at ALL so far is send a photo or video from e-mail. The phone has the capacity to do so, but with no explanation reads it has "failed" to send and that I should try again. Using the browser numerical keypad is annoying- so you can save your e-mail login page as a "saved page" and just enter your user name or password to look at your mail. But then good luck replying to any e-mail with that crazy keypad. Perhaps there is a cut and paste solution if you must use this tiny phone to write emails. There is a qwerty via the phones built in e-mail "app" but like I said, it often just doesn't feel like sending mail and sending-receiving from the phone's browser via wifi ALWAYS worked. Opera mini is unreasonably small to type out emails on unless you know how to make a stylus out of a toothpick and the right kind of rubber. I tried the tip of a rubber band (ha ha ha) and it didn't work. And there is absolutely no security on this phone. There isn't even a lock code so you can leave it laying on your desk charging etc. There is 'one' lock function if you are in a pinch - but it requires you to reset it every single time your screen goes dark - which is ridiculous. Also -it doesn't really work- press enough buttons and the "lock" just mysteriously goes away- weird. Just the prospect of throwing it in my purse or pocket without a lock code makes me nervous I might automatically dial someone. (See my solution* below). Is this a tracfone ploy to squeeze out more minutes? I don't know, but my extra bargain phones of the past had codes, oh and notification lights! There isn't one of those either. Bottom line: seriously, for 29 bucks- this phone is pretty amazing. I think its the only bargain phone I know of that lets you surf wifi - no, there is no real app store, that's true - but having wifi opens up a lot of possibilities - and you can always pick up a "Kyocera Event" from Virgin Mobile for $40 bucks )don't activate it and do your mobile banking-do voice activated browsing-goof off at the play store with Ice Cream Sandwich 4.1 to your hearts content - watch hulu and netflix, almost everything--without getting involved in data plan pricing--anyway back to this little gem. People say I sound "fine" but a just little more tinny than my regular cell. And I have to say I'm impressed with the MP3 player- it sounded better than I expected (album art gets transferred as well as the music, it sorts by album, artist, song and makes playlists: no equalizer) and the video camera and camera aren't all that bad either. Yes, they are low MP, and they will get grainier when you view the videos from a larger screen on a computer, but connecting this phone to my laptop via standard micro usb and sharing music, photos and videos was a snap (nothing funky there) and the outdoor movies I took in daylight looked pretty good -indoor photos: sorta okay during day, grainy in the evening. There is no flash, of course, but just having that video camera in your pocket is so much better than nothing. The pics and video are completely comparable to an average Blackberry experience. Not too great- but in a pinch, nice to have. And you get both color and black and white which is nice-sepia too. You can increase the brightness while taking a video or picture to compensate a bit for the lack of flash when indoors. The images opened well with Quicktime, if that helps anyone out there. Yes, you can load a micro sd card into this phone ( I think its up to 32G) so it pays for itself several times over just as a reasonably sized MP3 player- you have to take off the back of the phone-its under the battery -but that's easy enough. It comes with a 2G card. Texting is pleasant enough on this phone since that is one of the few functions where the phone provides a touch qwerty. Its a comfy sized qwerty - not too small or too big either. But if you are a heavy texter, just know that for some reason the designers decided to use pretty large lettering overall, and so you can only see the titles- of THREE texts before needing to scroll down in your inbox. The LG 505c, for example, is an even smaller phone but you can see much more info on one screen. There is no threaded texting. Again, not practical for someone who has several contacts they text daily- although you CAN sort texts by contact once opened- so there's that. Yes, you can watch a teeny little screen of Youtube on this phone. It is SMALL- like ONE INCH SQUARE! but it works, and fairly well, and its loud enough and clear enough )for example) for two people seated on a couch to giggle over funny videos. I only tried it via wifi by the way. And because this is not a smart phone and has no apps running etc. navigation around the web on wifi is pretty darn fast- which is really unusual on a cheap phone-actually it can be unusual on more expensive phones too. Its not a really weird looking or dated mobile browser either. But again, it can't render all the pages - IE you can't actually look at HULU. But you can do Google searches to find the info you need while out and about and you can use the web to check e-mails from several sources for example- which allows you to erase the browsing history and keep your e-mail private. Battery life is good- then again I'm used to battery hog phones so I'm biased. The screens are a little cartoonish - for the price, who cares, but while I'm reviewing it I might as well say - the icons are set on a baby blue background- which makes it easy to see, but it isn't exactly slick. The LG 505c I ordered (also a serious bargain here on Amazon- refurbished) has nice, black screens and classier icons - reminiscent of Android smartphones-but no wifi. Also the lettering is rather pixelated compared to the LG 505c which has really crisply defined print- this LG 840g has grainier lettering both on the screens and on the browser- the browser fonts remind me of the Blackberry browser I had several years ago if you are familiar with those. I installed "Opera Mini" but the keyboard is SO MICROscopic that I think even a stylus would keep hitting the wrong letters. That's one of the only real bummers about this phone- the weird numeric touch keypad for certain web functions instead of a qwerty. Very odd. Browsing can be time consuming unless you have your favorite-frequently used pages saved. One thing I highly recommend is before you click on "browser" on this particular phone, get in the habit of clicking on "wifi" first to see that you are still connected. I go a step further and slide the wifi onto "off" for a few seconds and then onto "on" and on more than one occasion, the phone said it could not connect (I reset my router and that resolved it). If the phone loses the connection to wifi for whatever reason, you WILL get charged for accessing the web- even if you quickly press buttons to exit. Also- you can e-mail yourself wallpapers from a PC or a cool wallpapers app from a friend's android (or family photos etc.) to put on this phone for free. And no, you can't stream Pandora, but with Wifi, you can at least play songs and playlists and entertainment from Youtube for free - the headphone jack can plug into any stereo system with a 5 dollar audio cord purchase. Also- I bought these as gift for two people who have cars old enough to have cassette players above the cd players. If your car has either this, or a jack for an MP3- this will turn your LG 840g into a car-wide stereo speakerphone controlled by your car's volume so that is really nice. You just need to buy the little cassette tape converter (amazon sells them for 8 bucks and up I think). You can listen to music via MP3 and answer the phone if it rings with the press of a button as the music goes off automatically. Very nice and safe feature that works with most phones with mp3s. One odd surprise was the stock clock alarm- - instead of beeping it has this soothing morning mixture of birds chirping etc.- and whimsical graphics--though you can choose other sounds of course. There's a reasonable selection of pleasant ring tones- several I would describe as "classy." inadvertent call solution: *So I bought a squishy cover, under which I hid a thick slice of a wooden teriyaki stick on either side of the screen-on button at the top so you really have to dig your finger in to activate the touch screen- its working to prevent inadvertent calling so far. Well I hope that helps some of you out there considering this phone. Remember- you can always buy an Android and not activate it if you want lots of access to apps or way better pocket-sized access to email - but this is the only phone I've come across that can offer talk, text, camera, and touch screen combined with video and wifi all on the same device for under $10 a month. Its really a unique offering.

this phone was purchased on september 31, 2013 so i have had it for 5 months. after a few weeks of using it the battery would drain completely within 1 day of a full charge. contacted tracfone about this and they apparently worked some magic on their end because suddenly the problem went away. never had that particular problem again. 1/30/2014 the whole day the phone was unusable because it said "no service" even though i had a full year of airtime and almost 200 minutes to use and was at home where i never before had any problem with signal strength. called customer service on hubby's cell and went through trouble shooting with tech who was very hard to understand but the problem was resolved. today 2/3/2014 the "no service" problem is back. did online chat with tracfone to try to fix but was not resolved. they tell me i have to call their 800 number for further help....but i don't have a phone to make that call. i'm really not sure if this is an lg840g problem or a tracfone problem but i've used tracfone for about 18 years and never had any problems before so i think it is the phone itself. i would not recommend this phone to anyone.

First, this is a tracfone which can only be used with tracfone service. This is not really a bad thing as tracfone buys mins from the major companies and resells them to be used on their phones. You can get tracfone mins from many location to refill as needed, but just remember tho the mins carry over, they do have an expiration date... if you don't add more mins before the expiration you loose all. How it works; You put mins on the phone, txt messgs are 1/3 mins , pic messgs about 1/2 min (depends on size), and talk is per min. The nice part of this phone is 3x mins for life... put on 100 and get 300mins..Also a big plus is WIFI for email and browsing DOESN'T use mins at all Second, I don't use a phone alot, maybe 20-30 mins a month and about 100 texts to stay in touch with the kids... This phone fits my bill just perfectly... I dropped my old phone and use this and cut my cell bill in half. Third, you have to find out ( ask friends ) what cell companies work best in your area... The "G" ending of model shows it's a GSM phone. In my area that means T-mobile or AT&T as the carrier. Tho both will work,one may work better for coverage! ***Tip... is the model number on the package ends with "P4" it's an AT&T, if a "P5" its T-MOBILE.*** As to the phone; It's a HALF-SMART phone.. Unlike most most smart phones ( android, apple,etc ) this phone runs on JAVA OS... it will only run JAR apps of which ( other than games ) there are few and they tend not to be tested/inspected like from the major app stores, so be careful what you add if you do. This wasn't a problem for me as the phone comes with the major apps most need ; wifi/mp3/email/browser(not the greatest)/BT in both a2dp and hst for music and phone/cam or video/etc. So for me it works well, the apps provided are fine for basic needs.. I'd give it a 5 star if there was an app store.