LG Optimus Showtime or Huawei Ascend Plus?

Quite likely its the name, Huawei are known for cheaper phones, both in price and in quality.
Some models are good (enough) and the cheaper price is great but some are junk.

 

Huawei is also fighting ongoing image issues: Huawei - Wikipedia

 

Seems to me the Huawei runs smother vs the LG.
I got rid of the Huawei and got the LG. Now I'm staring to have 2nd thoughts.

 

Well I have had this phone for almost a month. Runs pretty smooth. Yes it has a front facing camera and seems to do skype video calls flawlessly. My main gripe is the SD memory, or lack of... It has a SD micro slot under the cover, just above the battery. The phone reads (while this slot is empty) that there is already a 2GB card in the phone. I tried to add a 16GB micro card to this slot and it doesn't read it no matter what I do. Since this phone is still new I haven't ran into anyone else having this problem but maybe someone else has an answer.

(UPDATE) Well apparently I had the card formatted wrong, eFAT. I reformatted it to FAT32 and default settings while plugged into a WIN7 PC and now the SD micro card works perfect in it. I cant say I have any complaints at all about the phone now.

 

I bought 3 Huawei Ascend Plus phones about 2 weeks ago when I bailed contract carriers. I thought I did my homework well researching in my spare time all the phones and different prepaid plans. I do have to say I'm very impressed with the responsiveness of the phone and how smooth it feels. However, getting back to the sdcard mentioned above, I bought three 32 gb sdcards and found I cannot move movable programs to it. When I try to move them an icon pops up and says it failed. I am curious if your able to move programs to the sdcard ok? The phone accepted my sdcard with no hassle, just seems to be mostly unuseable, this is especially important because internal memory on this phone is almost nothing.

 

I have a Optimus Showtime and it is Great! I fell in love with it and use it everyday with no problems. Very easy user interface and is way better than other phones Straight talk offers. Only problem is no WiFi hotspot but other than that great phone!

 

Not real sure about the plus but the wife and I both have the ascend II and I would not recommend them to my worst enemy. We have had them only about 4 months and hers randomly calls whoever is in her contact list, and mine will not recognise the sd card anymore, it is like it is not even there. I tried it in another phone and it works fine.

I am getting ready to buy the LG showtime and give it a try.

 

I got the huawei ascend plus. So far its been a great phone. Had it a month now. I rooted it and also set my default app location to the sd card. Have my back up done(with titanium root). The only thing is that typing on google chrome is a bit choppy. I have a 32gb card in it. Have a few movies and it plays them all fine with mx player. Now you have to remember this isn't a s4 or Xone. It's a cheap phone and for the money its a great bargain.

Now l use this phone for a phone mostly and bluetooth teather my internet to my note 8.0. So l use my phone for other stuff only when l don't have my tablet

 

FWIW, I have a 32 gigger in my h881c & apps xfer to it w/0 problem. My main gripe with the phone is the same as yours -- internal memory might as well not be there. I'm dang tired of getting the imbecilic "insufficient space available" insult whenever I try to add an app. Having this spit-little available (actually less than 100 megs open for apps) when I have a huge 32 gig backyard, is a royal slap in the face.

 

I dont have a screen protector on mine and luckly l haven't had a scratch yet. I was very worried about it being the screen was plastic.

Now being it has low ram it takes a bit longer to open apps than say my htc evo 3d, droid bionic, razor m, or my tablets do/did. Give it a second and it works fine. That has taken a little to get used to

There was an update to chrome and the choppyness is now gone. Makes browsing the internet a much better experience.

 

Yeah, ST seems to be really grouchy about tethering. I can't for the LIFE of me see why! [mock-innocent look, arch eyes waaaayyy skyward]. Reasonably happy with the Plus so far, & haven't run into any throttle-back issues ... at least not yet. }}

One of the first things I did on ours was to add screen protectors.

 

I have the showtime and as said it runs via verizon towers, but the closest tower is about 20-25 miles away from me. can i change towers or something I dont even have the phone activated just stuck with wifi for now n it sucks. I love this phone and got a heavyduty case to ensure i keep it safe. I really want to use it OUTSIDE of my house lol

 

I have had the showtime before and I had so may problems with it it's unreal! My battery would only charge to 98 percent every time I charged it. my RAM would be taken up by useless apps. every android game I tried to play it lagged. this was unacceptable so I take it back and get a refund and got the huawei ascend plus. the Huawei ascend plus always charge to 100% percent and play the game very smoothly. even though the phone that I have now has less RAM the showtime it is not taking up my useless applications. if I were you I would take the Showtime back and get the ascend plus.

 

Another thing I would like to add Is that i left my phone on all night last night and my phone was like at 70% and I woke up at and it was at 70% and I had 3g running all night and I had a lot of apps running in the background. So all I am saying Is that the Huawei ascend plus has a great battery.

 

Im looking at the majesty as my ascend plus replacement.

 

I got the majesty and had it almost a month now and love it. Much better phone than the ascend plus. Its more like a higher end phone instead of a nicer cheap one. It doesnt lag or anything. My only complaint with it is the screan sensitivity. Not as sensitive as the huawei. You have to press a little harder. Other than that its really nice

 

Anyone care to help me root my h881