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LG Prada review
|Review: April 2007
Last updated July 2009
In a nutshell: A stunning Prada-branded phone with a touchscreen display.
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Well, LG have been pushing fashion phones in a big way in recent years but now by teaming up with Prada, they have produced their most stylish phone yet. Wait, it's possibly the most stylish phone yet. It's so cool it's not even allowed to have the LG logo on it, but is Prada-branded. Yes, it's the LG Prada, or to give it its proper title, the PRADA phone by LG. The Prada phone is the embodiment of minimalist chic, with its gloss-black finish, slender size and um, hang on, no keypad! Yes, this is a touchscreen phone, with buttons displayed on the screen. These are not like the touch-sensitive buttons used in the LG Chocolate, but actually appear on the LCD screen and change according to the current menu function (see picture on right). There are two real buttons just below the screen for send and return, so you can at least switch the phone on and off without any trouble! There are also side buttons for controlling volume, the camera and music player. There's a choice of themes, but the default is black and white, which suits the look of the phone very well. When not in use, the screen virtually disappears from view, just like the Chocolate. The Prada has some specially designed ringtones too, which frankly we found irritating, especially the ones called "Noise" and "Man".
Now, let's talk about this touchscreen thing. In theory touchscreens are a great feature because 1) they're really cool, and 2) they eliminate the space taken up by a keypad so you can make a compact phone with a large screen. But in reality they suffer from certain disadvantages - mainly the fact that they can be difficult to use and can drive you nuts. The buttons are quite small, so you'll find it easier to use if you have small fingers. So, this phone may be better suited to ladies. However, if you have very long nails you may have some trouble. The menu system is actually very intuitive, and once you've got used to pressing the screen, you'll find it responsive and easy to use. Texting is done via the virtual numeric keypad, which supports T9 predictive text. This is probably the hardest thing to get used to. If you send a lot of texts, you should think really hard before choosing the Prada. On balance, the touchscreen interface is OK. Some may find it annoying; others not. In any case, sometimes you've got to suffer a little to look good! One other thing to point out is that the screen and black casing will get covered in fingerprints very quickly (unless you wear Prada gloves when handling the phone.) Prada have thoughtfully provided a branded LCD cleaner, so you can look elegant even whilst cleaning your phone. There's also an exclusive leather case, but why hide away something this pretty?
Normally when a phone looks this good, the other functions tend to let it down. But with the Prada, it doesn't just look nice, it does all the tech stuff too. We're going to rush this bit, because the tech stuff is probably not what most Prada users need to know. Here goes: 2 megapixel camera with flash - not the best ever, but good enough for snapping friends in restaurants (or wherever owners of Prada phones hang out); music player; FM radio; email with support for MS Office attachments; microSD memory card (expandable to 1 Gybte); Bluetooth & USB connectivity; EDGE data transfer. Nothing significant missing. Battery life is slightly less than average (probably due to powering the huge screen!)
In conclusion, the LG Prada fulfils its role as a high-fashion accessory for those with enough disposable income to distance themselves from the Chav crowd. It does everything you'd want (and more too), it is very gadgety but without being nerdy, and it probably won't annoy you too much with its touchscreen unless you're very impatient. In which case, you probably didn't read to the end of this review anyway. The new LG Viewty isn't Prada branded, but incorporates a 5 megapixel camera and other improvements. The LG Prada 2 launches in December 2008 and features a slideout QWERTY keyboard.
LG Prada features include:
- 2 megapixel camera with autofocus, light and 2x digital zoom
- Video camera
- Touch-sensitive screen: TFT, 262,000 colours, 240 x 400 pixels (3 inches)
- Music player (AAC, AAC+)
- FM radio
- 40 voice polyphonic ringtones
- Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email (SMTP, POP3)
- T9 predictive text
- Document viewer (PDF, PPT, XLS, DOC)
- Java games
- Memory: 8 Mbytes plus micro SD memory card slot
- Connectivity: USB, Bluetooth
- Phonebook (1,000 entries)
- Vibration alert
- Triband
- Size: 100 x 54 x 12 mm
- Weight: 85g
- Talktime: 3 hours
- Battery standby: 300 hours
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Average rating from 494 reviews:
Reviewed by Danni from UK on 9th Apr 2012
This a great looking phone and is extremely fast and has an excellent battery life.
Reviewed by Terry from Singapore on 25th Feb 2012
Agree to all the rating 1 star. REALLY RUBBISH PHONE AND THE APPLICATION KEEP
i went to lg phone service centre the people tell me this phone is like that is it no way to safe
Reviewed by Wiritpol from Thailand on 23rd Feb
I got one Prada LG. The battery life is very bad. I've to bring a long charger with it. Often hang.
Reviewed by Katie
from UK
on 24th Oct 2011
I had one of these phones ... It was my pride and joy ... Loved it but unfortunately I lost it which I was gutted about. Now I have an iPhone 4 which is total pants I miss my prada wish I knew where it is :(
Reviewed by nicola
from UK
on 24th Oct 2011
I have had my Prada phone for 5 years now and it still works perfectly ,it still looks stunning and I will only change it if I have to and that will be for the Prada update !!!
Reviewed by Lisa
from UK
on 26th Oct 2010
I've had the Prada for almost 3 years now and all of it's functions seem to still be working as they did when I first got it. The only slight problem I've encountered is that once I have written a text, on occassions, when the send button is pressed the phone goes off. I then turn it back on and try sending the same text again (which is now saved in drafts) and this time it works for some reason :S Overall it is a pretty good phone :D
Reviewed by liz
from UK
on 15th Sep 2010
I have been using one I bought second hand, I have it 3 years, The photos are great, memory card does not seem to sore mp3 ,i got no software with it . but i still love it ,I think its great!
Reviewed by pop
from UK
on 6th Jul 2010
its rubbish
Reviewed by atif
from UK
on 1st Jun 2010
i lov3 th!s phon umahh
Reviewed by louise
from UK
on 10th Mar 2010
love my phone not really into texting everyday but looks nice, camera is rubbish at night,light goes off before you take the photo. my screen has just frozen (not dropped it or anything) too scared to switch it off has wont be able to put pin in later but girl below says to take battery out so will try that fingers crossed
Reviewed by Laura Tanner
from UK
on 25th Jan 2010
Ive had this phone for over 2 years now and it has been fab! I work on a stud yard which means im around horses. My phone is all battered but i dont want to get rid of it because of the mega responsive touch screen! Ive had a go on the samsung tocco and really dont find it as responsive all. Yes it has its downsides, like a 2 song memory and a short battery life but you can charge the phone up over night and get a seperate memory card for a tenner. When i have bveen cleaning the stables out at work and filling up water buckets i have dropped my lg prada in puddles and big buckets of water and its survived! Oh and SOMETIMES the touchscreen freezes up after you have been on the phone but its sorted by taking out the battery and putting it straight back in and then it works super! HOPE THIS HAS HELPED ANYONE! :)
Reviewed by mick t
from UK
on 21st Jan 2010
never had bother with it it dos wat it says it dos with no props
Reviewed by Lauren
from UK
on 8th Jan 2010
Don't get it after 4 months it wont turn on and it wont charge.
Reviewed by Ethan
from UK
on 2nd Jan 2010
This phone sucks, I had it for 1 yr and then the touch screen doesnt work, have to turn off n turn back on to see if any luck back to normal again the phone is completely useless if the touch screen doesnt work plus the "PRADA" LOGO will disappear after one year..that is just not worth to spend that much money!
Reviewed by Sophi
from UK
on 26th Oct 2009
I used to have a LG cookie that was brilliant but on one of the reviews for the LG cookie it said the LG prada was a load better, but after using the phone for a week I am past despair with the phone. I think it is too heavy and large. It is not at all a reliable phone as mine turned off every 10 minutes for no apparent reason.My screen broke today after just 7 days. IF I WAS YOU I'D BUY THE LG COOKIE HAS SAME THINGS JUST A BIT WORSE CAMERA AND IS A LOAD CHEAPER!!!
Reviewed by Suz
from UK
on 1st Oct 2009
Ive had my phone for coming up 2 years and Im ready for a change back to a button phone-the prada has at best driven me quietly up the wall- its lovely to put on a table in public-nothing to be ashamed of there! but its a real annoying thing to rely on if your in a hurry or having a crisis and actually have to search a number and phone someone-its not that easy to text in a hurry either as the thing keeps freezing/ or repeats the last digit again and again after a cap letter or explanation mark. Nice fashion piece but not practical.
Reviewed by connor
from UK
on 2nd Sep 2009
i had this fone and it's basically awesome!
Reviewed by AK
from UK
on 1st Sep 2009
I love my new little phone its fab, only one snag i dont know how to turn off the asscending ive tried and tried ang cant do it. by the time i hear it ring i have missed the call it is a nightmare, would welcome any comment on how to do this
Reviewed by cat
from UK
on 31st Aug 2009
ive had my prada for over a year now and i havent had any ptoblems with it what so ever,battery lasts for ages,even the touch screen hasent playd up or anything like it dose on some other phones...
Reviewed by katiee
from UK
on 16th Aug 2009
had the lg prada for 2 days, seems cool battery life is pretty poor, dowsnt even last a fill day takes some time for textin and stuff. but ova than that its a good slim, cool phone thats handy jus to mess about on nd stuff :)
Reviewed by Miley
from UK
on 12th Aug 2009
I got this phone as a gift while allready have a LG cookie. anyhow the phone wasnt as straightforwad as a normal phone its kinda complicated to use but you get use to it. it can really blow people away when they see you with that phone its a keeper! the phones knew and prada is something that everyone is talking about! enjoy!
Reviewed by Rat boy
from UK
on 27th Jul 2009
I have had this phone for about a year now and have loved every min of it. The phone has had its down sides such as being slow in places and dialing is not easy apart from that it is ok. I have just moved up to the LG KS360 this feels the same accept for the keyboard but the Parada was a verry helpful phone and i would recomend it to anyone but there are better touch screens out now
Reviewed by debbie
from UK
on 14th Jul 2009
i bought the lg prada, love it, but i have a problem, when i choose one ringtone (mp3) the phone ring only the first time with the song that i choose and then change it for a ringtone that comes with the phone, i dont know what to do , hope u can help me! i think the phone is great, very easy to use, the biggest problem is the battery life, only two days.
Reviewed by Kazza
from UK
on 17th Jun 2009
I love the look of this phone but have found it quite annoying for several reasons. Firstly you can't see the screen when you're out in daylight. Secondly I've not been able to find a way of re-accessing the number pad once on a call i.e. when you need to press another number to take you through a recorded switchboard (i.e. "if you want to book an appointment - press 1"). I've had the phone for about 6 months now and the touchscreen navigation buttons have started to really slow down - it can sometimes take about 20 seconds or more to open up an option including the number pad or text message option. Which bring me to my last point - you can't directly reply to a text message - you have to go a really long way round to do so - and you can't forward on a text message either. Needless to say - I've been quite disappointed with the phone and will be going back to a Nokia as soon as my contract is up!
Reviewed by julie
from UK
on 13th Jun 2009
it has rubbish battery big problem is can only hold one or less songs and only acsesses 1 memory card scratches easily and looks tatty after a few days not a good pick would not go for this phone =[
Reviewed by AndrewBoldman
from UK
on 4th Jun 2009
Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!
Reviewed by danny t
from UK
on 29th May 2009
really rubbish
Reviewed by pete
from UK
on 11th May 2009
Ive had this phone 4 a couple of weeks now and i think its really good its got all the thinks i need and lololol i AM bored lolll
Reviewed by Adegboye adewale
from UK
on 1st May 2009
It's simply the best but can be annonying when screen misbehave by hanging.
Reviewed by Harry
from UK
on 24th Apr 2009
I had this phone for a about 2 months ...wah ...i am so disappointed...I paid almost USD 750 ...and the phone will not even synchronize with vista..it hangs almost all the time ...customer support is terrible...Please dont buy this phone...iphone is better
Reviewed by ??
from UK
on 16th Mar 2009
Reviewed by Reece
from UK
on 8th Mar 2009
Coz I like it :) LOL
Reviewed by Ellie
from UK
on 26th Feb 2009
Yeah itz a awsome phone but it feels awful it feels like cheap plastic
Reviewed by asif khan
from UK
on 20th Feb 2009
i like this phone very much
Reviewed by Samanta
from UK
on 8th Feb 2009
what a cell, i mean wow. It look's great, simply it is great. Remember it's not just a phone it's Prada.
Reviewed by Tash x
from UK
on 31st Jan 2009
INSANE- perfect simple and easy to use. Very stylish, and elegant x
Reviewed by josh halbert
from UK
on 28th Jan 2009
I rekon that it is a great phone but its not without its difficulties, sometimes it is slow and the touch is a bit harder to use unlike the iphone 3G and the multimedia memory is not that big so if you want to bluetooth big songs it does not send and when you bluetooth files to the phone it does not go to the external memory, but apart from that it is very good and flashy phone a designer phone that is good :)
Reviewed by Nabil
from UK
on 10th Jan 2009
the phone is good and it has very very bad battery life the camera`s ok but not as expected it has all the fancy stuff it deosent support all formats for music neither for vedio the it has fancy packaging nice headphones come with a prada branded case (nice) then a cloth with is prada branded the sound quality is lound and ok you can class it as a normal phone with some feature but got a touchcreen put in it
Reviewed by Phoebe
from UK
on 10th Jan 2009
Reviewed by jessica
from UK
on 9th Jan 2009
i love the prada because its got a touch screen and its a snazzy phone
Reviewed by Nathan
from UK
on 8th Jan 2009
I'm not sure if this is a bug just on my phone or if this a universal problem with this version but I've noticed if you reply to a text then save it as a draft to send later the recipient will change to the next text message down on the list. this has caused a few embarrassing text messages to my boss that were meant for my wife etc. very annoying problem and something that I have to constantly watch out for. Anyone else had this problem? apart from that I have to say the texting interface is appalling and very slow, especially to type characters/commas etc. definitely don't recommend this.
Reviewed by david
from UK
on 4th Jan 2009
awful phone to text on touch screen is total rubbish looks cheap.got rid of mine within 2 weeks takes ages to text on as the touch screen doesnt respond very well..
Reviewed by Vicky
from UK
on 27th Dec 2008
I have had this phone now for 7 months and i am absolutely sick of it! When i first got it i thought it was amazing but then i realised after about 2 months that it wasnt all that great! Wouldnt really recommend this phone and the battery life if awful!
Reviewed by Nicola
from UK
on 20th Dec 2008
Have had this phone since it was first launched,and I love it,so much in fact that I have no intentions to change it for a long time.Calls made to and from the phone are always crystal clear,and the camera produces good quality photos,excellent for me as I often forget my camera on days out!!But lets not forget the real reason to have a Prada phone,it is the coolest one to be seen with!!!
Reviewed by Bob Marley
from UK
on 16th Dec 2008
Superb intuition
Reviewed by natasha
from UK
on 7th Dec 2008
hi my name is natasha i have just got the lg prada and i love it it is an awesome phone and everything you would want in a phone is is stunning loud good camra and lots more it would be an ideal christmas or birthday prezie so if you dont no what to get that some one get them the lg prada it will make them very happy as i was when i got it.
Reviewed by Josh
from UK
on 5th Dec 2008
The worst mobile phone I have ever owned, it looks good at first sight but that is where the positive aspects end. It feels cheap, there's too much poor quality plastic on the phone, the camera is completely useless, the mp3 player is not very user friendly, overall slow response and unresponsive touch screen. Also, attracts scratches VERY easily and smudges every time you touch it, AVOID!
Reviewed by wow!
from UK
on 23rd Nov 2008
omg this fone is amazing i had it 4 a yer and had no roblems t all!! its soo easy to text and i got sum amazin pictures . sadly i dropped it and it smashed!(my fault) i luvee it one of the best fones out ther!
Reviewed by Bamagreek
from UK
on 21st Nov 2008
I have to say upon opening the box of the Prada I was WOWED! I bought this phone for my daughter for her 18th birthday and after seeing and playing with it I wanted one for myself. I found the touch screen very responsive, and I have large fat fingers! The sound quality was very clear and loud and the reception was excellent! Other phones I have had, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Blackberry have all had reception issues at my house and so far this one has been very good. However, I have had some issues that has caused me to return the phone in exchange for another one. 1. I can not use video mode at all, every time I try the phone shuts off. 2. Can't play music while doing other things - it will not play in background - just cuts off when I try. 3. Songs will not go into MP3 player, so the player has been useless to me. 4. Every song that does upload on the phone, but not into the MP3 player, uploads twice - one plays and the other says fil e is not supported. 5. Can not move music from memory card to phone. 6. Does not support any documents. 7. Disk image will not eject from computer. Now I know these are a lot of problems, but I am giving LG another chance - I think I just got a lemon and hopefully this second time around I will get a good phone. It is a very beautiful phone, the touch screen is great and very responsive and the call quality and reception quality were both admirable. I found texting to be very easy and my daughter said she texts faster on the Prada than she does on her Nokia or Samsung. As I have not seen comments on all of my problems I am assuming I did get a dud of a phone and my next one hopefully will be great! If it is, I will be getting one for myself, not just my daughter, because it is a very nice phone. We both think it is a 5 star phone, (the parts that work) but because of the problems we are giving it only 4.
Reviewed by Josh
from UK
on 19th Nov 2008
Its a great looking handset with average features and a very average camera. I bought this phone on looks alone and I was very dissapointed with the poor build quality, it just doesn't feel like a designer phone! The touch control is poor compared to other mobiles such as the viewty and the Prada Phone scratches VERY easily, even when its in the case. My advice, avoid! I'm very dissapointed with the phone.
Reviewed by Bobbie
from UK
on 18th Nov 2008
I got my prada phone yesterday and i really hate it!! i love to send txts but the touch screen slows me down and it6 takes me ages =( i was rally looking forward to getting the phone because it prada and very pretty but its been a bit of a let down! also the slightest bit of heat outside makes it very difficult to use the phone at all, which has been annoying me all day today. i think it is a great phone for people who dont txt or like all the gadgety stuff but still want a hot phone. oh well. a year to go then i can change it, but really dont buy this phone unless you only want a phone for its looks, otherwise its usless!
Reviewed by russy
from UK
on 16th Nov 2008
The most annoying phone I have ever owned. I gave it away after only 2 month, found the touch screen too hard and fustrating to use. If your fingers are fat, damp, or have long nails then this phone is not for you.
Reviewed by dude
from UK
on 15th Nov 2008
Awesome phone, had it since it came out no problems apart from once the blutooth had a problem,but lg sorted it out in a minute
Reviewed by bill bob
from UK
on 11th Nov 2008
too little memory
Reviewed by Vannie
from UK
on 7th Nov 2008
It is the worst phone I have ever had. It constantly freezes, the touch screen is too sensitive and after 2 weeks the answer button doesn't work - costing me over $200 to fix. Don't recommend it to anyone
Reviewed by emma
from UK
on 6th Nov 2008
WOW!!! absolutely love it its fantastic couldnt have wished 4 a better early xmas present all those people who moan about the texin its complete rubbish i tx at least up 2 50 times a day and i have no problem wiv it just think people shud give it a chance b4 slagging it of!
Reviewed by Lauren
from UK
on 5th Nov 2008
this phone looks kool (y)
Reviewed by sammy k
from UK
on 5th Nov 2008
its an ok phone but the memory is small u cant have many things bluetoothed to u :| x
Reviewed by Joe
from UK
on 4th Nov 2008
some of you are saying that it doesnt respond when you put a number in on an automated answering machine...well it actually does. You need to make sure that you have set the DTMF tones to On in settings. In fact, im prety sure you can do it during a call. At my shop, these phones have been selling not so well, but we have had no complaints. I used to have one and thought it was absolutely fantastic, couldnt fault it at all. I loved texting on it too, the touch screen was very very responsive. The camera also takes great pictures, but in all fairness, taking a picture takes far too long.
Reviewed by matt
from UK
on 31st Oct 2008
I'm a student and bought this phone for £100 and I reckon it's great, texting a bit of a pain but im getting used to it, yes it does scratch easily DON'T take the screen protector off and you should be OK. Battery life pretty decent, lasts me 2 or 3 days before I need to charge it. games are decent, I bought mine from orange reconditioned be warned all I got in the box was the phone and the charger and the battery, no case, no cable, no headphones! nice phone, perfect for a couple of texts a day people, not for all day texters! call quality is OK not amazing. Good phone for only 100 quid but wouldn't pay more for it, oh yh and camera not bad, great for occasional shots, I take it on holiday and leave my camera at home. think that's it :-)
Reviewed by Dione Hutchinson
from UK
on 30th Oct 2008
Its a very good and reliable phone with very unique features. You have everything you need in one phone. Its a must have phone that anybody would by. So buy it !!!!!
Reviewed by stacey
from UK
on 27th Oct 2008
DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!! I've had mine for a year, and its a complete and utter nightmare!! The screen scratches easily, even putting it in its case creates long scratch marks down the phone. The Prada logo wears off in a matter of weeks!! Using the text function is a complete and utter nightmare, and its no use if you pay your bills over the phone as it often selects the wrong options for you!! Definitely designed for the feminine of us, my brother tried to use it and nearly threw it at the wall he got so frustated with the touchscreen!! The battery life is abismal!!! I find it difficult to find anything I like with this phone!! I've finally given up on it and ordered a new phone - I'm counting the minutes until it arrives!! VERY POOR!!!!
Reviewed by callum
from UK
on 23rd Oct 2008
no no no this is the second time i have had to send it back i wish i had a armrani
Reviewed by siobhan
from UK
on 19th Oct 2008
Had this phone for 6-9mths and it has been an excellent outstanding phone, i find the texting easy, and as for the memoery if you want more you can just buy a memory stick to put in the phone problem solved, but recently i have been experiencing a rather annoying problem, which is the signal on the phone goes off and nobody can get in contact with me and the only way to get the signal back on is to turn the phone off then back on, and what you know full signal again, so obviously nothing to do with the network o2 this is the only problem i have had, apart from this i love the phone, but seeing as this is the main point of having a phone..... so people can get in contact with you, sadly it has drove me mad that much that im gonna have to buy a new phone
Reviewed by Jade Carver
from UK
on 2nd Oct 2008
I Must Say This Phone Is Excellent And I Love It. People Say It's A Brick But It Honestly Isn't. Many Of My Friends Have Asked To Look At It And Have Stood For Several Minutes Trying To Slide, Flip And Twist It To Reveal A Keypad Which Doesn't Exsist. Mines Has Unfortunately Just Broken And I Must Say I'm Gutted. If It Hadn't Of Broken I Would Have Rated It 5 Stars. But Since It Has...Sorry It Is A 4. I Love This Phone. <3
Reviewed by sahil trikha
from UK
on 24th Sep 2008
its a nice slim phone with touch screen. good in functioning.
Reviewed by fjhv
from UK
on 19th Sep 2008
sick phone
Reviewed by Katie
from UK
on 16th Sep 2008
i have had 7 of these phones now, yeah thats right i said 7!!! every one has had a problem, i would totally steer clear.
Reviewed by manger of Carphone warehouse
from UK
on 10th Sep 2008
idiot who said buy it, well we as a company have decied 2 stop selling it as it has so much problems!
Reviewed by hol
from UK
on 2nd Sep 2008
all you writing reviews havent had it long enough. i've had it a year. It scratces with ease, functions are rubbish, camera even worse. i wouldnt reccomend for the money.
Reviewed by Paula
from UK
on 31st Aug 2008
I have this phone since march and i had to replace it once coz it freez. I have often problem with txt - doesn't work and freez again. Need to admit it looks good but it always take a very long time to shot a good pix, changing settings - always extra few secs compare to others mobiles. I wouldn't buy it again ...
Reviewed by angry customer
from UK
on 28th Aug 2008
didn't the people in LG actuly try this phone before selling it ??!! problems with alarm, date , texting, touching, scratching, memory, battery .. list goes on. you wanna buy it coz it looks nice and coz its prada ? don't bother, the name will fade away with time !
Reviewed by Alyson
from UK
on 25th Aug 2008
This is the worst phone I have ever had. it is so frustrating, the touch pad freezes it dials the numbers next to the ones your pressing ad word facility on texting doesnt allow you to go back if you make a mistake and worst of al it doesnt alwaysmove on to the next day after midnight so the alarm doesnt go off, looks good but looks arent everything, cant wait to get rid of it, might go back to my lovely motorola rzr.
Reviewed by Scott Watson
from UK
on 22nd Aug 2008
Well This Phone Is Marvoulous LG have made a top design with Prada well the Prada 2 Is much better the the Prada 1 2.0 Mega Pixel Thats Ok Should Be More Known As The 'iPhone Killer' well it is 3.0 Screen 1,000 contacts 6MB Internal thats not very good But 256Mb Expandble or 2Gb Expandble No Worry With THis phone 10/10 Well done LG
Reviewed by Jill
from UK
on 15th Aug 2008
Reviewed by ye min
from UK
on 10th Aug 2008
this is easy to call
Reviewed by Nich
from UK
on 8th Aug 2008
The lg is the greatest phone that i could ever ask for.I had it for two year it capture the best times in my life, i had it before most of these other people ever had there,the lg has some downs side but to me the Lg would be the simples and best phone in stores right now.
Reviewed by bev
from UK
on 6th Aug 2008
ive had my prada for nearly 18mnths and it still works! yea the screen has a few scratches but no more than any other mobile phone. It very rarely freezes and im so used to the touch screen i cant use push buttons! only problem is it's limited when holding pictures on the internal memory! o and afetr having it 18mnths i can stil sell/recycle it for £50!
Reviewed by Lois
from UK
on 3rd Aug 2008
This was by far the worst phone I ever owned. I tried to exchange it many times, but was just sent the same phone! The main problem for me was that the ringtone is so quiet, you can never hear it ring (even on the outdoor profile) Also, the touchscreen (as expected) is difficult to use, but the screen often freezes whilst texting. It has a very slow and very poor quality internet connection.
Reviewed by laura
from UK
on 2nd Aug 2008
Its a gorgeous looking, large screened, really useful phone with lots of interesting features, I don't understand how people can say it isn't made to function - it clearly is!
Reviewed by Jonny
from UK
on 16th Jul 2008
Excellent phone, brilliant. Stop complaining about the battery life, you're doing that by using it.
Reviewed by v.k
from UK
on 16th Jul 2008
the prada is great
Reviewed by thomas
from UK
on 13th Jul 2008
ilove my prade phone but you cannot dial or click numbers once you start conversation making it impossible to listen to voicemails or topup credit with vouchers any advice people? thomas cadiff firstname.lastname@example.com
Reviewed by Kezza
from UK
on 11th Jul 2008
I had this phone and it rox !! The touch screen is fab~!! times a million and is very chic and unique !...When you are seen witht this amazing piece of technology ppl will luv it !!! Everything on it is great! xXx
Reviewed by Chinthe65
from UK
on 5th Jul 2008
Certainly the best phone I've had to date. I've had 9 Nokias in the last five years, and n one have matched this for usability, functionality and...yes, looks!
Reviewed by Jen McK
from UK
on 5th Jul 2008
Had my Prada for over a year now, do not even want to upgrade like i normally do. only fault i can find with the prada is that its practically impossible to see the screen in daylight.
Reviewed by mrs ellis
from UK
on 3rd Jul 2008
dont buy this phone it is a nightmare,when you dial a number and then need to press a number for extensions this is a nightmare to do you end up touching loads of numbers as you try to listen, the phone reception is terrible, and it brakes easly with the power button, the light also on the screen is not good looks nice for a while but is terrible for a phone
Reviewed by mark
from UK
on 28th Jun 2008
Had this phone about year or so. its rubbish...when you press 1 for voicemail, then put it to your ear, be careful your ear can operate touch tone and accidentally press 3 for delete. Scratches easily and prada logo wears off. At first it appears great but in time no good I'm affraid. So much so I looking at N82 or soul Take this advice
Reviewed by tanvir
from UK
on 27th Jun 2008
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Reviewed by Sara
from UK
on 12th Jun 2008
I've had the phone for well over 5 months now and I'm trading it in, It took me a while to admit to myself that style isn't everything, after having to turn it off 5 times in one day to restart it. The touchscreen either freezes or doesn't work at all, when using SMS, the sticks on one letter, making you have to go back and delete and start over. After a month or two, the Prada shows its true colours.
Reviewed by anna
from UK
on 12th Jun 2008
it looks great but the price is ridiculous for what you get. the camera is only 2 mega pixels and not that great, and the touch screen makes texting really fiddly! also the battery life isn't that good and you can't store much music on it! i wish i got a cheaper phone with better features, but its too late to do anything about it now. i think its really overrated for what it actually is; people only like it as its 'prada' branded, which is one of the reasons i bought it to be honest!
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from UK
on 9th Jun 2008
i like ce fone
Reviewed by Elz
from UK
on 6th Jun 2008
I havn't had my Prada for very long...this is actually my 3rd handset cause on the previous ones the date kept changing which is very odd!!! but since i've had this one its been great! i love the way it looks, feels and is so good technically! the only downside i can think of is the fact that it can only hold mp3's which if yur a music lover like me can get very annoyin! but i've just had to find mp3's but thats alrite! i would definitely recommend buying one because it's amazing! also the texting is fine, especially predictive!
Reviewed by cc
from UK
on 6th Jun 2008
Ive had 2 of these phones now in 3 weeks. the first one i had to return due to the fact the leather case that comes with the phone scratched both sides of the interface and somehow the screen. due to the fact i have not dropped the phone this is the only logical explanation, and when i take it back the store simply says theres nothing they can do even if they wanted to! so whats the point in giving the leather case as the guy in the store admitted he knew the case had done it? i wont deny the phone is stylish and a gorgeous phone to have, so ive fought it and got myself another one, this time ive bought one of the plastic clear cases, which i find protects the phone much better. i did not want a different phone as i find this one is one ofthe best i have purchased in a while. i just cand understand the case, i dont expect anyone elses has done the same?
Reviewed by Natalie (UK)
from UK
on 5th Jun 2008
Heya i got this phone for my 17th bday. Its fantastic. If ur looking for a touch screen phone then this is the phone for you!! i texts really good u can have it like a keyboard on a computer! how kool! theres also touch pad for dialing. really gud quality camera and video camera! Voice recording is really clear! storage alone just on the 256mb memory card is not gud if ur a music, photo and video fan but ive just purchase an 8gb memory card on the internet for £26! thats sure to keep me going for a lifetime! Games on this phone is really gud too so if ur bored travelling check them out. Gud themes! Really interesting text alerts it sings "Youve got mail" Has also Got mp3 player, FM radio, Alarm CLock (which ive set now twice and hasnt went off so take special care with that) world clock, unit convertor, and also blue tooth. Any more questions please write bk x
Reviewed by prada user
from UK
on 5th Jun 2008
its a nice fone but textin is quite a pain! if you use ur thumb, like i do, u'll develop arthritis in about 10 secs! its a nice looking fone, nice layout and fairly responsive touchscreen but dont expect ipod touch style elegance! overall, an ok fone and dirt cheap considering im paying £80 in total over 12 months for 700 mins and 250 texts ;)
Reviewed by jack
from UK
on 4th Jun 2008
I had this fone fo 4 weeks and i sold it 1/2 price.its sooooo big piece of rubbish.Screen wont work normally. camera sucks also.
Reviewed by Nisha
from UK
on 26th May 2008
I really hated this phone, it was soo annoying, the texting really got on my nerves i was forever having to correct the mistakes. I had never actually picked up a phone call as you forget about the lock button and you end up missing the call. The camera was good for 2MP. the MP3 player was loud. But not a practial phone having no keypad drove me nuts. I really dont like touch screens anymore.
Reviewed by Natasha
from UK
on 24th May 2008
Have got it on contract for a year, and am not happy at all. I exprerienced problems while texting, as the capital letters do not respond to the touch screen. When the earphone wire is plugged in, the mobile would go off. Eventually, had it changed by carphone. The next Prada does the same- problems typing the text, and moreover, the alarm does not work. Real pain. Can't wait to get rid of it. Looks good though.
Reviewed by Miss Katiiee
from UK
on 21st May 2008
bought lg prada sliver for my b day its g8


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Whatever Happened to Ted Turner?
The "Mouth of the South" is no longer as he devotes his time (and $1 billion) to the U.N., jets between 28 homes and four girlfriends, misses Jane Fonda and here opens up about Rupert, Jerry and his abuse as a child. Says a friend: "He's definitely changed."
Isn't that the thinnest billionaire's wallet you ever saw?" Ted Turner gloats on a drizzling day in New York. "I'm really proud of it."
He holds out the wallet, a slender, black, rather unpretentious affair, as this reporter cranes for a closer look, neglecting to mention I've never seen a billionaire's wallet before. It contains Turner's driver's license, two credit cards, lists of his appointments for the next couple of days (he doesn't use e-mail), a few phone numbers and about $1,000 in cash -- though what on earth for, he doesn't say, since he never shops.
The tycoon-turned-philanthropist has removed the wallet from his blazer to show me a printed card with his "11 Voluntary Initiatives," an oddly naive reinvention of the Ten Commandments that he concocted some 15 years ago, including such vows as "I promise to care for Planet Earth and all living things thereon, especially my fellow beings."
He leans forward, adamant about reading each one. "Listen, these are important," he insists. "I worked on them for a long time."
It's a rare burst of energy from this man who once epitomized it. At age 73, there's almost no trace of the frenetic, hyper-kinetic mogul once known as the "Mouth of the South" and "Captain Outrageous." His antics (from keeping a pet alligator as a student to almost losing his life in a 1968 sailing race) and innovative empire-building (turning a tiny TV station into a nation-spanning "superstation" and launching the first global TV news network, CNN) have made him the stuff of legend, putting his present absence from the media scene in stark relief.
Without him, we wouldn't have an all-cartoon channel or an all-movie channel -- maybe not even cable television itself, with all its glorious target programming, its 24-hour sports, passionate punditry and unreal reality.
"He's a genius," says former CNN president Tom Johnson. "He was exceptionally important in the media landscape. We shall not look upon Ted Turner's kind again."
Even his onetime friend, former Time Warner chief Gerald Levin, who ousted him in a putsch that severed their relationship, acknowledges: "Some people have transcendent notions about changing the world. Ted believed, in his unstoppable fashion, that he could -- and did. He was and is maddeningly gifted with a spark of genius."
Many pundits expected that spark would help him outlast his older rivals (Viacom and CBS Corp. chairman Sumner Redstone, 88, and News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, 80) at the summit of the media. But unlike them, he has moved on, giving up the executive life to "save the world," as he puts it, an endeavor that began with his unprecedented $1 billion gift in support of the United Nations in 1997. This, along with other philanthropies he's launched, has been his mandate for much of the past decade -- more than a mandate, a mission. That he made the best choice for the world seems certain; whether he made the best choice for himself is less clear.
"He really misses it a lot," says his daughter, Laura Turner Seydel, 50, chairman of the board of the Captain Planet Foundation, referring to his role at Time Warner. "It was his baby. I think he'd still be there if he'd not totally gotten screwed."
Turner goes to bed right after dinner most nights, switching off the light around 9, following an hour of reading.
This onetime social gadfly, who hobnobbed with President Carter and Soviet chief Mikhail Gorbachev (whom he still cites as his hero), has a relatively quiet social life. "I have several good friends but not one [in particular]," he says. "I never think about who are my best friends; they're all my best friends. I confide on certain things with my family, my close girlfriends, Phil [Phillip Evans, vp and chief communications officer of Turner Enterprises]. I have good relationships with a lot of people. In fact, I don't have very many enemies, [though] I've lost a lot of good friends who passed away."
Turner doesn't pay attention to TV anymore, other than CNN. "I don't watch entertainment," he says. As for CNN's sister network, HLN, "the News and Views Network" featuring Nancy Grace: "I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news."
Instead, he spends an average of an hour and a half each day reading nonfiction -- The Economist from cover to cover, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal whenever he can, along with substantive tomes including environmentalist Lester R. Brown's World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse and Catherine Crier's Patriot Acts: What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic.
As one might expect from this, he's hardly devoid of political opinion: "I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better. He's alienated a lot of people -- not deliberately or anything." By contrast, "Certainly the Tea Party people are mean-spirited. It's so heartbreaking to have [them] say that global warming is a hoax."
After reading, Turner retires. In addition to taking medication for an irregular heartbeat, in mid-2011 he learned he had sleep apnea, a disorder involving abnormal interruptions in breathing. "I've had it for years, a rare form; I'm using the [positive airway pressure, or PAP] machine at night, and that's helped some," he says.
He wakes around 4 a.m., "takes several pills, like most of us," then gets up at 6 and does a light workout. He drives a Prius and adds, "I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years" -- even clothes.
He says all this with little of the flamboyance that was once his mark. His depleted energy troubles some of the 300 former staffers and executives who remain intensely loyal and who reunited with him for a cocktail reception at Atlanta's Hilton in November. Several acknowledge the man they found was quite different from the human tornado of the past. "I don't know if it's because of what happened at Time Warner or if it's just getting older," says one. "But he's definitely changed."
The reformed drinker, who embarrassed himself after winning the 1977 America's Cup with a drunken performance at a news conference, no longer touches a drop. "I quit completely a year ago, but prior to that, all I've drunk is a glass or two of wine," he says. "I haven't been a heavy drinker in years -- not even a moderate one. I didn't like the way it made me feel." He gave up without joining Alcoholics Anonymous: "I never needed to."
Turner sees a psychiatrist friend once a month, though he qualifies, "I'm not in therapy; it's just somebody to talk to." He took lithium for a few years but now blames it on a psychiatrist who wrongly diagnosed him as manic depressive. What he has, he says, is "a mild to moderate case of anxiety. But I don't suffer from depression. The word doesn't exist for me."
He may lack the ebullience of his earlier years, yet Turner shuttles endlessly among his 28 properties -- 14 of them ranches with 55,000 bison -- traveling hundreds of thousands of miles per year on his private Challenger jet, making numerous speeches when he's not communing with nature in the "wilderness," as he puts it. With nearly 2 million acres, he was America's largest landowner until his friend, Liberty Media chairman John Malone, surpassed him. ("He said he was sick of me being No. 1 in land ownership. But he didn't give $1 billion to the U.N., so he can afford it," Turner quips.) He retains, according to Forbes, a $2 billion net worth.
His energy may be flagging, but some drive keeps propelling him forward, in an unending race to achieve more -- or outrun his inner demons.
The 2001 departure of Jane Fonda from his life, after a 10-year marriage, may have fueled this. He admits it shook him profoundly and perhaps contributed to the sense one has of his being emotionally adrift, no matter how vast his accomplishments. Often, during our conversations, he tunnels down a track of his own -- spending 15 minutes on his Voluntary Initiatives, for instance -- as if his mind is full of his own thoughts and private obsessions.
He has replaced Fonda with a new arrangement, alternating among four girlfriends, each of whom gets approximately a week per month of his time. "Pretty much, that's the general rule," he says.
One, novelist Elizabeth Dewberry (His Lovely Wife), is with him here in New York, where he's spending some time for U.N. Week. Charming and refined, she assures me in the few seconds we get to speak that Turner is affectionate and fully loving, whatever Fonda's statements may have implied to the contrary. But Dewberry's history is almost as complicated as her lover's: She was married to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler, who wrote a somewhat extraordinary e-mail to his colleagues when she left him for Turner. "She will not be Ted's only girlfriend," he mused. "Ted is permanently and avowedly nonmonogamous. But though he has several girlfriends, it is a very small number, and he does not take them up lightly, and he gives them his absolute support when he does. And Elizabeth's leaving me is as much about the three weeks a month she is alone as it is about the week a month she is with Ted."
Turner doesn't name the other women in his life. When asked if they are OK with this division of spoils, he hesitates. "Sort of."
He misses intimacy, he says, but recognizes: "I've been married three times, and with my background in baseball [Turner owned the Atlanta Braves], I remember the first rule of the game is, three strikes and you're out. I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is." Is he lonely? He pauses. "Maybe a little."
Ensconced in a vast windowless basement at the U.N. for a conference on women and children's health, Turner appears isolated in the very locus of his passion, even with Dewberry and his colleague Evans at his side. He barely moves, rarely talks. His deafness contributes to this: He wears two hearing aids and says: "I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough."
With a mind that still bubbles with invention and an IQ of 128 ("in the 97th percentile," he says), he has turned his unequaled gaze on the nonprofits that have become his abiding love: The U.N. Foundation, established with former Democratic Sen. Timothy Wirth of Colorado as its president to promote the aims of the U.N.; the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which he co-chairs with former Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia, championing projects such as the conversion of reactors around the globe; and the Turner Foundation, which among other pursuits bestows ecosystem-safeguarding grants.
"I'd been thinking about doing something to help the U.N. for a long time," he explains about the first of these, founded with his $1 billion gift (a third of his then-fortune). "I was really upset and disappointed that the U.S. at that time had trouble paying its bills. And going back, I was concerned about the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and worried that if there was another world war, it could be the end of civilization. The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees -- things that no one country could do."
He says this is his focus now and, whatever his daughter's opinion, he appears uninterested in the media environment he helped build as founder of Turner Broadcasting System and Cable News Network.
"It's been 12 years since I've been gone, but if you only had one news network, and there really was only one when CNN was there, would you make it a serious news network?" he ponders. "When you've got dozens -- or many -- then you can go in different formats. You could go right-wing like Fox News, you could go after a segment of the market and maybe you would be more successful than if you were going for the whole market." Looking back, even he admits: "CNN wasn't perfect. We spent several days when Jessica McClure fell down the well, and we covered O.J. [Simpson] driving around L.A. But those were such interesting stories."
Now he has sold his shares in CNN parent Time Warner, whose plunging stock price following the AOL merger in 2000 cost him $8 billion of his estimated $10 billion fortune. Other than a solar-energy project he recently developed with the Sutton Co. in New Mexico and his chain of 44 restaurants in 16 states, Ted's Montana Grill (which showcases the bison he breeds), business doesn't entice him.
Except for brief shots across the bows of erstwhile rivals such as Levin and Murdoch, Turner has said goodbye to all things media, where he once reigned and in which role he told his executives to spend "whatever it cost" to cover the Gulf War, refusing to buckle when President George W. Bush called his top news executive and pleaded for him to withdraw CNN's reporters from Baghdad.
Turner only partly regrets his severed friendship with Levin, the man who effectively fired him from AOL Time Warner, as it was known then. "I mean, it's pretty hard to love someone who fired you, particularly from a job you really liked," he says. "But I don't hate Jerry. I don't even hate Rupert."
As for Murdoch: "He should resign or step down" if News Corp. did indeed break the law. "When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. If they broke the law by wire-tapping, that's illegal, [and if Murdoch knew] he'd have to go to prison. If anybody else did, they'd be going to prison."
Murdoch's critics would embrace Turner's return to the fold, but just when the media needs him most -- when he is one of the few people who could challenge his former nemesis (whom he once compared to Hitler) for supremacy, turn the various Housewives and innumerable Kardashians on their heads and maybe even reinvent TV as we know it -- he has exited, probably never to return.
Ted Turner sprang unformed onto the business stage at age 24, following the death of his father, Robert Edward Turner.
The older Turner was a wealthy but brutal patriarch who beat Ted with a razor strap as far back as he can remember. "In the old days, they didn't have safety razors, they had straight razors," he explains, sitting in a bland, borrowed office at his U.N. Foundation's midtown Manhattan headquarters, the day after the U.N. gathering.
"The way you sharpened a straight razor was with a leather strap that was in every barbershop. Not only that, people had them in their bathrooms. It made the knife very sharp -- that's where the phrase came from, 'razor sharp.' He hit me with the strap."
Each time, Ted refused to succumb to his father's authority, until one day the older man lay face down on a bed, exasperated, and told his son to spank him. Turner, then a child, broke down sobbing. But as tears gushed forth, he refused.
"That's right -- I couldn't," he says. "Because I loved him."
On March 5, 1963, under the influence of alcohol and pills, battling depression and worried about a $4 million purchase that had expanded his Turner Outdoor Advertising into the largest billboard company in the south, Turner senior shot himself dead at age 54. He left behind Ted and his mother, Florence, a housewife. (A younger sister, Mary Jean, had died from complications of systemic lupus erythematosus, an immune system disease, at age 17.)
The suicide shattered the family, but it's something Ted acknowledges having contemplated too. "I've thought about it and decided against it -- in the past, not recently," he says.
Devastated, he nonetheless seized control of his father's enterprise. He already had dropped out of Brown University to join the company. Now he made the first of many brilliant moves, using the threat of lawsuits to regain control of assets his father had sold just before his death.
During the next few years, he would build on what his father had created and grow the company into a fledgling empire, in a way that bears uncanny parallels to his dark twin Murdoch, a man similarly summoned to take over his father's business at age 21 when Keith Murdoch died of cancer in 1952. The Murdochs ran newspapers in Australia; the Turners operated billboards in Georgia. But each son took the opportunity to shine.
After consolidating the billboard company, Turned acquired several local radio stations, then made a giant leap with the 1970 purchase of a UHF station. Six years later, he turned it into the country's first "superstation," with the breathtaking use of a satellite to transmit programming to cable companies throughout the U.S., launching Turner Broadcasting System.
What Turner did, says longtime colleague Scott Sassa, now Hearst Entertainment & Syndication president, was create "disruptive media." At any given time, Sassa explains, executives in power tend to "develop systems and ideas. What Ted did was no different than the Internet: He exploited a newly available technology -- satellite -- and so changed the order of what happened."
While doing this, Turner married Judy Gale Nye, then divorced; he subsequently married Jane Shirley Smith, only to divorce a second time in 1988, leaving him with five kids whom he cherishes but who have said he was a tough father -- certainly an absent one, even if generous.
"I lived at my office," Turner explains, especially after he acquired the Braves in 1976 and spent most evenings at ballgames. "That put me on an 18-hour day. I was never home for dinner."
Turner bought the Braves for more than $10 million, partly to guarantee programming for his burgeoning TV empire. As it grew, in 1986 he made a roughly $1.6 billion purchase of the MGM library for its films (giving him the material to found TNT and Turner Classic Movies) and bought the Hanna-Barbera studio in 1991 (allowing him to create Cartoon Network).
But Turner's most brazen move came in 1980, when he founded CNN.
In 1978, he had pitched the idea for CNN at the Western Cable Show. Several TBS insiders were afraid it would bankrupt the company, especially given that cable reached only about 10 million homes at the time and this meant charging 15 cents per subscriber per month. Total cable fee revenue at first was only $18 million, nowhere near enough to cover the network's expenses. Advertising sales helped, but not entirely.
On July 1, 1979, having hired two top execs -- Reese Schonfeld and Burt Reinhardt -- Turner decided to go ahead with the network nonetheless, moving into a former golf clubhouse in Atlanta as headqua rters. He persuaded Daniel Schorr to join him as CNN's first brand-name journalist, then sold WRET to Westinghouse for about $20 million to keep CNN afloat. Turner continued to hire the best newsmen, who would come to include Lou Dobbs, Bernard Shaw and Wolf Blitzer, and convinced them to follow him to Atlanta.
CNN's prominence today makes it easy to forget that it was almost stillborn -- not least when the satellite it required simply disappeared, forcing Turner to mount a life-or-death legal battle to get a slot on another one.
Throughout CNN's emergence, nobody believed an all-news, all-the-
time network could function -- except Turner. But he was convinced that audiences wanted a venue where they could find information whenever
they wanted, and from the beginning proclaimed his faith in the enterprise, announcing, "We won't be signing off until the world ends."
He never achieved his goal of having a bureau in every major city around the world, but his foreign coverage was unrivaled -- and so was his belief in objectivity, even when it led to criticism in the early 2000s that he was showing the Iraqi point of view. "He had a near-fanatical belief that we should be fair," Johnson says.
In those years, Turner was at his dazzling best. "He was the most inspirational person I've ever worked for," says Arthur Sando, his longtime marketing executive. "He leveraged everything he had for what he believed in. He was a leader, had a great heart and tremendous vision. He was honest and loyal, with a terrific sense of humor."
In October 1996, Turner Broadcasting merged with Time Warner, valuing the former at more than $8 billion, with Turner becoming vice chairman of the parent company under Levin. But Turner was a rare voice of dissent opposing Levin's desire to merge with AOL. For the latter (who declined to comment on specifics), this would be his greatest legacy -- and later failure; for the former, according to his 2008 memoir Call Me Ted, it flirted with disaster. Against his better instincts -- in a way that seems oddly out of character -- the executive capitulated and gave Levin the support necessary to carry through his deal.
It was the beginning of the end for Turner's role at Time Warner.
As Levin and his new partner, AOL's Steve Case, restructured the company, they envisioned a reduced role for their associate. "When I merged with Time Warner, I knew there was a fair chance I wouldn't be there forever, because that's normally the case: The entrepreneur doesn't make it through [the transition]," Turner says. Still, it came as a shock in 2000 when Levin called to tell him most of his responsibilities were being reassigned. Technically, he would remain vice chairman until 2003, but, as Turner says in his book, "For the first time in my life, I'd been fired."
It is one of the "great mysteries: Why Ted was fired when he was the largest shareholder and unbelievably supportive of Jerry Levin," Johnson reflects. Even Turner remains perplexed, as if he hasn't fully come to terms with it all these years later. "I thought I'd been doing a good job -- I'd been Time's man of the year [in 1991]," he says. "No one else there had been man of the year. They fired the only one who had."
The firing marked the conclusion of Turner's career as a business icon and the commencement of his work as a full-time philanthropist, the work that is central to this third chapter of his life and such a remarkable departure from the young man who set out to make a fortune.
Through his foundations, Turner has gone from being the brash businessman and consistent Republican (even when his style seemed distinctly unconservative), to the progressive provocateur able to alienate even the entrepreneurs who most adored him, to the man he is today: tall and ramrod straight, but with a slight stoop to his shoulders as if the world weighs heavily on him; a solitary, almost messianic figure.
His passion to "change the world" led him to consider running for president against Bush the second in 1999 (either as a Democrat or Independent), his daughter says, noting her father planned to set aside $75 million for his campaign, fully aware he might lose, and only opted
not to run because "Jane Fonda told him she'd leave him if he did. So he didn't -- and she left him anyway."
This arch-conservative, entrepreneurial giant and military-school graduate had done a 180-degree turnaround to become one of America's most iconoclastic liberals.
It's evident in the very symbols of his heroes that he keeps in his Atlanta office. Over the years, Horatio Nelson and Alexander the Great have been replaced by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. -- whose Ebenezer Baptist Church, appropriately, is within walking distance of Turner's base.
Turner was twice divorced when he learned fonda had split with her second husband, liberal politician Tom Hayden. He'd briefly met her years earlier and admired what he saw, so he called her. At that time, the actress was too shattered to think of dating but suggested Turner phone again six months later. He did so, to the day, and they embarked on a romance that would lead to marriage in 1991, when he was 53 and she was 54.
She influenced him in "lots of ways," he says. "She's as opinionated as me, if not more. In areas like the status of women, she probably was even a little stronger than me, though I was always very much in favor of people's rights and equal treatment for women."
Fonda's decision to leave him in 2001 was devastating. At the time of their divorce, Turner reportedly said it was fueled by her announcing, "I've become a Christian." Their settlement, according to other reports, involved his paying her $40 million. And then he had to let her go. "I couldn't do anything else. What am I supposed to do, sit down and cry? I did for six months," he says. "And after that, you gotta go on."
It's intriguing to compare their responses to the marriage. At The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment breakfast in December, Fonda said she had spent too much of her life "being defined as so-and-so's wife." (She declined repeated requests to be interviewed for this article.) By contrast, "Ted's still in love with her," Johnson says. "I've thought many times he would love to have her back. They were such an unbelievable couple. It's almost as though they discovered in each other the person who had the ultimate in shared values -- not to mention great sex."
The two still speak "about once a month," Turner notes, praising her recent book, Prime Time. Rather than blame her, he blames himself, admitting life with him can be difficult: "[Jane said], 'I want two homes -- a winter home and a summer home; I don't want 10.' And she couldn't take the travel. Really, it's much harder for a woman than a man."
Today, without fonda, on some deep level Turner is alone -- no matter his numerous loyalists, four girlfriends and dizzying accomplishments. It's something he regrets, and that perhaps feeds his insecurity, evidence of which comes and goes throughout our conversation.
He constantly blurts out such things as, "I pushed up against the limits of what a human being could do. And look at my accomplishments. I mean, I won the America's Cup; I won the World Series; I think I won over 1,200 prizes. I have 46 honorary degrees."
"He is very insecure," Johnson confides. "After he was named something like Time's man of the year, he held up the magazine in front of several people and said, 'See, Dad, I made it after all!' "
It's been nearly 50 years since his father died, and now Turner is starting to contemplate his own mortality. His daughter Laura says he speaks frequently of his funeral, repeatedly changing the plans -- he's talked of having Willie Nelson sing "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" or having his ashes scattered over his properties or being laid out Native American-style and "having the birds pick the skin from his bones."
"Most super-achievers don't make it to 73," Turner reflects. Once virulently anti-religious, doubt rather than certainty defines his thinking now. He calls himself "a little bit religious -- that says it pretty well. But I'd like to think there's somebody looking after us."
DOING A DEAL WITH TED BACK IN THE DAY: The former president of Turner Entertainment remembers his boss' wild negotiation for Hanna-Barbera
Ted always did his own thing. I'll give you the best example. We were going to buy animation company Hanna-Barbera. The underbids at the time were between $150 million and $200 million from Universal, Warner, Fox and somebody else. I had just hired a woman from Allen & Co., and she said, "Shouldn't we have a bid session?" So we go see Ted, and we're talking to him. He's going to fly into a hangar in Ohio to meet Carl Linder to make the deal. I said, "Ted, we should have a bid session." He goes, "What's that?" I said, "Well, we sit around and we strategize what we're going to bid, how we're going to do it." He goes, "That's a great idea!" And he stands up to walk me out of the office. I get to the door, and I say, "No, I'm not leaving until we talk about this." He goes, "Well, OK, let's do that, then." I said, "All right. The underbids are between $150 million and $200 million." He said, "OK. Well, how many cartoons do I have?" I told him. "How much did I pay for that?" I told him. He does the math. "How many do they have?" He does this thing, and he goes, "Well, I kind of think it needs to be $350 million." I said, "Well, there are a couple of problems with that. One is, you're not that good at math, and two is that $350 million is exactly the ask." He goes, "What's wrong with that? That's what he wants, I want to get it." I said, "Well, you can't do that, we've got to do something else with the underbids going much lower; we need to be much smarter about this." And so we stood in his office and fought, and we got down to $325, and I looked at him and said, "You have to swear to me that you won't go over $325." He goes, "I won't," and he shook my hand. Went out, gets the deal, and this is what's great about Ted: Two weeks later, we announce the Cartoon Network, and our stock price went up a billion dollars. Cartoon Network was launched with less than $15 million of negative cash, and it throws off about $400 million a year. -- Scott Sassa, as told to Alex Ben Block
5 TURNER CLASSICS: The mogul has been loose-lipped throughout the years on subjects including politics, religion and Rupert Murdoch.
"What are you? A bunch of Jesus freaks? You ought to be working for Fox."
-- 2001, on Ash Wednesday, when Turner noticed black marks on the foreheads of several CNN staffers
"They're a sovereign state. We have 28,000 [nuclear bombs]. Why can't they have 10? We don't say anything about Israel -- they've got 100 of them approximately -- or India or Pakistan or Russia."
-- 2006, on Iran's nuclear capabilities
"It will go down in history as one of the dumbest moves that was ever made by anybody. A couple of others that come to mind were the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the German invasion of Russia."
-- 2006, on the U.S. invasion of Iraq
"I should have said he's a disgrace to journalism. But an Australian disgrace to journalism."
-- 1996, apologizing for having compared Rupert Murdoch to Hitler
"That was probably my most unfortunate comment. I don't apologize nearly as much these days because I don't say as much, and I'm more careful."
-- 2008, about his comment years earlier that Christianity is "a religion for losers"


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