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| LG PHONES |
Welcome to LG Phones, a part of infoSync Reviews. Here you'll find in-depth reviews of LG phones that are subsidized by AT&T Wireless, Sprint and Verizon Wireless. If you don't find the LG phone you're looking for here, please check out the following resources: Resource Center for Cell Phones, Ask The Editors and Expert Guides.
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| LG enV Touch |
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 The LG enV Touch is certainly a superior device compared to the LG Voyager, even though the new phone lacks V Cast Mobile TV. Instead, the enV Touch gets 2 high-resolution displays (hint: one's still better than the other), a slew of multimedia and messaging features, and enough power to show off those big displays with fancy video playback and Web browsing with Flash Lite. We'd have liked to see some new ideas from Verizon Wireless for this phone to give it advanced access to the online social networking services that are most popular with this phone's potential audience. Still, if you're looking for something different, a solid phone all around with a great screen (or two), the LG enV Touch gets the job done nicely. Release: June 2009. Price: $100.
Pros: Great, hi-res, colorful internal display. Nice mix of multimedia, messaging and calling features. Great keyboard.
Cons: External screen doesn't compare to internal screen. Touch interface wasn't reliable or responsive. Menus were discombobulated, at times basic.
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| LG enV3 |
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 Of all the compact QWERTY phone designs (check them out here), we like the LG enV model the best, with its small but useful external screen and its roomy internal keyboard and display. The phone was a bit thick and chunky but it was so comfortable to use, with large keys inside and out, that we hardly noticed its size. The new LG enV3 is even better than its predecessors, with its ability to download and sync corporate e-mail and contacts, its improved call quality and multimedia experience, especially in video. It isn't perfect, as the Web browser and the 3-megapixel camera left us disappointed, but there are more advanced phones for those features. The messaging apps could also use an update to bring SMS into the modern age, but overall this is a very likeable phone, and easy to recommend to folks who want a compact texting machine with a few clever extras onboard. Release: June 2009. Price: $80.
Pros: Simple, elegant design with a great internal screen and keyboard. Improved in every way over predecessor, especially in call quality and corporate e-mail features.
Cons: Messaging apps could use some polish. Web browsing and camera disappointing. Small external screen good, but could be much cooler.
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| LG Versa |
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 The LG Versa is a very nice phone, both unique and well-designed. The interface is snazzy and modern, with plenty of cool ideas and useful shortcuts that make it a pleasure to use. It's a definite step up from the problematic LG Dare. Unfortunately, it seems that while LG was doing so much work to create a great phone, Verizon Wireless sat on their laurels, and the phone is saddled with some of the worst messaging, navigation and music apps in the industry. It's too bad, as there is so much potential for the cool modular design. We're excited to see how far LG and Verizon Wireless can extend the selection of modules, and we're hoping for unique ideas that add value to the phone and push it beyond its competitors. But based on the Verizon apps we found on the phone, its more likely The Network will take the easy way out and end up disappointing early adopters. Our verdict: wait and see if this platform takes off or if VZW treats it like the magical phone that lives under the stairs. Release: March 2009. Price: $200.
Pros: Cool modular design works nicely. Excellent interface design with plenty of useful shortcuts. Flash-enabled Web browsing.
Cons: Screen can be unresponsive in some apps, especially the Browser. Pathetic selection of messaging apps. Mediocre call quality. No extra modules available at launch.
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| LG Rumor2 |
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 The LG Rumor2 is a sequel to one of the original compact messaging phones with a full QWERTY keyboard (check our comparison of recent compact QWERTY phones here.) The LG Rumor2 gets the design part mostly right, but ironically fails to keep up with the Samsung Rant, a phone that is a better sequel to the original LG Rumor than the LG Rumor2. We think that budget-conscious messaging users might be enticed by the phone's Outlook Web Access for corporate e-mail and contacts, and those folks won't mind the lack of 3G, as well as the lack of the Sprint Music Store and Sprint TV. But the younger crowd will miss the social networking and fun applications that make the Samsung Rant a better choice. Until Sprint drops the price (to $0), or adds One Touch functions, we say go for the Samsung Rant. Overall, the LG Rumor2 is simply an underpowered clone of a phone that stole the show it wrote. Release: March 2009. Price: $30.
Pros: Improvement over the original LG Rumor. Better keyboard, better interface. Nice, advanced e-mail app.
Cons: Haven't we seen this before? Lacks 3G. Few fun or new messaging options, like Facebook or Gtalk. Ineffective Web browser.
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| LG Incite |
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 LG has mostly missed the target so far with touchscreen phones, never coming close to what Apple has achieved on the iPhone, and even lagging behind native rival Samsung on all-touch devices. Is it a coincidence that in the same week Samsung brought their all-touch, Windows Mobile-powered Samsung Omnia to Verizon Wireless, LG dropped the LG Incite on AT&T? Who knows. But even with all the problems we had with Samsung's device, the LG Incite suffers even more under the crushing weight of Windows Mobile, an interface that was not remotely designed for touch. LG has added a menu atop the professional interface, but hasn't extended any style or ease-of-use beyond the menu screens. This would be injury enough, but to add insult, the LG Incite is just not a responsive touchscreen device, and that's what's most important to us. Throw in the boxy styling and cheap build quality, and it's easy to see how LG missed again with this device. Release: November 2008. Price: $200.
Pros: Good connectivity, with 3G networking and Wi-Fi. Web browser does an acceptable job.
Cons: Cheap design and build. Unresponsive touchscreen. Sluggish performance. No improvements to Windows Mobile beyond the main menu screens.
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