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LG VX10000 Voyager Full Review
Internet and E-Mail
The phone comes with a good web browser. It does an excellent job and properly rendering HTML and CSS, and can do some Javascript, however it doesn't do AJAX. The browser does take a long time to load from the main menu. Zooming in and out work well enough - you get plus and minus magnifying glass icons, and you can bookmark sites for quick access. The phone is a 3G phone, supporting EVDO, for speeds in excess of 500Kb/s. This makes browsing websites more convenient because you aren't waiting a minute for a page to finish loading. Testing the browser on well known sites like The New York Times and TheTechLounge.com show the browser is capable of displaying the content properly. The email client is an extra pay-for download ($5/mo) if you don't have their Premier level of plans, and you'll also incur data charges per MB. This is a big disappointment. Given the price of the phone you'd figure that they'd be able to throw in a simple email client for free. Composing emails was quick and easy, however there is no option to attach pictures or videos to the email. For the fast Internet speeds you can get on the phone, it's unfortunate that Verizon doesn't allow the phone to be tethered to laptops without a much more expensive data plan. Texting and Instant Messaging I liked the big QWERTY keypad on the inside of the phone for texting. However when the phone is closed you are forced to use the T9-based input method for typing messages - no QWERTY touch-based keypad is available for texting (though it is available inside the web browser). I was able to type fast and I let my sister try it, however she didn't like it because she couldn't type as well with her nails (she preferred her blackberry keyboard). Picture messaging also works well; I was able to send it to a phone that supported picture messaging without problems. I've had problems with other phones (the afore mentioned Blackberry Curve) where picture messaging wouldn't work because the picture was too big (the BBC takes 1600x1200 pictures by default that are too big to send over the picture messaging network, you have to go into the camera and change the picture resolution down to something smaller - below 300KB). Instant messaging is available with AOL IM, Windows Live! Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. I have accounts on all three networks so I tried them all out. It was simple, you get your contact list when you choose that network's icon, and you can IM people and get answers back. If you're doing something else other than being in the IM application, you'll get a notification for each IM you receive about whether you want to read the IM or save it for later. The only thing I couldn't figure out was how to delete my accounts when I was done testing the phone. The only thing I could do is reset the application which wiped everything out (which was fine for me, but might not be ideal for a typical end user). Continuity is something I wanted to mention - I was watching ESPN in the V-Cast Mobile TV part of the phone, got an IM, read it, and then got out of the IM application and the phone knew to go back to the video application. Good job software developers!
Page 1: Introduction & First Looks
Page 2: What's Included & Basic Features Page 3: Internet and E-Mail, Texting and Instant Messaging Page 4: Pictures, Music and Video Page 5: Pricing Plans Page 6: Conclusion 
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2 User Comments 1 - Posted by
a.g.
on January 15, 2008 - 3:34 pm OK, the phone is probably great, but AMAZON is not! They do not have this phone, it is in some kind of backorder limbo and from what I can tell - if it was ordered after Dec. 4th 2007, nobody even got one. Check out the customer discussion forum: http://www.amazon.com/Delivery /forum/Fx2RK9OR3I68ZJY/Tx1NVF8 FVXHV6EX/2/ref=cm_cd_et_up_red ir?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdAnchor=B 000Z3TSDW&newContentID=Mx3J8PA B9AO768T#MxLSS87U82BY7L 2 - Posted by
sooran
on September 15, 2009 - 9:34 am Very Good tancks ... Add Comment To add a comment without being a member, you may omit the password field, but you must enter your name (or nickname) along with your comment. * Denotes required fields. |
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