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| LG Voyager Black Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: LG
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $199.99
You Save: $200.00 (50%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 3357
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: Voyager
UPC: 652810813549
ASIN: B000Z3TSDW
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Love it...best you can get from Verizon April 1, 2008
Well..my reason to choose this phone was that I wanted to stick with Verizon..and this is the only cool touch screen phone with Verizon (Chocolate and Venus are partial touch screen so not counted)..I LOVE this phone so far - its been over a month since I purchased it.
Good Things:
Touch screen, Icons, keys, the way it fits in my hand, 8 GB capacity ..well almost everything..
Things that needs improvement :
Scrolling..its bit tricky..it takes some practice to get used to it..you have to be patient and I promise you will get a hang of the feature.
Well, other than that..I absolutely love this phone...is it an Iphone killer ? well..y bother...you get Verizon's fabulous network behind this phone..so just buy a pair of headphones, a 8GB micro SD card and you are all set to rock the world..(at least yourself at the Gym..)..it surly will make people turn around...
Solid Phone, but hardly perfect April 1, 2008
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
This is easily the best cellphone I've owned yet ... hence the 4 stars.
Strenths: (in no particular order)
* Turn by Turn GPS Navigation (worth the added monthly fee)
* Very good camera ... for a cell phone.
* Big crystal clear screens.
* Full qwerty keyboard.
* MP3 capability
* Removeable/expandable battery (a major shortcoming of the iPhone)
* Videocam ability.
* Some handy tools - like 'backup assistant' for backing up, managing and printing one's contact list. They bill you for the privilege though. That's TANSTAAFL in action, my friends. Still, in this case, it's worth it.
* Ability to upload music from one's PC, and download pics from the cellphone to one's PC, via USB ... not to mention using a USB to recharge.
* Decent touch screen.
* Voice recognition and bluetooth.
Weaknesses (in no particular order):
* BATTERY: Talktime on the default 900mah battery is weak ... I only got 3 hours, and I subsequently upgraded to a 1500mah extended battery, which rendered it at least tolerable. Now it can do 5-6 hours ... albeit less if heavy websurfing is involved. BTW, websurfing is much more intensive on the battery than mere talk-time, because the latter can save power by blanking the screen after a few seconds, whereas the former keeps the screen active. Speaking of which, I wish both uses had separately adjustable screensaver times ...
* Camera lacks a flash, and a protective cover. For that matter, I think the whole phone should come with a protective clip-on case by default.
* The manual claims this phone has an adjustable sensitivity setting for the touch screen. It does not - it only has a position calibration setting, in which you touch each corner of the screen once. That's it.
* I have yet to figure out how to route music playback to my bluetooth.
* Web browser seems significantly slower, and more awkward, than iPhone's, and it seems to inexplicably take no advantage of memory card expansions in order to use a cache to minimize page reloads or zoom re-rendering.
* Phone contact list entries are oddly designed and incompletely integrated with the phone's other features. Why, for instance, have entries for a 2nd mobile number and a 2nd e-mail address, but not for a 2nd work number ? How come their GPS 'call destination' capability wasn't integrated with the contact list ? How come the speed dial capability can only be used for calling, but not for texting ?
* E-mail capability seems significantly inferior to my friend's iPhone. It's downright awkward and poorly integrated ... for example, once you open the qwerty to type (which deactivates the touch screen), you cant get back to the touch screen to populate the distribution list - if you try, the e-mail goes poof. Gone. Perhaps I just havent mastered it's quirks yet, but in the meantime I often just use texting instead ... although it's 160 character limit is annoying.
* The "Groups" feature in the contacts list is limited to a woefully feeble 10 entries. I dunno about you, but I have a LOT more than just 10 family, 10 friends, 10 coworkers, etc.
* Calendar entries lack an extended notes field, which heavily limits the phone's ability to serve as a dayplanner. Why have a full qwerty, yet limit calender appointments to 32 chars ?! Stupid.
* Videocam recordings use a properietary format not playable on PCs.
* The Manage my Pictures capability seems to lack the ability to organize things into folders or subgroupings ... forcing the user to constantly download pics to a computer, in order to to keep the phone decluttered.
* The GPS lacks altitude information, and the turn by turn navigation always has you moving across the narrowest dimension of the phone, instead of the longest ... which reduces lead time and visibility of the path ahead. Why they dont have maps face the long way, and position you atop the bottom third of the screen, is beyond me. The phone also has to reload the map everytime you change zoom, which is sluggish and annoying ... the phone seems incapable of taking advantage of its expanded memory card to render that unnecessary.
* As mentioned above, the zoom feature, is slow, awkward, and generally inferior to the iPhone's.
That's enough for now.
All in all, despite all my many nits, it's still a very good phone ... chock full of features. However, there's still plenty of room for further improvements. I keep hoping for some firmware and software upgrades that whittle that pile down, but there's no sign as of yet. In other words, it's a bit of a frankenstein ... too many roughly stiched together pieces that together make an impressive whole, but which dont work together as seamlessly as they could or should. They should have refined it more before releasing it to the market.
Great Phone but VZ locks it up as usual March 26, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This phone is a great entertainment phone it is not a smart phone. This phone is amazing when using it for texting, emails, web, gps, and games. It is not a phone for work not at all. You cannot get word or pdf nor can you get third party software which is why i say in my title vz locks it up. Not much if any 3rd party apps out there. The games and tools you can buy from verizon is great but again you must buy from vz. The music is great too I almost forgot that. As for outlook you must either bluetooth it over or use/buy vz's wireless sync software which works but only does email no contacts or calendar but again that can be bluetoothed over. For fun this is an awesome phone I just wish VZ would open it up to other applications.
 Verizon's Promotion of Voyager Deceptive March 25, 2008
18 out of 31 found this review helpful
Verizon is systemically and intentionally misleading prospective customers regarding the capability of the Voyager. Multiple sales reps told me that this phone was comparable to an IPhone and would synch with Outlook. It does not. It is a phone not a pda. I have turned my Voyager back in after fooling with it and their tech support for several hours. I just bought the IPhone and set it up in ten minutes including all synching with Outlook.
Not perfect, but damn fun to play with March 23, 2008
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have had all of the previous "V" models from LG.
9800, 9900 and now the 10000.
There are a lot of great reviews about this phone.
So here is my 2c.
The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because the 9900 was easier to navigate through the phone book. The touch screen slows things down a bit, but it is fun to play with.
Most of my friends have iPhones, but I needed a few things the iPhone doesn't do.
1) AT&T won't work inside my home and drops call at 3 spots on my daily commute.
2) I love capturing video of my kids, iPhone doesn't do video yet. Plus I can text the video as well.
3) I like to text with pix, the iPhone makes this quite complicated.
4) I still don't understand why the iPhone keyboard will go full horizontal screen on internet mode but not in text mode. The LG keyboard is just plain easier to use.
5) iPhone doesn't have GPS, just a MapQuest-type system. The Verizon GPS is better than my car's built-in system.
I don't dislike the iPhone, I just need the features the LG has more...
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