LG Voyager - VX10000 (Verizon Wireless)

The LG Voyager VX10000 has a nice design with a touch screen and a spacious keyboard.It features set includes EV-DO support, V Cast Mobile TV Bluetooth, a top-notch Web browser, and an integrated GPS application. Band / mode: CDMA 800/1900; Combined with: With digital camera / digital player.

The Voyager offers a 1,000-contact phone book with room in each entry for entry for five phone numbers and two e-mail addresses. You can save contacts to groups and pair them with a photo and any of 21 polyphonic ring tones. There's no field for notes in each contract entry, which is unusual.Other essentials features include a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging (the iPhone lacks MMS), a calendar, an alarm clock, a world clock, a stopwatch, a notepad, a tip calculator, and a voice memo recorder. For more demanding users, the Voyager also comes with speaker-independent voice commands and dialing, USB mass storage, instant messaging, and a text-to-speech feature. Bluetooth 1.2 is onboard as well, with profiles for headsets, dial-up networking, file transfer, object push, and A2DP stereo sound (the iPhone doesn't offer a stereo profile). while the handset supports e-mail, the POP3 application isn't as user-friendly as on the iPhone. But it doesn't offer Wi-Fi, particularly since it's so geared for browsing the Internet . It is integrated with 3G is more than adequate for Web surfing. . The Voyager comes with 180MB of shared memory, which is quite generous, but you're better off saving to a memory card. The MicroSD card slot can accommodate cards as large as 8GB. PC syncing for your contacts and calendar is not integrated, which limits the Voyager's usability

As an EV-DO phone, the Voyager supports the full range of Verizon's 3G services, including the V Cast streaming video service and the V Cast music store. The music player interface has been fine. In addition to entertainment applications, the Voyager also comes preloaded with Verizon's VZ Navigator GPS service.The speakerphone can be activated one of two ways: by opening the Voyager when you're on a call, or by dialing a number with the handset open. In either case, you can then deactivate the speakerphone by closing the Voyager or by pressing the dedicated button next to the internal navigation toggle.

The Voyager's has a solid 2-megapixel camera,. You can take pictures in four resolutions (1,600x1,200; 1,280x960; 640x480; 320x240) and choose from four color effects and four white-balance settings. There's also a 2.5x digital zoom (unusable at the highest resolution), spot metering, a brightness control, a night mode, a self timer, and three shutter sounds (plus a silent option). . The controls are easy to use, as long as you can access those buttons on the left spine--remember, you must have the Voyager fully open--and you're careful not to confuse them with the soft keys. With a full HMTL browser, the Voyager offers a great surfing experience that almost rivals the iPhone's. The external display renders full Web pages in all their glory; there are no clunky WAP pages to be seen. It won't support flash but you can click through multiple pages, view photos, and select links at will.The LG Voyager VX10000 has a rated battery life of 4 hours talk time and 20 days standby time.

Though the LG Voyager VX10000's camera lacks some options as a flash and Wi-Fi and the streaming video quality and EV-DO connection speed were uneven, the Voyager's sleek design, generous feature set and excellent performance make it the best LG messaging and multimedia phone.