LG Voyager Cell Phone
It's the battle of the touchscreen messaging phones. Noah pits the ever-popular LG Voyager (Verizon) against the newcomer PCD Quickfire (AT&T) in a PhoneDog Dogfight. It's the battle of the touchscreen messaging phones. Noah pits the ever-popular LG Voyager (Verizon) against the newcomer PCD Quickfire (AT&T) in a PhoneDog Dogfight. By popular demand, three of Verizon's VCAST messaging phones go head to head. Noah takes a look at the LG Voyager, Samsung Glyde, and LG EnV2. Part two focuses on features and functionality. And Dan Patrick, check your email, man. I've got an offer for you. By popular demand, three of Verizon's VCAST messaging phones go head to head. Noah takes a look at the LG Voyager, Samsung Glyde, and LG EnV2. Part one focuses on form factor. And Dan Patrick, check your email, man. Noah's got an offer for you. Check out Noah's sneak peak at Verizon's Voyager and Venus smartphones scheduled for release this November BGR's got the photo right but the story wrong (but only in a minor way, regarding the name, so no worries). LG's VX11000 was caught with its Verizon branding on by a camera-wielding BGR ninja. I can add a few details to the story for ya, thanks to a ... NinjaDog ... of my own. The VX11000 - right, pictured next to the enV3, which will be released first - will not be called Voyager 2, due to licensing issues with Plantronics,... Chris over at Engadget Mobile just found himself an LG VX11000 filing over at the FCC website. Why do you care? Three reasons:LG's VX phones always wind up on VerizonVX10000 is the model number of the LG Voyager11000 is 1000 more than 10000, which could spell "Voyager 2," "Voyager Successor," or "New Flagship Messaging Phone of Some Sort"That's all I got for you now. But stay tuned. You know you want the new Voyager ...... It's been a little while and the mailbag is overflowing! Let's get right to it:
John asks:Hey Noah, I am thinking of getting a new phone on the Verizon network. Currently I have a Samsung Alias. I want to get a phone that has stellar messaging capabilities, like good email support for mutliple accounts, twitter, IM (AIM), and facebook with good web browsing, also. I am thinking of getting a Blackberry Curve, what else do you suggest?... Verizon Wireless today launched the LG Voyager Titanium, a modest refresh to their flagship VCAST Messaging device. The new Voyager features support for VZW's new Visual Voicemail service and VCAST Music with Rhapsody for compatibility with Rhapsody's over the air music store. The new Voyager otherwise seems to be the same as the original,
featuring a clamshell design with an exterior touchscreen and interior
secondary display and... Engadget Mobile's got a photo of the Verizon LG Voyager with titanium
trim. They say it's gonna be available tomorrow from VZW via phone and
Web, though it may not show up in retail outlets for a bit longer.
What they - and I - don't know is if Titanium + Visual Voicemail =
Voyager Refresh, or if there's actually a new, newer Voyager 2 in the
works as has been rumored.
I can tell you three things here:The only way Verizon is... Verizon Wireless today announced the availability of Visual Voicemail to users of their LG Voyager handset. The move comes, oh, 15 months (give or take) after AT&T launched the first visual vm service in America on the Apple iPhone. Timing aside, this is a good thing - cell phones may have been invented to help people contact one another when away from home, but we all know Caller ID was the true revolutionary advancement in telecom... Pros: Great screen large, Good volume, picture quality is very sharp, battery life is very good Cons: will not stay calibrated Summary: Sorry folks, but this phone is trouble. I have had the phone for about a year now. The touch screen will drive you crazy, you hit one key and get something else. Yes I have calibrated it taken it to the store , get it back and am told it works fine. You try to unlock the phone by touch screen and that is a joke. Go make a call if you have a couple of days you hit 3 and get 7 9 or almost any other number except the one you touch. This phone is like a gun, when they work they are great when they don't their all pieces of junk. Sorry LG but you have a lot of work to do on this set up. Pros: touch screen, easy-to-use keypad, able to make long videos, web browsing, visual voice-mail, mobile email, games, vz navigator, city id, mobile tv, lots of applications. Cons: ugly color, space bar not in the middle of the keypad, its very big, u cant pick up on what u were doing if u close it, bad battery life,2mm headphone jack, touchscreen not very responsive, camera not so good. Summary: well this is my second voyager phone, my first one i had the right hinge break. so that says a lot. uh i dont exactly love it. it has poor battery life, and its touchscreen but u cant use the touch screen while your using the keypad it would be better if it was a sliding phone but it is wat it is. the good things are well its a pretty good, non-confusing phone. i dont exactly love it, ive actually tried to get rid of it countless times,but itll get the job done. i wouldnt exactly recommend it with all the newer, better phones coming out, but if u just want a simple touchscrenn keypad phone then i recommend this one. Pros: pretty much everything is great . texting is a breeze with the keypad . any sound recorded by or sent to this phone can be a ringtone which i love . ive many original ringtones that ive made . also videos can be used as screensavers Cons: this is a terrible music phone . it rings from the inside so ringtones are hard to hear if the tone isnt already loud itself . any outside video put on the phone will have a big part of the bottom not even visible when in fullscreen mode . not a fan of the color so i got a cover for it . Summary: this is a great phone overall with some exceptions . terrible for internet use . no zoom for picture taking . sellectable video resolution is nice . many cool features . i like my voyager alot and definitly recomment it and thats the bottomline because STANCOLD said so Pros: Every thing about it is awesome. Cons: Hm..hard to make your own wallpaper. It doesnt wanna fit, so you have to take it just right. My phone wont take pictures sometime. Takes a while to get into camera mode. Hard to text on touch screen. Summary: Iv had this phone for about, oh i say 6 months now. Bought it for my own christmas gift :) I like it. Iv always had low phones, like virgin mobile. So this was amazing. I dont care for bulky-ness. Its fine by me. Its so sturdy. People tell me theirs broke, but i dont see how. I bought 4 cases for 6 bucks on ebay. Battery is awesome, let it die sometimes, so the charge stays charged long enough. And get invisible sheild for it.Since it is touch screen.Call is CRISP AND VERY CLEAR... But i have to switch to ATT, so i can no longer have this phone...If ATT gets voyager anytime soon, im so getting it! Voyager Titanium <3 Pros: Touch screen vibrates nd responds well. Calibration. BIG screen. Good biq keyboard. 2.O meqapixlz. Readz msgz out loud (lol I juss think itz fun) Big web brower page. Cons: Blaugh... Suckz at picture retrieval nd pic/vid sending. Bulky. Baad video quality... Speakers really low. No drawing pad! :( Wallpapers don fit well... No full touch keyboard. It, uhm, has this stupid hidden antenna. If u hava Voyager Titanium..look on tha back bottom of tha phone nd pull on tha lil button lookn thing. Itz an antenna. Nd itz supah lame cos itz uhpside dwn... Summary: Uhmm good phone, basically. Well, I think it is. Really nice touch screen nd a really good phone if u text alot. Both screens r REALLY BIG..no lil Juke screenz..lol. It juss, doesn have a lotta high tech features. Nice phone to b ur 1st touch screen cos itz dual. So u don have to use tha touch screen all tha tyme. Which iz tha best part. All LG Voyager user reviewsHey ThereFor a VZW messaging phone, your options right now are:AliasEnV2GlydeVoyagerI think that's it unless you want to go to smartphone land, which you don't. It's early in the morning, so I may have forgotten something ;-) Anyway, you said you don't like the u740/alias -- In order to choose a new phone you have to decide what you want out of it. Looking ONLY at features, I'd say that Voyager is the best of the bunch - it... I'm curious about the price on the LG Dare. My contract is up in about 2 months and i am curious if there is any "price drop" expected for the Dare. I saw the Voyager drop in price if i can remember right, within a pretty short time period. Any thoughts on this? personally, i have the LG VX 8700 right now, and i am about to get the Dare, but anyways, i would not get the LG VX8700 because it can lag sometimes and (from what i have experienced) just close/shutdown by itself. Considering your uses, i would go with the LG Voyager for its full QWERTY keyboard, or the LG Dare because of the virtual QWERTY keyboard, and the unique/cool features.hope this helps... First of all, I have a LG voyager from Verizon and found out many cool tricks:
If hold the volume control on the left down, it will turn off all sounds (puts the phone in silent mode); vice versa if you hold the volume button up.
If you hold the clear button in the middle (between the send and end keys on the front), you can record a new sound instead of having to go to the menu and get it now. however, if you just click the clear... Buying choicesWith new service  This item is not being sold with a service plan by any online merchant. With pre-paid service This item is not being sold with a pre-paid service service plan by any online merchant. Purchase phone only Accessories Purchase compatible accessories for this phone Ringtones & MediaShop for compatible mobile content for this phone
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I've gone threw 3 of them.
(yes, I'm with Verizon)