LG Dare Review - Conclusion

Conclusion

Editor Rating: 4.7

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Styling:  5 

Ease of Use:  5 

Display:  4 

Voice Quality:  4 

Battery Life:  5 

Quality/Durability:  5 

Hardcore texters may lament Dare’s lack of a physical keypad and relatively small onscreen QWERTY, while those looking for the optimal mobile Web experience could also do slightly better elsewhere.  And Dare isn’t a true smartphone, so don’t expect support for your custom POP3 Email account or robust PC syncing.  But Dare does have plenty of features to appeal to the masses, and a killer camera and great media player to boot.  And if size matters to you, you may prefer Dare’s compact body to longer, larger options like Instinct and iPhone.  I personally really love Dare’s size and shape, even if a larger screen would make Email and Web browsing a little easier.

Will Dare lure AT&T customers away from iPhone and Sprint devotees from their Instincts?  Probably not.  But it certainly should help Verizon retain customers who’ve been yearning for an all-touch, media-friendly handset of their own.  Verizon’s had a solid network for quite some time.  Now they’re starting to fill their shelves with some eye-catching new handsets to take advantage of all that EV-DO goodness.  Dare gives VZW their most direct iPhone competitor to date, and a great cameraphone to boot.  But it also gives them something else:  A handset that’s cool to look at and fun to use.  In the fickle eyes of the consumer, sometimes cool and fun are worth more than all the features in the world.