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LG Venus Review - At a Glance
Editor Rating:   44 4 4 3 5 4 What’s Good: Beautiful display; Context-sensitive menus; Extensive feature set; VZ Navigation works very well
What’s Not Good: Half a touchscreen sometimes feels gimmicky and frustrating; Touch controls sometimes unresponsive; Poor voice quality with unacceptable hiss on some calls; Somewhat bulky overall Bottom Line: Venus’ half-touch/half-not display is an interesting idea that ultimately frustrated me more than it charmed me. The screens are beautiful and the morphing menus great, but I found myself wanting to touch the entire screen and not just the lower portion. Some won’t mind this, though, and for those Venus may be a dream come true: it’s a feature-rich slider with a beautiful high-res display and access to all of Verizon’s multimedia offerings save VCAST TV. Specs: All about Reviews by manufacturerVerizon Wireless, Sprint PCS, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Sanyo, HTC, Palm, BlackBerry RIM, Sharp, Pantech, BenQ, Apple, Eten, o2Wednesday, June 11, 2008OMG! this looks like a great phone i have a voyager but i brke the outside screen they say this phone is better i hope soooo. Wednesday, April 30, 2008Just got mine and really starting to love it. Easy to use, fun to look at and great quality sound and photos. Half touch screen not a problem at all once you get accustomed to using. All features great so far. Tuesday, April 29, 2008is this a phone that is worth the price ? Monday, April 28, 2008I love Nokia phones and I hope this one will be offerred by Claro, formerly knows as Verizon in Puerto Rico.
Don't forget to submit your entry for the "PhoneDog Days of Summer" Giveaway! Win one of over 30 of the hottest new cell phones - no registration, no spam! Just PhoneDog sharing some goodies with our visitors & loyal fans! Thanks and keep the comments coming! Video: LG Voyager and Venus Mailbag: YouTube viewer questions answered - May '08, Part 2 LG Venus in-depth review - IntroductionLG is not the world’s leading manufacturer of mobile phones but they may just be the leader in consistently bringing super hip, gotta have it cell phones to market. In the past six months or so they’ve unleashed an armada of eye catching handsets, including the Voyager, Prada, Viewty, Shine, Glimmer, and Vu. Not to be left out is the Venus, a Verizon Wireless slider phone with a unique split-screen display. At first glance Venus looks like a full-touchscreen device, but...LG Venus in-depth review - Design & FeaturesVenus looks like the hi-tech luxury item it is. Slightly wider and larger than today’s average slider phone, Venus has an eye-catching chrome rim around its display and a grippy faux-leather backside that feels nice in the hand. My review sample was finished in classic black, and a pink version is also now available through Verizon. The back panel houses handset’s 2MP camera lens, and also snaps off to reveal the battery slot. Slide the display panel up and Venus...LG Venus in-depth review - Usability & PerformanceI tested Venus on Verizon’s CDMA network in the San Francisco Bay Area with less than pleasing results. Signal strength was generally good but voice quality was pretty shaky. Calls often exhibited digital distortion making the person on the other end sound a bit “robotic” or garbled. In a handful of cases calls came through with enough static that I hung up and tried again. I checked around the Web and noticed that a third or so of the reviews (professional and...LG Venus in-depth review - ConclusionVenus is quite the eye-catcher, as any product with its name should be. I might be a bit jaded since I get to test and write about almost all of the latest handsets, but I wound up thinking Venus suffers a bit from style over substance syndrome. At first glance the handset’s sleek slider design and beautiful front panel displays promise a world of interactive menus and enhanced ease of use. And they do deliver on that promise - but only to a point. Many users may find...Game review: Guitar hero 3 mobile rawkz! |
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