This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 10:38 am and is filed under LG. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
LG Voyager
Introducing the LG Voyager in the market proved that the best features can be merged into a single unit. Also known as the LG Voyager VX10000, this smartphone even offers additional multimedia features such as mobile TV and a huge touch screen, earning its prestige being LG’s rival to the iPhone. While the two units’ features are almost in comparison, the Voyager even fared higher with its inclusion of 3G, MMS, stereo Bluetooth and GPS, which the iPhone lack.
Just like the iPhone, the LG Voyager threw away the keypad and incorporated a touch screen. The phone that measures 4.64 x 2.12 x 0.71 inches and weighs 4.69 ounces is bulky and may feel a little bit uncomfortable if kept in the pants’ pocket. Nevertheless, the Voyager will always be lined up among the league of most stylish smartphones.
LG Voyager’s touch screen measures 2.81 inches, supporting 262K colors at a resolution of 400 x 240 pixels. The screen can display sharp texts and vibrant and colorful graphics and animations.
It shows the date, time, and signal strength and battery life in standby mode. It works as a viewfinder in camera mode. The touch screen is easy to use and can access the phone’s different features. Voyager’s screen can be manipulated by tapping or by holding the finger to the screen and moving it around, reminiscent to dragging a mouse in a computer. This action is good for scrolling long articles and web pages. However, the touch screen doesn’t support handwriting recognition, and typing be done with the internal full QWERTY keyboard
Clear key and Talk key are the only navigation controls in front of the Voyager. The left spine of the phone includes the volume rocker, camera shutter and display lock. The right spine includes the microSD card and headset jack. The bottom of the phone includes the charger port and antenna, while the back side is where the camera lens is located. On the other hand, the internal part of the Voyager brings users to an impressive array of mobile aesthetics. It showcases a big screen, sharing the same size of the external screen, between speakers. The screen, however, does not offer touch screen features.
There is also a truckload of features in the Voyager. Phone features include a 1,000-contact phone book, vibrate mode, SMS and MMS, a calendar, an alarm clock, a world clock, a stopwatch, a notepad, a tip calculator, and a voice memo recorder.
Connectivity features include USB mass storage, instant messaging, integrated 3G, Bluetooth 1.2 for headsets, dial-up networking, file transfer, object push, and A2DP stereo sound. The only disappointment of the Voyager is that it lacks Wi-Fi. The 2.0 megapixel camera may appear to be a disappointment for camera phone aficionados, but it remains commendable to some and may appear to be a very minor misdemeanor.
The inclusion of 3G makes another feature of the Voyager at its best: the music player and the Mobile TV. The Mobile TV brings users to a wide variety of channels including CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, Fox Mobile, MTV, NBC 2Go, NBC News 2Go, and Nickelodeon. However, users are required to pay a monthly fee to acquire such services.
Voyager offers 180MB of internal memory, quite big as compared to other smartphones, although it’s always advisable for users to expand their memory up to 8GB with the microSD card.