LG Voyager
Every year or so, LG brings another phone to the table, usually under the Voyager name. This name has become synonymous with quality and enormous sales, coming behind only a couple of other models in terms of American market penetration. Released late 2007, the LG Voyager VX10000 has come as an almost complete revamping of the latest in the Voyager line. It has retained everything consumers appreciated about previous incarnations, but it has redesigned the interface to make it even more user friendly.
If people are looking for alternatives to the iPhone, the LG Voyager is probably the first place they should be looking. In terms of usability, price, and feature lists, the LG Voyager more than holds its own against the iPhone, and in many ways, blows it out of the water. There is no Wi-Fi, which places it at a disadvantage, but the Voyager makes up for it with 3G support, plenty of options for messaging across the multimedia network, stereo Bluetooth, and a GPS system put right into the phone. Of course, even with a contract, the Voyager is going to set you back about $300, but this puts it at a lower price than the iPhone.
With a bright touch screen that dominates the entire face of the phone, the Voyager even reminds you of the iPhone when it comes to aesthetics alone. As far as overall design, LG has outdone themselves in this department, and the phone looks and feels better than any of its predecessors in the field.
The Voyager is packed with features, including a huge 1000 contact phone book, with plenty of entries to be made in each contact list. Bluetooth is there, and there is a very nice text-to-speech feature that is becoming more and more common among high-end cell phones, though quality on these features is sometimes mixed. Email is there, but don’t expect to surf the Internet in full wherever you want, with the lack of Wi-Fi, something we expect to see fixed on the next generation of the Voyager.
Pros
- The state of the art design is sure to attract many young users
- Plenty of features
- The call quality could scarcely have been clearer
Cons
- The camera had no flash
- The touch screen wasn’t as responsive as we would have liked
- Quality and speed of the streaming video wasn’t up to par
Overall
With a few tweaks here and there, the LG Voyager would have been the perfect phone. Even as it stands, it’s one of the best phones on the market today.
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