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Pantech has a key player for Verizon Wireless, usually releasing just one or two phones per year, most of which have been SMS devices, such as the Pantech joking, razzle and lightning was. Well, because touchscreen phones have all the rage, is the new Pantech response Crux, a thin and light feature-phone with a 3″ touch screen comes at a low price. Included in the retail package is the crux Pantech phone pre-installed 1GB microSD memory card, 1100mAh battery, charger with removable microUSB cable and instructions.

Design:

The appearance of the Pantech Crux is very minimalist with an all black plastic construction and chrome accents on the sides, although we the back of the phone to find a little too cheap and thin with the battery compartment. The unit is quite thin, only 0.5 ” and comes on only 4.3 ounces, making it easy to hold for long phone calls or put away in Skinny Jeans.

The front of the crux is the 3″ 240×400 pixel resolution capacitive touch screen that responds to the slightest touch, unlike the LG Touch Cosmos that uses a pressure resistive screen. But because of its low resolution, text and images are not too good and sharp but see a bit jagged and pixelated on the edges. You have to lock and unlock the device by the screen is up or down, and our concern here, if the internal mechanism may break over time.

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Below the screen is a touch screen home button that will take you back to the home screen no matter what task you are currently pressing while you are already in the home screen, will review all three home screen, you can move through show (more on that later). Around the sides of the phone are the volume rocker, Micro-USB connector, dedicated music playback buttons, 3.5mm headset jack, camera, voice command, and power keys, and the microSDHC memory card slot (32GB supported). On the back is the 3MP camera and external speakers.

Interface and features:

As already mentioned, there are three home screens on the crux, though that one cycle by the finger across the screen. The first shows 12 shortcut icons to elements such as the Media Center, Web browser, music, news and VZ Navigator. The second screen displays icon links to connect your social networking, including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail and YouTube. But what happened in the end that all (expect for YouTube) that you actually open the online Beat program, log in your sites. The YouTube link opens the web browser and takes you to the mobile m.youtube.com page, where you can view videos.

The third home screen allows you to tag links on the desktop to add your music files, images and video. While this is nice, we would do it for adding frequently used contacts, as it would allow more functional. Regardless of which of the three screens you are home, there will be four static icons at the bottom to access the answering machine of calls and keyboard and contacts.

Where no customizations, you are limited to the change in the position of icons on the home screen and replaces it with another image, and shows them as links or Grid view. The issues are the only listed Misty are black and white pastel, but all they do is change the background color change menu color. You can also use a picture for the background, but it is only on the screen when the phone is locked is displayed.

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When navigating through the menus and various programs, our complaint is that the user interface is slow to respond. We are not expecting Smartphone speeds here, but we believe that there is still slower than it should be, because you use with touch screen for all to the device.

The phone book on the Pantech Crux allows up to 1000 contacts with multiple phone and e-mail, picture and ringtone, saved IM screen name and address. Unfortunately, there is only enough space to store up to 99 speed dial numbers, while most other phones allow up to 999.

One thing that rarely appear at a cell phone is a 3MP camera, but do not be fooled, as the picture quality is lacking. Images that we outside of poor color rendition was suffered and looked soft and out-of-focus. Images that were equally bad indoors, especially in low light. Videos can be recorded at a maximum resolution of 640×480, but their quality is poor and has jerky playback at only 15fps.

Performance:

In contrast to the Pantech grim jest that had the quality of the connection, the Pantech Crux actually pretty good. Calls with loud voices sound clear and natural at both ends and without any distortion background. But unfortunately the signal reception is still pretty low, with usually only 1 bar showing our strong service area, although we do not drop any calls. The included 1100mAh battery is rated for up to 5.2 hours of talk time or 13.5 days of standby time on a full charge. In our tests we were only able to be up to 4.5 hours of continuous talk time. After a few cycles of power but you could use a bit more out of him.

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Conclusion:

The Pantech Crux is a pretty good touch-screen feature phone, with an attractive price, slim body is, and has much to offer to get someone not looking for a smartphone. The main thing holding them back is the low power of the BREW software, since some programs took up to 20 seconds to load, while other similar devices respond faster.

It is the Verizon version of LG Optimus S and LG Optimus T. It ropes in many similar features, as well as an entry-level Android smartphone running Android 2.2 version supports GPS, Wi-Fi, EV-DO, 3.2 megapixel camera and can be used as a 3G Mobile hotspot. But Verizon has to have his own style, looking like Bing Bing and maps, and these services can not be moved to Google. Vortex certainly a great device for the first timers.

Design

The LG phone is similar Optimus T a lot. The body measures 2.32in wide, 0.52in 4.47in thick and long. The large touch screen consists of most of its real estate. It is enclosed in a soft-touch plastic shell and has rounded corners for a comfortable feel in the hand. The phone is compact, lightweight, weighs only 4.5 ounces and slips easily into pockets on.

Display

The 3.2in LCD touch-screen display supports 262,000 colors and 320×480 pixel resolution does. The text and images look sharp and the graphics look colorful. You can the brightness of the screen timeout timer and the animations when opening closing applications. The capacitive display is very appealing and it is because the phone has an internal accelerometer and proximity sensors.

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User Interface

The phone has standard 2.2-Android UI. The floor has 5 customizable home screen and 4 links. The home screen to dialer, contact list, main menu to match, Inbox, and Web browser. The Phone Dialer application includes a large virtual keyboard, a large number of entrance and you can easily access contact list, call list, SMS, and new favorites list like this. Coming to SMS, Vortex has installed Swype keyboard as an alternative to conventional multi-touch keyboard Android. The phone uses Google widget and instead Bing Bing Maps instead of Google Maps. These services can not be moved to Google. However, Bing has made a very good experience, but since Android is expected, as Google-friendly OS should have allowed users to switch to Google for their preference.

Physical controls

Here the Vortex is different from Optimus handsets. It has 4 buttons in silver single panel where grooves separated from each other. Their arrangement is slightly different, when pop-up menu button followed by Home button, back button and search again. The right spine houses volume rocker while the left spine houses microSD card slot. 3.5mm headset jack and power button lock/ screen displayed above. The floor houses micro-USB connector. Camera lens is placed on the back.

Features

The phone comes with the latest Android Android 2.2 firmware, so many improvements over version 2.1 as app can access the memory card, voice dialing over Bluetooth, about sharing, a new camera viewfinder must be saved, universal inbox and Facebook integration. Although Android 2.2 provides support for Flash 10.1 in the browser skips LG Vortex this function due to some hardware limitations. You can play the videos through third-party applications and YouTube.

The telephone cables in wealth of other features such as 3G in the form of EV-DO Rev.A, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP, dial-up networking, object push and file transfer support. You can use your phone as 3G mobile hotspot for use up to 5 devices. But you need to sign up for Mobile Broadband Connect plan. As a phone it has solid features such as speakerphone, voice dialing, voice recorder, conference calling, text multimedia messaging and visual voicemail. The phone book is limited to available memory and each item has in place for several phone numbers, email addresses, handles, etc.

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Media Players and Memory Cards

The audio and video player are standard rates Android, WMA, MP3, MP4, unprotected AAC, WMV, DivX, 3GP and 3G2 format. You can synchronize and manage playlists, music form your PC to phone and save them onto a microSD card. The phone has onboard memory of 2 GB, but can be extended up to 32 GB.

Apps

Verizon has filled the phone with their applications such as mobile instant messaging hub for Yahoo, Windows Live and AOL Instant Messenger, Backup Assistant, City ID, My Verizon Mobile, V Cast video, sounds, and V Cast V Cast Music. LG has filled some of its applications apps like Facebook and Twitter.

Other pre-installed apps are Amazon’s Kindle, Tetris, Skype Mobile, Scrabble, Slacker, RSS Reader, News u0026 Weather app, calendar, calculator, and ThinkFree Office. Google Apps such as YouTube, Google Talk, Google Mail and Google Voice Search. Vortex has the usual Android Webkit browser. The pre-installed applications can not be uninstalled.

Camera

The 3.2 megapixel camera can make pictures in 5 different sizes and three quality settings. Other camera options include adjustable ISO, color effects, brightness, white balance, timer, 6 scene modes, 4 focus modes, 5-shot modes and 2 x digital zoom. The picture quality is pleasing, images appear sharp, but colors look dim. Videos in three resolutions in MMS lengths and long storage mode are recorded.

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Performance

The quality is good enough, with clear, loud sound, but with occasional distortion. Speakerphone works very well. EV-DO Rev.A speeds on mobile phones are remarkable. You can download the pages in seconds. Even if it Dinkler 600MHz processor, you did not notice any delay when you turn on startup applications, commuting between home screens. But zooming in out of pages is fairly choppy. The built-in lithium-ion battery can survive up to 20.83 days in standby mode and offers 7.5 hours of talk time. The Vortex is an excellent entry-level Android-based smartphone for Verizon Wireless, if you know the limits.

It is certainly a significant amount of hype about LG’s latest spot on the QWERTY phone market for Verizon Wireless built – the VX10000 Voyager – and it is not unfounded. For starters, the feature-packed candybar sports a combined 2.81-inch touch screen with external second display of equal size and a full keyboard on the inside. In the media department has the handset is a 2-megapixel camera with auto focus, video camera, expandable memory via microSD up to 8GB, and VCAST services of both the music and TV varieties. Do the features stack up in Verizon’s this? Does the Voyager live up to the hype or will it fall short of expectations?

The Voyager has the same style as its older stablemates, the VX9800 and VX9900 and is built on a candybar form factor that opens to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. Comes close to 4.64 x 2.12 x 0.71 and a weight of less than 4.69 ounces, the phone the crown for the smallest of the trio, but is second on the VX9900 in the weight class by a mere 0 , 09 ounces – a negligible difference bet we would.

Instead of the front of the Voyager features with the small, narrow LCD and embedded numeric keypad from its predecessors, LG uses a large touch screen provides haptic feedback here, while the on-screen and a standard non-touch screen on the inside. Both screens run at 400 x 240 resolution while serving 262,000 colors. We found both displays for general use either indoor or outdoor lighting conditions and had only one example where it was unusable in direct sunlight.

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On the keyboard – first, the Voyager internal QWERTY keyboard, a similar layout divides his older sibling with individually lit keys. There are minor cosmetic differences, the trim surround the key, and they seem more closely grouped together. The exterior screen is of course the main attraction VX10000. The phone has two separate ways of unlocking the touchscreen, the first is located from a symbol on the display and the other is a slide button on the left side of the phone.

Once the device is unlocked, the user with four menu items as icons at the bottom, each presented a unique function: Messaging, Phone, Full menu and contacts. In an additional menu links are available when the screen is touched. One thing that we are not too fond of that T9 is the only choice for SMS from the touch screen, but then again, you can always swing ‘and he open the physical keyboard.

The external display allows the user to almost all functions without the need to open the phone control. Each virtual “button” is pressed, that is, will vibrate the phone, to offer positive feedback from a successful keystroke. We had to “grab” some problems with his fingers the menu and move the phone, though, we were often tempted to slide the menu down and pressing two or more keys wrong. Bottom line: The Voyager touch screen controls do not seem as intuitive as the best that we have used, although LG’s made a solid effort stands.

LG designed the Voyager with an optimized HTML browser, which of course most of Verizon’s EV-DO airwaves. The pages load pretty fast, and by and large reproduced correctly. LG has to make three different options for the browser – optimized default, screen, and plain text – which should provide a good range of features-to-speed ratio depending on the location and speed of the network.

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As we already mentioned, the VX10000 comes equipped with a 2-megapixel camera with auto focus, and given the relatively low resolution, we were satisfied. The camera produces images that are sharp wide with decent color saturation. There can be no substitute for your 8-megapixel point-and-shoot, but for basic tasks, it will get the job done.

The Voyager Bluetooth stack also has us pretty happy. Since we have found with most LG phones, pairing our Motorola S9 Bluetooth headset was a breeze. We had two hours and 45 minutes of continuous music playback on a full charge. The music was crisp and clean – from A2DP standards, anyway.

Overall, the LG Voyager one of the best, feature-rich mobile phones (without the jump – no, leap of faith – in smartphone territory) for Verizon to date. From the beautiful exterior touch screen in the fantastic photos, the camera, we found that the VX10000 a premium offer for the carrier. Granted, it is not without occasional problems, but for those of you who have been waiting for Big Red, something comparable to other makers’ supply in the high-end dumbphone release, the wait might be.

Verizon Wireless has unveiled its LG Octane. The LG  Octane is similar to LG ENV4  but the former design is a bit different, but otherwise has similar features such as dual display, keyboard and flip out the keypad. It has a QWERTY keyboard, which is visible when you flip the phone is. He has integrated with many social networking applications like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.

Design

The LG Octane  measures 4.21 2.16 0.63 inches. The Octane is tapered down and thickens. It has a chrome frame and a small display that is bright reflective. It weighs 4.5 grams and is very difficult. If you flip the phone you will find a 1.76-inch screen with 262,000 colors and support for a resolution of 220 x176 pixels. This screen can be used be to see the currently playing track and also it can be used as a viewfinder . The volume rocker and camera buttons are on the left and the SD card reader, USB port and microphone headset jack are on the right. The lens and LED flash on the back.

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Keyboard

The keyboard has a large oval shape and Dpad the OK button, the switch is covered with a square. It is used by the send button, contact buttons, the end key and surrounded clear/ voice key. The switching function also provides links to the Bluetooth menu, the events of the side of my music menu and messaging menu. The QWERTY keyboard has large keys arranged with the keyboard split into four rows. The keys are raised well and give a good tip. There is a special button for the period key and the space bar also serves as a voice command button. The QWERTY keyboard shortcut may initiate a new text message, to seek contacts, and a new note. On the left side there are links to a new SMS message, a function key and Shift key. The Q, W, S, E and 2 are shaded to make it function as a D-Pad to play video games.

Features

The Octane has an external LCD display resolution 176x220pixel and there is a display in 240x 320 pixels. It includes 3.2 megapixel. The Octane can can save 1000 contacts and each entry is up to five numbers, an IM screen name, 2 email, address and notes. The Octane supports text messaging, threaded-messaging support and multimedia messaging. It supports mobile instant messaging, Windows Live, AIM and Yahoo support services. You can access e-mail services of AOL Mail, Gmail, Verizon.net, Yahoo, POP3 account and Windows Live Hotmail. It has Bing search and GPS Navigator with Verizon network. It supports Bluetooth profiles, which include dial-up network access A2DP stereo, phonebook, basic printing, object push vCalendar and vCard.

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It includes social Beat app compromise with social networks and news feeds in one interface. It has a total of HTML browser, the quick access to store sites likwe Bing, Reuters, WeatherBug, ESPN, Fandango and Verizon ringtone available can provide. The phone has EV-DO Rev. 0, which makes it compatible phone can be with other broadband services like V Cast Video, video-streaming service and V Cast Music. The Octane music player is intuitive and fast. It supports WMA, MP3, AAC and unprotected AAC formats. The phone supports 16 GB of expandable memory. The lithium-ion battery offers a talk time of 6.33 hours and 340 hours in standby mode it lasts.

Camera , the Octane has 3.2 megapixel camera to take what pictures in 5 different resolutions and has few other camera settings, flash, self timer, color effects, shutter sounds covers and there are 5 different recording modes, the Smile Shot, Intelligent Shot panoramic and includes dual display mode. The image quality of the picture is good but not exceptional. The images shot indoors using the flash looks neat. It is a camcorder, the video resolution of 320x 240, 176x 144 resolution can record.

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Performance

When we tested the phone its call quality was mediocre. The callers feel that our voice sounded different with a little echo. Speakerphone calls had more echo effect. The speed of the EV-DO Rev had disappointing speed. To download a song, it took almost a minute and a half. Streamed videos look pixelated and blocky. Audio quality was good and it has sound through the stereo speakers well. The bass was not as dominant. Octane has A2DP stereo, but the 2.5 mm jack is really disappointing. The phone is best for messaging and other features of performance is quite good, but we want the internal display is touchscreen. Apart from the echo effect during the talks it has nothing to complain about.

It was almost a year since we reviewed the Samsung U310 Knack, one was simply designed to use mobile phone from Verizon Wireless, for its own people without unnecessary features. Now comes the new Samsung U320 Haven, if none has been changed a lot, as it still meant for the senior demographic with a healthy size screen and keyboard. But this is the best phone for your grandparents, or is it too short? Let’s take a look and see. Included in the retail package includes the Samsung U320 Mobile Phone Haven, 1000mAh battery, charger, micro USB charger and instructions.

Design:

The Samsung U320 Haven is slightly larger than the entire Knack U310 and looks a bit more space around the corners and boxy. Both devices are in the color anthracite, although the Haven comes with a striped finish on the front and back, while sticking only the silver finish on the front. But despite its small increase in size, the Haven feels comfortable to hold and seems better built than the Knack. The front of the Haven is a 1.3″ TFT display, from 1″ to the crunch, but it shows only the time, signal strength and battery, because you can not choose any background image to show for it.

Instead of different colored buttons and ports on the side as on the Knack, the Haven only used a silver trim for the volume rocker and the monochrome gray color for the 2.5 mm headset jack and micro USB port. That has not changed a hinge that is a good thing as it opens and closes smoothly and feels sturdy. On the inside, sports Samsung U320 Haven the same 2.2″ TFT display 176×220 resolution, which can be found on the U310 Knack. While we appreciate his nice size, we would like it to have QVGA resolution, so that numbers and letters would be less grainy.

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This is an area where the LG VX8370 Clout does it better than it comes with a 2.2″ QVGA display, so that to look for sharper text and images. Just below the internal display of the Samsung Haven three Quick-Start-button to access the voice commands, pictures and voice mail, but we can not understand why they do not backlit like the rest of the keypad, makes it hard to see them in low light. The lower door is identical to the Samsung Haven put the Knack, with buttons for 911, ICE, and speakerphone. Pressing on 911 asks if you want to stay connected and up to 911th The ICE-button is used to store up to 3 emergency numbers (such as family and doctor) and also for typing in your health info (medications, allergies).

In the center is the D-pad for menu navigation. It is smaller than the surrounding buttons, but still easy to use. The Haven’s numeric keypad, with its white backlight is larger than most other phones as the Samsung U360 Gusto, which allows for easy viewing and selection under different conditions, if the keyboard of the LG Clout also a nice size. The buttons on the Haven a good “click” when they are pressed and lightly bubbled up in the middle.

Interface and features:

The main menu of the Samsung U320 Haven is almost identical down to the Knack U310, with the only difference that the blue color of the background. There are categories for contacts, recent calls, messaging, images u0026 sounds, tools, settings, info phone, well-being and health, and my Verizon. The only allows personalization of the Haven is the ring tones, background pictures, size, and two subjects changing (golden and blue just blue). The phone book on the Haven is still only able to store up to 500 contacts, each with name, phone 1, house, work, mobile 2, ringtone and picture.

Fortunately, this time to save up to 94 speed dial positions, instead of only 8 on the Knack. Although the district court can save 1000 contacts Clout has a total of 999 speed dial locations. Both Haven and send the Samsung Knack and receive basic text messages, but the Haven now supports receiving picture messages, where you saved the attached picture on the phone and can even put it as wallpaper. But not too excited when Haven is still missing the ability to send, picture messages, although we are not surprised, because the device is not built on a camera.

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Once again, as we the LG Clout here may like it, and send and receive text, picture and video messages, and also has a built-in camera, 2 megapixel photos take in 176×144 resolution. A new feature on the Samsung U320 is the Haven Spa & health menu where you can 5 different memories, choose 15 exercises from an on-screen fitness trainer set, you hear four different “Healing Music sounds’ (the sky, sheet, towel, and rain), and in your media about giving. We are not sure how many people use the fitness trainer, or listen to the sound of the four recorded, but we like the idea of being able, in your enter medical data. But how many people are in a position to consider the access and play their own music on their phone, so you this as you this is not possible at the Haven.

Other software tools include a calendar with event scheduler, three independent alarms, standard calculator, tip calculator, world clock, stopwatch, and voice commands. All of these are fairly common in most phones. The voice commands only allows contacts per name (not digit dialing), SMS to call and check phone status choice. We had no problem with it in quiet areas, but in noisy environments (such as a car) you will here repeat the command a few times. Since the Haven no camera and can not download applications, the unit only comes with 25 MB memory of the user on the web. Of course there is not with microSD memory card slot.

Performance:

The two most important issues we had with the Samsung U310 Knack its poor reception, as it would often times fall down to 0 bar and say, “Searching for Service”, and the voice distortion we hear when the receiver volume was up to set high. We are pleased to report that the Samsung U320 Haven works better in both departments, as we show 2-3 progress bar and without saying it “Search by Service”, and the listener does not distort sound like at high volumes, but they had voice quality still sounds a bit dull. If you try next to the LG VX8370 Clout, the voices were much clearer and not dully if it. The included 1000mAh battery is rated, the Haven offers up to 5 hours of talk time or 14 days of standby time on a full charge. Our testing showed 4 hours talk time when fully charged, which is the same as on the Knack.

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Conclusion:

The Samsung U320 Haven does a better job of being a basic, easy-to-use phone, as the Knack U310, as the signal reception problems have been solved and the voice quality is a bit better. We like the large keyboard, but want the screen was higher resolution and would come with at least 1.3 MP camera. Overall, the Haven, an OK unit for those who just use it as a basic phone, with occasionally send and receive messages. But if you are looking for some additional features, then you can consider the LG VX8370 Clout.

Verizon Wireless has already been a number of Android phones in its arsenal, and they are not there to stop just yet. Well, that would be the latest equipment to be coming out from their stables, the Droid Pro, the first Android-based smartphone, which is optimized specifically for business use.

It will choose as a pre-sale ordering Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com the ninth November ready for occupancy, although there are some reports circulating that the Internet, people have already placed an order – and not a pre-order, so that this mistake may be something that the costs of a person in his or her work be. Well, the Nitty Gritty in the extended post then!

Available for purchase in the shops of 18 November from the Droid Pro, you can for $ 179.99 after a $ 100 mail-in rebate – of course with this type of pricing, they mean to, sign up for a new two-year customer agreement are. Just what that means Droid with Pro? It is a global-ready Android smartphone, enabling customers to wireless voice service in over 220 countries and data coverage in more than 200 countries enjoy, in which more than 120 of them boast 3G speeds. You do not even care about the operating system, as they boast the latest Android 2.2 Upgrading Froyo out of the box.

The Droid Pro can handle both business and personal sovereignty, as it pre-installed come with Quick Office Mobile suite for all your mobile office document surfing needs, developed 3G Mobile HotSpot functions like on Samsung Instinct HD Sprint Phone and a QWERTY keyboard that was designed for speed and convenience. If you happen to be a Verizon Wireless customer who bought Droid Pro will receive the mail-in rebate in the form of a debit card where you can after receiving the card as cash is accepted everywhere credit cards used.

The Samsung U360 Gusto is a basic and budget-oriented flip phone for Verizon Wireless, which is a follow-up to the Samsung U350 Smooth, which in turn replaced the Samsung U340 Snap, if not much has changed between these models, except for the styling . The Gusto also has some strong competition from the LG and Samsung Haven Accolade, so let’s see how well the devices stack up. Included in the retail package is the Samsung U360 phone Gusto, 1000mAh battery, charger with removable microUSB cable and instructions.

Design:

The Samsung Gusto continues the tradition of the previous two models, as it is a basic flip phone look, although his all-black styling is partially updated with a structured pattern on the front and back. This also keep a little extra grip when the compact device. On the front is the little 1.0″ 98×98 pixel CSTN display that can be customized with wallpaper, but is really only for the date and time, battery level and signal strength used. In the VGA camera, and on the sides are the volume rocker, 2.5 mm headset jack, camera and speakerphone key, micro-USB port.

The hinge feel well made, as it opens and closes smoothly and lasts up to standard amounts pressure without bending much. The internal display is still limited in size to 2.0″ and with a resolution of 128×160 pixels. For this reason, images and text look a little pixelated. We also found the D-pad, a bit small for our taste, but the numeric keypad is to be a good size and we like the bright blue backlight.

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Interface and features:

It is no surprise that the main menu is set on the Samsung U360 from Gusto, like most other Verizon phones, with categories for access to the media center, messaging, contacts, recent calls and Settings & Tools. User customization is a selection of three themes (white, hexagon, and diagonal), demonstrate the ability to main menu in the tab list and grid view, two font sizes, formats Clock and wallpaper. This is all pretty standard fair with cell phones today.

The phone book on the Gusto is also essential and allows you to create up to 1,000 contacts, each with their name, multiple numbers, e-mail, an IM screen name, picture, ringtone, and physical address. Once a contact is saved, you can assign them to a 999 speed dial locations. One area that has not been on since the previous models to improve the 0.3MP camera, like the Samsung Gusto comes with a VGA shooter, a maximum resolution of 640×480 pixels. Images that are out there pretty useless because they look blurry and have poor color accuracy and white balance. Of course, indoor pictures are missing, more so in low light conditions.

Additional software features on the Samsung Gusto include the ability to send and receive text and picture messaging, VZ Navigator for GPS guided directions, Mobile Web 2.0 browser, voice commands, calculator, calendar for saving warnings, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock and a notepad. You may include other games and programs by the Media Center menu. Unfortunately, the Gusto are still lacks a music player and memory card slot. It is not possible for VCast Video streaming, because the data is limited to the slower 1X network. Internal memory is absent, as it only comes with 32 MB of which 23 MB available to the user.

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Performance:

Samsung phones are usually pretty good call quality, as on the strength of II and reality, but that’s not the case with the U360 Gusto. Voices sound a little distant, almost like someone is talking down a hallway, and there is a slight delay, echo on our side was heard. People we have not mentioned the experience of the echo delay, but said that our voice sounded a bit distant. Reception was a bit below par, as we have only 1-2 bars showing progress bar in high coverage areas. For this reason, we want the LG Accolade or Clout, how these two flip phones recommend a better voice quality and reception. The included 1000mAh battery is rated to provide up to 7 hours talk time or 14 days of standby time from a full charge. But we were only able to enter up to 6 hours of continuous talk time when fully charged.

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Conclusion:

When all is said and done, the Samsung U360 Gusto quite simple flip phone to search for a bargain. Its features are pretty lacking, so do not forget that, and the voice quality is not the best we’ve heard either. For the same price, the LG Accolade actually the better deal because there are better voice quality and reception, higher resolution display, 1.3 MP camera, and can get 7.5 hours of talk time.

If you wanted to use a cell phone in the U.S. and abroad, we would usually recommend to you a quad-band GSM phone, if you have an AT & T or T-Mobile customer or a dual-mode CDMA /GSM phone were if you are a Verizon Wireless or Sprint customers were. So far the only dual-mode CDMA /GSM phone available in the U.S. is the RIM BlackBerry Bold, a more modern phone with many business applications obliquely, not to mention a high price. In an effort to diversify its World Phone Deals, Verizon with Verizon Wireless Escapade is pretty easy to come prepared by PKD.

Design

Measuring 3.9 inches long and 1.9 inches wide and 0.9 inches thick, the Verizon Wireless Escapade the appearance of a normal clamshell phone, except for its bright red skin. It is slim and elegant, with silver and black trim. The Escapade is very easy to 3.4 ounces and feels comfortable in the hand. On the front is an easy 1.1-inch 65,000-color external display. It shows the date, time, battery life, signal strength and Caller ID. It also supports photo caller ID, and you can use it as a viewfinder. You can set the clock format, and the wallpaper for the front display. On the left side of the phone are the volume rocker and headset jack and the charging jack, voice command button and the camera button on the right. On the back of the phone is the camera lens.

Flip up the phone, and you will find a nice 2-inch display with 262,000 color support and 176×220 pixel resolution. The display is handsome, with bright colors and sharp text readable. You can adjust the backlight time, the clock format on the standby screen, menu, layout and font sizes for the selected telephone numbers and menu text.

Below the screen, the navigation array, which opens in two soft keys, a four-way navigation switch with a central OK button, a speakerphone key and a dedicated messaging key, there is a new text message. The array is very flat on the surface of the phone, go with almost no differentiation between the keys with the exception of the navigation in the middle. The Send, Clear, and End /Power keys are part of the number buttons under, and that is quite flat on the surface of the phone. However, the numeric keys raised lines between the individual key, so there is some texture to dial by feel.

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Features

The Verizon Wireless Escapade has a 500-entry phone book with room for each entry in five numbers, two email addresses, an IM screen name and an address. You can organize your contacts into caller groups, pair a contact with a photo for caller ID, and a polyphonic 30 ringtones and alert sounds. Other basic features include a vibrate mode, a speakerphone, text and multimedia messaging, a calculator, a tip calculator, a calendar, an alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, a unit converter and a notepad.

More advanced users will appreciate the voice command function, Bluetooth, Mobile Instant Messenger (AIM, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo), a simple mobile web browser, and GPS that comes with location-based services like Verizon’s VZ Navigator and Chaperone. You can also e-mail delivered directly available on Verizon mobile e-mail service, e-mail to your inbox for services such as Yahoo, AOL and Windows Live on mobile or Web e-mail, which just opened the web browser.

Of course the most important feature of the Verizon Wireless Escapade, is that it has a dual-mode CDMA/ GSM chipset. You can use the Verizon Wireless network, if you’re in the country and if you are abroad, you can pre-installed SIM card on any GSM network to use in the world. Verizon Wireless has no roaming agreements with other airlines in the U.S., we can not use locally, only in other countries.

The Verizon Wireless Escapade comes with a 2-megapixel camera. There is no mirror for self portraits, but you can use the external display as “subdisplay” in the camera settings for a self-portrait viewfinder. You can take pictures in four resolutions (1,600 x1, 200, 1,280 X960, 640×480, 320×240), six white balance presets, and four color effects. Other camera settings include brightness, a choice of three shutter sounds plus a silent mode and two shooting modes (landscape or portrait).

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Photo quality was surprisingly good for a simple camera. Images looked sharp and vibrant, albeit with a slightly bluish tint. There is no camcorder in the Escapade. You can personalize the Escapade with a variety of wallpaper, graphics and warnings. It does not come with all the games. If you want more customization options and games, you can buy and download them from Verizon over the wireless Web browser.

Performance

We tested the Verizon Wireless Escapade in San Francisco with the Verizon Wireless network, and we were very pleased with the quality of the connection impressed. On our end, callers sounded loud and clear with a natural sounding voice. There was little static or noise in the background.

On their end callers could hardly tell we were on a cell phone. They said we came through crystal clear voice quality and quality was very close to the fixed network. Our voice sounded natural, and we went through automated voice response systems without question. Surprisingly, speaker phone, very good. Caller said the speakerphone quality did not sound much different than calling not on a speakerphone. There was no need to talk closely to the microphone for people who love to hear clearly. On our end, the speakers sounded fine: a bit hard and tinny, but not so bad.

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Verizon Wireless wants to heat up your life with the LG Octane, where these landscape clamshell design will feature a couple of entries received to the essential information about you in a clean cut way. Facilities include a physical QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2-megapixel camera, a microsSD memory card slot, e-mail support, Visual Voicemail and a full HTML web browser like on HTC HD2 T-Mobile Phone.

It can give you for $ 99.99 on his contract after a $ 50 mail-in rebate. Of course, you do not have to wait long, as they will be there tomorrow available at all Verizon Wireless. The display itself looks far too small to be considered for longer periods of time, and we would say that makes a good basic phone and that’s it.

Palm mobile Pixi never made to England, but that does not have the company that recently bought by HP stopped the release of the follow-up, the Palm Pixi-Plus, O2, and hopefully other operators. But it has been worth the wait, and you should choose this over any other smartphone on the market? We have the phone to find seized.

The Palm Pixi-Plus is a candy bar form factor handset, a QWERTY keyboard, a touch screen display and webOS platform that Palm still has high hopes for functions. In the hand it’s small, lightweight and very compact, so compact that open the shell and you will see that everything is packed so tightly it surprising that Palm managed to do it.

The grinding – it measures 55 x 111 x 10.85mm – means that some compromises must be made. There is no microSD slot for example, like everything on the phone’s internal memory 8 GB storage capacity can be saved (you will have access to 7 GB), and the battery is incredibly small (1150mAh) affects the overall endurance of the handset in use – yes, is the another phone, a burden that needs every day.

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The matte black case is interchangeable with other hidden in the supply of palm and there is a 2-megapixel camera with LED flash at the back next to two speakers for media playback. The camera is okay, but compared to what is available on the market, it will not impress as much. Likewise with the video recording capabilities, it’s good for YouTube happy slapping, but not much more. Like most cell phones are the pages with volume keys, a ringer silencer switch and a 3.5mm jack decorated on the top. Two small speakers on the back and put it on the desk helps strengthen dampen the noise instead. How the new look Palm Pre Plus there is not a “pearl”  trackball or other “quick”  keys out of the keyboard. Due to the size of the handset, the keypad is very cute and those with large hands should avoid you.

The keyboard design is individual key buttons, the slightly raised upward above the chassis, and we found ourselves with the buttons with the fingertips rather than the pad. This could do with the fact that resting your thumbs on the buttons to view deletes the entire keyboard or the keys themselves are small, but either way, do not give too much waiting for you. Inside and you get 3G, Wi-Fi (new to the Pixi-Plus), GPS and Bluetooth connectivity.

Those who have previously seen the pre be aware that the main interaction with the stealing by a number of listeners with his finger. Tapping on the light gap between the keyboard and the screen was sitting, you can call the Dock and switch between “Disk”. Other simple gestures include swiping upward on a panel, tile, card throwing, or whatever you feel like it was called off, while a strike to the left sends you to the back.

The panels work even as a card game and lets you run multiple applications simultaneously and then flit between them, as if you were with the fairies. It takes a few moments to get used to, but if you do this, it is very easy to do the interface is what you want to zip. To do what you want, of course, the main purpose of the operating system and it is certainly a good look and feel is very user friendly got. E-mail setup is a breeze – your e-mail address and password and away you go. Add this easy synchronization of your data to contacts and calendar functionality and you see up and running very quickly.

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To further improve this thing called Palm Synergy that links your contacts from a variety of sources. For example, if you listed the same contact in more than one account, Synergy recognizes that the same person and link the information presented by it, as a listing. Also automatically view your consolidated to duplicate information. It is wise and should save more and more excited and stuff Google is creating many duplicates as anyone with the system with the iPhone will tell you.

Better yet, all new messages, whether calendar updates or new e-mails as a pop-up notification to the bottom of the screen allows you to display them or dismiss them with a brush. It is much less intrusive than Apple’s attempt alerts and allows you to handle the task at hand if that is even more important.

In the phone you receive a number of applications for the beginning, but not masses. There is the WebKit browser, of course, that solid, fast and easy to operate. In particular, we are the swipe elements that allow you to scroll forward and backward through pages with ease. Then there are the usual array of photos, music and videos, all of which are self-explanatory and basic in its offering are – we want to use the opportunity to strike, a new track and the possibility of the volume while the phone is locked in the pocket . Still on the multimedia front is YouTube and of course the camera application, which we’ve already talked about.

Office bods like to see a document viewer, PDF viewer and a trusty calculator. Instead of burying applications into folders, they are through the menu bar and scrolling Add, move, or delete them completely around it is simple enough. The addition of Wi-Fi makes it easier to surf when at home and the Wi-Fi side, although the capability is missing, the phone has Wi-Fi hotspot itself, is easy to manage.

Adding more applications on Palm App Store, App Catalog called this time, and it is with applications that help you fill the most of your new phone and no doubt the busy life you lead to be. The app catalog is currently small, says something about Palm quality rather than quantity is you should not buy the Pixi-Plus for this reason. It’s still very early days for applications, most developers now prefer to develop for the larger iPhone, Android and Blackberry platforms instead of App. You might be able to niche apps here and some of your favorites to find, but do not count on it.

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Conclusion

The Palm Pixi-Plus is like a BlackBerry Curve, it is likely that your first venture into the wonderful world of smartphones. On this front, the OS bring for you in the womb, without complicating things. The touch screen is a big advantage over the BlackBerry models and the simple e-mail setup and synchronization of Synergy is great. The form factor is very pocket-friendly. The problem for us is that the handset feels sluggish with the processor not to Pep to get applications to open faster, so you wait for something to happen. There is no age, but it is not directly related.

Add to that poor multimedia experience – the screen is too small – a lack of apps in the App Catalog and a battery life of us expected to take longer and you could be left feeling disappointed. There is potential here and if you do not have to add applications or with the camera, then it was busy to have a “nice” phone. But from 30 per month, Android would give you a better impact for your money, and that’s the biggest problem Palm faces. Convincing with them instead of going Google.