LG - Dare VX9700 Cell Phone Review

I have the LG Dare from Verizon Wireless and love it. This phone has everything you could want short of being a smart phone. It has a 3" touch screen with a customizable desk top. You choose the shortcuts you want to have on it. I love this feature. No more searching through menus. Everything I was it one touch away. I could never go back to a regular phone now. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera. It take beautiful pictures outside. Just as clear as any comparable digital camera. It is still good in artifical light, but you definitely loose some clarity. It has a flash, but the flash it too bright and a blue color. I really don't take night pictures. It also has a camcorder feature with will record in up to 640x480 resolution. Very nice.

It has a full html browser so it renders most normal websites very well. There is no flash support so anything flash will not load. I still like to use the mobile web most of the time because it's faster. It has mobile IM for aol, msn, Yahoo. It runs on the 3G network so if you have a good signal it will run at approx 1.5M a second. Obvioulsy slower if you have a worse signal. It has a built in MP3 player and a headphone jack which I use often. It has it's own youtube player so you can play any youtube video. It has bluetooth. 

It has a full QWERTY onscreen keyboard for texting when you turn the phone sideways. This can take a bit to get used to, but I have it down pretty well. It has a favorite contacts screen so you can call or text your favorite people with the press of a button.

I love this phone. It is an all in one device. I use it to call, text, take pictures, video, listen to mp3s, check email, internet. If you don't need a smart phone this is a very good option. The only small problem is getting used to the touch keyboard and the scrolling can be kind of slow, but i don't have much bad to say about the LG Dare.