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Out of all of Verizon’s holiday lineup, the most anticipated (and the most hyped) has been the Voyager. A clamshell with full touchscreen on the outside and QWERTY keypad for fulsome messaging on the inside, it’s been granted the usual title of “iPhone Killer” and Verizon’s Chief Marketing Officer Mike Lanman pushed out all [...]
Dual-screens on a cellphone are nothing new: clamshells have had them for years, giving Caller ID and status on the outside, while Samsung even experimented with candybars that had a screen on each side. Verizon’s musicphone for this season, however, the Venus by LG, manages to eke a further new trick out of the dual-screen [...]
I’m all for using words in strange, non-traditional ways, but only if they sound good; Verizon’s latest press release about one of their holiday handset lineup, the Juke, ticks the former but in no way satisfies the latter. “Customers can Juke to the beat of up to 500 songs” they tell us, obviously hoping that [...]
When you’re making cellphones it can be tricky finding a unique selling point that pushes your new handset out in front of the crowd. It’s made doubly difficult when the phone is neither high-fashion nor smartphone; that’s what’s left Verizon championing their latest 3G clamshell, the Samsung SGH-U700 Gleam, not so much for its high-speed [...]
Verizon waded into the holiday season with some fighting words about their iPhone-rival, the LG Voyager, with chief marketing officer Mike Lanman quoted as saying “it will kill the iPhone.” Since then, pundits on both sides of the fence have argued whether the sleek clamshell - which admittedly blows the iPhone out of the water when [...]
There is the Juke by Samsung, the Pearl by Blackberry, and the Venus and Voyager both by LG. The top of the line in that list is the LG Voyager.
The Voyager is a dual-screen device with a QWERTY keyboard. The external screen is supposedly a QVGA touch-screen with the internal one being the same resolution, [...]





