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Thoughts On The LG Voyager

I’ve lived with the LG Voyager for a few months now and I have some opinions about it.

Things that are good:

• It mostly works at my house (by which I mean, Verizon works at my house)
  
• It has a physical keyboard which makes texting a breeze
• It has an HTML browser
• I can use BitPim to put ringtones on it for free
• Works with my bluetooth headset
• Decent battery life and included a USB cable that can charge it
• Was able to buy Bejewled. I love Bejeweled.

Things that are bad:

• Drops calls at my house. A lot.
• The touchscreen blows
• A lot of apps won’t work with the touchscreen, requiring you to open the phone
• Iimpossible to nagvigate web pages with the browser by way of the touchscreen
  
• But that’s okay because the browser sucks so you don’t really want to use it if you can avoid it
  
• And of course, sometimes the browser just stops loading pages with no indication that it’s done so. So even if you’re trying to use it, you might not actually be using it
• No built-in email app
• The for-pay email apps suck and are worthless and it’s easier to use gmail over the browser (despite the fact that the browser sucks; the available email apps suck even more)
• Bluetooth integration with computers is crippled to the point of uselessness
• The call alert sounds are too quiet because the speaker is inside the phone (when closed) and therefore everything is muffled
• No built-in email app. Did I mention this one already?
  

I’m not sure why this phone exists. It’s not a good touchscreen phone. It’s not a good messaging phone. It’s not a good web-surfing phone. It’s not really a very good phone-phone. It looks like it was meant to be an iPhone killer but my mom’s old StarTAC was closer to being an iPhone killer than the LG Voyager. Still, it works at my house and has a keyboard.

I guess that’s something.

Housekeeping

I’ve stopped importing my Google Reader shared items into this tumbl blog because it was duplicating entries on my FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/willia4). I’ll still put random quotes and such here.

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