GPS Mobile Phone
GPS Mobile Phone: LG Versa VX9600
LG comes with LG Versa vx9600, promising to make it as the most versatile GPS Mobile Phone in the market. LG Versa has a touch screen and comes with the option of adding external modules to increase its functionality, such as an attachable QWERTY keyboard included in the package. LG announced that more external modules such as external speakers will be available in the future. But if you don’t want to use the keyboard, you can use the touch screen virtual keyboard.
The QWERTY keyboard module can be attach by removing the battery cover. The “heavy texter” will love this. The keyboard will work instantly after you install it. And when you tilt the phone to use the keyboard, the screen orientation will automatically change. The change is very quickly, with no frustrating delays. The keys designed well enough so you can use it to type with convenient. Some users didn’t like the space key that too small for them. And the fact that you’ve got to remove the battery cover and attach the module in its place, means you’ve got to either carry around the battery cover or commit to staying in QWERTY mode and leave the cover at home.
The keyboard module acts like a case, and has cutouts for the camera on the back. On the front there is an external monochrome 0.94-inch OLED display with date, time, signal and battery strength, plus caller ID information, and also two call buttons underneath that.
LG Versa VX9600
Although without external module, LG Versa GPS Mobile Phone is still a good touch screen device. With the plain back plate installed instead of the keyboard, the Versa is look similar to many others GPS Mobile Phone. The Versa has a full HTML browser that surprisingly usable and full-featured for a non-smart phone device. Versa supports for Flash Lite 3, so you can watch your favorite YouTube clips on the go. The EVDO makes Web pages loaded in seconds, and it took about a minute to download a 1MB file. Streaming video quality was surprisingly good as well, especially the ones from YouTube. Other features include a GPS, 2.0-megapixel camera, EV-DO, stereo Bluetooth, and many more.
LG Versa GPS Mobile Phone has GPS functionality via Verizon’s VZ Navigator. The listings were accurate, and the option to call my destination worked well. Versa will able to follow our location on the map, zoomed in to street view, and it was accurate even if we wasn’t following the route the device mapped out for me. GPS Mobile Phone was able to pinpoint our position in less than five seconds each time, and gave us directions to either the predetermined destination of my choosing or to a place that I searched for. The application worked well whether we were on foot or in a car.
The GPS mobile phone has a 2-megapixel camera with a LED flash on a back. It has five picture resolutions (1600×1200, 1280×960, 800×400, 640×480, and 320×240), five white balance presets, and five color effects you can choose. There is also SmartPic technology, which helps to enhance images with face color compensation and light compensation in low-light situations. The camera takes good photos. Unfortunately the phone takes a while to actually take each photo. It makes the versa will work better for taking portraits and landscapes than for trying to take fast action photos at moving events such as moving children or pets. Video capture is also included, with the ability to capture up to thirty seconds at a time
The LG Versa GPS Mobile Phone Specifications:
- Dimensions 2.1 x 0.6 x 4.2 in, Weight 3.8 oz
- Display : LCD touch screen 262000 Colors, 3″, 240×480 pixel + OLED Display 56×120 pixels monochrome
- Connectivity: CDMA2000 1X 1900/800, EVDO, GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP, 802.11b Wi-Fi
- Camera: 2 megapixel camera, Led flash, 5 resolutions, 5 white balance presets, 5 color effects, SmartPic.
- Battery: 1100mAH Rechargeable Lithium ion. Battery Live: 290 minutes talk time, 430 hours standby time
- Internal shared memory, 1 microSD slot
- Others feature: VCAST, Mobile E-mail, Instant Messaging, Browser, Calendar, MP3. WMA, Imaging, etc
The LG Versa GPS Mobile Phone Price:
- $149.99 with service plan
- $599.99 for unlocked phone
The LG Versa GPS Mobile Phone Pros:
- Versatile design & display with external module
- Removable QWERTY keyboard
- Good photo quality
The LG Versa GPS Mobile Phone Cons:
- No WiFi
- No Microsoft Office Application
- QWERTY keyboard isn’t practical to bring mobile
The LG Versa GPS Mobile Phone Bottom Line:
Overall the LG Versa GPS Mobile Phone is recommended, mainly because it can adapt to your needs at a moment’s notice. If you can live with the service plan, $149 is very reasonable price. As long as you understand the potential limitations, the LG Versa GPS Mobile Phone is a very good touch-screen phone with the added versatility of optional modules.
For another option of GPS Mobile Phone and GPS Camera, check out our articles about Samsung i560, Nokia 6210 and Sony GPS-CS1KASP
