LG Dare Out Now
A slim phone with 3G V-Cast, V-CAST music and VZ Navigator. Along with this will come a 3.2 megapixel camera which can do photo as well as video recording. A photo editing tool will also come default with the phone.
LG Dare, the full-touch handset proudly announced by Verizon Wireless a few weeks ago, is now available for purchase from Verizon's official website. The new Dare is priced at $199 with a contract agreement for two years and at $249 with an agreement for only one year. For a limited period of time, those who buy the Dare with a two-year contract agreement and a data plan of $79 per month will receive from Verizon a free 8GB memory card kit. Or, in case you want the handset without any contract and any data plan, it can be acquired for $406.
After spending some time with the LG Dare, it's hard not to come away impressed. It's a slim and pocketable touch phone with a vastly revised user interface when compared with other LG touch devices, such as the Voyager. Like the iPhone, the Dare forgoes most buttons. It has just three along the bottom edge of the phone, and the usual controls on the phone's side. The screen is nicely sized at 3 inches and it is plenty bright.
The touch screen technology used by LG for the Dare comes closer than any other touch device to matching the experience provided by the iPhone. The menu system is a simple screen tap away, and users can customize the home screen almost as they would a desktop. This means you can drag and drop application shortcuts to the home screen just as you would on your home computer, making them easily accessible. Many of the menus are customizable, which allows users to make the phone their own.
The new LG handset comes from Verizon in a period when other two major American carriers (Sprint and AT&T) are in a "touchscreen competition" started by Sprint. It's widely known that AT&T will be releasing Apple's new iPhone 3G on July 11, so Sprint decided to launch a similar handset, the Samsung Instinct, with a campaign aimed directly at iPhone 3G's success. Now, Verizon has also come up with a full-touch phone that can easily stand besides the Sprint and AT&T ones, making the touchscreen segment of the US mobile market more interesting than ever.
The Dare's real victory, however, is its multimedia capabilities. It has a 3.2-megapixel camera (besting the iPhone's 2 megapixel camera) and it comes loaded with powerful stuff. It has face detection software, a panorama shooting mode, SmartPic technology and manual ISO adjustment for improved image quality, and a Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens for optimal picture quality. The camera offers multiple ways to adjust the settings to customize the picture-taking experience. It also works reasonably fast.
On top of the solid camera performance is amazing video recording power. The Dare can shoot video at up to 120 frames per second, allowing for slow motion playback. No other phone can brag about that feature, and that's hot!
Of course, it comes with the litany of standard items found on high-end feature phones. That includes: music player, microSD slot, stereo Bluetooth, USB mass storage, HTML Web browser, and many, many other features.
For the moment, LG Dare is available only online but starting July 3, users will also be able to find the handset in Verizon's Wireless Communications Stores across the US.
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