Phone Shopping Friday - The LG VX7000
Yah, we know we can't shut up about the fact that the Treo 600 is finally available on Verizon (even if it is only for business customers so far). But we know there's alot of you out there who subscribe to Verizon but can't or don't want to shell out about $500 for a Samsung smartphone or a Treo. That and we've also been told that the Samsung i600 has worse battery life than a Motorola phone. So It's time we picked out a phone anyone can afford. One with decent battery life and enough features to be worthy of Engadget.
Thus we give the the LG VX7000. You're in shock, right? You think we're telling you to buy some off-brand Korean piece of junk, don't you? DUDE, South Korea is the land of CDMA. it's also the land of complete mobile phone maniacs. If anyone is going to make an affordable, cool, small, good reception having, long battery lasting phone it's these guys. So settle down and take a look at the LG.
First, the VX7000 is totally small for CDMA phone - especially a cameraphone. It's not the absolute smallest phone on Verizon but geez they need a little space to fit in that 176 x 220 internal color display, a VGA camera, a spacious keypad and an external color display too. The camera can take stills or even video, 3GPP video so you can email it off to your friends' computers, or even their GSM phones if you want to share the love.
Like most new CDMA phones, the VX7000 plays polyphonic ringtones. What's even cooler is that an intrepid explorer on Howard Forums discovered that if you rename an mp3 file (max size 190k) with a .mid extension and an email it to your phone. When you save the file on your phone, you can use the mp3 as a ringtone too.
All this and you can even afford if you're ballin on a budget.
