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I never really cared for these LG phones. Lovin' my T-Mobile Dash!]]>Nov 27th 2006 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Nov 27th 2006 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Nov 27th 2006 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/
should that be hyphenated?]]>Nov 27th 2006 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Nov 27th 2006 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Nov 27th 2006 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Nov 27th 2006 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Nov 27th 2006 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Nov 27th 2006 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Nov 28th 2006 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Nov 27th 2006 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/]]>Nov 27th 2006 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/
wait, a verizon phone with OBEX? are you out of your mind? sprint made OBEX impossible to figure out on the A900, there's no way that verizon would even make it usable on any of their phones!]]>Nov 27th 2006 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/
if sprint releases an enV competitor/killer, the sprint model will support java.]]>Nov 27th 2006 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Nov 27th 2006 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/
Hopefully this mini-review helps you guys out in deciding whether or not to pick this little guy up. ]]>Nov 28th 2006 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Jul 9th 2007 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/]]>Dec 3rd 2006 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/pretty good phone. i found some info at phonscoop and at skatter tech
here are the links:
http://skattertech.com/2006/11/lg-vx9900-env-verizon/]]>Dec 5th 2006 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Dec 6th 2006 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Dec 7th 2006 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Dec 29th 2006 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/]]>Jan 18th 2007 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Jan 20th 2007 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Jan 30th 2007 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Feb 7th 2007 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/May 19th 2007 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Jul 1st 2007 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Jun 26th 2007 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/
I agree the front screen is tiny, but sufficient, and the inside screen is *great*. I also agree that speaker mode on the outside would be a good addition, but not a big deal. Another thing that seems odd to me is the camera location -- I think it should be on the other end of the phone, since when I started using it I kept gettng my fingers in front of the lens. But after a couple minutes of goofing around it felt natural enough.

I really like that the phone flips all the way open flat -- much more convenient for typing. It should really have a camera on the inside too -- when the data network can support it, this kind of platform would be an *ideal* videophone where you could talk and type. Of course it doesn't have that feature, but oh well.

The construction also feels pretty good. I don't think it feels cheap or fragile -- not that I'm going to drop mine any time soon, but it has a good feel, and they keyboard feels really good.

I basically wanted the most PDA-like phone I could get without going all the way to PDA city (at 3-5 times the price). I have no plans to pay enough for a full data plan, etc. so I was basically looking for a good "communicator". I also wanted to be able to use the "planner" features on my phone, but I can't handle them on the small phones with just a dialpad... similarly, I think texting is great but I hate dialpads. I also wanted a phone that was stylish. On these counts, the enV really delivers.

So basically, acknowledging the usual stupid interface mistakes that cell phone designers always seem to make, and the verizon OS (not having seen the OEM to compare), I really like it. ]]>Jul 16th 2007 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Jul 26th 2007 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Aug 2nd 2007 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Aug 10th 2007 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/verizon-lg-env-launches-qwerty-nerds-rejoice/Feb 9th 2008 3:40PM