LG Dare Now Available on Verizon Wireless
In yesterday’s post about the Samsung Instinct, we semi jokingly suggested that the Instinct was Sprint’s attempt to keep customers from jumping ship come July 11th. Apparently some readers were offended by the allegation and here at BGR we try not to make the same mistake twice. So with regards to Verizon’s newly-released LG Dare we’re going to keep this post serious. We will not say that like the Instinct, the Dare is Verizon’s attempt to wrangle would-be ship jumpers with a sleek touch-only handset. We will not make jokes about the familiar form factor or metal accents. No, dear friends, we will not say things like Verizon higher-ups would set their LG distribution contracts ablaze if it would result in even the slightest possibility of Apple cranking out an iPhone EV-DO. We’re better than that. In fact, we won’t even mention the iPhone a single time in this post. Nope, not one iPhone reference. So the LG Dare is now available for Verizon Wireless customers looking for some touchy goodness. Proximity sensor, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, 3.2 megapixel camera, EV-DO Rev A, HTML web browser; the Dare has all the goodies you can handle. Maybe. A click on the read link, $199 and a 2-year contract will get you in the door. Definitely a good option for the “keepin it real” crowd still paying homage to the CDMA networks of our fathers. Wait, was that a joke? Crap.
Compare this with the Instinct, never had either one but going by the specs the only difference is the cam and browser
How about LG Wack!!!! try it just to see the hype this device Sucks!! crappy touch controls. GOD i hate Verizon and John B. who ever told you the voyagay is better is obviously is trying to hustle you to buy one your smart for walking away!!. Can’t wait to get the new 3G iphone so i can walk inside the verizon retail store and say can you hear me now! lol!!! ohh yea i will be going to japan this year later on and make make a phone call overseas. Bottom line Big Boys in red are reliable in america and barely lol. GSM all the way baby!!
I find it quite funny how many people come into tech. blogs like this and shout about GSM being world wide. How many domestic consumers (not tech. blog readers) are actually concerned about their cell phone technology being a “world wide standard?” My guess, would be pretty few. How many of them are actually world travelers? I’d guess even less. How many of them even know the difference or have even heard of GSM or CDMA? I would be so daring as to say a smaller number still.
The general domestic consumer is completely clueless when it comes to cell phone technology. That is why people like you and I get so frustrated when we have to go into a store and deal with a rep. They are used to dealing with clueless people, and do not know how to deal with an informed consumer. All they are trying to do is make the sale. And that is the exact reason “tech. savvy” folks like us are met with either a “dear in the headlights look” or outright anger for knowing more about a product than the reps.
Sold my iphone for the Voyager. Bought my son the Dare. The Dare is the true iphone killer with wifi type browser speed thanks to ev-do rev. a.
90% world coverage?
LOL, that’s a good one. It’s a significant majority, yes. But that’s mainly due to unfair trade laws in Europe (basically the EU outlawed anything BUT GSM) and networks in other parts of the world assuming it was better. The opposite is true: CDMA is more efficient for data transfer — look it up if you want — which is why verizon and sprint chose it. LTE, the hybrid of the two will be better yet. Oh, and CDMA coverage is actually GROWING in parts of Asia and Africa.
Oh, and last but not least: 95% of US cel phone customers could care less about weather their phone works in the rest of the world and the few that do can get temporary international calling plans when they travel or get World Phones (CDMA/GSM hybrids).
I’m a mac user, and have used apple products for over 20 years.
The iphone is cool, no doubt.
I hate at&t. If you’ve got money to burn … go for it.
Upgrading my current phone to a Dare and using Verizon will save me MORE THAN $800 bucks over two years (not to mention all the $$ to buy apps, music and other “stuff”. Nuff said.
Pros:
Light, Small and Compact.
Good Battery Life
Good Signal with a Fast Browser
Rubberized back for good grip
Cons:
Texting is hard to get good at for some people like me
Low light produced for backlight(glare)
Sometimes people complain of not being able to hear me.
Video camera has a blue tint problem in high speed.
This is one of the best phones released for verizon network. The touchscreen is amazingly accurate especially coming from the voyager which touchscreen sucks in accuracy. So they really improved it when making this phone. Multi-tasking music player is also a plus when your on those bored days with nothing to do besides texting. Some things that need to be worked on are some of the glitches that the phone produces such as the phone restarting when doing something such as scrolling through text messages on the phone but you can fix this by resetting the phone which I found out on http://LG-Dare.com. But I believe the restarting problems can be fixed in a firmware update. But the phone has alot of tricks and features which you might not figure out until a couple of days after you get the phone. I know LG made a site( http://www.lgmobilephones.com/phone.aspx?id=8712 ) thats basically a picture manual for the LG Dare and it really helped learn the phone also.
This phonw looks really cool. Cannot wait to upgrade my plan in a month! Nice Camera