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Your Price: $149.99 with service Release Date: Q2 2008 Released For: Verizon Wireless Released for Verizon Wireless, the LG Dare can be accessed with just the flick of a finger. Boasting a spacious three-inch touch-screen with handwriting recognition, users can flip through the contact list for texting, emailing and phoning. A built-in 3.2-megapixel camera uses a Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens for optimal picture quality, with face detection and flash, and unique photo editing capabilities. It automatically adapting to low or unevenly distributed light. Consumers can use the photo editing tool to personalize their digital photos with features that include borders and landscapes, and they can draw on their pictures directly on the screen using their fingertips. Featuring 3G EV-DO connectivity for high-speed Internet, the Dare supports VCAST Music to download from over 2 million songs and VCAST Video to stream entertainment clips, sports highlights, breaking news and weather. The Dare can give audible turn-by-turn directions and locate nearly fourteen million points of interest in the U.S., including landmarks, restaurants and even ATMs via VZ Navigator.

• Integrated 3.2-megapixel camera and camcorder with Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens for optimal picture quality, SmartPic technology and manual ISO adjustment for improved image quality, Face Detection, Panorama, Split Shot and Scene Mode to automatically makes adjustments to camera settings for improved quality in different environments
• Image Editor to zoom, rotate, crop, add frames and icons and write over images
• Customizable brightness, white balance, shutter sound, color effects, night and preview mode, photometry and self-timer
• Video resolutions up to 640 x 480 px, video recording speed up to 120 frames per second for slow video playback, video recording time of 30 seconds (for sending) and up to 1 hour (for saving) depending on memory
• Access more than 3 million full-length songs that can be purchased and downloaded over-the-air directly via VCAST Music
• Bluetooth Version 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) to listen to music with optional stereo Bluetooth headsets, send contacts and calendar events and print pictures (JPEG)
• HTML Web browsing with touch navigation and favorites
• Get visual and audible directions to thousands of destinations, locate businesses and other points of interest, get maps of a location, and share directions with others via VZ Navigator
• Up to 8 GB support with an optional microSD memory card
• USB Mass Storage to transfer files between microSD card and PC

Technical Specifications
Network:	CDMA 800 / 1900
Form Factor:	PDA
Dimensions:	104 x 56 x 13 mm
Weight:	107 g
Antenna:	Internal
Navigation:	Touch Screen / QWERTY Keypad
Battery Type:	1100 mAh Li-Ion
Talk Time:	4.67
Standby Time:	360
Memory:
Expandable Memory:	microSD / TransFlash
Imaging
Main Screen:	262000 colors (TFT / Accelerometer) 240 x 320 px
External Screen:
Camera:	3.2 MP / 2048 x 1536 px / Flash / Zoom / Auto-Focus / Image Editor / Face Detection / Panorama / SmartPic / Video Recorder
Audio
MP3 Player:	VCAST Music
FM Radio:
Speakerphone:
Push-To-Talk:
Multimedia
Wallpapers:	240 x 320 px
Screen Savers:	240 x 320 px
Ring Tones:	MP3
Themes:
Games:	BREW
Streaming Multimedia:	VCAST Video
Messaging
SMS:
EMS:
MMS:
Email:	POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP
Chat:	AOL / Windows Live / Yahoo!
Predictive Text:	T9
Applications
Phonebook Capacity:	1000
Calendar:
To-Do List:
WAP:	2.0 (HTML)
Voice Commands:
Calculator:
Connectivity
Bluetooth:	2.1 (A2DP / BPP / DUN / HFP / HID / HSP / OPP)
Infrared Port:
High-Speed Data:	cdma2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A
Wi-Fi:
GPS:	VZ Navigator
PC Sync:	Wireless Sync
More Information
Website:
Discussion:	LG Forum

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A fantastic phone (with caveats)

I've had the Dare for over a month and here's my pros and cons:

Pros: Feature-packed phone! There's nothing lacking if you want to listen to music (MP3 player), surf the web (has an HTML browser), bunch of tools (calendar, alarm, notepad, etc.), camera and video (3.2MP and high-speed video) and with Verizon Wireless very good call quality.

The touch screen controls mostly every feature and has an individual camera button, volume button and call and power buttons. It has a conventional dial pad-like keyboard
that will flip to QWERTY touch screen keyboard when you flip the phone from vertical to horizontal position.

The Dare uses external memory (microSD card) up to 8 GB and can be accessed by Bluetooth or USB mass storage.

Design is elegant. Surrounding the 3-inch touchscreen is a chrome trim that's nice to the touch and the back of the Dare is rubberized for good grip. The back also features the camera lens with flash and the external speaker.

Cons: The MP3 player can be a glitchy and it's not compatible with iTunes (doesn't sync). Sometimes there's initialization problems but this could be attributed to the microSD card.

The 3.2MP camera that touted with as a Schneider Kreutznach lens is over-hyped. This won't replace your digital p/s camera. Lag-time for taking candid photos is challenging. Even at the highest resolution, quality can disappoint. It's better with video, IMHO. Though the camera is fun with its Panoramic setting.

The HTML browser doesn't do flash and those used to the iPhone will be disappointed. It's so-so. Not great but not bad, either. Favorites are limited to 23(!?!?) addresses.

The touchscreen attracts smears and smudges like crazy. You'll find yourself constantly wiping the screen but when it's clear it's beautiful. Some point out that the screen is not glass rather plastic and could be a negative. I don't have a real problem with this, though you may want to be more careful in not damaging the screen. Though the touchscreen can be calibrated there's occasional mis-types. But with a good calibration the keyboard responds fairly well.

Summary: I really do enjoy the phone for all its features. I almost find myself using this more than my 17-inch MacBook Pro! When all of the features work, it's fantastic. The Dare gets a lot of looks and often mistaken for the iPhone. Calls are about the best you can get for cell phones and VZW's high-speed service makes accessing the web convenient.

I highly recommend people who are interested in the iPhone but aren't interested in AT&T to look at the Dare and Verizon.

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Exceptional!

Just picked this phone up yesterday as a birthday present to myself and so far I love it. I'll highlight my favorite features below:

The touch navigation on it is amazing. It's much better than the Voyager or the god-awful Glyde. It offers the usual vibration feedback when selecting items and scrolling through lists. My only gripe with it is that sometimes when you are scrolling through a list with your finger, you may accidentally select something you didn't want to select. Maybe I just have to practice more with it.

Of course, the camera is one of this phone's greatest features. It has a 3.2 MP camera with a special German-made lens that takes crisp pictures and the flash is almost blinding it's so bright. You have tons of options to choose from like Face Detection, Shutter Speed, Burst Shot, Auto focus, Editing options, Fun Frames, and you can even draw on the pictures or with the touch screen.

It has many of the iPhone's trademark features like the accelerometer that rotates the screen when the phone is rotated and a 3.5mm headset jack so you can use your favorite headphones with it. You can also drag and drop icons using your finger.

Speaking of downloads, this phone also has EV-DO Rev. A which allows super fast internet speed. I downloaded a copy of Bejeweled in a matter of seconds. Web pages opened up very quickly as well.

All in all, this is Verizon's best phone in a long time so if you're still on the fence I would suggest going to the store and trying it out. I only wish this phone came with a protective pouch like my LG VENUS.

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Twista's Review

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 LG-Darecom. 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 thats basically a picture manual for the LG Dare and it really helped learn the phone also.

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