Messaging

With access to mobile email, instant messaging services and SMS text, video, picture and voice messaging, you'll have no excuse not to keep in touch with your friends.

On the Versa, SMS text messages can be sent with a maximum 1,120 characters to as many as 10 recipients at a time. The Versa is also comes with 15 preset text messages for when you just can't find the right words to say.

Users can share instant messages via AIM, Windows Live messenger and Yahoo! messenger.

For mobile email, log-in to accounts from services including Yahoo!, AOL, AIM, Verizon.net, Windows Live and Hotmail and receive message notifications even when you're out of the email application.

Entertainment

Take your favorite shows and songs wherever you go with Verizon VCAST Video and VCAST Music. Starting at $13 per month, VCAST Video offers live television programming straight to your phone from networks like CNBC, CBS, Comedy Central, ESPN, Comedy Central and MTV.

Download more tunes to your playlist via Rhapsody for $1.99 per song or $14.99 for unlimited access. You can also download songs from Rhapsody to your PC, manage and create your playlists, then sync it to your phone.

In addition to music and videos, VCAST has the latest games, display themes and ringtones available for download at convenient 3G speeds.

Internet

Touch navigate your way through the web using Versa's full HTML browser. The Versa is also equipped with RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed support, so you can access periodic updates from your favorite web sites, and Adobe Flash Lite for watching YouTube videos or other multimedia content with Flash. The Versa can open up to three windows at a time when browsing the Internet.

The Versa's 3-inch screen displays Internet pages in landscape mode. At the bottom of the browser you'll find a navigation toolbar with virtual keys for back, forward, refresh, zoom, home, bookmarks and the main menu.

Versa supports Verizon's super fast EV-DO Rev. A broadband network that lets users transmit and receive data at quicker rates than on non-EV-DO networks. The Versa does not support Wi-Fi.

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