This is Phone Arena’s video review of the LG enV Touch VX11000 available through Verizon wireless. The enV Touch is an update to the Voyager that was introduced in November 2007. It was every aspect of the phone has been updated including two 3-inch WVGA displays, improved user interface, QWERTY keyboard and a 3-megapixel autofocus camera with flash.
The styling is also more refined and notices the cheap plastic look. The enV Touch is also not as tall and thick as the Voyager but not by much. The user interface has been updated and incorporates some of the features found on the data. After unlocking the screen you’ll see five icons across the bottom for inbox, dial pad, main menu, contacts list and favorites.
On the right hand of the screen with this small arrow which can be drive to anywhere from the top to the bottom. Clicking on it will bring up your shortcuts menu where you can add 15 items as well as the second page for my media with 15 items from pictures, videos, music and web favorites. You can also drag any of these icons to the desktop. This will allow for one click access.
To remove in you simply dragged it back to the small arrow, going into the main menu show us postage idea of icons for media center, messaging, contacts, recent calls, easy navigator, my music, browser and settings and tools. Pressing on one will take you to that menu where you can scroll up and down the list as well as side to side to go between menus.
The default theme is called Modern Retro but you can also change to Blue Inspiration. It's just three sections for communications, multimedia and then settings and tools which are divided equally on the screen. Each one of these categories has six icons that only three are shown at a time which means you have to scroll through the icons to see the headed ones. Because of this we found this theme to be more time consuming to find what you're looking for. Unfortunately, those are the only two themes that are included which is disappointing.
The only other display customizations are for the wall paper, clock and fonts. Sending in text message can be done by T9, on screen QWERTY or by using the internal QWERTY keyboard. It now comes with the center space key and designated button for favorites and new messages. Having text massagers will appreciate the design and size of the QWERTY keyboard as your thumbs don’t feel cramp while using it. The browser has also been updated and it's more user friendly than the one found on the Voyager located at the bottom right corner is an icon that brings up browser functions for back and forward page, home, favorites, RSS feed, search, history and settings.
The internal webpage you simply press the address bar and use the on screen keyboard. There is also a list of recently viewed websites. Complex webpages such as PhoneArena.com only took 30 seconds to completely load while the Voyager would take up 60 seconds. You can use your finger to pan around the page and double click to zoom in and out.
The browser also comes with limited Flash support that will play back YouTube videos but websites with other Flash based games will not work. The music player on the external display has the similar layout to the browser which is showing the album or progress bar and then for it’s rewind, play and pause, and fast-forward. Turning the phone sideways will show the three-interface where you can pick an album art to play, just by selecting on its cover.
But since the device has stereo speakers located on the inside it is recommended that you flip the phone open as this provides the best and muffled music. Sound quality for the speakers is good but not as loud as when you're using the enV3 or Chocolate 3. You can also connect wired earbuds to the 3.5 millimeter headset jack or use a stereo Bluetooth headset. One feature that is missing from the enV Touch is the VCast mobile TV service which uses the media flow network to play live streaming videos and TV channels. But it still comes with the standard VCast video player which shows prerecorded clips.
More interesting than that is you can play your own videos and intake for format I've shown here. The 3-megapixel on the focus camera can be used with the internal or external display. Images taken outside are excellent equal to that of the LG there as there has been good detail. Colors are accurate and not overly exaggerated with better white balance than we saw with the Voyager. There’s lots of flash for images taken in the low light but your subject needs to be within 10 feet of the camera for the flash to work well.
Other features include the panorama mode, intelligent shot, facial makeover, small detector, a name and card reader to convert business cards to store in contacts. Videos can also be recorded in VGA resolution that is limited to 20 frames per second. Wonderful feature on the enV Touch is the document viewer that will show Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Acrobat files.
It works well as you can zoom in and out on the pages that cannot edit or create documents with it. The call quality and the reception of the enV Touch is about equal to that of the LG Versa. Voices are clear and natural sounding on both ends and does not have background hiss or earpiece distortion that was prevalent on the Voyager. We were able to place calls around cell phone without any of them dropping and with average between two to three bars of signal reception.
They included 950 mAh battery provided up to five hours of continuous talk time on a full charge. Where as the Voyager would only get three and a half hour. With all of the features packed into the enV Touch there are no doubt to be one of the most popular Verizon phones to be released this year. If you don’t need a PDA or Smartphone but still want it in all one device with the touch interface, three megapixel camera, music player, document viewer, did call quality and QWERTY keyboard. The enV Touch is hard to beat, please visit PhoneArena.com for a full review of the enV Touch including pictures in 360 degree viewing angle.
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