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Review: Alcatel Venture for Virgin Mobile USA

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Apps

The Venture is packed with a wide range of Virgin-branded applications. Some of them are useful (such as MyAccount) and some are not (such as Goodies). I was able to delete some of the pre-installed app, but not all of them. With only 163MB of user-accessible memory for apps, you'll have to be prudent, unless you care to run apps from the microSD card.

Bluetooth

The Venture supports Bluetooth 3.0 and the typical set of profiles. I was able to connect it to mono and stereo headphones, my car, other phones, and computers. Call quality send to my car's speakers was very good, and probably the clearest I've experienced via Bluetooth. Music sent to stereo headphones was pretty good, but short of excellent. I didn't have any trouble passing files to other devices.

GPS

The only mapping service on board is Google Maps. The GPS radio inside the Venture does pretty well at locking down location accurately and quickly. It was able to pinpoint me to within about 25 feet regularly. Google Maps, however, performed a bit slow on the Venture. Maps were very slow to load on the Venture's display thanks to the slower 600MHz processor. Real-time directions were often unusable because the app fell behind my real-time location.

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