Review: LG enV3
Begin rant:
Where the heck are the social networking features? From now on, messaging phones that don't include at least rudimentary access to social networks are a complete failure in my book. Facebook, MySpace and Twitter clients are no where to be found. Using these networks via the mobile web on the enV3 is beyond painful to the point of being useless. Messaging phones need to do more than send text messages.
End rant
With the phone closed, you can send text messages to one recipient at a time. That's it. You can see new messages as they arrive, but you cannot view your entire inbox. No MMS, no composing to multiple people. No emails. For those that need to check messages and only have one hand, this seriously cramps usability. You have to open the phone up to check email. You can also dial into voicemail and visual voicemail with the phone closed.
With the phone open, you can send any sort of message, be it a SMS, MMS, email, or IM. On the home screen, the left soft key brings you to the messaging menu. This SMS/MMS application is the same that we've seen before from Verizon.
Emails can be set up two different ways. You can use Verizon's email service, or access your POP3 accounts via the Web browser. The included email application, which costs $5 extra per month unless you have subscribed to unlimited data, is easy enough to use for setting up and accessing POP3 accounts. You can also use Verizon's RemoSync service to sync with MIcrosoft Exchange-based corporate email.
The IM application is exactly the same as on the enV2 and other Verizon phones.
The only thing that's new here is a "Blogs" function. It appears to be some sort of RSS tool that lets you sync headlines and other information to the device. I added a bunch of sites to the tool, but it never let me do anything. I don't know if this is a feature that needs to be enabled by Verizon, but it did bupkus on our review unit.
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LG enV3 VX-9200
