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Don't You Dare Buy It

 

Jul 13, 2008 by speedriff

I ordered this phone and received it the day before release. I had briefly played with the demo model at the store and had some reservations but the sales assistant assured me the phone wasn't fully initialized, hence the problems. Not the case.
The main problem with this phone is the touchscreen. It isn't an iPhone by any means. The iPhone uses a capacitive glass display and all you have to do is touch the screen, hence the name "touchscreen". The iPhone is also dual touch which means you can zoom in or out using your fingers etc. The LG Dares screen is plastic and requires pressure. Ok, so what you may ask? So alot. When scrolling you have to push on the screen then "glide" your finger across the screen. If you don't do it just right you will select one of the prompts which is frustrating. When typing, the haptic feedback is a nice touch and although it works very well, again you have to push on the screen. Too much force and it is cumbersome, too little and mistakes abound. The screen is just a pain to use, period.
As for the other features of the phone they are generally good if not great. Great camera and video. Nice menu system which is intuitive.
Now the other real problem I had with this phone was with Verizon. The sales assistant told me to buy one of the V plans so I wouldn't get charged per megabyte when I downloaded anything (browser etc.) So for $15 per month, I signed up for V-Cast. Now if you want to access your email (other than free email like yahoo etc.) you will have to pony up another $5 per month. I loaded music software that came with the phone. It is Rhapsody. They charge you another $15 a month. So now I'm up to $35 a month just to make this thing useful. What a rip off.
So what you may ask? So here is the deal. For $49 you can buy a Blackberry Curve and the data plan is $30 per month. It will do everything this phone will do and so much more, besides there are tons of things available for it. So I got the Curve.


Not even close - touchscreen horrible!

 

Jul 18, 2008 by rudy2dog

For the record I use the iPhone 1.0 but was sick of the call quality and dropped calls. So you all know, I'm a techhead and have probably owned more phones in the last 15 years than most people buy in a lifetime.

My friend was looking at new phones with Verizon and based on all of the touted expectations, hoopla and general comments of iPhone killer she picked this phone. Wow what a mistake - the touchscreen is just plain awful. It's not even close to the smooth operation of the iPhone (sorry all of you iPhone haters). However, she could live with it if it worked some of the time. But as so many others have commented, you have to push down too hard and even then you are not promised smooth scrolling - you might just go to one of the many submenus and still not be able to do what your originally wanted. The submenus are very cumbersome and coupled with a poor touchscreen make this phone almost unbearable.

To top the whole experience off, Verizon completely neuters this phone and requires the user to use their V-CAST and Mobile Mail solutions - another painful experience. The interfaces are locked down and there is very little ability to set preferences even for something as simple as an alert sound for incoming mail. Oh you get a sound, but if you don't want one that's too bad.

They have a great network, but others are catching up fast and people are using their phones for more than just calling - getting your email or looking up something on the Internet is not just a convenience anymore. In today's very busy world, most people need that capability on the go. Who wants to wait if you don't have to? Now if you have only ever had Verizon then all of this ranting may seem odd. Why? Because you can't miss what you have never had. With all that said, this phone is going back and will wait for the BlackBerry Thunder. At least you can use RIM's standard interface - at least Verizon did allow that on the Curve, I hope it's the same for the Thunder.


the best for anyone can have

 

Aug 1, 2009 by kymcharles5

you will not have any problem with this phone


Did I get the only three duds?

 

Jul 11, 2008 by sdsmt99

I don't get it. The music player is worthless. Songs randomly stop at 4:34 seconds in. The player only accesses the first 254 of my 1754 songs in shuffle mode. I'm amazed this thing was released with these bugs. I've tried my 4MB card I took out of my Chocolate and it does the same thing. I took it back to the store got a replacement, same issues. I tried the floor model, same issues. Am I the only one who finds the music player completely useless?

Please LG or VZW fix this before I throw this worthless thing off a bridge.


NOT THE BEST

 

Jul 27, 2008 by janab

I was really excited to get the new dare,
and quickly became disappointed,
It does have alot of neat features such as the all touch screen and photo editing
I just cant get it to keep service,
my old LG was fine this one drops calls constantly, it will show 4 bars and as soon as you place a call it goes to none and drops the call
also when it changes from the 4 full bars to 8 half bars it drops the call each time too,
Im taking it back today


Returned it

 

Jul 6, 2008 by bzeh1976

7/10 Average with potential to be very good.

Pros:

-Excellent Camera: Camera took very good pictures. Auto bright flash for very good indoor pictures.
-V cast videos looked very good on the wide screen display.
-Above average battery life.
-Good phone features with speaker phone and voice activates dialing

Cons:

-Awful HTML Browser (Deal breaker)Couldn't navigate around web sites at all. Kept activating links when I was trying to move around page. I increased zoom to see some areas better and couldn't figure out how to zoom out. Definitely needs pinching figure like the iphone.
-The system froze up three times on me.
-Touch screen was not that responsive.


Ok but not great

 

Jul 21, 2008 by brdragnet

Have had palm treo 700wx for about 2yrs now. Love it but decided the DARE was worth a shot. So went to local store played with it for about 20mins. Then decided ok. Upgraded, well lets first say the initial purchase, mobile web would not load, unable to download any games, the speaker had a bad crackle and it would not find bluetooth headset. So I exchanged it for another, same issue no mobile web, or downloads, at least bluetooth worked. I called Verizon tech about mobile web and downloads they were awsome said it would be fixed in 48hrs. So then I shut it off plug it in to charge and when I turned it back on the next morning all my short cuts were gone of the screen So I go into settings/display setting and the phone resets, not once but ever time I tried. So that was tech issue, texting is a joke why must you turn the phone right side up after your done and want to send the msg. Does this make sense. I think the hole point to qwerty keyboard and side view is awsome but make it easy.. Ok reception! was not bad, the moment I went into so-so area I lost service where I had it with Palm 700wx. I am a former VZW employee and in no way will bad mouth the Company but this phone was a huge disappointment, work out some bugs prior to release. VZW is by far the most reliable and largest carrier, and after some stronger considerations about the env2 also the voyager I have decided to return to 700wx and wait out the 800w... Before anyone asks, I had all the proper previsions on my account for mobile web, and made sure all should have been working, I tried several soft resets by removing the battery!


LG DUD!

 

Jul 2, 2008 by physicsguru

I really wanted to like this phone. it has a geat screen, updated stereo bluetooth (unlike iphone) fast internet speeds and many many other features. Here is what really turned me sour to it: the music player is terrible! the music arrangement by rhapsody made the user interface of the player hard to navigate. The major reason i returned the phone after 1 day was this! The TOUCHSCREEN is HORRIBLE. it really is! I had to press the screen several times even after calibration to get a response and when it finally did register an input it was for totally for something different. here is an example: i went into the submenu for settings to change a particular setting and when you try to scroll it would open the application that you touched and then change that setting before it would scroll. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE. im telling if you buy this phone i hope you like it, but you will probably return it the next day like i did! excellent customer service on Verizons end.

take care, thanks


THE DARE IS GREAT!

 

Aug 12, 2008 by stupidvenus

i love this phone touch screen is as good as the i-phone.. i dont know how they do it.. internet phone e-mail etc.. k g2g on the fone


dare

 

Aug 3, 2008 by alex961

All of the features are great, but battery life is only 4 hours. Exchanged 4 phones and all are the same. Purchased extended life battery and that goes for 8 hrs. max after only making 3 calls and 2 txt. messages.
Returning back to the store and giving up.

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