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Product: Verizon LG Versa
cellphone.
Features: Full touch
screen, accelerometer, 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, RSS
reader, and the ability to open three websites at once
in a tabbed browser. A full QWERTY keyboard and game
controller that attach to the phone can be purchased
separately for $29.99.
Price: $99.99 with a new
two-year contract.
Ups: The phone gives you
several options to customize the screen. There are
several menus (which rotate in a neat animation) to
create your own shortcuts for media, applications, games
or even to your favorite Web sites. Typing on the touch
screen was a breeze.
Downs: The charm of this
phone is that you can attach a full keyboard or video
game controller. But then you have to fork over another
$30 for either of them. And because of that, the game
controller ends up being a waste of money. I downloaded
a ton of games, and only a handful of games are
programmed to work with the controller; most can be
played with a keyboard.
Getting back to the phone
itself, the touch screen can be testy at times. This is
because every time you touch the screen — no matter
how you touch it — it'll vibrate and make a sound to
let you know you touched it, even if that tap didn't hit
the button on the nose. The vibrate acknowledgment makes
you think it was a successful tap, even if it wasn't.
And a 2-megapixel camera?
Meh. Most new phones have at least 3 megapixels.
Bottom line: The Versa is
a pretty good phone. The attachable keyboard makes the
user experience even better . . . that is, if you don't
mind the look of a brown leather phone when the keyboard
is attached.
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