LG Dare Silver Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: LG
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $149.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 1276
Color: Silver
Media: Wireless Phone
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Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: LG-VX9700
UPC: 652810813877
ASIN: B001BZK5EE
Release Date: July 3, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Multimedia-oriented smartphone boasting spacious 3-inch touchscreen with handwriting recognition | | • | Access Verizon's V Cast Music and Video service via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions | | • | 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder with Schneider-Kreuznach lens; Bluetooth stereo streaming; MicroSD expansion up to 8 GB | | • | Up to 4.7 hours of talk time, up to 360 hours (15 days) of standby time; measures 4.1 x 2.2 x 0.5 inches (HxWxD) | | • | Includes: Handset, travel adapter/USB cable, user guide, quick reference guide, music CD |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The LG Dare for Verizon dares to be different with its bold looks and advanced capabilities--boasting a spacious three-inch touchscreen with handwriting recognition, a 3.2-megapixel camera with face detection and flash, and unique in-phone photo editing capabilities. It's compatible with the V Cast Music and V CAST Music with Rhapsody services, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via Verizon's fast EV-DO data network. Other features include stereo Bluetooth streaming, MicroSD memory expansion up to 8 GB, access to your mobile email, and up to 4.7 hours of talk time. 
Enjoy easy touchscreen navigation, stereo Bluetooth streaming, high-quality photos and videos from the 3.2-megapixel lens, and access to your mobile email. | Verizon Service Options
With support for the EV-DO high-speed data standard, you'll enjoy fast access to the Internet and Verizon's multimedia services (additional charges applicable), with average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps and peak rates up to 2 Mbps. (Learn more about where EV-DO coverage is offered.) The V Cast Music service enables you to download songs instantly to your phone, or purchase music through your PC and transfer the files to your phone. If purchased from your phone, you'll receive two copies of the song: a Windows Media Audio Pro Plus format at 64Kbps stereo is sent to your phone, and a Windows Media Audio 9 format at 160Kbps stereo is sent to your account in the V CAST Music online store for downloading to your PC. V Cast Music offers nearly 2 million songs, with more being added all the time. In addition to the V Cast Music service, this phone is also compatible with Verizon's V CAST Music with Rhapsody, which enables you to access this exclusive digital music service for RealNetworks and for MTV Networks. V CAST Music with Rhapsody delivers unlimited monthly access to music on up to three Rhapsody-compatible mobile phones and players and online on multiple PCs and Web browsers. In addition, customers who purchase music over-the-air are able to download the master copy of the songs or albums to their PCs free of digital rights management (DRM) software that restricts how and where music can be played. The V Cast Video service enables you to stream or download video clips to your phone from a variety of news, entertainment, sports, and weather channels, including CNN, ABC News, E!, CBS Sports, The Weather Channel, and VH1. Verizon's Mobile eMail gives you access to your Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and AOL accounts so you can read, write, and reply. Access your address book, receive e-mail alerts and more, right on your Verizon Wireless phone. With this GPS-enabled phone, you'll be able to access Verizon's VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps. Phone Features
Measuring just 0.5 inches thin and weighing 3.76 ounces, the LG Dare feels lightly comfortable in your pocket. It features a large 3-inch touchscreen that recognizes your handwriting and provides tactile feedback when pressing onscreen buttons or typing on the onscreen QWERTY keyboard. The display has a 240 x 400-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors, and its home screen has several shortcut icons including your messaging inbox, phonebook, favorites menu. The phone provides just three buttons on the bottom of its face for send, end and clearing calls, and it has a stainless steel border along its sides and black soft touch surface on the back. The phone has an internal 148 MB memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards up to 8 GB in size. It can store up to 1000 contact entries, with fields for five numbers per contact. It connects to your PC via USB, and it offers USB mass storage capabilities. The 3.2-megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens offers several resolution options, ranging from 2048 x 1536 pixels to QVGA 320 x 240 pixels--perfect for sending via MMS messaging. It offers advanced features including face detection, SmartPic Technology (which helps to compensate face color), four ISO settings, six preset scense, panorama and split shot capabilities, white balance settings, multi-shot, and multiple color effects. It also features a flash, self-timer, and multiple shutter sounds (including off). Once you've snapped your photo, you can edit it right in the Dare--zoom, rotate, crop, add frames, or add writing over the image. You can also capture video up to 640 x 480 pixels for storing onto a memory card, or QCIF 176 x 144-pixel resolution for sending via MMS. You can record videos up to 120 frames per second (fps) and then play them back on the Dare at a slow motion rate of 15 fps. This phone provides the latest version of Bluetooth connectivity--version 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), which makes pairing with the included headset as well as other Bluetooth devices a snap. And with EDR, you'll get a faster connection than with the previous version 1.2, which makes transferring files and using the phone as a modem for your laptop hum along nicely. And with the embedded A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of Bluetooth stereo headphones or other compatible devices. 
The lightweight LG Dare measures just 0.5 inches thin. | In addition to compatibility with formats offered by Verizon's V CAST Music and CAST Music with Rhapsody services, it's also compatible with unprotected MP3, WMA, and AAC/AAC+ formats. The digital audio player features a preset sound effect equalizer, ability to create and manage playlists on the phone, and backbround music mode that allows you to multitask (write email, check your calendar, surf the Web) while continuing to play music. Other features include: - Organizer tools: Calculator, EZTip calculator, calendar, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, notebook, notepad and drawing pad with handwriting recognition
- Speaker-independent voice commands
- One-touch speakerphone
- Mobile email: Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Mail, AOL, AIM, Verizon.net
- Messaging: SMS, MMS
- Voice Recording: 1 minute or 1 hour (standby
- Favorites: add up to nine contacts with Picture ID
- Speed Dial: up to 996 entries
- HTML Web browsing with touch navigation and favorites
- Music ringer support (clips from hit songs)
- Hearing Aid Compatibility = M3/T3
- TTY compatible
- Bluetooth version 2.1 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BIP (for sending images to another device), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), HID (support for mice or joysticks), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)
Vital Statistics
The LG Dare weighs 3.76 ounces and measures 4.1 x 2.2 x 0.5 inches. Its 1100 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 280 minutes (4.7 hours) of talk time, and up to 360 hours of standby time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA frequencies as well as the 1xEV-DO r0 data network.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
Great Graphics and Features, In Need of Intuitiveness November 21, 2008
This is a very excellent phone. I wanted an iPhone, but neither of my parents are on AT&T and they aren't looking to switch. It came around time for my birthday, so I was between this and the Motorola Krave. I chose this because of its better graphics, camera, and ringtones. I used to have a RAZR, and those were the three disappointments of it. With this phone, it improves over my last phone, but also disproves.
Pros:
Amazing Graphics
Touchscreen interface is cool
Animated Screen Savers
Cool Ringtones
Amazing Camera for a Cellphone, w/ flash
Nice looking phone
Not as loud warnings, a more pleasant, quieter tone compared to the annoying, loud beep of my RAZR
Virtual Keyboard, in my opinion, the best way to text
Hand Drawing Feature
Start Up Tone is very nice
Many more, too many to list...
Cons:
The biggest annoyance is the unlocking process. It needs to be re-done. It unlocks/starts up very often in my pocket. Silencing is a better way to keep it from starting up. Although you need to hold the button, it can still turn the phone on by mistake. Also, to unlock it, you just touch the side or hang-up button, then touch the side button again (which is easy to do by accident) or touch a lock on the screen. My iPod touch can only be unlocked by either touching the sleep/wake button or home button, then the only way to unlock the iPod is by sliding something on the touchscreen to unlock it (much less hard to unlock by accident).
The touchscreen can select something when you just want to scroll.
I heard the talking voice quality isn't the best. I always wonder if people can hear me.
Overall, I still love this phone so much. It is definitely an improvement over my RAZR, but still not as good as an iPhone. The iPhone is still the best touchscreen phone out there. I hope to get one, but for now, I will enjoy my Dare, and if you are looking for a Verizon touchscreen phone, this is definitely a good choice.
 Check if this phone suits you before you buy November 20, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
On first look , I liked this phone .It looked nice and user friendly with lot of features.
I bought this phone and returned with in 15 minutes.I lost [...] bucks by doing so.
Reason: The back buton is on the top left hand corner.
As a right hander , each time I press the back button , my thumb needs to travel all the way to the top left corner and the button is not with-in reach , inspite of my big palm.
This is putting lot of pressure on my thumb.
If you are really interested to buy this phone , please check the ergonomics before you do so.
 Love this phone November 16, 2008
I have had my phone for a little over a week now. It is the closest you can get to an iPhone for verizon. There is a learning curve to getting used to the touch screen. But after a couple of days, it runs smoothly.
Love this phone November 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had the dare for a month now and was about to return it for the Rim Storm, but decided not too, since I didn't want to pay extra fees for Blackberry service. In no way is this an iphone nor did I expect to be. I was going to get an iphone but didn't want to switch carriers and I am very happy I stayed with Verizon. I find typing messages on the Dare 100 x better than the iphone. I found the Dare to be much more responsive and accurate when typing in landscape mode than the iphone which only allows you to type horizontally. I love the size and the fact I can customize my screen. The camera is exceptional and one of the best on a cell phone and you can also send video messages. The storm is very cool but also very heavy compared to the Dare, weighing in at over 5 ounces + somewhat bulky. If I want the complete multi-media portable device I would go with the itouch, since most of the time I like to enjoy that kind of stuff at home anyway. I have no problem with the Dares music and video capabilities. The most important part of a phone is the phone itself and unlike the iphone I have never had a dropped call. This blows away my razor as far as clarity, reception is great for both me and the person on the other line. I love this phone and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a very cool touch screen phone. Try it for 30 days and see if you feel the same.
 It's nifty, but it wasn't for me November 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'd been shopping for a new phone for quite awhile & kept waiting for that new just right phone. Well, I thought I had it in the Dare. I like the touch factor more than I thought I would, especially after the screen protector was put on. I liked being able to drag items & play with the camera. Getting pictures to my computer was easy, but videos, I had to use a program called BitPim. The phone would sometimes turn off when least expected. The battery life was good. I liked the Qwerty keyboard, but I found myself going back & forth between it & the number keyboard because it was easier to do the special characters. The draw pad was fun, but I wouldn't use that feature for text messages because it wasn't accurate. A stylus would have been a great feature, but a pen cap worked just fine. The one major drawback for me, though, was that you could not input street addresses into the contacts. I don't want a PDA because of the extra expense. Yet, on my old LG VX8300, I could at least make do & use the email location because it accepted spaces. The LG Dare does not. It does have a notepad, but it isn't attached to the contacts. If it had this one little ability, I probably would have kept it. It may not be an iPhone or G1, but it's a nifty little phone. The other drawback, is that with Verizon & a family plan, getting upgrades is almost about as expensive as getting a new plan with new phones & their other phones are not as neat as some that the other carriers are offering.
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