Will You keep Voyager or Get Env Touch?

[delynnie]

Hi Everyone, Just Curious, how many of you that own and love the Voyager will upgrade to the new Env Touch (Voyager 2)? I love all the exciting things they have done to it...bigger screen, theaded messaging, 3.2 and a flash for the camera, but one of the things that most attracted me to the Voyager was the TV. I use it alot and will miss it if I decide to upgrade to the Env Touch! I just wanted to know what others have decided to do? Will you keep the Voyager, or move on to a totally different phone or get the Env Touch?

Thanks Undecided Delynnie!

[tamika1130]

The voyager will be updated for a release this summer

[delynnie]

Originally Posted by tamika1130

The voyager will be updated for a release this summer

Actually it will be out and available June 5th, as the Env Touch!

[geishaslave]

I plan to get the LG Env Touch in August when I am eligible for new-every-two.

By then, there should be at least one firmware update released.

I don't care about MobileTV since it has never been offered in my location (SF Bay Area).

[kansaskeiththesecond]

My "New Every Two" comes up next month (July), and my formal contract ends in November.

A lot will depend on what Apple announces this coming Monday on the iPhone, and how at&t takes it from there with price structure, etc. Right now, I figure the at&t iPhone contract will cost me $20 a month or so extra, and take away my true keyboard.

I will also keep track of where Verizon Wireless is on the Palm Pre and revamped BlackBerry Storm. I have fooled around a tad with the Samsung Omnia, and didn't fall in love.

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The EnV Touch was released yesterday, and I now have "test driven" it at three Verizon Wireless stores: (1) one totally discombulated didn't know how to configure their demo models for web browsing - which is what I wanted to test, (2) a second store where it worked but the web navigation drove me nuts, and (3) a third store this morning when I went in and asked for directions on how to web-navigate because the way I do it on the Voyager was a disaster on the EnV Touch.)

My quick take is that while it's better than the Voyager I am not sure it's good enough for me. (1) Touch-screen scrolling might be a tad smoother than on the Voyager, but that's being charitable and it ain't even in the same smoothness ballpark as the iPhone/iPod Touch. (2) When I called up web pages that routinely crash and reset the Voyager for me, they didn't crash. Yippee! (3) As we know, there is no wi-fi, which would certainly speed up browsing in areas where it was available. Boo! (4) The accelerometer, or whatever one calls the switch from portrait to landscape upon tilting the unit, is a definite improvement from the Voyager. (5) Better camera, but I didn't test it. (6) No Mobile TV, which I don't use, but they DO still have "VCast Videos," which contains things like your hometown television station's local news. I watched one of those on an EnV Touch this morning.

The web pages I called up seemed to come up with smaller type than I am used to, but there may be a zoom-feature I didn't have time to investigate.

Since the EnV Touch doesn't crash a regular web page that I use five times a day or so on the Voyager, I even considered buying one at full retail (not using my new-every-two or renewing my contract), then waiting til my Verizon Wireless contract expires in a few months, moving to iPhone at&t and then selling off my EnVTouch and Voyager on EBay. But Verizon Wireless wants $410 full retail price for the EnVTouch, and on EBay today they are trending higher than that. Undecided if I want to put out that much cash right now for a better, but decidedly still imperfect, web experience.

All in all, once I learned a little about navigation (key point - you have to click "OK" after moving your cursor to a box where you want to enter type - if you don't, it won't recognize your input) the phone seems okay. And it still has the wonderful true-Qwerty keyboard.

But I also have an iPod Touch which I use at wi-fi locations, and believe me, even without the true keyboard, browsing on Apple products is up here, and on the Voyager and the EnV Plus, they are by comparison.
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To be fair, the CNet review on the EnV Touch is out, and it is ranked "excellent - Editors' Choice," but even they say "the Web browser experience is not as smooth as we would like."


LG enV Touch (Verizon Wireless) Cell Phone reviews - CNET Reviews

[geishaslave]

Good points kansaskeiththesecond.

Another reason I am making a further 2 year commit to Verizon is because they will be switching to 4G GSM (a.k.a. LTE) within the next couple of years.

I feel that since Verizon is part of Vodaphone, already an established GSM provider, once LTE is online I will be able to have a true world phone.

Feel the power.