LG Venus Review - Conclusion



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Noah Kravitz
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008
by Noah Kravitz, Senior Editor, Consumer Products and Services
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Conclusion

 
Venus is quite the eye-catcher, as any product with its name should be.  I might be a bit jaded since I get to test and write about almost all of the latest handsets, but I wound up thinking Venus suffers a bit from style over substance syndrome.  At first glance the handset’s sleek slider design and beautiful front panel displays promise a world of interactive menus and enhanced ease of use.  And they do deliver on that promise - but only to a point.

Many users may find Venus partial touchscreen more than good enough for their needs.  Indeed, I appreciated the changing menus that graced the lower of the phone’s two displays, offering up context-sensitive controls that made it easy to know which virtual button to tap in order to trigger the action I wanted whether I was using Venus to make a call, read a message, or listen to a tune.  But after a day or two with the phone I couldn’t help but wonder why LG and Verizon didn’t just go all-in on Venus and make the entire front panel touch sensitive.  A slider phone with a physical keyboard and  a full touchscreen?  Sounds genius to me.  Everyone knows Venus the Goddess’ beauty was more than just skin-deep.  Had Venus the Phone been graced with a full touch display, her beauty would have run a bit deeper, as well.

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VenusOwner
Monday, October 27, 2008i have this phone in pink. i loved it for the first few months. the silver lining of the phone started to chip, verizon replaced it, and about a month with the new one it began to ship again, now it is almost white. do not recommend.
Chris C
Tuesday, October 14, 2008i want a venus. i have a palm treo if anyone wants to trade?
kingboss
Sunday, October 05, 2008i'll trade an lg dare for a lg voyager or htc touch! e mail me if you want to make a trade!! the lg dare is in perfect condition but it just has bas esn!
venus hater!!! Marlin
Monday, August 25, 2008hey those of you that have the voyager and want to trade it for the venus... DONT!!! you wont like it at all! i thought it would be awsome to and well it wasnt! i would so rather have the voyager so if you have one and want the venus i'll be more than happy to trade you
tree
Thursday, August 21, 2008awsome phone overall....the feed back can be some what frustrating especially when you are trying to do something in a hurry....it tends to lag just a little too but not that bad. also texting is kinda difficult....i am a T9 user and well the T9 text i have seen better, i put it that way....I feel as if i have to push to many buttons just to make a new text message...otherwise if you are in a convo already in progress its really easy all u do is just go to your inbox wich u should set as a SHORTCUT......I have no problem w/ this phone what so ever. its just that the LG DARE came out only a few weeks after i bought my VENUS overall....great phone and not many people have it....I LIKE
Michael Garcia
Tuesday, July 29, 2008Wow, I have the voyager but i want this phone. Hopefully its worth it.
Tre Brown
Wednesday, June 11, 2008OMG! this looks like a great phone i have a voyager but i brke the outside screen they say this phone is better i hope soooo.
Jill Constantino
Wednesday, April 30, 2008Just got mine and really starting to love it. Easy to use, fun to look at and great quality sound and photos. Half touch screen not a problem at all once you get accustomed to using. All features great so far.
wer wer
Tuesday, April 29, 2008is this a phone that is worth the price ?
Edna Candanedo
Monday, April 28, 2008I love Nokia phones and I hope this one will be offerred by Claro, formerly knows as Verizon in Puerto Rico.

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