LG enV2 Maroon Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
| Brand: LG
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 2743
Color: Maroon
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
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Model: LG-VX9100M
UPC: 652810813822
ASIN: B00192AW88
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Sleeker, redesigned clamshell phone opens to reveal QWERTY keyboard and large 2.4-inch screen | | • | Access Verizon's V Cast Music and Video service via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions | | • | 2-megapixel camera with video capture; Bluetooth for headsets and music streaming; microSD memory card expansion (up to 8 GB) | | • | Up to 5.3 hours of talk time, up to 520 hours (21+ days) of standby time; measures 4 x 2.13 x 0.65 inches (HxWxD) | | • | Includes: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, quick start guide, user guide |
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Amazon.com Product Description
More compact and lighter in weight, the LG enV2 updates the original enV with a redesign accentuates both sleek style and easy usability. The front of the enV2 now features a numeric keypad with larger keys, and it opens up to reveal a large 2.4-inch LCD and its signature hidden QWERTY keypad--perfect for all your text messaging and email needs. Advanced features like auto text readout, message sort, and the ability to store up to 300 text messages enhance your mobile messaging experience. It's compatible with Verizon's V Cast Music Service, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via Verizon's fast EV-DO data network. You'll also stay on course thanks to the VZ Navigator GPS turn-by-turn direction service. Other features include a 2.0-megapixel camera with video capture capabilities, Bluetooth connectivity for communication headsets and stereo music streaming, microSD memory card expansion (up to 8 GB), and over 5 hours of talk time. 
Smaller, slimmer, and sleeker, the enV2 features larger keys on the external keypad for easy dialing. | 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. 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. Getting on the Internet is easy using Verizon's Mobile Web 2.0 package, which allows you to read and send e-mails, exchange instant messages and view your favorite web content on your phone. Verizon's Get It Now wireless download service is also fully compatible with this phone. This pay-per-download service features application downloads, games and productivity tools. You can also personalize your handset with ringtone downloads using the Get It Now service. 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. And Verizon's Chaperone service lets you easily locate your loved ones from your Verizon Wireless phone or PC in real time. After defining a zone, such as an area designating a school or summer camp, you'll be sent an alert via text message when the Chaperone handset enters or leaves the zone. 
Flipping open the env2 reveals an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard that makes texting and emailing a snap. | Phone Features
Much more easily pocketable, the enV2 has slimmed down to 0.65 inches thin from the original enV's 0.78-inch depth, and it's shorter at just 4 inches tall (down from 4.64 inches). The camera on the enV2 is now flush with the back, where the original had a ring that was slightly raised around the lens. The front of the enV2 has a wide, thin 1.45-inch LCD screen with a 160 x 45-pixel resolution and 262K colors. The keypad features large, widely spaced keys for easy dialing, a dedicated music button, 5-way navigation, and send/end buttons. Flipping open the enV2 reveals the full QWERTY keyboard and a large 2.4-inch LCD (20 percent larger than the previous model) with a 320 x 240-pixel resolution and 262K colors. Dialing function buttons are also duplicated on the internal touchpad. The phone has a 63 MB internal memory and offers memory expansion up to 8 GB using optional microSD memory cards. The enV2's built-in address book can store up to 1000 contacts, and each entry can store 5 numbers, 2 email addresses, and a picture ID. The phone comes with 23 unique polyphonic ringtones, and it has vibrate and silent modes when you need to keep things quiet. The phone lets you match pictures with callers to identify them, and the enV's voice recognition software supports voice commands from any user, not just a pre-programmed user's voice. What's more, many of the phone's functions can be controlled by the sound of your voice, thanks to advanced voice recognition technology. Text-to-speech technology enables the enV to read emails and text messages to you, if you so desire. A one-touch speakerphone means you can easily talk hands-free, while Bluetooth (version 1.2) allows you to use your favorite wireless headset. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. It also includes profiles for printing images directly to printers, dial-up networking, and sending vCard and vCalendar items to other phones. You can save up to 20 Bluetooth pairings. 
Slim and powerful, the enV2 keeps you connected and entertained. | The 2-megapixel camera has four resolution modes for still photos (from 1600 x 1200 for printing to 320 x 240 pixels for sending via MMS). It features a 10x digital zoom, self-timer, night mode, and customizable settings for brightness and white balance. An internal image editor enables you to rotate, zoom, crop, and add color effects. The camera can also capture video with sound and it offers two resolution settings (320 x 240 and 176 x 144 pixels). You can shoot for up to an hour for saving or 30 seconds for sending. You can easily add new music to your collection while on the go from Verizon's V Cast Music service and listen to them on the integrated digital audio player, which offers compatibility with MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+ file formats. You can sync your tunes from your PC (Windows Media Player 11 or higher), as well as create and manage playlists right on the phone. The enV2 can also play video clips from Verizon's V Cast Video service, and ti's compatible with WMV, MP4, 3GP, and 3G2 formats. The enV has all the bases covered when it comes to messaging, too, with support for sending and receiving text, picture, and video messages as well as mobile instant messaging (IM). There's also a complete e-mail client on the device for POP- and IMAP-based accounts. And of course, the QWERTY keyboard makes it a snap to type your messages. The enV ships with a number of handy tools, including a calendar and a voice memo application. An alarm clock and calculator are also included. The enV supports V Cast 3-D games, as well as other 2-D-based games, which are available from Verizon's Get It Now service. You can also customize the phone's wallpapers and screen savers to give your phone a look that suits your style. Other features include: - Bluetooth version 1.2 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)
- USB charging via computer (cable sold separately) and mass storage capabilities
- Large in-box for text messages (up to 300)
- Dual speakers for stereo music playback
- Voice Clarity function auto adjusts listening level and reduces noise for the listener
- Speed dial (993 entries + 6 preprogrammed)
- Hearing aid compatible = M3/T3
- TTY/TDD support
Vital Statistics
The LG enV2 weighs 4.23 ounces and measures 4 x 2.13 x 0.65 inches. Its 950 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.3 hours of talk time, and up to 520 hours of standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.
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Sturdy, compact phone November 22, 2008
This is a great phone with few flaws. The battery life is phenomenal, lasting 6-7 days on average for me. It has good sound quality and a decent camera. It's kind of annoying to use the external buttons and menus, but you can always flip it open and continue from what you were doing. also, it seems to be a very sturdy phone that can withstand abuse.
 Seemed like a good phone at first, but not for me November 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Once my contract with T-Mobile expired, I was free to finally browse other carriers and their cell phones. I had wanted to give Verizon Wireless a whirl. I wanted something to make calls and send/receive text messages, but also to browse the web, listen to music, store pictures and get some neat applications. The LG enV2 seemed like an ideal choice for me. Plus, the maroon-colored one seemed like a fashionable, sexy choice for a geek chic such as myself. :)
Well... after using this phone for about a week, the inconveniences outweighed the good stuff. The calls sounded clear and the Qwerty keyboard, while small, was great for texting, and the phone does have a nice look to it, but the good things end there.
* The phone's volume isn't high enough for me. And when I have to constantly tell the people on the other line to speak up, it just becomes annoying. Can you hear me now indeed!
* The lock feature is a big nuisance. You cannot hesitate to type in a number or look up a number for one second because that's all it takes for the keys to lock up. You will have to unlock the keypad more times than what is considered normal.
* The front screen is too small. I thought it wouldn't matter to me. After all, it does have a larger screen when you flip it open on the side, but it nevertheless became a deal-breaker as I continued to use it.
* The web browser isn't so great, and neither is the phone's interface.
* The phone doesn't come with an USB cord. You have to buy it separately. You also have to buy the memory card (expandable to 8GB) separately. Both of these things would've been fine had this phone been compatible with a Mac...
* It's not compatible with a Mac. I couldn't synch all of my pictures, music, contact and other important stuff into this. Why oh why do I have to bother with boot camp and special Verizon software just to do this?!?
* I have to use Verizon's crappy V-Cast software to do everything from downloading music, videos to changing the phone's wallpaper.
* Don't like the built-in camera. Positioning the phone to take a picture is troublesome and awkward.
And so, those were the reasons why I returned the LG enV2 to Verizon. (You can only do this during the 30-day trial.) I got the LG Dare afterwards, which I also returned. (More on that on another review.) I ended up going to AT&T and getting the iPhone 3G instead, which suits me perfectly. (I might end up getting a VZ account to get a BB Curve or Storm to separate work contacts with personal and work contacts that I'd want to be in touch with all the time.) The LG enV2 just wasn't my cup of tea. If I am wrong about the features, or if there is some sort of solution for the problems I had with it and wish to share it for any interested buyers, feel free to do so. These, however, are my reasons for disliking the phone and I stand by my review. Good luck!
 Good phone, not perfect nor great November 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As someone who only needs a cell phone for checking in with families, doesn't text or check emails (I face a computer 8 hours a day as is), I like the phone enough to rate it 3 stars.
I like it mostly because I can use its speakers (thus talk hands free) while I drive. All I have to do is flip it open and the call is connected. (By the way, for those who complain about which external buttons to push without flipping it open for answering calls, you CAN program it to "any button").
I like it because I am using it as a mp3 player besides just a basic phone. I also like taking videos of my six year old practicing piano. As a basic phone, it is not with the best reception - I haven't had people complained about hearing me, but I could hardly hear them most of the time unless I flip it open and us the speaker phone.
Since I don't need internet access, the QWERTY keys are used only when entering contacts' names. It is still quite nice.
I got it as an upgrade every two. I didn't expect it because I was supposed to get an LG NV. But they ran out of it by the time I called to inquire about a the every two txt I received from Verizon. So I have had it since July and I didn't have to pay anything for it while continuing on my family plan.
 Excellent phone October 16, 2008
I'm a long time verizon customer, and I have yet to be disappointed with LG phones; specifically with the enV2. The battery life is superb, nearly doubling that of my old motorola phone. The large keys on the outside display make dialing simple even when you're in a hurry (or multi-tasking!) and the sound quality is clear and crisp.
QWERTY keyboard is great for texting. I was initially concerned about the size of the keys on the inside as compared to the enV. These keys are a bit longer but closer together. After spending a day texting practically everyone in my phone book, my fears were put to rest. Very easy to use!
The ringer volume on the enV2 can also be set VERY high, so much louder than my razr was capable of. I currently have mine set on the medium low volume setting and I always hear it, even when I'm at the bar with friends. Great for people with hearing impairments or those who just love to show off their ringtones!!
The ONLY complaint I have is the same as many others, the outer keyguard. I first thought it was rather annoying that you couldn't disable it. But after dumping the phone in my purse on nights out, I've found it is rather easy to have an errant tube of lipstick mash the 'OK' button and get past the keyguard for some drunk dialing fun. It doesn't hapen too often, but if you're going out to the bar I would recommend taking your parents OFF of speed dial...makes for some awkward situations :)
Overall, 5/5. Great phone with amazing functionality, except that darn keyguard!
STOP TRAFFIC with Env2 cell phone October 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've had every make and model of cell phone but this LG Env2 phone by far blows the competition away in many areas. First of all, I love the full keyboard for texting and emailing! It's so easy to type in real time for texts and emails, your can send what you need to in much less time than the traditional "tap" method. I chose this model because it was loaded with features, although you can't surf the web with this particular model, the Blackberry was the other competition I considered that does offer internet surfing, but I liked this unit, even without the web because of it's pocket size. Blackberries are much bulkier and I wanted something narrower to fit in my pocket. This phone has a really great speaker phone feature with loud enough volume to hear several feet away with clear, precise sound quality. The short cut arrow controls on the inside of the phone are awesome because it gives you a one click short cut to your favorite phone features, like calendar, alarm, email, or text. I am able to be anywhere in the country and get calls anywhere, with great Verizon coverage, and can run a home business like I were sitting at my home office. This phone has a great voice command which with one touch controls, you can phonetically pronounce the person you want called and have them on the line in seconds. I use the voice controls while I'm driving so I can have both hands on the wheel. The only thing I've found that I didn't like about this phone was that to access your voicemail messages, you had to open the phone and go to the messages menu. I went into my local Verizon store and told them that I didn't like that and they programmed my phone for me so now, I can hold the "1" button down on the front cover and have it dial my voicemail and input my security code for me all with one button press!! I can honestly say, I can't think of one thing I don't love about this phone! This phone stops traffic everywhere I go. People see how quickly I can access my texts, messages, and email and want to know where they can get one. I LOVE THIS PHONE!!!
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