Available today online and in stores on July 3 is the LG Dare. The latest device from LG has a 3-inch touchscreen with handwriting recognition, a 3.2-megapixel camera with face detection and LED flash. To be honest, those seem to be the major highlights for this device. Full specs after the jump. Oh, it’s priced at $199 after a $50 MIR and two-year contract.
* V CAST Music-capable – access more than 3 million full-length songs from well-known and independent artists that can be purchased and downloaded over-the-air directly to the phone
* Music Player for .mp3, .wma, unprotected .aac, and unprotected .aac+ files
* microSD™ card memory port – with up to 8 GB support with an optional memory card
* USB Mass Storage – transfer files between microSD card and PC
* 3.2 Megapixel Camera and Camcorder* Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens for optimal picture quality
* Camera Resolutions: 2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, 320 x 240 pixels
* SmartPic technology and manual ISO adjustment for improved image quality
* Face Detection – detects a face when taking a picture
* Panorama, split shot and frame camera settings
* Scene Mode – automatically makes adjustments to camera settings for improved quality in different environments
* Zoom: up to 2x
* Image Editor – zoom, rotate, crop, add frames and icons and write over images
* Video Resolutions: 640 x 480, 320 x 240, 176 x 144 pixels
* Video Recording Speed: up to 120 frames per second for slow video playback
* Video Recording Time: 30 seconds (for sending); up to 1 hour (for saving) depending on memory
* Video Player for WMV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2 formats
* Customizable brightness, white balance, shutter sound, color effects, night and preview mode, photometry, self-timer* Bluetooth® Version 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
* Listen to music with optional stereo Bluetooth headset
* Send all contacts and calendar events via Bluetooth
* Print and send customer-generated pictures (JPEG) via Bluetooth
* Save up to 20 Bluetooth pairings
* Supported Profiles: headset, hands-free car kits, dial-up networking, stereo Bluetooth, phone book access, basic printing, object push for vCard and vCalendar, file transfer, basic imaging, human interface device* One-touch speakerphone
* Speaker-independent voice commands
* Voice Recording: 1 minute or 1 hour (standby)
* Music ringer support (clips from hit songs)
* HTML Web browsing with touch navigation and favorites
* Text, picture, video messaging-capable
* Mobile Email – access MSN® Hotmail®, America Online® and Yahoo!® accounts to exchange e-mail
* Mobile IM capabilities
* VZ NavigatorSM-capable – get visual and audible directions to thousands of destinations, locate businesses and other points of interest, get maps of a location, and share directions with others
* Phone Book with 1,000 contacts: each contact entry stores five numbers, two e-mail addresses and a Picture ID
* FOTA-capable – upgrade firmware over-the-air
* Favorites – add up to nine contacts with Picture ID
* Speed Dial (up to 996 entries)
* Technology: CDMA
* Frequency: 1.9 GHz CDMA PCS, 800 MHz CDMA (Digital Dual-Band)
* Data Transmission: high-speed EV-DO
* Dimensions: 4.1″ (h) x 2.2″ (w) x 0.5″ (d)
* Weight: 3.76 ounces
* Display: 260K Color TFT, 240 x 400 pixels, 3.0″
* Standard Battery: 1,100 mAh
* Usage Time: up to 280 minutes or
* Standby Time: up to 360 hours
This thing could have a 64 GB hard drive and a 5MP camera and I wouldn’t buy it if it doesn’t have wifi.
VZW are such greedy bastards, I know why they won’t include it. But that’s the same reason I’m not buying it.
How many non-smartphones have Wifi?
If that is your prerequisite for a phone, you’re really shoehorning yourself into a very small group of phones, and none of them are even in the same class of phone as this one.
The lack of Wifi has nothing to do with anyone being a greedy bastard. It’s a feature phone, not a smartphone. They never have Wifi, regardless of carrier.
Go visit vzw.com – browse through the phones, the smartphones, “feature” phones, blackberrys.
Do a phone search on the site. Check through the list of features to search by. Do you see WiFi on the list?
Do you see any phones whatsoever with wifi listed as a feature?
There are in fact 2 phones with wifi that vzw sells, the samsung i760 and the Mogul, which took them almost 2 years later to carry than Sprint.
VZW hasn’t come out with a wifi phone since march of 2007. How many other carriers can say that?
Sherry Krueger loves this phone and wishes to get it for her employees. Sherry Krueger’s employees are extremely hard working and they deserve these new phones.
you guys are such cheap bastards of course a phone with wifi is always beter for me the iphone beets the dare in one way. cince i havent seen a phone crack a wep key of some guys ethernet acces dammmmmmmmmmmmmmm love the iphone you bastards.
This is the best fuc*ing phone in the world everybody who talks bad about it needs 2 shut the fuc* up and get a fucking life if u dont like it u dont need 2 talk bad about it but by the way this phone is way better than the piece of sh*t ipone. how many are they gonna make cuz it sucks ass and has a lot of flaws unlike the dare with a 3.2 camera wat does the iphone have??? 2.0 that sucks ASS they need 2 stop and they need 2 stick 2 making ipods and not mixing them…but i like the itouch thats cool but im not an iphone fan k srry if i offended any iphone fans but thats how i feel
how can i add video’s to my dare phone i madd i use to have a voyager and change it for the dare and it was simple but now im guessing its not available
how can i add video’s to my dare phone i mad i use to have a voyager and change it for the dare and it was simple but now I’m guessing its not available