LG Versa

The LG Versa for Verizon Wireless provides the best of two mobile technologies, combining a 3-inch touchscreen featuring tactile feedback with an attachable QWERTY keypad (sold separately) for easy typing of long messages and email while on the go...

Features

• Advanced touchscreen phone, optional QWERTY keyboard sold separately
• Access Verizon's V Cast Music and Video service via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions
• 2.0-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth for stereo music and dial-up networking; MicroSD expansion (to 16 GB); access to IM and personal email
• Up to 4.8 hours of talk time, up to 430 hours (17.9 days) of standby time
• What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, stylus, quick start guide, user manual

Reviews

Touch Screen plus Keyboard!

by C. Delia from on 2009-03-06
I just got this phone and I love it! It's replacing my Verizon LG the "V" phone and it's a really well designed phone I suspect intended to compete against the Iphone. The screen is great, the keyboard is just about perfect, the color and design gives it an "upscale" feel and the touch screen is very responsive. The finger swiping motion is similiar to the Iphone though I think the Iphone is a little bit more refined. Though this is my first touch screen that I have owned (I've tried the Iphone, Voyager, Dare, and Storm), I feel like this one's the best Verizon offers, sort of a combination of all three aforementioned Verizon phones. It's not too big, though weight wise it's a bit too heavy for a shirt pocket. I haven't played around with all the features but I did notice two things that could stand improving on. 1) They need to include a down arrow symbol to let the user know that more options are available for viewing below certain menus 2) Why they went with a 2.5mm jack boggles the mind. Where the 3.5's on backorder? C'mon Verizon! But that's the only negatives I can see right now, and they are both minor. Hey, and the battery charger is great especially with the included usb cable. Can't say enough good things about it, I think it's a winner. Note - I'm not sure why Amazon posts a November 2007 comment in the item description which I assume signifies a release date but the phone was just released days ago, in February of 2009 so what the heck?

A really good phone from Verizon

by Kenton Brown from Redding, CA on 2009-04-26
I love the features, the screen, the keyboard, closing the keyboard and it auto locks, the cube effect between screens, good calendar, calculator, tip calculator, world clock, etc. It multi-tasks so I can listen to music while doing almost everything. If I make a call or use the navigator the music stops. When I exit the app the music starts where it left off. I can text and do most other functions and the music plays in the background. When the music is playing it puts a ribbon across the top which blocks some of the icons under it but you can move the icons to get them out of the way. When you receive a text the music stops and while reading the text the music does not continue until the text screen is exited. Seems like that is something that should be fixed. The voice commands do not seem to work very well except for using it to make calls. I could not get the right song to play and when I said goto navigator every time it goes to the calculator. The internet browser works as expected for a phone. I would like to have seen a floating magnifier. You have to do 2 clicks and a slide to magnify the entire page and then rub the screen until the part of the page desired is shown. This works fine but seems like fewer clicks could be designed. The navigator is the typical VZNavigator with its inherited cut-down features compared to a real gps. It depends on a Verizon network connections for maps but has a good gps for location tracking. I have 30 days free then I will activate the subscription for a month when traveling. The user interface was very well thought out. There are a lot of features and shortcuts. I love the way you can locate a contact quickly. The favorites screen for adding contacts is very convenient. I wish the media screen allowed a play list to be added to it or an album. The camera has a flash and they cut back a bit from the Dare as it is 2mp instead of 3mp. What is a phone camera for anyway? It is unlikely you will win the photography Pulitzer award with a phone camera but then again who knows. I use my camera to take photos of faces for my contacts and that is pretty much it. There are plenty of features with the camera including a panoramic mode that allows you to take 3 shots to form a panoramic view. It shows you the right edge of the previous shot so you can align the next shot. Now if the world would just hold still long enough to get the next shot. The focus to shot time is really long at about 2-3 seconds and the lens is way to slow for an action shot. You can turn the autofocus off, there is a timer, auto save on/off, face detection, spot or average focus, 3 shutter sounds or no shutter sound, white balance, change resolution. The video works well for a phone camera. The speaker is loud but only a mono speaker. The bluetooth works perfectly. The rings are very loud and a lot to choose from. You can easily add your own ring tones with the USB Mass Storage mode on a Mac, Linux, or ... what was that other abstract operating system out there? WinDose or something like that. You will not make a fashion statement with this phone as the case is mud ugly. The nice thing is that it protects the phone. Sure would have been nice if they had provided a place for the included stylus. I guess that stylus was an afterthought. The contacts are always available. The contact program is a bit light as it does not have the ability to put the address in. That would be really handy and especially if it was linked to the navigator. The keyboard is just awesome. It has plenty of room for big fingers and all the standard symbols are available right on the keyboard. The reception seems to be very good. I noticed that I am getting 1 to 2 bars more than with the Glyde and about the same as the Krave. There is no software included. It seems that there are issues with the drivers working with Verizon's Rhapsody program. I hope the get this fixed soon. For now you can access your memory card by putting the phone is USB Mass Storage mode. There is no such thing as a perfect phone but this one is worth the extra money. Have you noticed that the ones that are cheap are the ones that everyone is having problems with? You can get a Glyde online for 50 dollars. The new Glyde with the resistive screen may be worth the 50 dollars if you really only want to talk on the phone and do not care about the other features. Then the other features become a bonus. If you want a phone that you can talk on and actually use for music, browsing, quick texting, and limited navigation then the Versa seems to be a good choice.

Awesome Phone

by Avalon McElhaney from on 2009-07-02
Okay, I've had this phone for a little over a month now, and have very few complaints. It isn't the most user friendly phone at first, whenever I have friends use it it seems to take them a while to figure it out. Personally, I have no problems using it, it only took me a few days to totally get the hang of the touch screen and figure out everything it can do. The touch screen is very responsive, I rarely end up clicking on things I don't want to. The software on the phone is unbelievable and I totally love it. *Camera* The camera on the phone is decent, it takes better pictures outside, but inside ones are just okay. Nothing to get to excited about. I'm not sure why they put a 2 megapixel camera on it, but its not a big downside. The Speakers on the phone are actually pretty good. Once you get music on it, it plays it pretty nice and loud. As far as the headphones go, I'm sure everyone has figured out by now that its not a 3.5 mm jack. I haven't had the right kind of headphones to try it out. *Texting* Texting on this phone is awesome, the phone is a lot uglier with the attachable keypad, but its worth the trade off. The keypad is extremely thin, and it is really easy to text with. The fact that the keypad is so much smaller than the phone doesn't seem to be an issue. I only tried texting without the keypad a few times, it was pretty slow trying to find the right buttons because the on screen keypad is pretty small and its easy to hit wrong buttons on that. I'm sure if it was important you could get used to it though. *Technical Issues* I have only experienced one issue with my phone, it just randomly turned off, but it wasn't a big deal. I haven't had the problem that others have, when the miss a call and their phones freeze. So if that is something keeping you from buying the phone I would say go ahead and try it. *Screen* The screen is pretty bright in the dark, I've had it for a month and have managed to not scratch it, so has long as your careful you should be fine. In the sunlight sometimes it can be almost impossible to read the screen though, so that is another issue *Battery* The battery on the phone is decent, it really depends what your using for phone for. You can make it a few days if you just use it for calls and light texting, but if you use it a lot for music and texting the battery will die pretty quick. I picked up a car charger for $20 and since I'm in my car a lot I don't have a of of battery issues. *Overall* Overall I like this phone a lot, I've dropped it a few times and it seems pretty durable. I love the touch screen, also I received tons of compliments on my phone. It is a little weird trying to dial while driving, but the voice commands actually work pretty good. I would recommend this phone to people, if your not a really technical person that gets excited about the touch screen, maybe not. But if your somewhat interested in a technical phone than you will enjoy this one. For $100 in my opinion you can't get a better phone and recommend it.

AMAZING PHONE

by Zleff from LA on 2009-03-06
This is a great phone. I bought it a couple days ago and its amazing. The touchscreen is great, and the keypad,(which is included), is a blast to use. Its great for all the smartphone - users out there who don't want to pay the smartphone 30 dollars a month for Verizon. I'd definatly recommend this to anyone.

AMAZING Phone and im one to talk

by Daniel Psomas from on 2009-03-20
I absolutely love this phone and ive been back and forth with verizon to find a good browser phone, and one that I can use for touch screen, that also had a qwerty keyboard and i found it. I mean this is the ultimate phone ive been through the voyager; and the motorola krave and both were horrible; this phone however as I have talked to NUMEROUS VERIZON WIRELESS REPRESENTATIVES, THEY SAID THIS AND THEY WERE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT IS BETTER THAN THE BLACKBERRY CURVE, PEARL, AND ANY OTHER PHONE, THEY SAID IT WAS GOOD AND BOY WERE THEY RIGHT, IM TELLING YOU IVE BEEN THROUGH PHONE AND PHONE BACK AND FORTH WITH VERIZON, I THINK THEY ACTUALLY KNOW MY NAME BY HEART, HAHAHA, BUT THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST PHONE TO DATE, GUARANTEED, AND I WANT TO AND WOULD LOVE TO HERE ANYONE WHO THINKS OTHERWISE, BECAUSE IVE BEEN THROUGH IT ALL. THIS IS THE ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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