Verizon LG Versa Release Date & Price Announced
February 26th, 2009 2:25 PM | by Christen da Costa | 5 Comments
And there we have it. The LG Versa will hit Verizon’s retail stores and website on March 1st. The price of the phone, after a 2-year contract and $50 mail-in-rebate will be $200. Included in the package will be a removable QWERTY keyboard, 3-inch touchscreen, GPS, 2MP camera and an HTML browser compatible with Flash.
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Attachable QWERTY Keypad, Animated Touch Screen Interface, and Advanced Web Browsing Offer Latest in Wireless Phone Style and Function
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and SAN DIEGO – Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. (LG Mobile Phones) announced today that the LG Versa™ will be available on the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless voice and data network beginning March 1. With its elegant chrome border on a bar design, animated 3-inch touch screen interface with tactile feedback and an attachable QWERTY keypad, the LG Versa will be an MVP (Most Versatile Phone) for customers.
Customers can personalize their LG Versa phones based on their messaging needs – either attach the QWERTY keypad to their phones or leave the keypad at home. The LG Versa’s home screen is transformed into a sizzling, animated 3D interface and customers can quickly customize three different home screens with their favorite shortcuts. The built-in accelerometer rotates the screen automatically from portrait to landscape, and customers can use rotation movements to steer games. The HTML Web browser includes Flash and RSS feed support, and customers can keep up to three windows open and switch from one window to the other to view pages.
Additionally, the phone comes packed with Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Music with Rhapsody and V CAST Video services. V CAST Music with Rhapsody allows customers to choose from more than 5 million songs over-the-air, download the master copy of their songs to their PCs free of digital rights management (DRM) software and sync their favorite tracks, albums and playlists from their PCs to their LG Versa phones using the included USB cable.
V CAST Video allows customers to download or stream video from the best names in news, sports, entertainment and more.
The LG Versa supports productivity tools – such as Visual Voice Mail so they can prioritize their messages – while Verizon Wireless’ VZ NavigatorSM service transforms the phone into a navigation device at a fraction of the cost of most GPS systems. In addition, the LG Versa is compatible with Mobile Broadband Connect to allow customers to use their phones as a modem by linking their laptops to their phones to establish a broadband connection anywhere within Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Broadband rate and coverage area.
Tags: Keyboards, LG, modular, versa
Sounds like a great phone! I will likely be the first one in line. I love how it has a retractable qwerty keyboard. You can either use it by virtual keyboard or manual. I already have the LG Dare; this phone is pretty good also, but the Versa looks like a good upgrade with flash supported via web browsing. Sounds good for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I give this phone a A- in rank.
Grant, the phone went on sale today!!! Check it:http://www.gadgetreview.com/2009/03/lg-versa-now-available-at-vzw-200-after-2-year-and-50-mail-in-rebate.html
I got the Versa, like parts of it – but I see a few things that I don’t like – one is that the response time isn’t the best. When I try and move around the screens – I end up accessing something that I didn’t want! then I have to start over again! I wish the touch screen would have a quicker response time and would be easier to move around in the screens – those are tough!
this phone looks pretty good, i should be getting a new one and this is definatly the phone i would buy(:
hey will i got this phone and i love it is a good phone i got it from a guy how told me it is hard to text on it but i do not say why it is when it is just like one with a keyboard i did have the nve 3 but i like this one moor thing i did the nve 3 the cam is good on it