The Versa has you covered. Want a phone with a QWERTY hardware keyboard and built-in protective leather case? That's the Versa too. The phone comes with an accessory cover with some intelligence inside. Remove the Versa's back cover and replace it with the QWERTY cover and the phone changes its personality just a little. Thanks to a data connector on the cover and phone, the QWERTY key presses are transferred to the phone. The cover has its own OLED monochrome display, similar to a flip phone's and it displays the time, date, signal strength, battery and call info. It also has call send and end buttons so you need not open the cover to answer or end a call. Close the cover and the display sleeps, open the cover and it wakes. Nice.
The cover attachment design is well done: most every control remains accessible. The only casualty is the microSD card slot which is blocked by the cover. Calling is a bit weird with the cover attached when speaking directly to the handset; it's like holding a tiny book to your face. You can close the cover to avoid the book-like form but then you won't be able to interact with the screen that doubles as your keypad. The good news is that the cover has a port for the earpiece, call send and end buttons and a display so you can can talk with the cover closed as long as you don't need a dialer. The mic is on the phone's bottom edge so the cover doesn't interfere.
The LG Versa supports background music playback. Sorry, there's no 3.5mm stereo jack and no adapter in the box, but the phone does support Bluetooth stereo headsets. It can play locally stored MPEG4 videos as well as streaming V Cast video. The Media Center player does not stretch video to fill the display, rather like the LG Dare, a few on-screen controls and a black border flank the video. The Versa has a surprisingly good web browser by Teleca, and Flash support so it can play some Flash content embedded in web pages as well as desktop youtube videos (you're not limited to the mobile version of youtube). Unfortunately, the frame rate is poor when playing FLV desktop youtube videos-- around 10-15 fps.
The web browser works well with the touch screen and accelerometer, and it renders sites in a more desktop-like manner than most other Verizon feature phones. It even handles Javascript, some dHTML and tabbed browsing along with more common features like bookmarks, cache control, history and SSL. Nice! The email client is Verizon's mobile email client that handles Yahoo, Windows Live Hotmail, AOL Mail, Verizon and "Other" where you can manually enter your email account settings for POP3 and IMAP accounts. As you'd expect, the phone can send and receive text and picture messages, and there's a Mobile IM client that works with MSN Live Messenger, AIM and Yahoo instant messaging.
Battery life is above average for an EVDO phone with a large display and enough horsepower to handle Flash. Verizon and LG claim up to 4.8 hours of talk time and our tests averaged 4.3 hours. Even with moderate use, the LG Versa lasted 2 days on a charge, which is a half a day better than other well-featured Verizon phones. The LG has an 1100 mAh Lithium Ion battery-- fairly high capacity for a feature phone.
Price: $199 with 2 year contract after $50 rebate.
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