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For more information, go to: www. Leave a Reply. Latest Trending Videos. Articles Apple Music vs. Spotify HiFi? Not Happening in Q1 You May Also Like. We like the Dare best among Verizon's touch screen phones. It's smaller and easier to operate than last year's flagship LG Voyager , and worlds better than the Samsung Glyde in most every respect. The touch screen is responsive and has haptic feedback you'll feel a little vibration when you touch the screen.
The only disappointment is that the haptics vibrate when you touch anywhere on the screen-- even if you miss tapping an icon or link. So far, localized haptics where the phone vibrates only when you touch a valid target are rare, so the Dare isn't alone. This is a resistive touch screen, which means you can use an object like a stylus or a fingernail.
Though the Dare has a proprietary operating system and the usual closed to all but Verizon's selection of BREW apps, the interface is more flexible that we've seen on other Verizon handsets, and other feature phones for that matter. Tap the applications tab the one with 4 dots in a grid and you'll see a 3 x 3 grid of icons, slightly askew.
You can drag these around to rearrange the icon layout, though you can't remove or add anything here. However, there's also a quick launch icon palette that tucks away on the right side of the home screen the LG has something similar but it remains open in the center of the home screen at all times.
You can add and remove apps on the quick launcher, and you can drag them from there to the home screen itself. To remove one, just drag it back to the quick launch "handle". Since the Dare lacks a hardware keypad or keyboard, it has on-screen alternatives. The number pad is large and easy to use, though it obviously lacks the tactile feedback of a hardware keypad.
We really like the on-screen QWERTY keyboard with large keys and extra keys relating to the task at hand: there's an symbol on the messaging keyboard and a. There's also handwriting recognition, which is unusual for a non-smartphone. It works OK but we're betting that most folks will opt for the on-screen keyboards.
T9 aficionados can use the number pad to compose text using predictive text on the number pad there's also a multi-press option. Touch screens are cool and all, but a phone must do a good job of making calls or what's the point? Incoming and outgoing voice are both loud and clear, and call recipients had no idea we were calling from a cell phone, even when the phone dropped down to 2 bars of 1x 1x is used for voice, EVDO is for data.
At 1 bar call quality diminished but was still decent. There's speaker independent voice dialing on board, and a dedicated key press and hold for a second to start voice command. The rear-firing speaker phone is plenty loud and doesn't distort at higher volumes. EVDO rev. A is on board for fast data and the Dare supports DUN dialup networking for those who wish to use the phone as a high speed wireless modem you must has the appropriate data plan to use this feature.
The phone book can hold up to 1, records with fields for several phone numbers, 2 email addresses, group assignment, ringtone and a photo. There's also a calendar and an alarm clock, but no desktop Outlook syncing for Windows and no syncing for Mac OS X either. The Dare is firmly in feature phone territory here and there's no smartphone-style syncing with desktops for PIM data and email. The Telca web browser is excellent by feature phone standards.
It makes good use of the accelerometer and rotates fairly quickly when the phone is turned, and the touch enhancements worked fairly well. We won't call it a home run like Safari on the iPhone, but it's better than the browser on the LG Vu when it comes to finger-navigation. Scrolling is intuitive-- just grab the page and move it around with your finger, there aren't tiny scroll bars to bother with and waste screen real estate.
The browser has 3 view options: text-only, screen optimized and standard desktop view.
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