Verizons Answer to the iPhone

[NY Jester]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Is it real web or that special web made for mobile devices?

Did you have to setup the email accounts on the phone or was it automatic when you synced the phone? Does it do IMAP?

How is the music managed? Is it just manual or does it sync playlists with some application on the PC?

Does it charge from the usb cord?

Does it have WiFi for web browsing and email?

I dont know all the features as of yet, but I will answer best I can through what I do know.

Web Browsing
a HUGE improvement over the standard BREW browser found on most Verizon Wireless phones, which could only handle WAP pages. The browser is simple, easy-to-use, and works with both the external touch screen and the internal display. Even large web pages (ex. digg.com) loaded eventually, but using it was not practical since it took too long to load or navigate. The browser doesn’t support flash or ajax, but was sufficient enough for viewing text, images, and links. Most of the websites Ive tested it with worked surprisingly well. When using the external display you can drag the page around with a finger, otherwise you’ll have to use the four-way navigation pad. Additional “screen optimized” and “text only” views are available along with the zoom function. The Voyager also delivers the web content over a 3G network which is faster than the iPhone’s 2G. But from Im told the Safari browser on the iPhone is better for viewing. The Mobile Web is part of the V Cast package for verizon - which is $15 additional per/mo

Email
It has a feature called Mobile Email, that can be set up through most of the most popular service providers.Its an easy-to-use email client which will work instantly with your Yahoo! Mail, Live Mail, AOL/AIM, or Verizon accounts. If you do happen to have your own server or use another mail service such as Gmail, you can even enter in your own POP3/IMAP and SMTP servers. The only downside was that the functionality was quite basic and didn’t even allow opening links in messages. Despite this, it remains a good way of getting a sneak peak of your inbox, replying to messages, and composing new ones when you’re away from your computer.

Music
Your computer will recognize the Voyager as portable media player (mass storage device), so no additional drivers were required. You will, however, need to pop in the CD and install the drivers if you do wish to use your phone as a data modem. Once the device was recognized I was able to use Windows Media Player to transfer the music onto the Voyager. If you prefer to directly copy files onto the phone using the file explorer, that works smoothly as well.

USB Charge via a computer is available.

GPS navigator is available.


I hope I covered all you asked.