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The LG enV Touch is designed with bigger touch screen and internal displays, better layout for the keyboard, advanced settings for the 3.2-megapixel camera, the 3.5mm headset jack accommodates our own headphones, EV-DO Rev, faster Web browsing, and more. Unfortunately the touch-screen interface and Web browsing could use some refinements, and it lacks Wi-Fi.
The LG enV Touch measures is 2.2 in x 0.7 in x 4.5 in (WxDxH) and 4.9 oz weight. Buttons below the display are the Send, Clear, and End/Power keys. The Clear key doubles as the voice command key (with a short press) and the voice recorder key (with a long press). The 3 inches touch screen display supports 1.6 million colors. It makes the display become more bright, sharp, and vibrant. Some settings are for the backlight time, the charging screen, the menu fonts, and the dial fonts.
There are five shortcut icons below the home screen, which are used to be the shortcuts for the messaging menu, the virtual dial pad, the main menu, the phone book, and a Favorites page. Some settings for the touch screen interface are the touch calibration wizard, the haptic feedback, and a sound effect.
When we’re going to dial or text, we can use the touch-screen interface or the virtual dial pad’s large digits. Underneath the keypad are shortcuts to voice dialing, the recent calls list, and the contacts list. To enter texts for messaging, we can choose between handwriting recognition, multitap or T9 via an alphanumeric keypad, or via a landscape QWERTY keyboard.
The enV Touch has an internal accelerometer, so we can activate the QWERTY keyboard by rotating the phone horizontally. The camera key, volume rocker, and the screen lock key are placed on the left spine. The charger jack is placed on the bottom. The microSD card slot and 3.5 millimeter headset jack are placed on the right side. The 3.2-megapixel camera lens and an LED flash are placed on the back side.
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There are stereo speakers on each side of the display and two soft keys at the right side. Below that is the full QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard is spacious, with keys that are raised above the surface and have a nice give when pressed. The 2, Q, W, E, and S keys are grayed out to indicate game pad controls. The navigation array are placed to the right of the QWERTY arrangement, consists of the Send and End/Power keys, a square navigation toggle with middle OK key, the Clear key, and the Speakerphone key. The up, left, and down directions on the toggle can be mapped to three user-defined shortcuts, while the right leads to the My Shortcuts menu, which can also be customized with up to four shortcuts.
The missing thing from the enV Touch is V Cast Mobile TV, which is Verizon’s live-TV-streaming service. Some personal management featuers are a vibrate mode, a speakerphone, text and multimedia messaging, voice messaging, a calendar, an alarm clock, a world clock, a stopwatch, a notepad, and even a drawing pad.
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More advanced users will appreciate USB mass storage and voice command dialing. Supported Bluetooth profiles include hands-free, dial-up networking, A2DP or stereo, phonebook access, basic printing, basic imaging, object push for vCard and vCalendar, and file transfer. The enV Touch can be used as a wireless modem for laptop or computer. The enV Touch also comes with a document viewer, helpful to read Microsoft Office documents from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, plus Adobe Acrobat .pdf files. To read them, we need to load them onto a microSD card in the “my_document” folder. Other advanced features include mobile instant messenger (AIM, Windows Live, and Yahoo), GPS with VZ Navigator support, e-mail, and visual voice mail.
There are three e-mail options, such as mobile e-mail (Yahoo, AOL, and Windows Live), mobile corporate e-mail courtesy of RemoSync (to sync our work e-mail and calendar), and mobile Web e-mail (gives shortcut access to a variety of Web e-mail services like Windows Live, AOL Mail, and Yahoo Mail). The corporate e-mail option works with Microsoft ActiveSync, so you need to know your company’s mail Exchange server address.
The enV Touch has a full HTML Web browser with features tabbed browsing (with up to three tabs, or pages, open). The LG enV Touch comes with EV-DO Rev. A. Along with EV-DO, the enV Touch also has access to Verizon’s array of broadband services like V Cast Video. Supported music files include MP3, WMA, unprotected AAC and AAC+ formats. The enV Touch supports up to 16GB of removable memory via a microSD card in case you want additional storage.
The enV Touch has a 3.2-megapixel camera, which can take pictures in six different resolutions (2,048×1,536, 1,600×1,200, 1,280×960, 640×480, and 320×240 pixels), five white balance presets, and five color effects. It also has three focusing modes: autofocus, macro mode, or manual mode. The manual mode gives options to pick one of seven points on the screen to focus in on. You can toggle the flash on or off, adjust a self timer if you want, or select one of three shutter sounds (there’s also a silent option). The camera also has a few special shot modes: Smile shot, which automatically takes a picture when a person smiles; Panorama, which stitches together three photos shot from left to right; Intelligent shot, which automatically adjusts the white balance and color saturation based on the surrounding environment; and Facial Makeover mode, which removes all blemishes and unsightly marks from a person’s face. There’s also a name card reader mode that is specially tuned to take pictures of business cards so that the words are legible.
Photo quality is very good with sharp images, without a lot of blurriness, and colors looked bright. The external touch screen can’t be used as a self-portrait viewfinder. There’s also a built-in camcorder, which can record in two resolutions (320×240 and 176×144) in two lengths, short 30-second clips for multimedia messages, or clips of up to an hour or so for saving. Video quality was pretty good for a camera phone, without a lot of blur.
The audio quality of songs from the LG enV Touch’s stereo speakers was average, loud enough without the bass and vocals. The enV Touch’s EV-DO Rev needs 30 seconds to download a 1.5MB song. The video quality on V Cast videos was quite good.
Plus :
The LG enV Touch has great displays with a nice touch-screen interface and a great QWERTY keyboard. It also has great features, such as a 3.2-megapixel camera, EV-DO Rev. A, and a full HTML Web browser.
Minus :
The LG enV Touch’s touch-screen interface could use some refinement, and the Web browser experience is not as smooth as we would like. Visual Voice Mail and corporate e-mail support costs additional monthly fees. Extra features need extra money. It lacks Wi-Fi.
Detail Specifications :
- Product Type Cellular phone With digital camera / digital player
- Service Provider Verizon Wireless
- Width 2.2 in
- Depth 0.7 in
- Height 4.5 in
- Weight 4.9 oz
- Technology CDMA2000 1X
- Band CDMA2000 1X 1900/800
- Phone Design Folder type phone
- Antenna Internal
- Vibrating Alert Yes
- Polyphonic Ringer Yes
- Voice Dialing Yes
- Call Timer Yes
- Conference Call Capability Yes
- Voice Recorder Yes
- Caller ID Yes
- Speakerphone Yes
- Wireless Interface Bluetooth
- Additional Features TTY compatible , E-911 compliant , QWERTY keyboard layout , Text-to-Speech (text recognition)
- Phone Book Capacity 1000 names & numbers
- Short Messaging Service (SMS) Yes
- Mobile Email Yes
- Internet Browser Yes
- Platforms Supported BREW
- Included Services VCAST, VZ Navigator
- EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) Yes
- Messaging / Data Features Text messages , Multimedia messages (MMS) , Instant messages , Voice mail , E-Mail , HTML Browser , PDF support
- Playback Digital Video Formats 3gp , MPEG-4 , WMV (Windows Media Video)
- Downloadable Content Games , Ring tones , Wallpapers , Audio files , Video files
- Camera highlights With a resolution of 3.2 megapixels, this camera phone will give you higher quality pictures than other phones.
- Sensor Resolution 3.2 megapixels
- Still Image Resolutions 640 x 480 , 1280 x 960 , 1600 x 1200 , 2048 x 1536
- Focus Adjustment Automatic
- Digital Zoom 1.6
- Self Timer Delay 3 sec , 5 sec , 10 sec
- Special Effects Sepia , Negative , Black & White
- White Balance Presets , Automatic
- Camera Light Source Flash
- Video Recorder Resolutions 640 x 480 (VGA) , 176 x 144 (QCIF) , 320 x 240 (QVGA)
- Alarm Clock Yes
- Calendar Yes
- Reminder Yes
- Calculator Basic
- Additional Timer Functions Stopwatch
- Display Type LCD display
- Technology TFT
- Display Resolution 800 x 480 pixels
- Diagonal Size 3 in
- Color Support Color
- Multi-language Menu Yes
- Display Languages English , Spanish
- Features LCD touch screen
- Display (2nd) Type LCD display - Color
- Display Resolution 800 x 480 pixels
- Supported Digital Audio Standards AAC , MP3 , WMA
- Connector Type 1 x Headset jack - Mini-phone 3.5 mm
- Hearing Aid Compatible Yes
- Included Accessories Battery , Wall charger
- Power Type Power adapter
- Technology - Lithium ion
- Capacity 950 mAh
- Talk Time Up to 260 min
- Standby Time Up to 408 h
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