NewsLG Dare VX9700 Unboxed, First Impressions
Verizon has just launched the LG Dare VX9700, and Verizon sent us a unit to show you.
Read more for a complete unboxing, and initial impressions.
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The LG Dare arrived in a standard Verizon box. Nothing special there…
However, when you open up the box, one thing stands out (aside from how much the Dare looks like an iPhone). There’s no AC adapter! Instead, the phone comes with a USB charging adapter, and USB cable. On the positive side, you now have a USB cable with you, wherever you tote around your AC adapter for the phone.
Now, about that iPhone similarity… the device really does look like a cheaper version of the iPhone. However, there are quite considerable highlights. Namely, an vastly superior camera, voice recognition, VZ Navigator, and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (yes, 2.1).
One final first impression, is the accelerometer. Unlike Instinct, which uses the camera as a faux (and dysfunctional) accelerometer, Dare uses a real one. And, it works well… showing itself off in all the key applications. And yes, the touch screen actually works, unlike the LG Voyager, which in our opinion should be recalled due to how unresponsive the Voyager’s touch screen actually is.
We hope to have a full review of the LG Dare in the near future.
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lol please stop with the iphone comparisons… the dare has zero in common with the iphone except its a squarish touchphone with chrome accents… if my m520 was a touch screen it would look just as much like an iphone.. and the dare is based on a phone that was released before the iphone… please leave the opinions out i love this site except for that one thing
lol what should the dare be a circle or a triangle… come on i jus looked at them again and thats ridiculous
Celz, Dare was designed to be a direct answer to iPhone. I’m sorry you don’t agree with Verizon and LG on this, but if they’re making the comparison, we have no choice but to analyze it.
We certainly aren’t biased to iPhone. We will point out where it is better, just as we will point out where Dare is better. The people that think we’re the most partial to iPhone… gloss over where we have criticized Apple so closely.
I’ll take the Instinct over this, most likely will be less locked down
i agree on the voyager comments - i like the phone but the touch screen has issues, the browser is lacking in a number of ways, hmmmmmmmmm…………. recall????? it would be nice to be able to get a dare in exchange for the voyager but that ain’t gonna happen so….. don’t go there.
I just recently purchased the LG Dare. The screen definately isn’t as large as the I Phone but the things that I did like about it are the carrier for one thing. I also like having a battery that I can replace and the fact that I can get insurance on it. I lose and break too many phones to get the I Phone. I am really impressed with the camera. The pics are great. I also like the tactile feedback when I touch the screen ( I don’t know if I Phone has that or not) My brother and nephew both have the I Phone and it is a great phone but it boiled down to the carrier, insurance and battery issues that made my choice for me. If I used the calender a lot for appointments and so forth I probably would rather have something that can sync with Outlook but at this point in time I don’t need it that much.
I’M GETTIN THIS PHONE FOR MY B-DAY!!!!!! I’M SO EXCITED :)!!! but i’m really tired of EVERYONE comparing every touch phone to the freakin iphone!! this is almost exactly like the lg prada that came out in england..it has nothing to do with the iphone! oh yea and btw verizon and lg had the prada out WAYYYYY before the iphone so, technically, verizon had the touch screen thing down before the iphone even came
yea stick that in your juice bottle and suck it!!!
Three months is “WAYYYYY before”?
Prada: March 17 ‘07
iPhone: June 20 ‘07
DOES NOT WORK WITH MAC uggghhh!!!….everything else is AWESOME
don’t talk about the LG DARE because i am getting it on mi birthday.it is this month.THANX
apples and oranges the dare is a good phone the iphone is a good phone they are 2 seperate devices with 2 different options apple junkies will always druel over apple products does not mean there better or worse people grow up they are both good phone
Please email tom@tomking.com if you figure out how to import contacts from Outlook to LG Dare!
The DARE will work with a MAC Logan. Well if your just trying to get music and stuff onto it. You need to use bluetooth on your mac and send them to your phone. but your right about not being able to directly send files straight to the phone with the USB cable on a mac.
The DARE will work with a MAC Logan. Well if your just trying to get music and stuff onto it. You need to use bluetooth on your mac and send them to your phone. but your right about not being able to directly send files straight to the phone with the USB cable on a mac.
The dare is a great phone. Ive had it 3 days after it came out and havent put it down yet. I love the all touchscreen feature and the camera is a great add. I use to never take pictures with my camera phone till I got this phone. Pictures turn out great and the features the camera has are amazing. The multi-tasking music player is also a great add…coming from the voyager I love this feature alot. Texting I had to kind of get use to it but Im pretty good at it now. It does give me some glitches here and there though like restarting on me twice since I got it but that considerably lower than what my voyager did resetting every other day. I also found out alot of cool and neat tricks for the dare and how to fix some problems by visiting http://www.lg-dare.com/ They have alot of tricks and general information about the dare that really helped me decided to get this phone and easing the use of it. Overall this phone is very good 8.5/10 from me.