Verizon Wireless on Wednesday have introduced four hot new
mobile phones for the 2007 holiday season, in ther sincere hopes
that one of the four is desirable enough to shift the attention
away from Apple's iPhone.
The
Verizon Voyager, made by
LG sports a large external touch screen and opens up to reveal a
keypad.
Attracting the most attention about the Voyager, is that it
resembles the iPhone in several distinct ways.
The Voyager is equipped a external touch screen that slides open
to reveal a full QWERTY keypad.
This gives users a choice on how they access the phone's
features, according to Verizon Wireless.
The keyboard is one advantage the Voyager has over the iPhone's
touch-screen-only design.
In addition, Verizon
Wireless' has a fast 3G data network that the
Voyager will use to access the Internet. The
iPhone doesn't employ 3G technology. Instead, it
uses AT&T Edge data network, slower alternative.
The Shortcut Menu icons that display on the
Voyager's touch screen and the other set of
icons at the bottom of the screen bear a
astonishing likeness to the iPhone.
The Voyager also comes with
an array of multimedia capabilities that
include an HTML Web browser; Verizon
Wireless' V Cast mobile TV, video, and the
URGE music service; MP3 playback ability, as
well as WMA, and AAC files. For more media
and file storage, the Voyager has a
removable MicroSD memory slot that can hold
up to 8 Gbytes of memory.
"The Apple iPhone shook things up. If you
look closely at the iPhone, it's just an
ordinary phone in an extraordinary package,"
stated Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecom
industry analyst.
"That's what this Verizon
Wireless phone is doing. It is
competing with the iPhone in this segment of the cell phone
marketplace.
It is Verizon's answer to AT&T's and Apple's iPhone. I fully
expect Sprint, T-Mobile, and a variety of other carriers --
large and small -- to come out with their version."
For more media and file storage, the Voyager has a removable
MicroSD memory slot that can hold up to 8 Gbytes of memory.
"The Apple iPhone shook things up. If you look closely at the
iPhone, it's just an ordinary phone in an extraordinary
package," stated Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecom industry
analyst.
"That's what this Verizon Wireless phone is doing. It is
competing with the iPhone in this segment of the cell phone
marketplace. It is Verizon's answer to AT&T's and Apple's iPhone.
I fully expect Sprint, T-Mobile, and a variety of other carriers
-- large and small -- to come out with their version."
Verizon Wireless' season
lineup also includes the Venus by LG, the
Juke by Samsung, and the BlackBerry Pearl
8130 by Research In Motion.
Verizon Wireless has not yet let the buying
public know when the Voyager will be
available for, but industry analysts are
expecting the Voyager to be in stores before
Thanksgiving.
