The LG EnV Touch is fairly new in the Verizon Wireless phone lineup. First released in early summer 2009, the phone has held its own. For Verizon customers wanting easy access to e-mail, Word, and other business and home computer type programs, the smart phones including Blackberry and various other makes, are very pricey. It costs at least thirty dollars a month just to have the smart phone activated…and that does not include an unlimited data package for e-mail and internet use on the phone. Therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate Verizon’s high tech basic phone options.
Out of Verizon’s regular cell phones, the LG EnV Touch takes the cake. It has not only a fully-functioning touch camouflage, but also a convenient clamshell design with full QWERTY keyboard. The attached QWERTY keyboard does make the phone a bit heavier than other touch screen models, but it is great for texters. The keys are nicely spaced apart and the fabricate is very user-friendly. The EnV Touch has several stand-out features. In addition to full-spectrum Bluetooth capabilities, it has a document viewer which is great for business people and students. Though Word and PowerPoint documents cannot be edited from the document viewer, they are still downloadable from a computer to the phone. Extra memory from a card may be needed for adding on multiple large documents. Students can spend the document viewer to look over class PowerPoints, while businesspeople can use the viewer to practice presentations and view quarterly reports. The document viewer supports at least the file types .doc, .xls, .ptt, and .pdf . LG’s EnV Touch is currently the only basic phone offered at Verizon with a document viewer-making it the closest thing to a lustrous phone without paying the much higher price. Also, with a smaller unlimited data ticket ($9.99 a month) than a sparkling phone ($44.99 a month), users can surf the web, access e-mail, and listen to music. The touch conceal is easy to use with zoom in and out features as well as a scroll panel to allow for full viewing of web pages. Shortcuts to Facebook, Myspace, and other favorite websites can be placed on the phone’s main cloak.
Adding to EnV Touch’s features are a drawing pad, notepad, and notebook. A notepad icon can be added to the main touch screen. It displays notes and memos at a glance. The larger notebook, found in the tools section of the phone menu can fill much larger notes. Continuing, the 3.2 mega pixel camera is not dreadful. It has enhanced photo features to perfect images. Also, the touch screen camera mode allows the user to take a photo from multiple angles.
Music listening is a breeze on the EnV Touch. The side of the phone’s headphone jack fits all standard headphones. Many cell phone models need some sort of adapter for music because the headphone jacks are too small for standard headphones. Using a memory card, the phone can hold all kinds of music files. Video viewing and making is also accessible through the phone’s multimedia section.
Overall the LG EnV Touch should be rated a 4.8 out of 5 stars. As with all touch screen phones with only a touch-lock screen feature, dialing contacts can happen accidentally.
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Filed under Small Business Verizon by on Oct 31st, 2011. 
Being a self described geek, picking the Top 5 Smartphones for Business is an easy task. You can find me reading the latest news on new devices and sharing that information with friends. However, when I researched this topic and saw the top 5, I was only surprised with one device that made it on the list.
Here are the top 5 smartphones for business according to Enterprise Mobile Today.
1. APPLE iPHONE 3GS –$199 (16GB), $299 (32GB) AT&T
2. MOTOROLA DROID–$199 VERIZON WIRELESS
3. HTC TOUCH PRO2–$269.99 (T-MOBILE) $349.99 (Slither)
4. BLACKBERRY BOLD 9700–$130 (T-MOBILE) $99 (AT&T)
5. GOOGLE NEXUS ONE–CARRIER T-MOBILE–$179 WITH CONTRACT, $529 UNLOCKED
With respect to the list, let’s look at the number 1 device first, the Apple iPhone 3GS.
Apple has done a great job with this blueprint, making it user gracious with a multitude of business applications. iPhone owners become addicted to it because they believe it can do everything a handheld computer would do. The 3GS browser is an improvement over the 3G, critics say the browser is “superb.”
However, my one drawback on the device is that it is more a multimedia device than a phone. The phone experiences frequent dropped calls, and sound quality is terrible and the battery drains fast. But, everything else, the graphics, the video recording, and the apps are beneficial. I recommend working on the phone element of the device for the next generation of iPhones. As a business owner, dropped calls are unacceptable.
The Droid is the phone that Motorola is betting the store on. With all its financial upheavals at this perennial communications company, the Droid is being touted as the phone that will save Motorola from itself.
In a nutshell, the Droid’s battery life is awesome, no frequent recharges here; and it boasts a huge 3.7 inch high resolution conceal. However, I found the keyboard to be cumbersome if you have large fingers. Maybe this keyboard is better for someone with small hands.
Like in previous Motorola phones, the sound quality is lacking. Even on maximum volume, sound quality is average. I’m sure Motorola is working on that problem as I type. The rush in which the Droid responds to commands is lightning fast, so you may forget about not hearing your caller and just keep the phone for the duration of the contract and get the upgrade as soon as it becomes available. As a business device, the one drawback is the sound quality, everything else stacks up to a good device.
My personal favorite is the HTC Touch Pro2. I bought this device because it allows me to receive all my emails, preserve track of my favorite social networks, and runs on the Windows Mobile platform. I didn’t know how I would need Windows Mobile Office until I was taking a train straggle recently and didn’t have access to the internet.
A client needed a document that was stored on my laptop ASAP, so I merely connected my Touch Pro2 to the laptop, moved the document from the laptop to the phone, and sent the document by email as an attachment. My client was happy, and I got paid. The only thing I recommend about this phone, is definitely buy a vehicle charger. It sucks up battery life really fast! But, other than that, being able to perform a task like making my client happy paid for the price of the device.
Being a former Blackberry owner, I can identify with having ‘crackberry’ syndrome. That is, the occurrence of being addicted to using your Blackberry and never letting it out of your observe. I owned a Blackberry Curve before I jumped to the Touch Pro2 and absolutely loved it. I unbiased got tired of the RIM service outages.
Another dislike of mine with Blackberry is the browser, because RIM chooses to run its own, this short changes owners from experiencing a true web experience. The Blackberry has always been the ultimate business smartphone, however, competitors are spring boarding smartphone concepts that Blackberry started and making them better. The phone looks good, the browser is a little better than before, but RIM needs to get some proper creativity going before it loses its core customer base. As a business smartphone, there are better options out there.
Few know that the Google Nexus One is made by HTC. That being said, the phone has a lot of potential, and for this being Google’s first jump into the smartphone/Android fire, it’s a good one. Google also kind of threw out a challenge of things to approach to other wireless providers, it offers the Nexus One in an unlocked version, meaning you can buy this phone without a contract and run it on a CDMA network.
Here are a couple of glitches that will probably be resolved in the next generation of Google phones, that is the puny internal memory (the need for a memory card slot is necessary); the media player is just, okay, it doesn’t effect you want to use it a lot; you cannot sync your Outlook calendar on this phone, maybe because Google has its own calendar and wants to promote use of that. Also there isn’t any multi-touch or Bluetooth dialing on this arrangement. Oh, and early termination fees hit you double by both Google and T-Mobile. Ouch!
Truly, one day, the Nexus One will become the smartphone that changes the game. But apt now, it has to work out some internal difficulties. Maybe when the Nexus ne grows up, it will be the smartphone that changes the game. PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait…wait… Rank: wait… Traffic: wait… Price: wait… C: wait… PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait…wait… Rank: wait… Traffic: wait… Price: wait… C: wait…
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Filed under Small Business Verizon by on Oct 7th, 2011.
Think about something, do you understand all of the charges on your telephone bill? Do you understand why you be charged for certain things at all? Well I am about to give all of you basic Verizon telephone customers a real shock. You will be charged for NOT using your phone.
You may think that I am kidding, but Verizon wireless has decided that all of its basic telephone customers will be paying if they do not utilize Verizon’s long distance service. The charges will be around $2.24 depending on where you live.
Now while I have no problem with any company charging a customer a legitimate, reasonable ticket for a service that a customer ordered, I have a real spot with a company who is charging a customer who is NOT using a service. It really doesn’t matter to me that they previously notified the customer that they would be charging them the fee. Nor does it matter to me that they think that they are justified, a fee for NOT using something is simply atrocious.
Now here is Verizon Wireless’ company line on the charge, they say that the reason that the charge is “necessary”, is because they have to preserve the lines in region should these customers want to expend them, therefore if they don’t they have to charge these customers so they carry a small part of the burden. Now, excuse me, but the lines are there and will be there for all customers to use, so this fee still doesn’t make any sense. To me, it just smacks of greed.
Here are a few facts on Verizon, in the past year, lthe company made $88.1 billion dollars, which was up 26.8% from 2005. It is a company that is doing very well, and could do well in the public relations department by not penalizing its customers, the very people who put the dollars in the pockets of its shareholders by not making decisions such as this.
It is not necessary, telecommunications companies, to charge customers who are not using your lines. If you do, you are wrong, and please do not insult us by telling us that because you have to have the lines there “just in case” customers might want to use them because it is simply not true. You have them there because you gaze the profitability in the telecommunications industry. But this charge is truly a cheap way to go, the only thing that it causes is ill will. It goes against every ethical business concept.
I personally am not a Verizon residential customer, if I was I wouldn’t be one for long. I am however a Verizon cell phone customer and if this policy isn’t changed, I just might have to find a company who can ethically do business with its customers.
source: http://investor.verizon.com/news/view.aspx? NewsID=813
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Filed under Small Business Verizon by on Feb 23rd, 2011.
The LG EnV Touch is fairly new in the Verizon Wireless phone lineup. First released in early summer 2009, the phone has held its beget. For Verizon customers wanting easy access to e-mail, Word, and other business and home computer type programs, the smart phones including Blackberry and various other makes, are very pricey. It costs at least thirty dollars a month just to have the smart phone activated…and that does not include an unlimited data package for e-mail and internet use on the phone. Therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate Verizon’s high tech basic phone options.
Out of Verizon’s regular cell phones, the LG EnV Touch takes the cake. It has not only a fully-functioning touch mask, but also a convenient clamshell design with full QWERTY keyboard. The attached QWERTY keyboard does make the phone a bit heavier than other touch screen models, but it is expansive for texters. The keys are nicely spaced apart and the design is very user-friendly. The EnV Touch has several stand-out features. In addition to full-spectrum Bluetooth capabilities, it has a document viewer which is mammoth for business people and students. Though Word and PowerPoint documents cannot be edited from the document viewer, they are still downloadable from a computer to the phone. Extra memory from a card may be needed for adding on multiple titanic documents. Students can use the document viewer to discover over class PowerPoints, while businesspeople can use the viewer to practice presentations and notion quarterly reports. The document viewer supports at least the file types .doc, .xls, .ptt, and .pdf . LG’s EnV Touch is currently the only basic phone offered at Verizon with a document viewer-making it the closest thing to a gleaming phone without paying the much higher label. Also, with a smaller unlimited data price ($9.99 a month) than a smart phone ($44.99 a month), users can surf the web, access e-mail, and listen to music. The touch screen is easy to expend with zoom in and out features as well as a scroll panel to allow for full viewing of web pages. Shortcuts to Facebook, Myspace, and other favorite websites can be placed on the phone’s main veil.
Adding to EnV Touch’s features are a drawing pad, notepad, and notebook. A notepad icon can be added to the main touch screen. It displays notes and memos at a spy. The larger notebook, found in the tools section of the phone menu can hold much larger notes. Continuing, the 3.2 mega pixel camera is not bad. It has enhanced photo features to perfect images. Also, the touch screen camera mode allows the user to take a photo from multiple angles.
Music listening is a breeze on the EnV Touch. The side of the phone’s headphone jack fits all standard headphones. Many cell phone models need some sort of adapter for music because the headphone jacks are too small for standard headphones. Using a memory card, the phone can hold all kinds of music files. Video viewing and making is also accessible through the phone’s multimedia section.
Overall the LG EnV Touch should be rated a 4.8 out of 5 stars. As with all touch screen phones with only a touch-lock screen feature, dialing contacts can happen accidentally.
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Filed under Small Business Verizon by on Aug 22nd, 2010.