LG Voyager Cell Phone Review - Making/Receiving Calls
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Alfredo Padilla Published on December 04, 2007 Comment on this |
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Dialing Speed (4.63)
| Cell Phone | Time (sec) | Score |
| LG Voyager | 4.32 | 4.63 |
| HTC Touch on Sprint | 6.98 | 2.87 |
| Pantech Duo | 2.89 | 6.92 |
| Nokia E90 | 2.36 | 8.47 |
| Helio Ocean | 3.1 | 6.45 |
| Apple iPhone | 3.96 | 5.05 |
Talk and End Buttons (5.5)
Like the Nokia E90, which shares the clamshell QWERTY form factor, the LG Voyager has two sets of send and end buttons. The first set is on the outside of phone near the very bottom of the phone. This is an awkward placement, especially when dialing with one hand. The buttons are slightly textured to look somewhat like the speaker at the top of the phone. They can be easily overlooked, especially when the backlight is off, as the indicators turn black. The buttons themselves seem to sit on a rocker that stretches the width of the handset. In addition to being difficult to see, they are also difficult to find by feel alone. When pressed they do have a decent amount of key travel and the tactile feedback is good, but not great.
The interior send and end buttons are much more pedestrian. They are two small black buttons located above the D-Pad to the right of the QWERTY keyboard. Although small, they are much more conveniently located and easier to find by feel: a small silver bar divides the keys. Key travel when pressed is only slight, but tactile feedback is good. We liked these much better than the exterior buttons. Because we can't predict which set of keys users will use most often, we scored both sets of buttons and took the average for our final score. We gave the exterior buttons a score of five points and the interior buttons a score of six points.
Call Management (7.0)
Like many phones the LG Voyager offers you two ways to get to the call history. The easiest way is to hit the send key on the home screen, but there is also a call history item in the menu. This takes you to a chronological list of all your calls. Selecting an item from the list will give you information about the time and duration of the call and the ability to save the number to your address book. You can filter your calls by missed, received, dialed or all calls. There is also a good selection of timers that include information about data sent and received.
Startup to Call (3.96)
For this test we time how long it takes for the phone to be turned on and make a call. This is useful information for those who turn their phones off often and need to be able to pull it out and get it to start up quickly for a call. We do this test five times and take the average for our score. The LG Voyager took an average of 25.26 seconds to start up and make a call. This isn't the speediest time we've seen, but it isn't bad either. You can see below that the Helio Ocean was the only phone to do significantly better than the LG Voyager in this test, while some phones, like the HTC Touch, did much worse.
| Cell Phone | Time (sec) | Score |
| LG Voyager | 25.26 | 3.96 |
| HTC Touch on Sprint | 70.24 | 1.42 |
| Pantech Duo | 43.67 | 2.29 |
| Nokia E90 | 32.12 | 3.11 |
| Helio Ocean | 9.5 | 10.53 |
| Apple iPhone | 26.12 | 3.83 |
Ring Volume (0.0)
To test the ring volume of the LG Voyager we turn volume up to the maximum and measure how loud each ring tone on the device gets using a sound pressure meter. The LG Voyager's ring tone measured a maximum of 85.6 decibels, which is right about average for phones. You can see below that most of our phones fall into a narrow range in terms of ring volume.
| Cell Phone | Volume (decibels) | Score |
| LG Voyager | 85.6 | 8.56 |
| HTC Touch on Sprint | 84.8 | 8.48 |
| Pantech Duo | 85.7 | 8.57 |
| Nokia E90 | 85.4 | 8.54 |
| Helio Ocean | 85.4 | 8.54 |
| Apple iPhone | 84.9 | 8.49 |
Ringtone Customizability (0.0)
The LG Voyager does not allow you to use your own music files as ring tones. Even when we placed the files in the "my sounds" folder created on the memory card they did not show up in the list of ring tones.
Non Audio Alerts (12.0)
We found the vibrate alert on the LG Voyager to be pretty good. We were easily able to feel it in our pocket and it was good enough that you even have a chance of noticing it in a coat pocket or hearing the vibration in a bag. When a call comes in you can't miss it if you're looking at the screen. It lights up with the incoming number and gives you the option to accept, reject or mute the ringer. We very much appreciated the decent vibrate alert on the Voyager. It isn't great, but considering most phones are decidedly mediocre, just being decent is a step up.
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