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LG Voyager Cell Phone Review - Messaging

Alfredo Padilla Published on December 04, 2007 Comment on this

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Supported Email Services (0.0)
Like many phones from Verizon there is no built in email client on the LG Voyager. Instead there's a web based email client that you find buried in "Get It Now -> On the Go" menu along with the Verizon Navigator application. We guess there's some logic here, but frankly we would have preferred access from the standard messaging menu. Either way we don't award points for web-based email on phones because it precludes you from doing things like checking your mail or composing a message when you don't have data access like on a plane or the subway. As such the LG Voyager will not receive any points in many of these sections.

Push Email (0.0)
No email client.

Multiple Email Accounts (0.0)
No email client.

HTML and Attachements (0.0)
No email client.

Email Customizations (0.0)
No email client.

Time to a New Message (0.0)
No email client.

Email Usability (0.0)
No email client.

Supported IM Services (0.0)
The LG Voyager has the typical Verizon Wireless instant messaging client that gives you access to Yahoo, Windows Live and AOL's IM services. Unfortunately, like many IM services on phones Verizon charges users for a text message for each instant message sent or received using this service. Considering that instant messaging is just a data service we feel it's unfair to charge people text messaging rates for IMs, especially for those who are already paying for a data plan. As such we will not award any points for the LG Voyager's IM capabilities.

MMS Support (6.0)
Multimedia messages, or Picture Messages as they are known on the Verizon network, are well integrated on the LG Voyager. You can easily send an MMS from the camera or the album software. Unfortunately creating an MMS is not integrated with text messages, instead you will need to choose which type of message to send before starting composition. Thankfully you don't have to deal with two inboxes as all messages regardless of type go into a single mailbox.

SMS Smiley Face Interpretation (0.0)
The LG Voyager does not interpret smiley faces received as graphical images, rather they are left in text format. There's also no option to insert smileys into a message you are composing, instead you will need to type them out. This is a grievous blow to all those who like smileys.

SMS/MMS Ease of Use (7.0)
The SMS/MMS interface is a simple menu that gives you access to your inbox, sent and drafts menu along with shortcuts to a new message and other messaging services like voicemail and instant messaging. The mailboxes are shared between SMS and MMS, which we like to see, but unfortunately you do still have to choose what type of message you will create before you compose it. When you do create a new message you are first asked for the numbers/contacts you want to send the message to and then are able to create the body of the message. We were happy to see that under the options menu when composing you can format text with options like alignment, font size/style, text color and background. These are options that you don't often see when creating SMS/MMS messages. Apart from this, the interface is pretty typical and easy to use.

Time to a New SMS Message (9.09)
To see how easy it is to create a new test message on the LG Voyager we time how long it takes to go from the home screen unlocked until we have a new SMS dialogue on the screen. We do this test five times and take the average for our score. The LG Voyager took an average of 1.1 seconds to complete this process, which is a pretty good time. You can see from the table below that it's significantly faster than any of our comparison phones. We were helped out in this test by the LG Voyager's shortcut menu, which can be accessed by tapping anywhere on the home screen's wallpaper. This menu gives you quick access to a variety of functions, including composing a new text message. This makes creating a new SMS message a two tap procedure.

Cell Phone	Time (sec)	Score
LG Voyager	1.1	9.09
HTC Touch on Sprint	3.98	2.51
Pantech Duo	2.39	4.18
Nokia E90	1.99	5.03
Helio Ocean	3.1	3.23
Apple iPhone	2.62	3.82

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