LG Versa

LG Versa is a nicely designed touch-screen phone with a detachable QWERTY keyboard. The phone is packed with versatile features with an option of adding external modules to increase its functionality.

Design - Measuring 4.17 inches long by 2.07 inches wide by 0.54 inch thick, the Versa is thin and slick with 3 inch wide touch screen display on the front. The interface on the phone is responsive and animated. The detachable QWERTY keyboard comes with its own battery cover. Overall the phone looks unique and great.

Features - The phone is packed with high end features like mobile e-mail, mobile instant messaging (AOL, Yahoo, and Windows Live), voice command and voice dialing, voice recording, USB mass storage mode, an RSS reader, and GPS functionality via Verizon’s VZ Navigator.

The phone also features Bluetooth support, with stereo Bluetooth, file transfer, and the ability to use the phone as a modem. It comes with Visual Voicemail, which lets you pick and choose which voice mail message to listen to, plus you can delete, reply to, and forward each message.

However its interesting features include a full HTML browser to support Flash Lite 3 and the H.264 video standard. This enables the users to watch videos right from the Versa’s browser.

As a phone on a 3G EV-DO network, the Versa supports Verizon’s broadband services like V Cast Video, Verizon’s streaming video service, and V Cast Music with Rhapsody, Verizon’s music download service.

The phone also features a 2 megapixel camera with LED flash. The phone’s rechargeable battery offers 4.83 hours of talk time.

Priced at $200, the phone is not a bad bargain.