“Here come the fake iPhones,” Scott Moritz reports for TheStreet.com. “Verizon is launching its hotly anticipated LG Voyager today [Wednesday] . The touch-screen phone with the flip-open keyboard is sells for $299 with a two-year contract, and is intended to answer Apple’s much-heralded iPhone from AT&T that fetches $399.”
“Here’s the bleak truth about the Voyager: It’s not the thrilling gadget adventure people were waiting for,” Moritz reports. “While some of Voyager’s borrowed looks make you think iPhone, it’s an entirely different device. For starters, it isn’t a true smartphone. There are no PDA functions such as document creation, email program or desktop syncing. In fact, the menu system is exactly the same as you’ll find on many of Verizon’s music phones.”
“The Voyager is probably the best illustration yet of Verizon’s fundamentally flawed wireless strategy. Put it this way: If Verizon’s V-Cast lives up to your dream of what mobile broadband is all about, then the Voyager is your vessel,” Moritz reports. “Alternatively, if you want a true Internet device with a real browser and fast Net access anywhere, keep up the good search.”
MacDailyNews Take: iPhone, bitch! Search result found.
Moritz reports, “Verizon has chosen to stick with the paltry Openwave browser that’s been lamely rendering Web pages ever since phones could access the Net… Old standby sites like Yahoo Finance and Gawker are too daunting for navigating on the touchscreen.”
“Apple’s perch atop the cool phone market will not be threatened by the wayward Voyager,” Moritz reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
But, but, Verizon Wireless’ Chief Marketing Officer Mike Lanma said in early October that the LG Voyager would “be the best phone … this year. It will kill the iPhone.”
So much for that.