- Sleeker, redesigned clamshell phone opens to reveal QWERTY keyboard and large 2.4-inch screen
- Access Verizon’s V Cast Music and Video service via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions
- 2-megapixel camera with video capture; Bluetooth for headsets and music streaming; microSD memory card expansion (up to 8 GB)
- Up to 5.3 hours of talk time, up to 520 hours (21+ days) of standby time; measures 4 x 2.13 x 0.65 inches (HxWxD)
- Includes: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, quick start guide, user guide
Amazon.com Product Description
More compact and lighter in weight, the LG enV2 updates the original enV with a redesign accentuates both sleek style and easy usability. The front of the enV2 now features a numeric keypad with larger keys, and it opens up to reveal a large 2.4-inch LCD and its signature hidden QWERTY keypad–perfect for all your text messaging and email needs. Advanced features like auto text readout, message sort, and the ability to store up to 300 text messages enhance your mobile messaging experience.
It’s compatible with Verizon’s V Cast Music Service, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via Verizon’s fast EV-DO data network. You’ll also stay on course thanks to the VZ Navigator GPS turn-by-turn direction service. Other features include a 2.0-megapixel camera with video capture capabilities, Bluetooth connectivity for communication headsets and stereo music streaming, microSD memory card expansion (up to 8 GB), and over 5 hours of talk time.
Smaller, slimmer, and sleeker, the enV2 features larger keys on the external keypad for easy dialing. |
Verizon Service Options
With support for the EV-DO high-speed data standard, you’ll enjoy fast access to the Internet and Verizon’s multimedia services (additional charges applicable), with average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps and peak rates up to 2 Mbps. (Learn more about where EV-DO coverage is offered.) The V Cast Music service enables you to download songs instantly to your phone, or purchase music through your PC and transfer the files to your phone. If purchased from your phone, you’ll receive two copies of the song: a Windows Media Audio Pro Plus format at 64Kbps stereo is sent to your phone, and a Windows Media Audio 9 format at 160Kbps stereo is sent to your account in the V CAST Music online store for downloading to your PC. V Cast Music offers nearly 2 million songs, with more being added all the time.
The V Cast Video service enables you to stream or download video clips to your phone from a variety of news, entertainment, sports, and weather channels, including CNN, ABC News, E!, CBS Sports, The Weather Channel, and VH1.
Getting on the Internet is easy using Verizon’s Mobile Web 2.0 package, which allows you to read and send e-mails, exchange instant messages and view your favorite web content on your phone. Verizon’s Get It Now wireless download service is also fully compatible with this phone. This pay-per-download service features application downloads, games and productivity tools. You can also personalize your handset with ringtone downloads using the Get It Now service.
With this GPS-enabled phone, you’ll be able to access Verizon’s VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps. And Verizon’s Chaperone service lets you easily locate your loved ones from your Verizon Wireless phone or PC in real time. After defining a zone, such as an area designating a school or summer camp, you’ll be sent an alert via text message when the Chaperone handset enters or leaves the zone.
Flipping open the env2 reveals an easy–to–use QWERTY keyboard that makes texting and emailing a snap. |
Phone Features
Much more easily pocketable, the enV2 has slimmed down to 0.65 inches thin from the original enV’s 0.78-inch depth, and it’s shorter at just 4 inches tall (down from 4.64 inches). The camera on the enV2 is now flush with the back, where the original had a ring that was slightly raised around the lens. The front of the enV2 has a wide, thin 1.45-inch LCD screen with a 160 x 45-pixel resolution and 262K colors. The keypad features large, widely spaced keys for easy dialing, a dedicated music button, 5-way navigation, and send/end buttons. Flipping open the enV2 reveals the full QWERTY keyboard and a large 2.4-inch LCD (20 percent larger than the previous model) with a 320 x 240-pixel resolution and 262K colors. Dialing function buttons are also duplicated on the internal touchpad.
The phone has a 63 MB internal memory and offers memory expansion up to 8 GB using optional microSD memory cards. The enV2′s built-in address book can store up to 1000 contacts, and each entry can store 5 numbers, 2 email addresses, and a picture ID. The phone comes with 23 unique polyphonic ringtones, and it has vibrate and silent modes when you need to keep things quiet. The phone lets you match pictures with callers to identify them, and the enV’s voice recognition software supports voice commands from any user, not just a pre-programmed user’s voice. What’s more, many of the phone’s functions can be controlled by the sound of your voice, thanks to advanced voice recognition technology. Text-to-speech technology enables the enV to read emails and text messages to you, if you so desire.
A one-touch speakerphone means you can easily talk hands-free, while Bluetooth (version 1.2) allows you to use your favorite wireless headset. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. It also includes profiles for printing images directly to printers, dial-up networking, and sending vCard and vCalendar items to other phones. You can save up to 20 Bluetooth pairings.
Slim and powerful, the enV2 keeps you connected and entertained. |
The 2-megapixel camera has four resolution modes for still photos (from 1600 x 1200 for printing to 320 x 240 pixels for sending via MMS). It features a 10x digital zoom, self-timer, night mode, and customizable settings for brightness and white balance. An internal image editor enables you to rotate, zoom, crop, and add color effects. The camera can also capture video with sound and it offers two resolution settings (320 x 240 and 176 x 144 pixels). You can shoot for up to an hour for saving or 30 seconds for sending.
You can easily add new music to your collection while on the go from Verizon’s V Cast Music service and listen to them on the integrated digital audio player, which offers compatibility with MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+ file formats. You can sync your tunes from your PC (Windows Media Player 11 or higher), as well as create and manage playlists right on the phone. The enV2 can also play video clips from Verizon’s V Cast Video service, and ti’s compatible with WMV, MP4, 3GP, and 3G2 formats.
The enV has all the bases covered when it comes to messaging, too, with support for sending and receiving text, picture, and video messages as well as mobile instant messaging (IM). There’s also a complete e-mail client on the device for POP- and IMAP-based accounts. And of course, the QWERTY keyboard makes it a snap to type your messages. The enV ships with a number of handy tools, including a calendar and a voice memo application. An alarm clock and calculator are also included. The enV supports V Cast 3-D games, as well as other 2-D-based games, which are available from Verizon’s Get It Now service. You can also customize the phone’s wallpapers and screen savers to give your phone a look that suits your style.
Other features include:
- Bluetooth version 1.2 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BIP (for sending images to another device), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), HID (support for mice or joysticks), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)
- USB charging via computer (cable sold separately) and mass storage capabilities
- Large in-box for text messages (up to 300)
- Dual speakers for stereo music playback
- Voice Clarity function auto adjusts listening level and reduces noise for the listener
- Speed dial (993 entries + 6 preprogrammed)
- Hearing aid compatible = M3/T3
- TTY/TDD support
Vital Statistics
The LG enV2 weighs 4.23 ounces and measures 4 x 2.13 x 0.65 inches. Its 950 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.3 hours of talk time, and up to 520 hours of standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.
I HATE THIS PHONE!!! I had the first enV and loved it!!! This phone won’t allow you to read a text message without opening the phone. It also won’t allow you to hit clear (when ending a call) and bring up the other numbers for the contact. So you have to go through the entire menu again to get the person’s other phone numbers. DID I SAY I HATE IT???
Also when you take a phone of something without the cover being open you only get 1/4 of the picture on the much smaller external screen . DID I SAY I HATE IT?????
Make sure you really want this phone when you get it.
Only positive is it comes with a usb cord (when you buy the music cast cd) and you can charge it from you computer.
Suggestions— think long and hard before buying.
Rating: 1 / 5
Every day, I have a few major issues with this phone.
1) If I want to retrieve my voicemail, which occurs many times a day, I have to enter a pound sign after the code, and I need to use speakerphone while I am driving.
You can’t enter the pound sign quickly or easily when retrieving messages with the phone clamshell open – it requires holding the function key and the #3 key down. Moreover, the phone must be open if you want to access your messages on speakerphone. I have yet to discover how to use the speakerphone with the phone clamshell closed.
2) you can’t hang the phone on a typical car cell holster, because if you want to use speakerphone while you are driving, then as I mentioned in #1, you have to keep it flipped open. No one makes a holder for the phone in that position. Every other phone has a automobile or speaker function with the phone closed – why shouldn’t this one?
3) The instructions stink. I do not want an instruction book that simply gives me the flowchart of the menu. For that you only need one page. No mention in the index or anywhere about the speaker issue. Good luck trying to figure how to send more than one picture in a message – it is very difficult, and the same instruction set will sometimes only send one picture, and sometimes a couple more.
4) I am always on the run – I do not carry around rechargers with me. Every phone I have bought until now had a desk charger available to charge the battery without needing the phone, so I would have one spare in the charger, and would swap when the one in my phone died. Now, if my battery dies, I am committed to losing access to my wire free freedom.
5) The keypad lock on the outside is a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation. If you keep the keylock on, you’ll be cursing that every time you get a senior moment while dialing or performing any function on the front you’ll have to unlock the keypad, probably many times before you get the job done. If you keep the keypad unlocked for longer or fully, then every time you put away your phone in a tight holster, your camera button or some other function gets pressed. The beep when any unimportant button gets pressed will only make you paranoid and nuerotic that it was the camera button you accidentally pressed, and that as you speak it is either filming the waistline of everyone you greet or that it is eating up your memory card’s available space at a rapid rate.
6) I paid for Backup Assistant through Get it Now with my old phone so I would never have the nightmare of not being able to transfer my contact list to my new phone. I called up Verizon, and they said that since this Env2 is not a “Get It Now” phone, I can not restore the phone directory to the new phone! Paid $15 friggin bucks to a store to have it transferred, all while listening to him asking me “how come you didn’t buy the phone by me?”"I would have done the transfer for you for free then!” As an aside, Why can’t a phone back up the notepad entries to the memory card – Is the technology that hard to do nowadays?
I miss the old LG’s – the vx6000, 6100, even the 8300 was quite good. Great battery life, none of the problems mentioned above, and they felt like they were designed by someone with brains. This phone just left a lot of good sense behind. Like they never bothered to have ten or twenty Americans from all walks of life test use the phone for a week or two before putting it on the market.
If you have any answers, solutions or workarounds to any of the above gripes, please leave your comment for all to read and make their life better. Thanks!
Rating: 2 / 5
I had my new LG enV2 phone in a carry case (purchased at the local Blue home improvement store) clipped to my purse. As I exited my car the case somehow came off my purse and landed in my driveway and I never heard it fall or saw it (it was nighttime). Later I went and put the car in the garage and heard a loud ‘pop’ under one of my wheels. I thought I caught a branch or something at the edge of the driveway and prayed I hadn’t puncutured a tire. I went inside and didn’t give it another thought, until several hours later when I went to ‘play’ with my 3 day old phone. It wasn’t on my purse, wasn’t in my car, and suddenly that pop noise reentered my brain. I ran outside and found it in the driveway. The clip on the case was no longer attached (or re-attachable) and the front screen on the phone is toast. It lights up white with some black spots on it, but that’s it. No distinguishing features or pictures AT ALL. I was sure it was a total goner, but when I opened up the phone, much to my surprise the inside screen was mostly still intact. There is a small black blotch in the lower right hand corner and some spidery-looking cracks extending from that blotch and elsewhere on the screen, but it’s still mostly readable. All keys, inside and out, still seem to work. The phone works and perhaps most amazingly the camera still works! I’m sure the case helped, and I probably didn’t run squarely over it either. Still, I’m going to have to limp along for 2 years because of course I didn’t buy the insurance, and, as previously stated, I had *JUST* gotten the phone that week.
Other than that, I’ve had the ‘free’ phones from Verizon in the past and a Mint Chocolate. I like the LG enV2 better than the Chocolate phone, but since I’m pretty much a phone and light texter user, all the music and other options won’t get used much by me (though I love my car navigation system, so if I were to be in a car without it, I might learn to love the phone version) and the ‘free’ phones were pretty much good enough. Since my Mint Chocolate also met an untimely end (and I still own every other phone I’ve ever had, in fine condition) I figure I’m somehow paying for my ooo-that’s-a-neat-gadget lust.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve had this phone for a little over a year now. Overall, it’s a pretty good phone, but with some major problems that gives it 1 star. First off, I have had no problems with the silver chipping off. However, the OK button on the front and the three bottom buttons (0, #, *) don’t work. The screen is very small, and sometimes when i load videos, the phone resets itself. Can’t view pictures or sent text messages from the front, only the inside. Sound recording is a bit low quality. The pictures are very good quality but the video is just horrible. If you text all day, you need to charge that night, because likely if you had full battery at the beginning of the day, you’ll have 2-1 bars that night. Very sturdy phone though. I have flung it up in the air on the trampoline and it has come down and hit the hard steel but all that happened was the battery case fell off.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have had this lovely phone for 3 months now. This phone is sturdy and great looking. I actually could have chosen the 3 or 4 newer LG models, but this one was buy one get one free (mom and I got new phones at the same time). It was a great toy to start playing with right away. Ringtones sound fantastic and bring a smile to me every time someone calls. The photo quality is great for the seemingly infinite pictures I can capture. I love all the photo settings.
There are also still lots of skins and accessories widely available for the phone (I got a purple skin from a mall kiosk).
I send and receive about 450 texts a month and adjusted to the keyboard right away. I also can browse the web fast if i’m out and I need to compare something online to something in a store, and the data charges don’t kill me.
The signal is much stronger than my old phone, but I calls do suddenly drop if i’m in a dead zone.
Battery life is odd. It will be full for 2 days then on the third day it shows two bars of battery left. Within a few hours the phone then needs to turn off. And I needs to shut itself off within 5 minutes of giving me the low battery signal, which is abrupt every time.
Maybe this just works for me because i’m in college and always in my room and so near the charger. I know that this phone will last the full 2 years, and that is peace of mind.
Rating: 5 / 5