LG EnV Touch

The LG enV Touch also known as the Voyager 2, or VX11000 is an internet-enabled, multimedia  device  created by LG Electronics for use with Verizon Wireless. The phone was released on June 5, 2009 as a successor to the LG Voyager. The phone’s external screen is touch enabled with a virtual keyboard and buttons. The internal screen features a QWERTY keyboard and both screens have a WVGA resolution. The phone’s functions include a camera with flash, a portable media player, text messaging, e-mail support, a web browser, a built-in accelerometer, and Verizon’s GPS navigation software, VZ Navigator. It is a dual-band CDMA phone using EVDO for data communications.

Like the Voyager, the EnV Touch has a large touch-screen display dominating its entire front surface, except for three physical keys at the bottom; the Send, Clear, and End/Power keys. The Clear key doubles as the voice command key (with a short press) and the voice recorder key (with a long press). The touch screen is really stunning, measuring 3 inches diagonally, which is a hair larger than the 2.81-inch display on the Voyager. The display supports a whopping 1.6 million colors and is bright, sharp, and vibrant. You can adjust the screen’s backlight time, the charging screen, (what shows on the display when the phone is charging), the menu fonts, and the dial fonts.

The enV Touch has a larger external touch screen and internal screen display than its predecessor, Voyager as well as a larger QWERTY keyboard, a camera with a newer 3.2 megapixel lens, an LED flash, and stronger vibration. The keyboard layout was altered slightly to move the space key to the middle of the keyboard, unlike previous enV devices which had the key on the both sides of the layout.

The enV Touch includes text messaging and web browsing capabilities, as well as camera and video recording, voice commands, and speaker phone. The phone supports Verizon’s VCast Video/Music, Visual Voicemail, and VZ Navigator services. However, the phone lacks the VCast Mobile T.V. support of the original Voyager. It features accelerometer motion sensors similar to those found in iPhone-based devices for games such as Need for Speed. The enV Touch also features a Document Viewer that can display Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word documents, as well as PDF documents. The most recent software revision is version 9, which includes a new Internet Browser, although new updates are released periodically.