LG Dare Silver Phone

The LG Dare for Verizon dares to be different with its bold looks and advanced capabilities boasting a spacious three inch touchscreen with handwriting recognition, a 3.2 megapixel camera with face detection and flash, and unique in phone photo editing capabilities. It's compatible with the V Cast Music and V CAST Music with Rhapsody services, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via Verizon's fast EV-DO data network.

Other features include stereo Bluetooth streaming, MicroSD memory expansion up to 8 GB, access to your mobile email, and up to 4.7 hours of talk time. Measuring just 0.5 inches thin and weighing 3.76 ounces, the LG Dare feels lightly comfortable in your pocket. It features a large 3 inch touchscreen that recognizes your handwriting and provides tactile feedback when pressing onscreen buttons or typing on the onscreen QWERTY keyboard.

The display has a 240 x 400 pixel resolution and support for 262K colors, and its home screen has several shortcut icons including your messaging inbox, phonebook, favorites menu.

The phone provides just three buttons on the bottom of its face for send, end and clearing calls, and it has a stainless steel border along its sides and black soft touch surface on the back. The phone has an internal 148 MB memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards up to 8 GB in size.

It can store up to 1000 contact entries, with fields for five numbers per contact. It connects to your PC via USB, and it offers USB mass storage capabilities. The 3.2 megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens offers several resolution options, ranging from 2048 x 1536 pixels to QVGA 320 x 240 pixels perfect for sending via MMS messaging.

It offers advanced features including face detection, SmartPic Technology (which helps to compensate face color), four ISO settings, six preset scene, panorama and split shot capabilities, white balance settings, multi shot, and multiple color effects. It also features a flash, self timer, and multiple shutter sounds (including off). Once you've snapped your photo, you can edit it right in the Dare zoom, rotate, crop, add frames, or add writing over the image.

You can also capture video up to 640 x 480 pixels for storing onto a memory card, or QCIF 176 x 144 pixel resolution for sending via MMS. You can record videos up to 120 frames per second (fps) and then play them back on the Dare at a slow motion rate of 15 fps. This phone provides the latest version of Bluetooth connectivity version 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), which makes pairing with the included headset as well as other Bluetooth devices a snap.

And with EDR, you'll get a faster connection than with the previous version 1.2, which makes transferring files and using the phone as a modem for your laptop hum along nicely. And with the embedded A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of Bluetooth stereo headphones or other compatible devices.