LG Dare shipping, matches iPhone 3G price
updated 10:35 am EDT, Wed June 25, 2008
LG Dare Ships
Verizon today began shipping its LG Dare touchscreen phone and has provided the device with its final launch price. The handset should be available online by Thursday and will be available through retail on July 3rd; the previously withheld pricing is now known to reach $200 after a $50 rebate and signing a two-year plan, matching the same price as the 8GB iPhone 3G that will launch just two weeks later.
The Dare is smaller than the Apple phone and drops significant built-in storage but is billed as making up for this with other features, including a 3.2-megapixel camera with flash, a 120 frames per second video capture mode for slow motion and better editing, and a microSD slot for expansion beyond 8GB when supporting cards become available. LG's device is its similar to its counterpart with a full HTML browser, current-generation 3G (over EVDO Revision A) and supports GPS when using Verizon's VZ Navigator.
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While I like that the LG Dare offers a higher resolution camera with flash and A2DP stereo bluetooth it lacks several things such as not being GSM, less storage, shorter battery life, does not have access to features such as the iPhone App Store and it's touch interface GUI is a poor attempt at copying Apple's simplistic and beautiful design. A reminder that CDMA carriers use of EVDO (their version of 3G) is not the same as HSPA networks used by several GSM carriers around the world. The iPhone use of 3G is faster than EVDO as well can support both voice and data streaming at the same time unlike EVDO. Also the iPhone offers true global 3G where the LG Dare does not.