- Unique slider phone with dual LCD screens, one featuring touchscreen controls with vibrating feedback
- Access Verizon’s V Cast Music and Video services via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions
- 2-megapixel camera with video capture; MicroSD expansion; Bluetooth connectivity with music streaming
- Up to 4 hours of talk time, up to 480 hours (20 days) of standby time
- Includes: Standard Li-Ion Battery, AC Travel Charger, Sleeve, USB Cable and User’s Guide
Product Description
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The LG Venus offers an innovative dual screen design, with the lower screen offering tactile touchscreen navigation. The leathery back adds an excellent grip.
Verizon Service Options
With the V Cast Video service, you can 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.
Phone Features
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Nicely compact, the LG Venus measures just 0.62 inches thin and weighs a svelte 3.79 ounces.
The face of the Venus slider includes two LCD screens, with the top 2-inch screen providing a 240 x 320-pixel QVGA resolution and support for 262K colors. The lower screen (1.49 inches, 176 x 240 pixels) displays touch-sensitive navigation controls with different layouts depending on the application you’re accessing–such as changing from standard soft key layout to music controls when the digital audio player is activated. LG has incorporated haptics technology–an interface that creates tactile feedback–that provides vibrating feedback in response to your finger taps when using the touchscreen. The Venus offers gently curved corners and a faux-leather covering on the back that provides a luxurious feel in the hand as well as added grip.
It has a 64 MB internal memory, and it’s expandable via optional MicroSD memory cards with support for up to 8 GB of storage. The digital audio player is compatible with MP3, WMA, and AAC/AAC+ music files, and you can multitask with other phone functions while continuing to play music. Other music playback functions include a variety of equalizer presets, shuffle and repeat mode, and an airplane mode that turns off the cell phone’s receiver for continued playback while on a flight.
This phone also provides Bluetooth version 1.2 wireless connectivity with the A2DP Bluetooth profile, which enables you to stream music to compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones or speakers. (Note that the airplane mode doesn’t shut off the Bluetooth connectivity, so you can still listen to music using wireless headphones.) It also includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, dial-up networking, audio/video remote control, phone book access, serial port/object push for vCard, and basic imaging for sending/printing non-protected images to a compatible device.
The 2.0-megapixel camera can capture still images in four resolutions (1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240 pixels) and video in two settings (VGA 320 x 240 and QCIF 176 x 144). Other camera features include a 2x zoom, white balance settings, a variety of color effects, night mode, self timer, and three shutter sounds (with silent option). Video recording is limited to either 30 seconds for sending via MMS or up to an hour for saving to memory card.
The Venus provides storage for up to 1000 contact entries, with up to 5 numbers, two email addresses per entry, and Picture ID. Support is built in for text messaging and mobile IM. When used in combination with the phone’s built-in still and video camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. Other features include:
- Tools: Calendar, notepad, calculator, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, and EZ tip calculator
- Speed Dial (95 entries + 4 pre-programmed for voicemail, #BAL, #MIN, #PMT)
- USB connectivity to your PC for file transfer as well as charging
- One-touch speakerphone
- Speaker-independent voice commands
- 21 included ringtones and compatibility with real-music ringtones
- Voice recording up to 1 hour or 5 minutes during phone call
- Video player compatible with WMV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2 formats
- Hearing Aid Compatibility Rating: M3
Vital Statistics
5 comments:
Wouldn’t it be nice to have an iphone but at one third the cost? Yeah, that’s what I thought too. Unfortunately, the LG Venus certainly isn’t that.
First of all, why would a phone billing itself as a music phone NOT use a 3.5 (standard) mm headphone jack? You cannot find high quality 2.5 mm headphones anywhere and adapters aren’t tiny–defeating any purpose of having a smallish mp3 player. Maybe it’s because they want you to buy their bluetooth headseat. Unfortunately again, that too is wildly awful–people 20 feet away can hear every word that comes out of them, even when the headseat is on your head.
Suppose magically there were good 2.5 mm headphones, what then? Well you’d have to deal with the irritatingly slower playback of the songs than they’re supposed to run. It’s a bit subtle at times, but the songs are definitely slower–using a micro SD card or the phone’s own memory.
You can get small album art images during playback, but I’d rather the song sound the way it’s supposed to.
The phone itself works decently. It’s small and nice looking but the touch sensors react correctly only about 75% of the time, which is actually pretty bad if you think about it. Graphics are great, the camera isn’t. Other than the touch screen, there’s nothing new about this phone and there certainly isn’t anything wonderful.
Please, save your money and pass this info along. I’m returning mine and likely switching to a phone company that provides its customers with better phones.
Rating: 2 / 5
My daughter has selected the Vnus phones as her first phone. On my opinion, i think this phone is awesome. My daughters friends luv it and so do i. it is very fast n it makes sense. and when u record a sound it picks up really loud and clear i reccomed dis phone 2 everybody cuZ it is awesome so yah! take dis from me BUY DIS Phone cuz it rocks!
Rating: 5 / 5
Bought one new from Verizon. Had to have the battery replaced after a few months followed by three replacement phones in one year. Not too impressed.
Rating: 1 / 5
awesome phone. i had my motorola v3m rzr and hated it. this was the best little replacement phone. it is about the same size as a rzr but works tons better. i love the pink color that is optional, and is jus easy to use an text. highly recommend
Rating: 5 / 5
I love about 98% of all of the functionality of this phone. I had about 1 day left before I could exchange this Venus for the Voyager. So I went into the Verizon and asked for the manager. He took me directly to the Voyager so we could compare apples to apples. We went through all of the features that I used on my phone and mutually agreed that the correct phone for me was the Venus.
Voyager has problems multi-tasking where the Venus had no problem with what I would be using. I had to spend way too much time opening the Voyager to access the keyboard. Time I didn’t have spend opening the Venus.
Yes, there are some minor problems with the accessibility of the volume control and the lock/unlock feature, but not that serious. Slider works very well and seems very well built to avoid breakage. The camera takes very nice pictures and I love the camera controls. When you want to take a picture, you open the slider, hit camera button and
the screen flips 90 degrees so that it feels and looks just like a camera.
I actually play a Verizon $6.95 WSOP Texas Hold’em game that I downloaded and there is no usage fee. I have played some tournaments and cash tables and do quite well, but this little game is an awesome challenge. The larger you set the blinds, the more difficult the players. Nice challenge.
The screen has held up very well with not one scratch. I bought a $9.95 Samsonite leather belt clip holder from WalMart and it works great. It rotates 360 degrees and the phone stays nice and safe and very easy to access without worrying about the phone falling out.
Rating: 4 / 5
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