Big Bad Brute
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Some of you may remember me posting a thread a while back about purchasing a good phone and what High Lifter guys had to say was a good one, so I went out and bought the LG Dare from Verizon-
Well, I was oraginally going to buy the Blackberry Storm but I was pressured to buy a phone because my family members car got broken into and her phone was stolen and she didn't have any insurance on it. She uses her phone everyday and it is a BIG thing to her and she is in some financial problems so I decided to give her my phone since she has Verizon as well. (You guys probobly remember me posting a thread about that too!)
Well anyway,
I love the phone
It is an awesome design, very neat and sleek. On the front it has a 3" Full touch screen along with a send button, clear/voice recognition button, and an end button.
On the left side, it has the lock button on the top, the micro sd card below that, followed by the speakerphone button and then the charger port.
On the right side it has the volume up and down buttons, followed by the camera button.
On the back, it has a 3.2 megapixel camera with a flash and the battery door and such
I love how the menu's are designed
You have a favorites button on the homescreen which helps alot. You can add contacts that you call and text alot such as your house, your good friends and such with the tap of there name and the function you would like to do.
The web browser is phenominal. It is my first phone with a web browser (i didnt really see the point in it until today) and I love it, mostly because I can get High Lifter forums 
It has a wonderful camera, you press the camera button on the right, tilt the phone and hold it like a camera. The camera button is the taker/shutter button thing. Then I believe the ringer up/down buttons work as a zoom but I havent figured how to change the zoom +/- to that yet. Also, picture quality is awesome.
Speakerphone is probobly an 8.5/10. It seems very clear, and you can tone it down very low or very loud which is nice. I hated my old phone (Motorola Razr 2) because even if you put the speakerphone to the lowest, it was still very loud.
Touchscreen is very cool. I love being able to text with a standard "phone" keyboard (2=a,b,c 3=d,e,f) and flip it sideways and BAM there is a full QWERTY. You can't type too quick or it doesnt pick all the letters up. Also, the buttons in the full QWERTY keyboard are a tad too small, may be because of my huge fingers.
Battery Life is real good. I have had it on all day (from 10am) on an out of the box charge (usually only about half charged) and it hasnt lost any bars, I have been texting and screwing around on it for a while. There are 4 bars on the battery icon (just another useless fact)
The only two problems I have had with it were:
1) I had to calibrate the touch screen because the guy who set it up at verizon did it VERY inaccuratley. (I guess that wasnt a "problem", but it took me quite a while to figure out what the F was wrong and why it would press a button in the top right when I hit the middle) Also, the touchscreen takes A LOT of time to get used to.
2) The mobile web had a few issues starting up, I called up customer service, spoke with someone who spoke GOOD english (Halleluia) and had it fixed in no time.
So...
Styling- 9.5 out of 10
Functionality- 8.0 out of 10
Picture Quality- 9.5 out of 10
Touch Screen- 7.5 out of 10
Keyboards- 7.5 out of 10
Battery Life- 8.5 out of 10
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Overall: 8.4 out of 10
Just felt the need to review, seems like a lot of phone threads on here lately and I saw this phone being reccomended!
Cheers!
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