by Jonathon Lamella

Created on: February 27, 2009

The LG Dare, a touch screen phone from Verizon Wireless, boasts a beautiful 3 inch diagonal screen. The bottom of the phone does feature three physical keys, such as the call key, clear key, and voice command key, which is also end key. It also has a physical volume controller, dedicated camera key, speaker phone key, and hold key to lock down the screen when it's not in use.

The bottom of the home screen displays five shortcut icons; the message inbox, the phone interface, the main menu, the phonebook, and a favorites menu. On the main screen you will find nine different option icons, which you can re arrange by dragging them with your finger. You'll be able to access contacts, settings and tools, my music, VCast, messaging, VZ Navigator, the browser, media center, and call log to view recent calls.

One of the other interesting features of the Dare's touch screen, is that it vibrates every time you touch it, to confirm the screen is responding to your touch.

The most outstanding feature of the dare is of course its 3.2 Mega Pixel Camera, with flash, which is the most advanced in recent touch screen camera phones. Its camera settings feature such advance settings as face detection, noise reduction, panorama photo switching, and Smart Pic technology for taking photos in low light. There's also an image editor, zoom, crop, rotate, add frames, icons, and the ability to write over images. The built in camcorder can even record high-video and play it back in slow motion, which is a first for US camera phones.

Camera resolutions range from 2048x1536, 1600x1200, 1280x960, 640x480, 320x240 while the video resolutions range from 640x480, 320x240, and 176x144.

One of the Dare's most fun features is the drawing pad which you can sketch your own pictures, ideas, maps, which you can send to other people.

For text messaging there is a virtual QWERTY keyboard which can be entered via T9 keypad, via handwriting, or you can flip the phone horizontally so that the keyboard will be displayed as an actual QWERTY keyboard.

Similar to the Apple Iphone, the LG dare has a proximity censor which turns off the screen whenever you bring the phone to your ear for calling.

Additional features are its SD card support, Bluetooth capability, and its support for mobile email.

All together, this is a great touch screen and camera phone, from Verizon Wireless which you'll definitely want to check into.

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