Verizon Voyager Guns for iPhone

Handset from LG latest answer to Apple's hot product
By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 3, 2007 8:31 PM CDT
Verizon Voyager Guns for iPhone
The Voyager(TM) by LG. Exclusive to Verizon Wireless, The Voyager by LG sports a large external touch-screen and opens laterally to reveal a full QWERTY keypad, giving customers a choice on how they access the phone's features. Sleek, stylish and shiny the innovative LG Voyager comes packed with the...   (Associated Press)

Just as your head begins to ache with the iPhone cacophony, Verizon Wireless today announced its own challenge to Apple's hot commodity—the strikingly similar LG Voyager. A Verizon exclusive, Voyager also features a large touchscreen, but adds a full Qwerty keyboard that slides out sideways. Add Verizon's faster 3G technology and a just-in-time-for-the-holidays rollout, and get out the aspirin.

Voyager features an additional 8GB of memory; HTML web browser; V Cast mobile TV, video, and music; and the ability to play various audio files. And industry watchers say that Voyager, due out before Thanksgiving, won't be alone. "I expect Sprint, T-Mobile, and a variety of other carriers to come out with their version," said one. (More iPhone stories.)

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